The WORST TV Comedy

[idler]

Maybe Crawley v Rovers a few years ago?
I never laughed once but at least Rob Jones was honest post match.

[IDM]

It already made this list but I do not know one person in Ireland that watches or likes Mrs Brown’s Boys, not one.

Is it not one of the most watched programmes over there? God knows how but it’s clearly got quite an audience.

It’s made by a Scottish production company, isn’t it?

[Glyn_Wigley]

Nobody else remember Come Back Mrs Noah?

And It Sticks Out Half A Mile (and all the other titles the same script has had every time they tried to remake it). How to piss on a legendary sitcom's legacy in one easy lesson.

[Dr Fundlekrotch]

It Sticks Out... was radio only, though, wasn't it?

[Glyn_Wigley]

It Sticks Out... was radio only, though, wasn't it?

Under that title and with the Dad's Army characters, yes. They had two goes on television using different titles and characters but using basically the same scripts, which were just as unfunny as they were in the first place.

[RedRover45]

It already made this list but I do not know one person in Ireland that watches or likes Mrs Brown’s Boys, not one.

Is it not one of the most watched programmes over there? God knows how but it’s clearly got quite an audience.

It’s made by a Scottish production company, isn’t it?

It's filmed in BBC Glasgow studios. They were filming an episode while I was there a couple of years ago filming Eggheads.

[RedJ]

Glasgow's full of Irish or people with Irish heritage.

[foxbat]

thinking about it ' Terry and June ' was really nauseating.

[darren61]

Just remembered one called Mind Your Language, bloody awful.

[Draytonian III]

There was one on Talking Pictures,channel 81 on freeview,tonight at 17:00 called Take a letter Mr Jones . It’s stars were John Inman and Rula Lenska, I watched about 5minutes of it ,total rubbish

[BillyStubbsTears]

Just remembered one called Mind Your Language, bloody awful.

Now THERE'S  a topic for debate.

Was MYL an appalling example of 1970s casual racism?

Or, by introducing an insular British people to flawed but lovable foreign stereotypes, did it give us a push towards a more cosmopolitan future? Aided by Francoise Pascal hinting that they have far better sex on the other side of The Channel than we do.

[Bentley Bullet]

It was a typical comedy about race, with sex thrown in by the presence of Francoise Pascal. Perhaps race and sex are innocent subjects until you put 'ism' on the end of them.

[BillyStubbsTears]

BB

Aye. I never saw the problem with Jim Davidson doing his Chalkie White routine.

I'm sure this wasn't offensive until some pinko t**t started complaining about it.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5z584iybkyo&ved=2ahUKEwj13K_i_PTeAhWSsaQKHZHrBJkQwqsBMAF6BAgLEAg&usg=AOvVaw1DuykCHIbS9kQdOuY3sGgK

And this? Perfectly acceptable until some busibody put an ism at the end of race.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DB1dakp4FT0w&ved=2ahUKEwjNjMu8_vTeAhWkJsAKHSK_B9cQwqsBMAB6BAgMEAU&usg=AOvVaw0WifI312fbpE6CkATL7AiB

[Bentley Bullet]

BST, I'm confused here. neither of those clips is about the 'Mind Your Language' comedy.

[BillyStubbsTears]

No. They are about what was acceptable before the namby-pambies stuck their self-righteous two-pennorth in and invented -isms.

[Filo]

Just remembered one called Mind Your Language, bloody awful.

Now THERE'S  a topic for debate.

Was MYL an appalling example of 1970s casual racism?

Or, by introducing an insular British people to flawed but lovable foreign stereotypes, did it give us a push towards a more cosmopolitan future? Aided by Francoise Pascal hinting that they have far better sex on the other side of The Channel than we do.

Francioise Pascal is not from the other side of the channel 😜

[BillyStubbsTears]

Just remembered one called Mind Your Language, bloody awful.

Now THERE'S  a topic for debate.

Was MYL an appalling example of 1970s casual racism?

Or, by introducing an insular British people to flawed but lovable foreign stereotypes, did it give us a push towards a more cosmopolitan future? Aided by Francoise Pascal hinting that they have far better sex on the other side of The Channel than we do.

Francioise Pascal is not from the other side of the channel 😜

Bugger me. You learn summat every day.

[Bentley Bullet]

No. They are about what was acceptable before the namby-pambies stuck their self-righteous two-pennorth in and invented -isms.

Exactly! So what was unacceptable about 'Mind your Language'?

[BillyStubbsTears]

I think you need to read my original post again.

[Bentley Bullet]

Yep, just re-read it and it asks, "Was MYL an appalling example of 1970s casual racism"?

I said it was a comedy about a class full of foreigners including a sexy foreign bird.

Why did you reply with two completely different comedies?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Because you made a daft conjecture.

If you want it spelling out, no, race and sex are not innocent subjects until someone puts an ism after them.

They are innocent subjects until someone starts using them to belittle and divide people.

As for my original post, I can see I need to spell that out too.

If you watch MYL and come away with the feeling that foreigners adhere to those stereotypes, then by definition it is racist. If you watch it and laugh at our labelling of all Italians as lecherous, Germans as robotic, French women as lascivious and foreigners generally as thick, then it's not racist.

It's about intent and interpretation.

I went to see Bernard Manning in Blackpool 30 years ago. He was actually quite good. Made some insightful and barbed social commentary jokes. Which raised barely a titter. Then he told a joke about a Pakistani claiming dole, which was a technically weaker joke, but which had the place in hysterics.

Do you think that would be innocent if no-one put an ism at the end of it?

[Bentley Bullet]

No owd lad,'Mind Your Language' was an innocent comedy about various races including a couple of sexy foreign birds in a classroom learning English. It is YOU  who is using it in this instance to belittle and divide people.

It is yet another typical example of a Namby Pamby self-righteous lefty's attempt to ruin a perfectly innocent thread with his puritanical high horse b*llocks.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Did you read the second half of my original post? Or did you ignore that because it doesn't fit with what you like to think I think?

[Bentley Bullet]

Yes, I did read it and that was b*llocks too.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Aaaannnddd...step out.

[roversdude]

She was well worth one though lol

[Draytonian III]

Barry Evans who was the teacher in MYL died on his settee with a very high blood alcohol level it was reported at the time he could have been murdered but no one was ever convicted. He had been working as a taxi driver

[darren61]

Barry Evans who was the teacher in MYL died on his settee with a very high blood alcohol level it was reported at the time he could have been murdered but no one was ever convicted. He had been working as a taxi driver

 I liked Barry Evans in Doctor In The House.

[Bentley Bullet]

Alcohol becomes a serious subject when you put 'ism' on the end of it.

[Donnywolf]

Maybe Crawley v Rovers a few years ago?
I never laughed once but at least Rob Jones was honest post match.

Oh GOD I had blanked that out of my memory

I was in Lanzarote and it was shown on Telly at Bar Steds (if I have the right Game). There was a Manure Game on and 3 Tellies had that on while I had a Telly to myself.

I had my Shirt on (muppet) - and I was so ashamed that half way through the Game I covered up my shirt BUT we were not bad enough for me to even glance at the other 23 Tellies