Count Arthur Strong

[rabet]

Just watched this on BBC 2. Puerile, predictable, over-acted rubbish. Feeble jokes about snot and farting, racist stereotypes. How does tripe like this get transmitted on a supposedly prestigious channel?

[Buenchico]

You either love him or loathe him:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Radio/Question903130.html

[mazie]

I know, I turn it off when it comes on Radio 4....Can't believe they are now showing it on TV

[boxtops]

It ranks with Mrs Brown's Boys in my book.... awful

[Pooka1950]

I love the radio show but switched tonight's TV programme off after the first 5 minutes. Very disapointing, but I might give it another try on the iplayer in a few days. Of course it didn't help that I was watching with an Arthur hater!

[rabet]

Boxtops ~ I actually think Mrs Brown's Boys is wonderful. Isn't that strange? No accounting for taste!

[mazie]

I like Mrs Brown's Boys too

[rabet]

Hi Lofty ~ think you're in the wrong thread!

[LoftyLottie]

I bet that was very confusing!! ;o)

[mazie]

Not really Lottie, just a normal evening on AB ;o)

[LoftyLottie]

Do you like my hair style Maizie ;o)

[mazie]

I loved it Lottie...Thinking of getting mine done next week. x

[LoftyLottie]

Night night Maizie - I think it's time to log off! I have lost the plot.

[mazie]

Same here Lottie. Night xxx

[andy-hughes]

I have always found the vast majority of Radio Four comedy to be lamentably unfunny - CAS is just one of a run of shows that I was amazed to find found audiences in a late-night slot, and got transferred to the six-thirty evening position.

Clare In The Community, Rudy's Rare Records, something about a corner shop, something about devils, some historical comedy, i have been unable to raise even a glimmer of a smile.

I can't believe i am so out of touch that this is what passes for modern comedic output in 2013.

[FredPuli43]

Clare in the Community is a delightful satire on social workers and also on political correctness with hypocrisy.

Count Arthur Strong is a good stage act for about 40 minutes and a good radio show for 30. Does it have the same writer/s (essentially the performer) on TV ? Can see how an attempt to make it "funnier" for TV might fail.

[mazie]

The Now show is very funny

[Frank97]

I gave it 15 minutes last night, I won't bother again!

[andy-hughes]

mazie - The Now Show remains a shining beacon of how good radio comedy can be - but it is in a serious minority. For every example as good as that, there are ten or more really poor efforts that simply don't deserve the air time, or the licence fee.