To find Philomena Cunk intensely irritating and everything that is wrong with society?

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She's like that one irritating twat at the back of the class or on a tour that thinks they are the main character and asks stupid endless irritating questions when everyone else just wants to listen and learn something. They are thinking they're funny and clever but they're annoying and stupid AF.
She's admitted that in real life she finds history and science boring so she just mocks it and talks over educated, interesting people with "jokes" that have been done 100 times and the delinquent knuckle-dragging masses lap it up. Just another example of the media contributing to the dumbing down of society.

I'm sick of people saying she's "brilliant". No, professor Brian Cox is brilliant. Diane Morgan's idiotic character is just some knob sat there asking stupid questions to one of those most fascinating people on TV who pretty much has all the answers to life. It's depressing that people like her tbh.

I wish I had half the mind Coxy has ♥️♥️♥️

It is possible to find her funny and ALSO appreciate the genius of renowned scientists and academics.

Obviously they are not in the same league.

She is a comedian/ entertainer. Why on earth are you comparing them?

Loved her in Mother Land but can't get on board with the Cunk thing unfortunately. A couple of bits made me exhale slightly harder out of my nose than normal, but not many and I gave up on it in the end.

Completely agree with this, used to love her but went to bed halfway through 'Cunk on Life' this Christmas. Heard one overegged double entendre, heard them all.

Loved her in Motherland but not into Cunk or Mandy.

A joke with a limited lifespan that has had its day.

Sorry i was responding to sharpopa, who said op didnt understand

I found her amusing for about 10 minutes and then it just seemed to be the same type of joke repeated ad infinitum. It was boring so I stopped watching her.

There are plenty of things I find funny that other people think are flat out stupid, 'What We Do in the Shadows' and the US version of The Office for instance, so if somebody finds her hilarious I'm not judging them.

It’s supposed to be absurdist, and she is mocking anti-expert, anti-intellectual types (like dumbed-down presenters). She isn’t mocking the experts. I think that’s pretty straightforward when viewing it, but each to their own.

The repetition wears thin very quickly. And, I agree, it's either venerating or deriding ignorance, depending on your point of view.

Exactly, I get parody, it's just not my kind of humour.

So much this! She's a parody.

I swear to god people take things far too seriously now.

This is why decent satire has died.

You can still mock people even if they are in on the joke you know.

So, what’s the most political thing that’s ever happened? 😂

Anyone who’s watched Lucy Worsley’s latest “Investigates” series will totally understand what Cunk is mocking. I know Worsley is an historian (so am I!) but she’s become such a parody of herself I can’t watch her now. The “investigates” show has a so much Cunk in it!

Erm it's comedy, she is meant to be irritating. Cunk is a character, the comedienne / actress is Diane Morgan, don't confuse the two!

You do realise it’s comedy , it’s not supposed to be an intellectual history or science programme .Totally agree with pp that the Christmas one this year was not very good , it’s probably had it’s day .

Watch the Brian Cox video. It's delightful.

@BitOutOfPractice , I’m the same , used to really like a Lucy Worsley programme but there is so much bias in the new ones we can’t watch them . She needs to get back to her roots .

She's not mocking the academics, and anyway they can take a bit of ribbing. I don't like it that she's punching down on people who are less intellectual. I get it, and sometimes I enjoy it when the academic is particularly skilled at dealing with her (Ronald Hutton!) but I find it uncomfortable. Give it a few years and I don't think it will age well.

Can’t bear her or her character here. She does love dogs though, so that’s plus.

I really like her (obvs!) but the new one was just way too long. She's better in shorter doses because the same type of joke can't really be stretched out for an hour.

It's a comedy, she's meant to be irritating?

If it's a comedy is she not meant to be... funny? I didn't know that comedies are meant to be irritating. Humour of course is subjective but I've never heard of the view that comedies are meant to irritate.

And I am well aware that Cunk is a character played by Diane Morgan and I have mentioned Diane Morgan in my OP. It helps everyone if you read the whole post before you reply to it.

I agree. I watched the others and thought they were hilarious, but Cunk on Luce was just cringe making.

I hate it with every fibre of my being. I don't think I've ever seen lovely Brian Cox smile so little :(

The difference is these are very much in on it.