Miranda - i just don't get it

[jennymac]

Is it just me, or is it really just not funny? I feel almost embarrassed watching it - it is so cringy!

I love Miranda

I feel her pain.

Absolutely love her - but I am also 6ft1, big, clumsy... Sadly I am not funny..

Love Miranda (could do with less Stevie)!

Loathe Outnumbered though, those kids are too precocious and make me cringe.

I don't watch it regularly but because of all the hype I thought I should give it a go. I just didn't get it - it reminds me of the terrible sitcoms that used to be on in the seventies and eighties. Seem to be lots of silly scrapes and jolly goings-on without any funny or witty dialogue.

Oh, and Gary is very attractive too, which helps...

I love Miranda too but I never did get shows like "The Fast Show" or "Peep Show"

I think we should arrange a "Wheres Miranda/Wally" flashmob.

I know it's not clever-funny and it shouldn't be entertaining but I love it. We watch it with the dcs who find it hilarious.

It has spawned catch phrases in our family, 'bear with', 'such fun' & 'what I call...'

Do NOT like Stevie. I think Miranda is an immensely likeable person and it's her charm that carries the show.

I love Miranda. She is a slightly taller, slightly posher version of me. I don't watch a huge amount of TV but this is one thing that I won't miss.

Having said that I also love Outnumbered. DS1 watches it with me and frequently comments on how like DS2 and DD Ben and Karen are. I haven't yet told him that he is actually rather like Jake...

We do the catchphrases too Mapp

pmsl @ Focaccia Pilkington

must have missed that one

I tried watching it after reading so many tweets about how great it was and I Just. Didn't. Get. It.

At all.

I tried again the next week, thinking maybe I tried a duff episode, and it was equally cack. Feel like I am defective in some way because the entire rest of the planet seems to love it. Thanks for starting this thread and reassuring me, jennymac.

here you are, taffeta 11 mins. in....

I love her and am with all who loved the "where's Miranda"/psychiatrist scenes. She's brilliant, warm and funny. Haven't laughed so much since "The Thick of It".

I love Miranda. I also cried with laughter at the psychiatrist episode. Such fun!

Love Miranda
Love Stevie (and loved her in series one of Horrible Histories)
Nothing wrong with being middle class

Miranda does a courtesy when she meets a man she fancies

And sometimes she breaks wind at the same time

What the hell in not to like.

'is' not 'in'

thank you TanteRose! I wish I had the nerve to do/say some of the things she does.

actually... yyeeeeeees re the 'constant comparisons to shakespeare' (every time i think that she probably wishes she'd tried a bit harder on that one) and gurning little troll stevie. but i still like HER, beyond that, and so i like the show, because it is ineffably and indisputably HER.

The show is only funny because of her. Someone should give her a decent script.

I've tried and I'm not getting it!

saying that I don't 'my family' or 'Outnumbered'

Honestly I do have a sense of humour 'The Middle' is great. I have one son who is like Axel and another who is just like Brick!!

I love 'Not going out' as well. I love Lee Mack.

Miranda's humour doesn't do it for me although she comes across as really lovely in interviews.

she writes it herself

Miranda and My Family. Crimes against humanity. Crimes I tell ya!

I love Miranda, It has me and 2 DDs having a good old belly laugh [DH just sits there looking a bit puzzled].

It started on Radio 4, and was on at some silly hour about 11.30 I think, I loved it so much I used to stay awake to listen to it.

Patricia Hodge played the mother on the radio too, I think she is fantastic.

We (DP and I) love Miranda - her show is a breath of fresh air.

It's her timing, cheesiness and self deprecation that do it!