Miranda Hart?

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I' m watching tv and been channel surfing. I came across some episodes of Miranda. I'd forgotten all about it.

What happened to her? She was everywhere at one point- on her own show, on game shows, current affairs things, comedy programmes, chat shows. I think she had national tours with a comedian type show and in a play she wrote. Then it's like she just vanished.
I asked DH if I have missed something but he says he has never heard of her- which isn't true but he's obviously forgotten who she is.

Did she just stop doing everything?

I haven’t forgotten Miranda. I have a colleague that always says ‘bear with’. It started after Miranda was on.

I still say
bear with
such fun
what I call....

and any excuse to say "Nigel Havers".

my favourite episode was Holiday. So relatable, and hilarious. And Luke Pasqualino!

There are ways of saying "she's not funny" without sounding condescending. Also, the OP simply asked what had happened to her - why does it warrant comments on whether or not she is funny?

I liked her in CtM. She really inhabited the role of Chummy and had good chemistry with the actor who played the police officer.

I didn't find the Miranda show all that funny but I loved her as Chummie in CTM. She seems a genuinely nice lady too from her Facebook page.

I read (online) that she has agoraphobia and ME 😪

Never particularly liked Miranda the programme but like Miranda herself. And love this ...

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I enjoy watching her on socials, she posts really regularly.

I prefer her acting over her comedy and suspect she can carefully choose what she does and has other irons in the fire that are less public (writing and producing etc). Good for her.

I’m sure she has her issues like most people, and there’s actually been quite a lull in production (TV and film) that was caused by Covid that is only just starting to get going again- a huge amount was shelved and costs are high so not everything that would have been aired is going to actually go out. So there could have been things planned that didn’t happen.

DH is ex TV production and he has a lot of ex colleagues with unfinished and unstarted projects sat about still. They are always moaning. And then there’s the strikes in the US too. It’s been a funny old time in media really. Commissioning has been pretty difficult. Once you lose “currency” some
people will not come back as they might have done if the world had been different.

Loved her character in not going out (I’ve not seen much of it but have caught some episodes) but found Miranda really unfunny. I’ve watched a couple of episodes late at night when I just want something to unwind to and not once has it made me even come close to a small smile. I don’t understand why it has any appeal at all, for me it’s like Mrs browns boys, I’m missing something but I’m not interested in finding out what!

Maybe she's been 'cancelled'?

I didn't think her show was at all funny but thought she was great in Call the Midwife. Really touching performances.

I loved Miranda (the series), but I watched a couple of episodes of Call me Kat recently on a long haul flight and it was atrocious. The premise veered so widely from the original Miranda that it was another series entirely

Does it count as "spilling venom", though? Your whole post was a massive overreaction.

@BetsyBobbins yes I saw it on a flight recently too.

I actually really like the lead lady so I had fondness from that. It's an acquired taste though (like Miranda the show too) and not everyone's cup of tea.

Yes, as PP have said I think she had some very good fortune in financial terms, coupled with some very bad fortune with her health. If you look on her IMDB she has producer and writing credits on Call Me Kat up to this year.

She had a one-off Christmas chat show in 2017 and it very much felt like she was being lined up as a big light-entertainment personality but she’s obviously chosen to take a different path. I have always found her very likeable and I hope her health struggles aren’t too debilitating.

She also does lots of voice over stuff-I recall the boiler thing in good morning Britain weather forecasts. Nice easy money there.

Perhaps she didn't enjoy being very high profile. Some people could be quite nasty about her.

Well she has given me and my family some gentle laughs over the years, and also Miranda as a series does have some serious underneath it which is the overbearing and dependent mother daughter relationship. Sometimes there was a bit of poignancy to it for what was "light comedy".

I hope she has a good life; she strikes me as a modest person who has done well for herself.

She’s fun more than she is funny, I think. Really good fun.

I do think there’s a vulnerability underneath that lighthearted facade, though. I hope she has fabulous friends- she’s a fabulous woman.

Ever since Miranda I have noticed how many times my own mother has said “what I call” or similar.

My kids absolutely love the show Miranda. And I miss Chummie in Call the Midwife.

I enjoyed Miranda because it was different. The episode where she goes to the psychiatrist with her mother was laugh out loud funny. She seems to be a nice person

I say ‘bear with’, and on a recent shopping trip with my sister we realised that we have both turned into women who describe things as ‘fun’!

I liked it when she met Dreamboat Charlie

I think a lot of us with overbearing mothers of that ‘genre’ could really relate to Miranda and her personal struggles with life which is why it was so relatable for many.

I listen to her audiobooks to cheer myself up at any low moments. Love her show even more than her acting as do most of the women and none of the men I know! I’d love to see/hear more of her but more than that I hope she’s happy and well whatever she’s doing.

@LoreleiG - yes, agree.

There was also her absolutely vile boarding school friend with the causal nastiness of "Queen Kong" even years later.

I thought Miranda was pretty good at puncturing a lot of upper class nastiness, and so it wasn't all that light in a way.