What The Jolly Flip Have I Just Sat Through On The Bbc?

[DJHawkes]

daft is not the right word

[Mass_Hysteria]

No idea, what the f--k have you sat through?

[Ann]

Which programme Dotty?

[april1693]

Father Figure? It was a shocker all right! I can almost hear the sound of several careers flushing down the loo!

[askyourgran]

Just saw a glimpse of it when I served his nibs with his tea and bickies, then he did a quick shuffle for the remote (the fastest I've seen him move all night). The bit I saw looked dire. Father Figure?

[Ann]

Why do you lot talk in riddles? What programme are you talking about?

[DJHawkes]

father figure apparently, i jut left it running after who do you think you are. completely insane TV that belongs in the 1970s.

[DJHawkes]

it reminded me of freddie frinton and thora hird in some lapstick thing

[Peter Pedant]

there are times I admit I skim thro my multi channell or whatever it is
and think O gOd nineteen channels of cr+p

[Khandro]

DJH ; I don't know what you have been watching, but please don't knock Freddie Frinton

[society]

If you were listening to Garth you would not have had that...
This would teach you :)

[Buenchico]

Comedy on Radio 4 is often intelligent and well worth listening to. TV series such as 'Goodness Gracious Me', 'Little Britain', 'The League of Gentlemen' and 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' all started life on Radio 4.

Comedy on Radio 2, however, is invariably weak and "aimed at the lowest common denominator". 'Father Figure' has transferred from Radio 2, so I knew that it would be rubbish and thus avoided it.

[craft1948]

Thanks for the programmes mentioned in your first paragraph Chris, I didn't find any of them funny.

[Caribeing]

Caught the tail end of it as well thank goodness thats all I seen it looked to have been utter rubbish. Big School not funny either the biggest joke is the BBC giving us these tripe shows.

[andy-hughes]

Buenchicho - I have to disagree about Radio Four's comedy output.

I am often driving home around the 18:30 'comedy slot' and shows about Indian shopkeepers, Lenny Henry and some record store, and Claire In The Community have left me bereft of even a hint of a smile.

Maybe it is my taste, but I find these comedies on a level with a Sixth Form End Of Term Review - it's painfully badly written and not at all amusing in any way, but we are going to pretend to enjoy it for the sake of the kids who have worked hard to put it together.

[andy-hughes]

DJ - I was intrigued enough to watch it on line.

Why do irish actors alow themselves to be signed up for such pitiful sub-'70's stereotyping? That was just one cringe-making aspect of this whome dreadful mess - it was poorly scripted, poorly acted, and had a comedy perspective that Terry & June would have thrown out!

I appreciate that not everyone laughs at the same thing - hence the bewildering popularity of Miranda, but this cannot be seriously viewed as appropriate licence-funded output for 2013 - can it?

[andy-hughes]

Sorry trig, I don't have the 'gane' gene - I tried to play Suermario about twenty years ago, and after fifteen seconds, my eyes had glazed over and i had lost the will to live.

[andy-hughes]

Or 'game' gene - even!

[AB Editor]

Oh Andy, really? Claire In The Community is one of the worst things they've put out in a long time.

I come to Radio4 for the equivalent of a cup of tea and a biscuit - something vaguely harmless with a few gentle chuckles... but Claire In The Community is just so toothless and dire that I believe it could be used to anaesthetize surgery patients.

[AB Editor]

I've fixed your title for you dot.