When I was younger, my dad used to find Benny Hill so unfunny that he would literally get up and go into another room if Hill was on the TV. He hated him to the point where he found him almost physically painful to watch.

Are there any shows/people that provoke this reaction in you? I'm not just talking about normal everyday hatred, but real, life-sapping revulsion to the point where you can't even enjoy the masochism. You either have to leave the room or change channels immediately.  

Surprisingly, I find it quite hard to think of examples, although I think Ross Noble might be one for me. Jimmy Carr certainly (I've never got through a whole edition of Friday Night Project), and - these days at least - Jonathan Ross.

I also have an Alex-in-Clockwork-Orange reaction to Handbags and Gladrags - I can tolerate watching The Office itself (out of continued curiosity and "research"), but I have to mute the theme tune. It provokes real feelings of tangible misery that I find almost unbearable. It's not just that it reminds me of The Office - it reminds me of everything that's wrong with the world, all tied up with Mark Lawson's face on the front. If it comes on the radio, I really do have to leave the room.

So what are yours?

Of things I've seen recently probably the Boosh. Although as I'm the only one here, I don't have to leave the room, just turn the fucker off luckily.

How about webpages that make you feel like that? Chortle today having a big story about Gervaise having a talent for painting. Just the fact that it's news made my blood boil. I couldn't even bring myself to click on the link to see what it's about, and I really don't want to know. Fuck off fuck off fuck off.

I already gave my blow-by-blow account of the descent into a pretty tangible depression that my first experience of The Mighty Boosh wrought. I don't want to go back there.

Otherwise I can generally watch any British comedy, but your average US sitcom (there's whole channel full of 'em on digital, and early morning C4 seems to run a load too) is an instant turn-off for me.

The only one thing I feel like that about is Bo Selecta. I can have shit like The Friday Night Project on in the background, or I can gawp at it mouthing "how did this trash get commisioned", but Bo Selecta I can't be in the same room as.

Sitting infront of it makes me feel physically sick, not because any of it "shocks" me... (I'm on the internet ferchrissake), but because I've never witnessed anything that bad and un-funny before.

Watching faliure on that sort of scale is phsyically painful.

Ab Fab - dont want it on my screen - a minute seems to last an hour and I cant understand a word any of them screech.

Also this peculiar video of a girl with long black hair coming out of a well, though strangely turning that one off doesnt seem to do any good.

Green Wing.

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Also this peculiar video of a girl with long black hair coming out of a well, though strangely turning that one off doesnt seem to do any good.

All I get is my phone ringing when I watch that. It's a bit odd.

Keeping Up Appearances. I know, it's an easy one to slag off, but that doesn't make it any less unbearable to me. And I've got nothing against Roy Clarke or Patricia Routledge, but it has to go off the instant I see it.

Does Sex in the City count as a comedy? Because, to be honest, that's probably the only programme that I can think of that actually creates a screaming, shouting madshit in me.

I hadn't actually seen The Boosh until very recently, when I found it on a video after Arrested Development, but my mouth just hung open, I can't say that it actually made me angry, it just rendered me numb with disbelief.


Oh, and I know these are very easy targets, but My Hero (especially with that fucking talking baby) and All About Me (that's Mrs_T insists on watching because she likes Jasper Carrott) are still guaranteed ways to make me turn off, I can't even watch them to take the piss, unlike The Friday Night Project or Nathan Barley.

Great music though.

Marc Wootton, without question.  The first My New Best Friend, which I thought would be a mildly unpleasant half-hour, turned out to be such a disagreeable half-hour, it made me angry for hours afterwards.  The sheer "it's like Beadle's About only much trendier which is therefore better" made my stomach itch with pain.  Not to mention his general gittishness, and his only-able-to-do-one-character-y'know-the-poof-one shtick.  Same goes for his Shirley Ghostman character.  He's on Jonathan Ross on Friday, largely because he's represented by Ross's management.  I shall be slitting my throat, which will be funnier.  I can assure you.

I found Nighty Night almost completely indigestible as well - made me despair that this half-arsed rip-off of Mike Leigh, Partridge and Jam was being hailed to the skies as so darn original.  How I made it to the end of episode three, Lord only knows.  It made me feel ill, depressed.  And yes, cancer jokes, gags about wheelchairs, I don't have a problem with them.  Just make them fucking funny.

In fact, I'll extend this to "just about anything to do with Steve Coogan these days".  Including anything from his production company, Baby Cow.  I want to shout at the screen, "You know why a lot of comedy is such bollocks?  It's partly your fault, Coogan!  People writing acres of nonsense for a lead character, and not developing any secondary characters beyond feedlines!  People thinking they're too good for sitcom!".  But it would take a long time to shout that, and the walls of the flat are a bit thin, so I wouldn't want to upset next door.

And I only got as far as ep 2 of Nathan Barley.

Quote from: "The Mumbler"Same goes for his Shirley Ghostman character.  He's on Jonathan Ross on Friday, largely because he's represented by Ross's management.  I shall be slitting my throat, which will be funnier.  I can assure you..

Phew – thank you for that information. Ross (who I don't think I'll ever really dislike) has been irritating the fuck out of me by praising the talentless cunt to the skies. I'm glad to know he's most likely perjuring himself in the interests of business, rather than just displaying APPALLING taste.

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Also this peculiar video of a girl with long black hair coming out of a well, though strangely turning that one off doesnt seem to do any good.

All I get is my phone ringing when I watch that. It's a bit odd.

I watched this about a week ago. Utter rubbi... aaaaaaaarrrrgggh...

After 20 minutes of According to Bex I left the room to fix our rattling mail flap. Yes folks, domestic drudgery was more appealing than Jessica Stephenson!

My Hero  makes me want to kick in the telly, the same goes for According To Bex, My Family and any other laugh-free, anodyne 'family' sitcom on BBC1 or ITV. The Friday Night Project is pure evil.

There isn't much else I actively hate and avoid.

My Hero instils no hated whatsoever in me. It's just a glorified kids' show full of silly jokes and Hugh Dennis doing his posh voice. I find it ridiculous that anyone could actively get angry about such a throwaway piece of fluff.

The last time I got genuinely angry at something comedic was the last Comic Relief does Fame Academy. I only watched one 'instalment' and pretty much shrugged throughout at Ade Edmonson's mugging.

Then, during one particularly strained vocal I suddenly remembered this was the bloke who played Vim Fuego. And the full force of the massive gap between watching the original Bad News Tour on C4 and enduring this dreadful, bullshit-ridden, campy attempt to cash in on the prole-fest that is Big Brother whacked me solidly in the stomach.

The Mighty Boosh for me as well, I just sat there thinking the first time I watched it
"Who finds this funny"?
And most importantly
"WHY"
I still have failed to last a single episode.


I also find all those American high school gross out films such as Van Wilder really horrid and only in rare cases have I managed to watch any in their entirety.

The only time I think I've ever had to do that was with Little Britain, which is odd as I don't mind that show in small doses. I was at a party one night and the host decided to put on the Comic Relief dvd. As soon as the Vomitting Women's Institute sketch came on I knew that the whole room would erupt into violent laughter over this sketch which they've seen many times before and I knew I'd get so worked up about them being so entertained by what was such a dreadful sketch.

Quote from: "alan strang"My Hero instils no hated whatsoever in me. It's just a glorified kids' show full of silly jokes and Hugh Dennis doing his posh voice. I find it ridiculous that anyone could actively get angry about such a throwaway piece of fluff.

Well, getting 'angry' about comedy shows is perhaps ridiculous in itself. Still, that's the idea of this thread so I responded. I hate My Hero because I have never found it in anyway funny and a total waste of Father Dougal's talents. If it's a 'glorified kids show' then they should put it on fucking CBeebies or something...

Whoever said Marc Wootton has my agreement, he makes me angry, he's a talentless little shit who thinks being gratuitously cruel means you're somehow a comic maverick.  No, it's means you're a shit, you fucking idiotic waste of fucking space.

The Boosh fills me with rage too, not just because it's so desperately unfunny, self congratulatory and built upon the premise that Noel Fielding has a funny hair cut, but because it's amassed its fanbase of vapid girls who fancy Noel Fielding and they're everywhere.  Physically can't bear to watch it.  The Friday Night Project depresses me far too much to anger me. I just feel resigned and despaired when I see it, too much to even take the piss, and I've never survived an episode.  

I can't really think of anything else that's made me stand up and walk out of the room.  The last thing that did was the top 50 sketches show on Sunday, which I knew would make me angry, but Lou and Andy being at number one made me scream, "CUNTS!" various times and get up to stand on the balcony and have a cigerette to calm my pissedoffness.

I've never watched According to Bex, but if it causes people to go and fix their letter boxes, I'll think I'm probably better off.

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Quote from: "alan strang"My Hero instils no hated whatsoever in me. It's just a glorified kids' show full of silly jokes and Hugh Dennis doing his posh voice. I find it ridiculous that anyone could actively get angry about such a throwaway piece of fluff.

I hate My Hero because I have never found it in anyway funny and a total waste of Father Dougal's talents.

Being typecast as Father Dougal for the rest of his career is a waste of his talent!

I remember Ardal once said years back in a crap tabloid

"My Hero is not aimed at critics in their thirties who sit around watching Chris Morris"

I'd have to go with Bo Selecta. It really is something we should all be ashamed of. It's the fact that it's actually successful that makes it worse, at least when you watch Dare To Believe you know that though a load of money has been wasted making it, no one actually likes it. But with Bo Selecta, one of the worst shows ever, you have the knowledge that it has been extremely successful and I can't bear (bear - see what I did there) to watch it for more than a minute. Same goes for shite like Nighty Night or Green Wing, but I generally just turn them off and don't watch them, Bo Selecta makes me genuinely angry.

Quote from: "A Passing Turk Slipper"I'd have to go with Bo Selecta

I love you.

Quote from: "rjd2"I remember Ardal once said years back in a crap tabloid

"My Hero is not aimed at critics in the thirties who sit around watching Chris Morris"

In *their* thirties, surely? Or was he making some subtle reference to the Archive Edition of OTH?

Quote from: "A Passing Turk Slipper"at least when you watch Dare To Believe you know that though a load of money has been wasted making it

"A *load* of money?".  Watching one suggested otherwise.

On the subject of Benny Hill, Lalla, did your dad have to leave the room because of

a) The general laziness of the material
b) The sexism (there was some, regardless of what his defenders might claim)
c) The disappointment that he'd gone from being a TV innovator 20 years earlier to being a fat boring sod.
d) He'd never ever ever liked him ever?

Billy Connolly.

Every single word he utters makes me wince.

Comedy music numbers which are actually just shit shit jokes/observations dressed up with music.

I can't bear it. Examples of the particularly guilty include Goodness Gracious Me & Smack the Pony.

Nathan Barley. Just sooo unfunny in places.

Bo Selecta (cripes).

Mighty Boosh

Green Wing (too long and "diluted")

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Quote from: "A Passing Turk Slipper"at least when you watch Dare To Believe you know that though a load of money has been wasted making it

"A *load* of money?".  Watching one suggested otherwise.

A load of money in terms of it could have been spent on beds for homeless children. It's obviously got a small budget in comparison to your average TV show but surely a fair amount of money was spent on it, money that could have been spent in better ways. How much do you reckon the budget for something like Dare to Believe do you reckon, just out of interest?