Is Too Much Of Today’s Youth Culture Dark And Depressing?

[thesshhh]

Been watching Normal People and, while it is excellent, it is also dark and depressing. I find that with much of today’s pop music too - Adele, Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol, etc. Even today’s comedians don’t give me belly laughs like those I grew up watching. No decent sitcoms on telly now. Don’t you think too much of today’s youth culture is too bloomin miserable, or is it just me?!

[pixie374]

TTT, I know they were very popular, my parents watched them (and similar) when I was a child, but they just seemed the same every week.

[AuntPollyGrey]

I tried watching fleabag, got to episode 3 and thought 'This is a load of vulgarity passing off as comedy'. I just don't understand how promiscuous sex and women's sanitary products creates hilarity. It may have got better but I couldn't be bothered to invest more time in it.
Alice Cooper was my favourite in my teenage years and I normally go to Whitby Goth weeks, but I do have a sense of humour! I've been watching re-runs of Black Adder and Dad's Army and they are timeless.
I find Young people these days so laugh at different things -they have YouTube and other apps I've never heard of.

[pixie374]

Alice Cooper was fantastic :-). And Blackadder (other than the first series), I sometimes cried laughing at.

[pixie374]

From olden times, I loved the Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Rick Mayell as Sir Flash Heart in Black Adder (The Elizabethan one) is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.

[Mozz71]

Pixie- absolutely. Nothing has ever made me laugh the way the Goons did. Sellers (and even more so, Milligan) were pure anarchic comedy gold.

[ummmm]

Isn't she suppose to be a nymph in Flea Bag? Because that would explain the sex.

I enjoyed bits I watched but panning in on her own thoughts got a bit tiresome.

[pixie374]

Rick Mayall, and Hugh Laurie as George Regent :-)

[Mozz71]

//Rick Mayell as Sir Flash Heart in Black Adder (The Elizabethan one) is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.//

WOOF!

I loved Rik.

[naomi24]

Loved Blackadder. I like Queenie.

[pixie374]

Queenie was the Bernard that Richard Curtis put into everything he wrote :-)

[pixie374]

No, sorry, it was Nursie

[Mozz71]

The Bernard?

[pixie374]

Apparently his wife had an affair/left him or something for someone called Bernard. So he always put in an annoying character called Bernard, in everything he wrote. I haven't found one without yet, although I believe it ended up being edited out of Love Actually, in the end.

[pixie374]

Mozz...x
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1446547/Why-Tory-MP-is-the-father-of-all-Bernards.html

[barry1010]

Did anyone complaining about today's sitcoms watch Scarborough last year? That had a definite ring of 70s and 80s sitcom about it. I quite enjoyed it, thought it had a chance to develop but it got cancelled after the first series.

If you haven't watched Better Things, give a go. Celia Imrie is in it and it is very fresh and different.
I found Home to be amusing and touching. The son's relationship with his step dad can be very funny.
Breeders is okay if you like Martin Freeman.
I'm still hoping for a new series of Two Doors Down, very clever writing

[pixie374]

I haven't seen Two Doors Down, I'll have a look for it.

[Mozz71]

Thanks Pix. I didn't know about that.

[barry1010]

pixie, it's a BBC Scotland production

[pixie374]

Ah, thanks...