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Hotel Babylon started again this week, I always find that enjoyable. Waterloo Road used to be one of my favs. But I tend to be asleep by 9 or 10 most days so I don't really see much TV.
 
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Big Bang Theory is, in my view, one of the funniest comedy's for years.
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I've seen bits of this while channel hopping but I just can't get into it. I just can't laugh at it. I don't see any cleverness - for me, it's the hallmark of comedy - in it.

Blackadder, for all its moments of slapstick and puerility, is so clever it's frightening. Only Fools And Horses is clever and wonderfully acted but it also has a lot of warmth as well as pathos and it tugs at all the emotions. Frasier, Yes (Prime) Minister, etc - they're all very clever.
 
I've found Mitchell and Webb very funny with their sketch show - not all of it works, of course, as one of their sketches demonstrated with a sketch about how not all of comedy sketch shows work! But there's a lot of wit and plenty of absurdity about it. On the other hand, I found Horne and Corden quite awful. Keith Bishop seems to be about impersonation with some help - think Rory Bremner raids the props department. I'm afraid that a lot of the newer 'comedy shows' don't come over as even worthy of a Cambridge Footlights appearance, let alone a run on national tv. There's more laughter on any episode of Last of the Summer Wine, which is an OAP of light entertainment, which says something about the paucity of fresh wit.
 
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The best thing on tv. this week was Royal Ascot, that thing on wife swap would not though my front door she should be locked up for neglect.
 
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