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> 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!
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> 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.
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> There was far more to FT than just laughing at Dougal.
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> 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.
I guess we must have a different sense of humour. Vicar of Dibley is
another
I care little for. It`s certainly not in the same league as Father Ted for
me which I`d place amongst my favourite comedies of all time...beaten out
by
Alan Partridge, Blackadder, The League of Gentlemen, Python and some of
Vic
and Bob`s surreal sketches.
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