13th
Sitcoms On TV.
I haven’t seen a fresh new sitcom that’s good in a while. Normally I manage to find one, or hear about one as soon as the last sitcom i’ve been watching finishes. I’ve watched the pilot to so many recently and they have all been dire. Not just the scripts but the acting as well.
My two least favourites are Lunch Monkeys and Off The Hook. Lunch Monkeys is about… well I don’t really know… people working in the mailroom of an office? I’m not sure. There’s way too many characters and they’re all shit and unfunny. And unattractive. There’s no jokes and the plots are all recycled, i.e. sweet guy likes a girl, but the girl gets pregnant with the jackass boss. Nothing original, nothing funny.
And then there’s Off The Hook, which at least is about something - University. Although it’s about as much like University as driving to your grandma’s for dinner. The acting is awful and the main guy is so dislikeable, but not as dislikeable as his best mate, who is introduced with again a recycled storyline, although this time it’s ‘he’s a jackass, but we grew up together, so I feel kinda responsible for him.’ He’s an ugly ginger fat ass, with a high pitched voice. Funny? No. Irritating? Yes. There is however some comic relief however, with that guy from the inbetweeners who made me smirk twice at the end with some one liners. However two smirks doesn’t really make a sitcom. I average three during diagnosis murder.
Hopefully the terrible viewing figures for these will make channel 4 and the BBC punt their money on something good again. I mean it’s not hard. All you need in a good comedy is a script with three solid jokes a page, three intertwined story lines and some people who can act a little bit. And there are countless great sitcoms without some of these points, and some without all three. But they made you laugh so it’s okay cause after all that’s the point of a sitcom. Sadly, laughing is something which frankly television hasn’t made me do in a while, well except when I sometimes catch a bit of Corrie when my mother watches it - that stuff is pure gold!
