To think Miranda won't be funny in 10 years time?

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I used to love Miranda. DD loved Miranda. I even took her plus a friend to see Miranda and had to wait a year after booking the bleeding tickets.

But I've just caught an episode (the one where she pretends to go on holiday) and it's just got a bit..... tired and dated. AIBU? I've got nothing against the girl. I think she was just a bit of a fad .

Sigh. Forgot to mention all the other shows I don't like but just let's say it's most sitcoms, whether UK or US. Just not my sort of thing. I've never seen an episode of Friends and never wanted to.

Oh yes the Royle Family still makes me laugh. Some great scenes in that show.

I never found the Royle Family funny at all. I didn't get the love for it at all. The Christmas special where they had the flame retarded sofa and Denise and Dave had sent the kids away because "Christmas isn't really for kids" was awful. It made them look cruel and neglectful.

Just echoing what everyone else has said. It isn't funny now. In 10 years (hopefully) it will have been banned (along with Mrs Browns boys) for utter crapness. X

Yes some of the Christmas specials weren't great. I didn't like them either.

From what I can see, no comedy has ever been banned for crapness. But that is a good idea.

It's very slapstick and 'safe' - I've always found it mildly amusing, it's the sort of thing you can watch with your parents and your DCs and everyone will get it and nobody will be offended. I don't imagine it'll go down as one of the greats though.

The series that has aged remarkably well for me is Smack the Pony. I remember loving it the first time round, but I was too young (and/or busy to going out) to watch it. But it's still utterly hilarious and has barely dated at all.

I am not generally a fan of slapstick or of sitcoms but I was pleased to see a female comedian getting her own show. I like it that she gets the guy.

I watched Tracey Ullman's new show and was pleased at how she is using a format from the 90s i.e short sketches and character driven comedy. I actually thought she was very funny and was using old comedy formats but contemporary material. Angela Merkel!

Well if the audience for 'Mrs Browns Boys D'movie' is anything to go by, it has a certain market, and that market is generally those of an older persuasion - much higher numbers of senior citizen's attended that than the majority of films at my local cinema.

It's alarming how few British sitcoms are centred around female lead characters, actually. Miranda is one of very few - then obviously there's Ab Fab, and Birds of a Feather, Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances... um... Sue Perkins did one that was dropped after one series. Can't really think of many others? Dinnerladies maybe. Even bloody Mrs Brown's Boys is a male lead.

I love Miranda, such fun and Mrs Brown's boys as it goes.

John Bishop and Sarah Millican do nothing for me.

My 12 year old loves her. I find her amusing, I enjoyed the series but found the stand up boring. I did fancy Gary though

I can re watch her show countless times and still laugh a lot. I really didn't find the show funny at first but it grew on me.

I didn't think many comedians or sitcoms are funny forever.

I don't think that it is just that it doesn't stand up to the acknowledged classics, but I think it is poor when stacked up against comedy shows of the past 15 years, let alone the past 50.

Peep Show (First 5 series)
The Thick of It
Rev
Detectorists
Black Books
Early Doors (my favourite)

Wipe the floor with Miranda. I know they are all very different in tone, but even so.

I just think Miranda is out and out bad, but some comedies do date faster than others. I watched Spaced the other day the other day and it looked horribly dated as did Men Behaving Badly. Possibly because they both attempted to capture a certain zeitgeist (Gen X slackers/New Lads, respectively) they almost look like period pieces now. I often wonder if they show Early Doors in twenty years, kids will be saying 'did people really smoke in pubs?'

The writers of Dad's Army deliberately set their comedies in the past so they wouldn't date. Even something like Phoenix Nights whilst set in the present day was set in a world that was old fashioned and on its last legs.

Also stuff like Father Ted is timeless in a way, they are so isolated from the rest of the world on Craggy Island as are Fletch and Godber in Porridge that they don't seem to be tied to a particular era.

I find Miranda funny. It's well written and performed and features some very acute observation. Of course that sort of thing will always go over some people's heads.........

Just because we dont find it funny, doesnt mean it 'goes over our head' more like under our feet

Never found it funny think that it is alongside mrs browns boys very marmite. My mil loves Miranda I just don't get the appeal always seemed very dated to me but different strokes and all that- I adore the Royle family and my DH thinks that's very boring and slow.

I never found Miranda funny. Or Mrs Brown's Boy - but DH said I missed the point of that one.

But I still laugh at 'Allo 'Allo and I'm not sorry.

She's just so annoying - loved her in Call the Midwife but ughhhhhh every time Miranda came on TV I just switched over immediately. Sooooooooooooooooooo over hyped.

In our house we cry with laughter at Miranda, it's hilarious, also at Birds of a Feather re-runs.

Miranda, Rowan Atkinson, Mrs Brown, all so Un funny. no no no. Agree with the knobbly stick Mutton

Mind you I love Gimme Gimme Gimme with Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus

Just because we dont find it funny, doesnt mean it 'goes over our head' more like under our feet

I agree. The idea that there is some deeper hidden meaning in Miranda that we just aren't getting is hilarious. Unless a posh woman falling over a lot is an oblique reference to the collapse of Feudalism or something.

Who said James Cordon isn't funny

YouTube carpool karaoke, he's BRILLIANT