On 22 Mar, 09:19, "Ian Salsbury" <I...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On 21 Mar, 20:00, "Ian Salsbury" <I...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >In fairness, who has? I can think of only two British sitcoms worth
> >> >watching that were not made by the BBC: Drop the Dead Donkey and
Black
> >> >Books, both from Channel 4.
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> >> I point you towards Father Ted
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> > One of the mediocre sitcoms the '90s put out that got hailed as a
> > classic merely because of the dearth of good comedy around, There's
> > only so much mileage you can get from the premise "hey, this
> > character's really thick - let's all laugh at him!", and My Hero did
> > it better.
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> > and Spaced.
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> > Lost interest after the first couple of episodes. The surreality was
> > fun for novelty value, but for something done as a comedy it wasn't
> > actually funny.
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> Those are two of my favourite programmes...Spaced in particular gets
*much*
> funnier as it goes on and you get drawn into the characters. I`ve
re-watched
> both series of it numerous times. Conversely I thought My Hero was
absolute
> dross BTW!
It's not something I'd make a special effort to watch, to be sure, but
rating it higher than Father Ted says more about my opinion of Father
Ted than of My Hero.
There was far more to FT than just laughing at Dougal.
Well, I concede that I didn't watch very much of it, but both from
what I did see and the clips that get repeated unendingly on 'Britains
Funniest Whatever' programmes (all of which are done by Channel 4,
curiously enough), there didn't seem to be any more to it. Hence that
idiotic "small ... far away" sequence that seems to be remembered as
the series highlight, and is still far weaker than any of the Alice
joke scenes from The Vicar of Dibley.
Phil
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