Friday Night Live

[RainbowZebraWarrior]

What do we think?

Do you remember the original?

Ben in his sparkly suit.

Had it aged?

Yep. Haven't we all.

I’ve already turned it off

*Has it aged that should be

I imagine my parents are still saying they'll not be watching it and will find something else.

My teens have gasped in shock already and fucked off to their bedrooms

I guess I just wanted to see if he was as awful and awkward as he used to be.

Tick.

Bloody hell. He's still making Thatcher jokes.

So, yes. It's aged badly.

Ben did his best with his opener, there were some good lines in it.
The guy singing was quite funny but I'd never heard of him.
Julian Clary's doing his best but seems uncomfortable.
I doubt I'll watch it all but it's as I expected so far, dated & a bit sad really.

I’ve never seen the original and I don’t really get it? It’s not particularly funny and seems a bit mashed together.

Bring back gogglebox!

Started watching it. Listened to Ben Elton’s rant. Some of it was funny, other bits was a bit personal.

Watched the singer/comedian and quite enjoyed it.

However, couldn’t be bothered to watch the whole show, so stopped watching it.

Don’t remember the original but did see Ben Elton live back in the day. Very polished, comical performance.

Watched it back in the day, when it was reasonably anarchic, although always hit and miss. It's mostly miss today sadly...

Its no SNL is it?

I really wanted to love it, as I watched it avidly as an easily impressed teen but lots of it is falling flat for me. Stavros wasn't funny at all, just looked like Harry Enfield had been dragged there and persuaded to perform as a favour. Jo Brand was ok. Julian Clary really seemed to miss the mark with the audience. I can't stand Rosie Jones, don't find her funny at all, particularly as she's on bloody everything.
So no, it's definitely not aged well, which is a shame.

Ben Elton is good but most of it is terrible. I would prefer to see a bit more actual up to date satire, as I vaguely remember it being very funny and political back in the day. It's all a bit random and thrown together at the moment.

It feels like one of those fund raising tv programmes that goes on for hours - bit painful - and too much obvious box ticking in diversity of the line up

Oh god, that was EXCRUCIATING. I did not need, (or want), to see that. Fucking grim.

Ummmm

WTF just happened there?

Neither funny or satirical.
Piss poor.

When is it going to be funny?

So disappointing. At first I thought , great, trans but not dressed like a drag queen - showing a more 'normal' trans woman. Then ruined it at the end. Do they think it's just a great novelty, having boobs and a dick?

I was born after the last episode of the original version was aired. So didn't know what to expect. I know I wasn't expecting this

That’ll do a lot for the Trans cause… not

What the actual fuck did I just watch?!

What an attention-seeker

Think I'll put the news back on.

Absolutely fucking grim.