[TV] UK Comedy Cup - Group G

[maltaseagull]

Fast show provided so many catch phrases

 

[Mellotron]

Fact me til I fart.

 

[ManOfSussex]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Always remember The Young Ones as being pitifully devoid of anything comedic at the time. It was about on a par with The Goodies. You'd need a full frontal lobotomy to find either even vaguely funny. IMHO like

 

[marcos3263]

The Day Today currently in 3rd place.

me and the Mrs quote this almost daily - no one died.....

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I GET that the Young Ones must have been hilarious to the OLDIES when you'd had a day of pushing hoops along the streets with a STICK for enjoyment followed by a SPAM dinner in your house worth £14k but COME ON.

I can just about take the IT Crowd not progressing but The Day Today going out is terrible.

 

[marcos3263]

Im gonna get hated for this but ex-national treasure Rik Mayall did lots of comedy that was incredible at the time but dated really quickly and it quite rubbish years later. Young ones was a must watch when I was a kid and we all quoted it in the playground etc. now it is dire, Bottom - nob jokes and poor, The new statesman was so on point but I couldnt finish the box set. Drop dead Fred - shite.

 

[highflyer]

How is The Day Today not WALKING this

I mean The Fast Show and the IT crowd are OK. Easy watching but nothing special.

The Young Ones is 'of it's time' eg. original at the time, but on rewatching...very obviously a bit sh*t.

Weird people.

 

[Mellotron]

This group is still open enough…

 

[jakarta]

How is The Day Today not WALKING this

I mean The Fast Show and the IT crowd are OK. Easy watching but nothing special.

The Young Ones is 'of it's time' eg. original at the time, but on rewatching...very obviously a bit sh*t.

Weird people.

Shocking that The Day Today isn't ahead, just for Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan it should be strolling it...

 

[Mellotron]

Last chance to get those votes in. Group stage finishing today and R16 announced soon.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I watched an episode of the young ones last night.

It was quite good. What it wasn't was genius like the day today.

This feels like a loss for the world, not just comedy.

 

[Giraffe]

What happened to The Office?

 

[Farehamseagull]

Im gonna get hated for this but ex-national treasure Rik Mayall did lots of comedy that was incredible at the time but dated really quickly and it quite rubbish years later. Young ones was a must watch when I was a kid and we all quoted it in the playground etc. now it is dire, Bottom - nob jokes and poor, The new statesman was so on point but I couldnt finish the box set. Drop dead Fred - shite.

I remember trying to make myself watch Bottom and trying to find it funny as lots of my school mates thought it was hilarious and I didn’t want to be left out. It was painful watching. I just didn’t get it even as a teenager, just pretended I watched it from then on!

The Fast Show on the other hand - cracked me up then and still does today.

 

[Questions]

Fancied her something rotten...

That clip isn’t funny enough is it ?

 

[Questions]

What happened to Hancocks Half Hour ?

 

[Simster]

I'm feeling VERY guilty about voting for The Young Ones. The wealth of evidence provided by people in this thread has swayed me towards The Day Today and now I regret not voting for it, frankly. It was always a tough group and my vote really paid no heed to the fact that it is quite dated. My mistake for which I apologise to all fans of TDT.

But it's the stuff of absolutely vintage NSC world cups. You've just got to hope a proper genius comedy DOES win the thing.

 

[Brovion]

What happened to Hancocks Half Hour ?

Ditto Steptoe and Son and Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? (Especially relevant as sadly Brigit Forsyth has just died ) In fact I'm not even sure Monty Python was included. However that has dated badly.

And as I'm obviously in a grizzling mode I'll add I must be the only person in Christendom who thought The Office was 'ok' at best. (EDIT: Although that wasn't in this group! D'oh!)

 

[Brovion]

I'm feeling VERY guilty about voting for The Young Ones. The wealth of evidence provided by people in this thread has swayed me towards The Day Today and now I regret not voting for it, frankly. It was always a tough group and my vote really paid no heed to the fact that it is quite dated. My mistake for which I apologise to all fans of TDT.

But it's the stuff of absolutely vintage NSC world cups. You've just got to hope a proper genius comedy DOES win the thing.

Well as I couldn't decide, I'll vote for The Day Today for you.

EDIT: Bollocks, I can't. The poll closed half an hour ago! Sorry.

 

[Simster]

Ditto Steptoe and Son and Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? (Especially relevant as sadly Brigit Forsyth has just died ) In fact I'm not even sure Monty Python was included. However that has dated badly.

And as I'm obviously in a grizzling mode I'll add I must be the only person in Christendom who thought The Office was 'ok' at best.

There are one or two on the appropriate thread saying the same as you about The Office, but not me. I remember it was on BBC2 and used to chuckle the following morning with a colleague, as we were the only two in our office who had ever heard of it. Then it went to BBC1 the following year and became mainstream. I thought it was superbly well observed - definitely a little dated but not so much that you still can't relate to the characters even now.