Quote: Firkin @ 15th November 2018, 9:23 AM

You are right Rood it does look odd on the face of it. But surely it's led by the audience?

Character acts like Borat upset a whole country but play well in America. Bruno was Austrian (small country) not German (big market). I read one Hollywood blockbuster had to reshoot many scenes because China objected to a Chinese villain. Yet we Brits are often the Hollywood villain.

Live stand-up comedy relies on a young audience, students, it's not really family viewing. That audience wants it to be PC. I guess this is why you don't get many character actors or stand-ups doing accents outside their own culture. That said, I would very interested in knowing any that do. If you want old style un-PC act there's always Chubby Brown. He's 73 and still touring. Ken Dodd's act was timeless and didn't exclude anyone. I'm guessing he made more money, but we'll never know.

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The only other right-wing comedians I know-of are Lee Hurst, Jim Davidson and Geoff Norcott.

Geoff Norcott is an exciting addition to the current crop of boring lefty comedians. You should see him on the Mash Report. It's beautiful. Nish Kumar cannot contain his triggered PC feelings. It is all done in good spirit but it's nice that the beeb allow a righty for once.

P.S Sorry for off topic rant.

Have watched the whole series now, got better as it went on. Good cast,worth a look.

Quote: gbcomsrule @ 17th December 2018, 8:58 PM

Have watched the whole series now, got better as it went on. Good cast,worth a look.

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I don't think it was anything special - I think I laughed most at the first scene of the first episode. It was Romesh being Romesh in his organic form.

The main problem with this series is that Romesh gave his character all the funny lines. Or funny if you deemed it funny.

There was nothing funny about the bearded drunk or the weird bald bloke who sounded like a David Walliams character,

As for his on screen wife and hot barlady....just no.

As I said immediately after watching Episode One, this sitcom has everything going for it except the dialogue.

When I watch the programme, my eyes tell me that there are people in the same room talking to each other and fully aware of each other's presence. However, my ears tell me that all these people have been filmed and recorded separately from one another and all their speeches then cobbled together to make some sort of coherent whole.

It's as if everyone on set speaks a different language. Everybody has learned lines in their own language but doesn't understand a word that anybody else is saying.

As I said in my first post in this thread, it reminds me of those little kids who perform their little plays for The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Everybody seems wrapped up in the process of delivering their own lines without regard for what anybody else is saying. All they're thinking about is delivering their own lines properly.

The problem is, of course, that unless he is delivering a monologue it is impossible for an actor to deliver a line properly unless he takes account of the situation he's in and what has just been said to him and how it's been said.

I've never seen anything like it in my life.

Well I think this programme really suffers from being shot in ultra HD. For some reason the window pane effect of 4K/UHD seems to have put this show's defects on display a little too clearly. Maybe it's me but the few sitcoms I've watched in 4K just seem visually off-putting, revealing the slap dash nature of the sets a little too much.

Really think it would've been better served by a quicker editing style as well. Scenes seem to drag on interminably with useless dialog that as pointed out before seems rather randomly delivered.