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

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DottyBlue2 · 21/01/2016 23:18

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 .

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Owllady · 22/01/2016 19:13

Otherwise well set spider baby on you

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DottyBlue2 · 22/01/2016 19:30

I bought extra dry vermouth by mistake so I've sweetened it up with some vanilla extract. It's rather nice. I shall call it the Mumnegroni.

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lapsedorienteerer · 22/01/2016 19:38

Not funny, never got it.

AnnieNoMouse · 22/01/2016 19:43

I think it might have been funny in the 70's.

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iwouldgoouttonight · 22/01/2016 20:12

ComposHatComesBack I'm going to look up Early Doors because I love all the others you've mentioned but I must have missed that one.

Agree with others that Father Ted is still hilarious. I watched Red Dwarf the other day and felt a bit meh about it, shame because I used to love it.

Miranda is mildly amusing but it's never going to be a classic.

ComposHatComesBack · 22/01/2016 20:20

I would enjoy. It is quite wry and gentleso it might take a couple of episodes. I often found myself chuckling about something that had happened the following day.

Owllady · 22/01/2016 21:01

Early doors was funny but my husband found it funnier Hmm
I like Craig cash though
I always loved his and Carolina's characters on the fast show
What did I say? What I say?
You said you could shit through the eye of a needle

:o why has that stuck in my head?! I love crass though too..

Pigeonpost · 22/01/2016 22:21

I'm not the first one to say it but it's not funny now, never mind in 10 years. And don't get me started on Mrs Brown's Boys, that's like going back in time 30 years never mind in 10 years time.

Trooperslane · 22/01/2016 22:26

Soooooo unfunny now. Sorry.

ShelaghTurner · 22/01/2016 23:43

Cannot bear her. As funny as treading on an upturned plug. Also can't stand her in Call The Midwife and it is to my lasting joy that she's not in the new series. I actually cheered.

But Father Ted is genius.

Pipistrella · 23/01/2016 08:53

I wonder if we'd laugh at Victoria Wood now. We used to love that when I was a teenager.

I think we probably still would. It was genuinely clever at least.

I can't understand though, why I used to think Mr Bean was funny (back in about 1991)

Now it's very clearly taking the piss out of someone with a disability, well, that's how it seems anyway - why couldn't I see that at the time?

Barbadosgirl · 23/01/2016 09:25

So glad I found this thread. I have never been able to see why everyone found Miranda funny!

AnthonyBlanche · 23/01/2016 09:53

It's not funny now, so highly unlikely to be funny in 10 years time. I don't know what's happened to TV comedy. There used to be some genuinely funny comedy like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder.

mudandmayhem01 · 23/01/2016 10:06

Blackadder is still funny, fawlty towers hasn't aged well at all. Slow, sexist and xenophobic. I think a lot of people who say they like haven't actually rewatched it recently

ForalltheSaints · 23/01/2016 10:12

It is one of those comedies with a limited shelf life, and perhaps should have just been one series and a couple of specials.

As for Mrs Brown's Boys, it should never have got beyond the pilot.

anotherbusymum14 · 23/01/2016 10:30

I like her and think she's funny but wonder if the things we laugh at in her programmes will be a bit like Mrs Bucket in "Keeping up Appearances". Yes KUA is old and dated and no I'm not being funny just thinking of a comparison. Miranda is funny because of her crazy mum and her "poor me" life and I suppose the way she can laugh at herself or take the Mickey, and that is what it was like in early-mid 2000. Mrs Bucket was funny in the 1990s because of the whole class system which was at the time obviously had bigger differences and Mrs Bucket was trying to separate herself from it and in the process was just plain mean to others. What I'm trying to say is for the moment (in that time) the comedies were relevant. I think Miranda although funny will not be as funny because of some of the things she laughs at now, and this won't be looked at in the same way in a few years (or now as some of you say - I haven't seen her recent material though). Just a thought.

ComposHatComesBack · 23/01/2016 10:48

I for one have never found Fawlty Towers funny, nor John Cleese in general.

LittleLionMansMummy · 23/01/2016 10:49

How is Fawlty Towers sexist? The character Penny was ahead of her time in 1970s comedy terms - smart, independent, witty, clever, assertive. A far cry from Babs Winsor that's for sure. And slow? I get out of breath just watching John Cleese!

Pipistrella · 23/01/2016 11:27

Penny? Do you mean Polly?

Chottie · 23/01/2016 12:09

I'm another one who doesn't find Miranda funny now....

LittleLionMansMummy · 23/01/2016 12:10

Haha yes sorry meant Polly! I have a friend called Penny so my phone autocorrected!

Imustgodowntotheseaagain · 23/01/2016 12:10

Kick Bishop Brennan up the Arse is my favourite Father Ted episode.

Since no-one else has mentioned it I'd like to big up Still Game - though it's very Glaswegian.

Owllady · 23/01/2016 12:14

We've got to lose that sax solo

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