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Unfunniest comedy show you have seen?

297 replies

OneFancyTealQuail · 13/08/2025 14:49

Mrs Brown's boys

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PermanentTemporary · 13/08/2025 16:32

Took me a long time to get into Friday Night Dinner but I suddenly did. Again DP loving it helped.

Tell you what I loved recently - Everyone Else Burns.

SomethingFun · 13/08/2025 16:33

Big bang theory and how I met your mother. They are always on tv in English when we go abroad and I cannot understand for the life of me who finds them funny and why they do. I hear no jokes, not even bad ones, or even any vaguely funny lines and the characters are awful.

Love actually is terrible and there will be many social posts about this nearer Xmas - loads of people don’t like it - as they should because it’s shite.

Friday Night Dinner is hilarious! I might have said ‘I’m roasting’ about 15 times today already. And if you can’t laugh at horrible grandma and her dying dog you have no funny bone 😁

Tillow4ever · 13/08/2025 16:36

DeadMemories · 13/08/2025 15:26

I quite liked it at the start, the first couple of series were funny but it started to go downhill and now i cant watch it.

This makes me feel better as I’m of the same opinion - like they were trying too hard after season 2. I do have quite a wide taste in tv though, so I full expect to like stuff others don’t at all.

Alan Partridge was one I just couldn’t find funny ever. Keith Lemon too.

TwelvePercent · 13/08/2025 16:37

I'm not saying I haven't laughed at it, but I spend most of any episode of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' incandescent with rage at the mealy mouthed, selfish, immature, co-dependent, narcissistic, controlling, fucking bell-end who is Raymond Barone, rather than enjoying it as a bit of a silly laugh.

I actually hate his fictional character.

Oh and MBB of course - it will be the only remaining show commissioned after the zombie apocalypse the way it's going. Madness.

ElixirOfLife · 13/08/2025 16:38

Came on to say Mrs Brown's Boys but I see I was beaten to it by everyone. I can’t think of any particular comedy that comes close to being as awful as it.

MyDeftHedgehog · 13/08/2025 16:39

You would probably have to go back about 40 years to find any laugh out loud comedy. Most of it has been cancelled in case it offends somebody

the80sweregreat · 13/08/2025 16:44

Spray, I remember Dear John and it was funny.
Only fools was good, but it was also ‘ of its time ‘ and I know that my boys just didn’t get it at all ! Milllionials. 🙄 😆
Rings on their fingers was bad as was ‘ the mistress ‘ with Felicity Kendall. Raised a few eyebrows.

Melonmango70 · 13/08/2025 16:45

Xelda · 13/08/2025 16:08

Well that’s three of us 😄

Four!

Mysterian · 13/08/2025 16:45

On The Buses. No amount of laughter at their own jokes by the cast could persuade me to think it was remotely funny.

Heil Honey I'm Home. The 50s/60s American style sitcom about Hitler and Ava Braun living next to a Jewish couple. It didn't do well. Only one episode shown before the rest were pulled.

Hotflushesandchilblains · 13/08/2025 16:46

Little Britain. Was living out of the country when it was a thing, so missed it. Have seen clips but find everything I have seen awful and both people massively creepy.

WomanOfSteel · 13/08/2025 16:48

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 13/08/2025 15:46

Going against the grain but I do like Mrs Browns Boys. I find it easy watching TV. Its silly, and I don't take it too seriously, but its fun. Okay so admittedly its not the best thing I have ever seen but I certainly don't get all the hate for it. I watch it when its on and actually quite like the Xmas Specials.

But I do appreciate that my tastes always pretty much go against the grain.

Not TV, but I think I am the only person who disliked movies such as Mama Mia, The Greatest Showman, Love Actually & Bridget Jones Diary 😂

Hate MBB and all of the films too (I liked the BJD books though).

I would add Friends as the least funny and most contrived thing I’ve ever seen. It makes me cringe. How does anyone find anything about it amusing?

the80sweregreat · 13/08/2025 16:48

I always felt sorry for Olive in ‘ on the buses’ ! I wanted her to stand up to Arthur her horrible husband .. nasty piece of work.
They cast the brilliant Anna Karen in Eastenders as a feisty auntie , I was pleased she got to play a woman not to be messed with!

Wexone · 13/08/2025 16:49

I agree with Friday night dinner - watched a few times just don't get it
I felt the same with Shitts creek, however after the second series it clicked and i loved it
Love actually not really a comedy - its a mixture of drama and comedy - everyone fells like crying when Emma Thomas realises her husband is having an affair
One film i could not get my head around that was funny was Bridesmaids, i actually felt like breaking into the screen and grabbing them all as it was so cringy

Humour is very subjective though plus getting harder and harder to do in these current times
I think MMB does so well is that is a bit nostalgic for alot of people, reminds them of older comedies and allows drag

the80sweregreat · 13/08/2025 16:50

Friends is dire. Everyone I know loves it
I used to call it ‘ fiends’

the80sweregreat · 13/08/2025 16:51

Bridesmaids is a dreadful comedy, especially the toilet bit with those dresses on :(

H0ldmybeer · 13/08/2025 16:52

Colin from accounts.

WomanOfSteel · 13/08/2025 16:52

GentlemanJay · 13/08/2025 16:21

Bread.

Loved Bread as a kid. I always have a Lilo Lil for the pool on holiday.

Notmyreality · 13/08/2025 16:53

Miranda.

BebbanburgIsMine · 13/08/2025 16:55

Lampzade · 13/08/2025 15:16

British sitcoms are generally unfunny

Still Game is the funniest show ever!

Glasgow pensioners causing mischief and having a laugh.

Much loved in Scotland.

Quicknamechange2025 · 13/08/2025 16:57

EchoedSilence · 13/08/2025 16:11

The Office
Motherland
Ghosts

Haha I LOVE these

Notmyreality · 13/08/2025 17:00

Tillow4ever · 13/08/2025 15:20

I might get flamed but I quite enjoy it. At least the first couple of seasons. My parents used to put it on in the pub at the end of the night whilst I was working and loads of the customers clearly enjoyed it as they all sat there to watch it.

it is what it is, and if you can overlook that, it’s just a bit of a laugh - don’t think too deeply.

Agreed I liked the first couple of seasons then it went downhill.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 13/08/2025 17:00

Basically anything that comes with a studio laughter track, Mrs Browns Boys, Citizen Khan, Not Going Out, My Family (although a few Kris Marshall episodes are just about passable) and the one that Ben Elton had on a few years ago, something to do with health and safety IIRC but do dreadful that I can't even remember the name.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 13/08/2025 17:01

WomanOfSteel · 13/08/2025 16:52

Loved Bread as a kid. I always have a Lilo Lil for the pool on holiday.

I will always have a crush on Joey Boswell but only the Peter Howitt version.

Allseeingallknowing · 13/08/2025 17:02

Hotflushesandchilblains · 13/08/2025 16:46

Little Britain. Was living out of the country when it was a thing, so missed it. Have seen clips but find everything I have seen awful and both people massively creepy.

That was one of the best programmes for those with a weird and dark sense of humour- like me!

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 13/08/2025 17:04

The Liver Birds was pretty shit.

Also, Are You Being Served?

And Man About the House.