Lenny Henry

He is and always was absolutely terrible . I remember as a kid he was always on the Tele and I could never ever understand what was funny about him and I still don't know . ABSOLUTE CRAP

Racists! REPORTED!

Just think back to the 80s when Lenny and his wife went to Africa to see the famine
That's all the poor fcukers needed to see.
Lenny and his fat wife showing them what it's like to have 5 meals a day

‘king excellent on tiswas

him,miranda and the chuckup brothers.totally unfunny

Wear funny suit, check. Gurn at camera, check. Laugh hilariously at own jokes, check. Pop up at charity events, check.

Hardly anybody is funny anymore, scared to death of upsetting somebody
The only way you get away with stuff nowadays is via animation
For some reason you can say what you want if you hide behind a cartoon character

lenny henry has stolen a living trying to be funny

Funny? Tiswas was a while ago. Really good guy - absolutley.

Katanga.

Where the hell is Keith Lemon? He is really really funny.

Keith Lemon is totally unique, and hilarious to watch....

Still around on "Through t'Keyhole".

Probably repeats, but not ones I've seen before!

Keith Lemming isn’t fit to suck the stains out of Lenny Henry’s jock strap!

gingerist

"Compost corner!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKn5otfZHxE

Oooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Mad dog is correct.

Keith Lemon (PRICK)
Miranda,(an unfunny Bernard Breslaw in drag)
Mrs Browns Boys,( as funny as being injected with Covid 19 and Aids)
Frankie Boyle (a rude coward, who slags off everyone apart from muslim nonces)
Lenny Henry, ( was good as a black Frank Spencer in the 70s) and still living off it.

The comedians of the 7os and 80s were funny, it wasn't alternative comedy,
alternative comedy does what it says on the tin,
Its alternative to comedy..NOT ****G FUNNY

Good list dambuster although i do find KL quite amusing .I love the way he talks slutty to Holly Willougby.

Lenny Henry, ( was good as a black Frank Spencer in the 70s) and still living off it.

To be was very good as Mohammed Ali

All this Alt mob the same Luvvified Shyte

Who is funny? They just get paid more to be unfunny these days.

Who was the other unfunny guy in 321 from the 80s,I know Tracy Ullman was the girl. F uck that was **** too

some magician chappie called Dvid Copperfield

*a

That's him baph, he was brutal, good at making planes dissappear mind

I think it was David Copperfield but not the magician.
Although the unfunny guy from 321 could also be Ted Rogers

Good tan though Mad

The UK TV Comedy of the late 70s/early 80s - excluding certain sitcoms - does not hold up well on the whole looking back at it, so Lenny Henry being successful at that time is hardly the biggest mystery.

Little&Large ? Cannon&Ball ?

Then you had the people who were 'zany' but not actually particularly funny, like Kenny Everett, Freddie Starr.....

The Two Ronnies were a level above all that and a lot of their stuff is still worth a look.

Awful is right tober, I was a teenager when the young ones kicked off, it was basically the same as punk to the rubbish music of the 70s.

I think northern comic are more successful than southern ones not because they're funnier but maybe because of their accents make it seem funnier?

Though Ben Elton is awful. I think that's middle class humour in general for you though.

Apr 24, 2020 -- 10:11PM, darren_discombobulates_sports wrote:

I think northern comic are more successful than southern ones not because they're funnier but maybe because of their accents make it seem funnier? Though Ben Elton is awful. I think that's middle class humour in general for you though.

Northern comics tend to relate better to working class people with their material and thus create a larger audience.
You can't have some posh toff talking about 60 hours down the pit

Apr 24, 2020 -- 10:11PM, darren_discombobulates_sports wrote:

I think northern comic are more successful than southern ones not because they're funnier but maybe because of their accents make it seem funnier? Though Ben Elton is awful. I think that's middle class humour in general for you though.

As a stand up awful, but he wrote some good stuff

I've just been watching the first series of Man Down with Greg Davies and Rik Mayall
Never seen it before, Rik Mayall was hilarious as the crazy dad

i think Sarah Millican used to do 70

Mrs Browns Boys is horrendous. The fact the cast laugh at their own jokes sums it up.

As funny as an aids diagnosis

Yes, its so original a man dressing up as a woman,
at least, Danny La rue, Dick Emery and Stanley Baxter were funny..

I think that show is awful as well but must be getting good ratings to keep going

The worst "comedy" ever foisted on my eyes was that steaming barrel of 5hite "My Hero" starring Ardal O'Hanlon which somehow got funded by the BBC for 6 series

I'd find a Harold Shipman documentary funnier

I don't know about my hero, but
Mrs Browns Boys is on par with
The Grenfell tower enquiry, when it comes to comedy

Mrs Browns Boys is truly awful, who actually watches that sh ite.

Apr 25, 2020 -- 6:05PM, Racingqueen wrote:

The worst "comedy" ever foisted on my eyes was that steaming barrel of 5hite "My Hero" starring Ardal O'Hanlon which somehow got funded by the BBC for 6 seriesI'd find a Harold Shipman documentary funnier

Carry on Doctor was a good film

Plenty from the BBC (via the taxpayer) who've stole a living in recent times

Virtually all of the decent comedies of the last 20 years have been on Channel 4

think sometimes these bbc comedies are commissioned on potential audience figures alone, ie mrs brown boys, bbc know its **** but know public will watch it in its droves.
its like liam gallagher making an album, he knows its total turd and only retards will buy/download it but he knows will sell in its millions.

The Stanley Baxter Picture Show

Have had funnier acid reflux than Miranda, Les Dawson was brilliant, so we're Morecambe & Wise. Liked Little Britain too, and the office.

Oh and Alan Partridge too

think miranda had /has connections in high places, otherwise would be on the dole.

I watched Miranda once, awful, a poor man's rising damp

Here you go Loui:

https://youtu.be/9nNGlaiVypU

UK Sitcoms from the past good ones mostly pre-2000

Good

Rising Damp
Steptoe and Son
Rise and Fall of Reggie Perrin
Fawlty Towers
It aint half Hot Mum
Are you being served (references to Mrs Slocombs Pu$$y of course)
On The Buses
Man about the House
Til Death us do part
Porridge
Please Sir
Nearest and Dearest
Bless this House
Blackadder
Red Dwarf (up to series 5)
One foot in the grave
Keeping up appearences
Men behaving badly
the Vicar of Dibley
Not going out
The Office
Outnumbered
Phoenix Nights
Car Share


Borderline

George and Mildred
Hi De Hi
Mind your language
The Good life
Allo allo (got repetitive after a while)
Only fools and horses (see Allo allo)
Duty Free
Benidorm (early series)

Shoite

Father dear Father
Birds of a Feather
Bread
Miranda
My Hero
The Upper Hand

To name but a few all imo of course, I pretty much stopped watching most of them post 2010.

Good list Mr Spock

Dad’s Army
Not the nine o clock news
The Young Ones
Love thy neighbour

The phantom raspberry blower of ye olde London Town
The worm that turned

2 more for the Shoite list

Up the Elephant and round the castle
Babes in the Wood

Mr Spock the Peep Show is a shocking omission to your list of good sitcoms.   I quite liked Birds of a Feather.  They spoke like me, came from my neck of the woods and I fancied 2 of them.  The last bit of info is probably a bit wrong.

Ofcourse for every bad UK sitcom there are at least 20 US ones a few being;

Joey
Melissa and Joey
Kevin can wait
2 Broke girls
Joanie loves Chachi
Mom
My mother the Car (unbelievably bad)a guys mother is a car (ghost)
Hot in Cleveland
Young Sheldon

theres literally hundreds of them.

I did say to name a few, I know we are on lockdown but I have a roast dinner to make!

ffaith I wonder which 2 you fancied and I bet you dont now!

I fancied Pauline Quirke I thought she had a warm personality and err comely and buxom charms.   The second one was the old girl she seemed a right goer.   The perfect milf to sort out a young inexperienced lad.  Life was so simple then.

1.01 busted there i'm afraid.

Good list Spock, also liked the I.T Crowd. Richard Ayoade was made for comedy. The nutcase boss was good in it too, think he was called Gus. Rising damp was brilliant with great comedy actors in it

One out now called Mr Winner that's not too shabby

Not really my cup of tea but I could see the merit in Ab Fab.  Jennifer Saunders probably the best of brit women in terms of writing.

I don't think anybody has mentioned a couple of John Sullivan jewels that imo were excellent,
Dear John and Just good friends

Ever Decreasing circles.... Shocking omission


Not as Shocking as Fancying Pauline Quirk though..

Can you class bottom as a series ???

If so goes into top 5 imo

Only fools
Blackadder
Steptoe
Bottom
Porridge
—————-
Phoenix nights

Us sitcoms I love Raymond easy watching

Pretty sure Bottom would be considered a situation comedy.. Good call.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Where does it go cos I loved that
But wasn’t sitcom but funny as ****

Thought of the US sit-coms I considered funny..


Taxi.. 9

The King of Queens.. 8

then I'd be stuck for anything over a 6...

I'm sure if everyone honestly confessed their secret crushes she wouldn't be the worse not by a long shot.   In fact if I sat down and racked my noodle I'm sure I could come up with someone even less "acceptable".

Miranda fits that bill ffaith

Yes Minister was top class

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? has to be mentioned here. Quality.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Rising damp

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Series


Mind Your Language

for the shoit list ..........as time goes by ,bout as funny as discovering you have crabs

Anyone laughing at him needs urgent medical attention.

Steptoe film on tonight at 900.

Is that the one where he has a bath in the kitchen sink, fkn classic

The Top secret life of Edgar Briggs

Ken Dodd, Arthur Askey and Lenny Henry.. I'd take the stairs (just in case)

Steptoe and son ride again with the short sighted greyhound a classic. Other candidates for the shoite list;

The Upper hand
Last of the summer wine (old comedians home)
The Detectives
In Loving Memory and Halleluja (both Thora Hird)
You rang M'Lord
Oh doctor Beeching

talk about a Token Knighthood...Pathetic pc bolllllox

Fav American show The Beverly Hillbillies. The one where granny wins the drysdale bank clay pigeon shooting competition with a catapult

Used to like Newhart, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl. You knew it was coming but raised a giggle everytime.

His missus was fit as f00k in that as well.