Comedies That Aren't Funny

[bibblebub]

Is there a word for a tv programme or film that you know is intended to be a comedy but you don't find it the least bit amusing?

All I can come up with is non-serious but I'd prefer a single, non-hyphenated word.

So there would be comedies, dramas and...?

[beejay1124]

dumedies

[bibblebub]

em10 - that saying has been around for some time and it seems to have been coined by Dale Carnegie as "When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade” - he wrote the book How to Win Friends and Influence People

[emmie]

i think it was in one of the big stores, on one of those signs to hang in the kitchen, or some pertinent place.

[emmie]

Andrew Carnegie, not Dale according to this

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15421-when-fate-hands-us-a-lemon-let-s-try-to-make

[emmie]

some good ones on here

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23387.Andrew_Carnegie

[bibblebub]

i'd have to disagree with you em10 because the site you give seems to be the only one that attributes it to Andrew, all others give it to Dale

[bibblebub]

just found another one http://www.jimpoz.com/quotes/Speaker:Andrew_Carnegie

[weecalf]

Dench is a good word which may apply

[emmie]

each one i looked at attributes it to Andrew Carnegie. Good saying.

[emmie]

as your last post has confirmed/

[anneasquith]

pure and utter DROSS.

[emmie]

unfunny, surely that is the most appropriate.

[piggynose]

what about " pants "

[aelmpvw]

titterless

[Daij]

Come-doh!

[THECORBYLOON]

Lastofthesummerwine?

[Peter Pedant]

turkeys,

and then you can make amusing turkey gobbling noises

[19tom54]

What about 'Gervaisian'?

[davetuc]

They're known as Beeb3's!!