Overrated/Underrated Sitcoms and the science of comedy

Lol. No you don’t.

You won’t answer my question. So fark your question.

Overrated: Utopia. That show is just boring cringe.

Underrated: Fisk. Flanagan is a talent but gee the casting is good for the other characters.

Deadloch was great, cant be sure if id pin it as a comedy

I loved how pathetic and ordinary the characters were. Their table of finds was hilarious and typical of how the Brits can laugh at themselves.

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Overrated: any Australian comedy

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Speaking of Afterlife, the skinny woman was funny (for me) in Cunk on Earth.

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Michael Richards expletive, n word ridden tirade during one of his stand up routines changed the landscape for comedy going forward imo. The 9/11 of the comedy scene.

I don’t think that is the case. Under watched maybe, but very few who have watched it don’t rate it highly,

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Anyone watched Utopia? I’ve watched most of it and it’s gotten more chuckles out of me than most shows have.

Edit: @handypoint inadvertantly answered my question early :sweat_smile:

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IYO, which 2?

Frontline

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Not Matthew Perry…too soon?

Jennifer Anniston & Courtney Cox.

Lisa Kudrow was beautiful too. Just not a 10.

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I love utopia but agree re Fisk.

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excellent show

similar to the Royle Family mentioned above, the humour is done at a gentle pace

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No it wasn’t. It was/is freaking hilarious

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I thoroughly enjoyed The Good Place in recent times.

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Oh, and I may have to go back and watch it again because it’s probably 25 years or more since I last watched (which may change my mind, lol) but the Peter Jackson film Bad Taste was absolute trash Gold. Brilliant.

By contrast , his follow ups - Meet the Feebles and Brain-dead - were so turgidly overrated that you’d scarcely believe they came from the same guy.

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Time Team.
Not meant to be a comedy, but the elation shown at finding a rare piece of Saxon pottery, or digging a trench which misses everything and turns out to be empty, or excitedly describing some dig as “high status” only to discover it as only a pig pen, or something other less than significant.

Everytime I try to watch it, I’m underwhelmed. It’s as though the characters think they’re really funny but the jokes are basic/tame.

I thought you were going metro and including Joey in the 2 :wink: .
Courtney is attractive I agree, but she was too whiny skinny for me to appreciate it.