Citizen Khan ?

[EDDIE51]

The thread about 1950's radio comedy programs (which really were funny) prompts me to ask this.
I have just had the misfortune to see the first of the new series of Citizen Khan.
Does anyone think this is in anyway amusing? It's beyond bad !

[ummmm]

No, not at all.

[Baldric]

Having caught the previous series at times I would not bother with it!

[andy-hughes]

It is very popular - hence the new series, but it's comedy is missing me by several miles.

[EDDIE51]

I was wondering if thinking it was hopeless could be construed as 'Racist' but I think bad is just bad no matter what the ethnicity.

[tonyav]

Set in Sparkhill, so bound to be bad.

[andy-hughes]

You can't be considered racist because something is not funny!

If you said that Asian people should not appear in comedy shows, that is racist, but saying they are not funny when they do, is not.

[Hopkirk]

I can't work out which is worse, this or Mrs Brown's Boys.

[douglas9401]

I haven't seen it since the first two episodes but I just kept thinking it was missing Peter Sellers and the dhobie wallah from It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

Pretty grim fare.

[EDDIE51]

andy-hughes, 'very popular'? Is that among the UK Pakistani community?
The only ones I know are the ones who run our corner shop and they say it's so bad it's embarrassing.

[Old_Geezer]

I haven't really given the show a fair crack of the whip. I recall seeing some of it in a past (first ?) series and being sufficiently unamused than I haven't tuned in again. Seems to me, from reading the OP, like it's still struggling to insert quality level humour into the script.

[aelmpvw]

another series, really? i've seen excerpts and it looks dire

[hc4361]

I like it

[mikey4444]

I am not sure whether its OK to say this or not, but I really like Citizen Khan !

Its the Policeman son-in-law that makes me laugh....he has the sort of face that would be funny even if he just standing still not doing anything !

Welcome back Citizen Khan !

[mushroom25]

times change, and so do tastes in comedy. do you not remember similar charges of "it's not funny" being leveled by the older generation at "alternative comedy" in the 1980s, comedy that seemed to them to consist of nothing more than shouty politics, vomiting and swearing? these shows too were very popular in their day and many of the comedians that made them are now mainstream and very rich.

[hc4361]

I agree, Mikey, and the actor who plays Amjad is a very funny stand up comedian

[mikey4444]

HC...I hadn't realised that !

To me, he looks like a lost little boy, at loose in the big wide world. I'm not sure how anybody that simple could become a Policeman !

( actually, I'm not that surprised really ! )

[hc4361]

It was all very accidental how Amjad became a policeman, if you remember :D

Abdullah was training to be an Imam but got diverted in to acting and comedy.

[mikey4444]

HC.....sorry....I didn't start watching this until the last season, so I am not sure how he got to be a Plod......but it would not appear to be due to a surfeit of brains !