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Miranda - i just don't get it

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jennymac · 02/02/2011 08:22

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

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Edmundo · 02/02/2011 18:59

She's not funny. She's a bit too Michael McIntyre for me, whom I loathe.

vintageteacups · 02/02/2011 19:01

The 'talking to camera' bits used to really wind me up but I'm used to it now.

I think I find her funny coz I'm a bit like her (dippy) in RL Grin.

However, the scripts for the Miranda show are a bit too scripted sometimes and you can guess what is going to happen during the pause which is really annoying. If it were a bit more natural, I think it'd annoy fewer people.

In the Xmas one, I thought the whole time that the guy (counsellor) behind the desk was going to turn out to be some other random bloke and not a psychiatrist at all...........but he was a psychiatrist and it wasn't that funny.

southeastastra · 02/02/2011 19:01

i find surreal things funny and still love miranda - really you are allowed to find it funny or not - don't get this thread at all

upahill · 02/02/2011 19:02

dustwhatdust. I wouldn't bother, seen one seen them all!

vintageteacups · 02/02/2011 19:03

I would love to invite her for dinner though -she'd be a great dinner party guest I reckon.

I love MM too - he makes me pee myself laughing as everything in RL he talks about is exactly what I wonder/think too and things like wafting his hands under the public loo sink taps creased me up laughing.

BendyBob · 02/02/2011 19:05

I do think that sitcoms about 'me and my cr-azeee life and friends/family' have been done to death.

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 19:09

I love the talk to camera bits - her facial expressions are priceless. I agree it has moments of precictable cheesiness - it's a sitcom after all. We are coming out of an era of very slick, dry, smug, slightly too clever for its a own good comedy - we need so innocent slapstick silliness for a change.

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 19:09

some not so

OvertiredAndShowingOff · 02/02/2011 19:13

Hate John Bishop, hate Only Fools & Horses. Love 30 Rock.

So there.

Haven't watched Miranda, but any lady who manages to get on the telly who isn't size 8 and conventionally beautiful has achieved something!

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 19:13

She is quite lovely in her way though. The more you look at her the lovelier she gets. Grin

Woodhen · 02/02/2011 19:25

Love it!!!
Tilly: Bear with, bear with, bear with Grin

Also love Outnumbered - the episode with the dinnertime food negotiation was just like my house in fact quite a few things are quite similer to my house which is slightly worrying!!! Confused

Whats wrong with silent witness and how can you not love Harry!!

Rainydaze · 02/02/2011 19:29

I don't like it either. I don't understand why everyone's raving about it. Confused

Cliche-ridden, predictable pap, as far as I can see!

upahill · 02/02/2011 19:30

overtired I said something similar earlier on another thread but no one took me up.

Here is my post from earlier

''Middle aged, over weight, black, female, enthusastic and interesting and a joy to watch and what's more despite being dsylexic she holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Physics

I saw a programme last night called ' Do we need the moon' presented by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. She was as passionate as her subject as Prof. Brian Cox is about the solar system.

Truly inspirational

I love Dr Mary Beard as well who comes across superbly in her field.
I love women who are pasionate about their favourite subjects and make it interesting to other people.

Any one else see last nights programme?''

jonicomelately · 02/02/2011 20:11

noddyholder
I forgot about the Comedy Awards.

I'm sure that the CA jury must've voted for her because she was a woman Hmm

jonicomelately · 02/02/2011 20:13

Whilst comedy is subjective I think people need to realise Miranda kind of embraces the retro/cheesy comedy thing. It's unashamedly seventies farce. I like it Smile

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 20:17

That was the point I was making joni.

specialmagiclady · 02/02/2011 20:31

I love the surreal comedy of the MIghty Boosh, the biting sarcasm of Frankie Boyle (tempered by other comics on panel shows, NOT his standup)and the whoops-a-daisy everywoman of Miranda.

But then I am tall, posh, clumsy with an irritating social-climbing mother and I have been called Sir (well, Laddie when about 17).

And not surreal? How about going on holiday to a hotel round the corner for surreal...

kandle · 02/02/2011 20:48

The woman is a genius! She manages to make her height, looks and manner leave me rolling on the floor laughing whilst simultaneousness feeling for her and relating to her so much too. I think we probably all can on some level.

But I also agree with MarniesMummy and think Harry must go!!!

rupaul · 02/02/2011 20:55

I agree Jennymac. I think Miranda knew that too.

rupaul · 02/02/2011 20:56

btw she's in Burke's peerage - Miranda Hart Dyke

Ormirian · 02/02/2011 20:58

John Bishop is one step up from sexist male comics of the 70s. Belongs in working men's clubs with Watney's Red Barrel and the meat draw.

Georgimama · 02/02/2011 21:03

I love her but I can't bear this programme. what was that space thing (not Spaced) she was in a few years ago? Loved that.

I do like conventional middle class sitcoms (The Good Life and To The Manor Born are to me two of the funniest Beeb comedies ever) but at the same time I love The Young Ones and Father Ted. I just don't think this Miranda thingy is a very good middle class sitcom.

As an aside some time ago there was a thread on here - "which celeb do you want to look like, and which celeb do you actually look like?" or words to that effect. My answers were Kate Winslet and Miranda Hart.

Glamour · 02/02/2011 21:22

I love her, Smile

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 21:27

Is she related to that Hart-Dyke person who did something famous or other? Didn't he get captured on an expedition or something? And his parents have a famous garden? Confused God, these posh double-barrelled families get everywhere. It's very wearing when you find out their cousins and fathers and brothers are all vaguely well-known for something. Baron-Cohens, Fearnley-Whittingstalls, can't they just stop now and give the rest of us a look in?

FellatioNelson · 02/02/2011 21:29

Oh God, and don't get me started on the Bloody Day-Lewises.