It’s been on life support for a while now, but with the news that Stacey Solomon (that isn’t a typo) is to get her own curb your enthusiasm style show (I wish this were a joke), British comedy has surely had its plug well and truly pulled.
It’s a tragedy worthy of Shakespeare, but it could well be hitting our screens in the near future.
As I’ve previously mentioned the quality of comedy in Britain has been on a rather frightening decline for a while now, with a whole wave of new shows departing just as quickly as they arrived and all making no impression whatsoever.
If you were to have the misfortune of watching a show like The Cafe or Trollied (and many others) you wouldn’t believe me if I told you the same nation produced comedy masterpieces like Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, The Office or Blackadder.
All the new comedies of today are too soft and unfunny, there’s no edge and when you watch them you grin at best you’re never in any danger of actually laughing.
If anything you’re more likely to become irritated that you’ve wasted half an hour of your life watching something that was designed to make you laugh but instead bored you to death.
There some exceptions but they are so rare an argument could be made for them to be put on the endangered species list, after The Office when in my opinion this sparse period began, I can think of only two comedies that I would consider genuinely funny and worthy of being mentioned alongside other classics.
Those are the Inbetweeners and the Thick of it, while they both may go overboard on the profanity front you forgive them because they actually make you laugh and they leave a lasting impression like all great comedies should.
Hopefully this story about Stacey Solomon getting her own curb style show is just a red-herring, but if it is true then may god have mercy on us all.
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