BBC plumbs new comedic depths - Little Miss Jocelyn... Bovvered? Yep!
Deplorably bad comedy sketch-show that I caught on TV last night, could easily be a black version of the sitcom in Extras. From the few sketches I watched, Little Miss Jocelyn achieves the impressive feat of outshining even Catherine Tate for crass, unfunny eye-gruel by adding into the mix (and repeating ad nauseum) slapstick cultural misunderstandings as per the worst bits of 'Goodness Gracious Me' (albeit apparently written by the mentally subnormal in this case). The main counter-criticism seems to be that white people just "don't get it", which kind of suggests that the extent of black comedy is littering sentences with a liberal smattering of 'claats' and other patois. This isn't true in the slightest - this tat is degrading and mindless in a way that no comedy should be. It's a tender subject, but this has the hallmarks of a poorly thought-out BBC commission to appeal to the "ethnic" viewers - which is incredibly condescending at best. There are far more deserving comedians out there from minority backgrounds; pretty much anyone who hadn't undergone a humour lobotomy would do I suppose.
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(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 16:39, Reply)
the laughing track
doesn't do it any justice either.
it always annoys me immensely.
theres one on an Alan Partridge DVD I've got, it completely ruins it.
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a username Tue 30 Mar 1971 til, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 16:45,
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i completely agree
at some points i can barely hear the actuall show for the laughter, maybe its just my crap speakers, but from what i can hear, im not missing out on anything
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wjh31, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 17:05,
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someone with balls
at the BBC should ban laughing tracks.
anyone that needs to be told when to laugh shouldn't be watching TV
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a username Tue 30 Mar 1971 til, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 17:17,
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A cavalcade of sketches featuring loud two-dimensional characters in similar situations without the half-decency to come up with a decent, memorable catchphrase. The preview consists of her being loud. Every character is the same. The show is shit.
(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 16:47, Reply)
White people don't get it
No- Its just shit, the main joke is "I'm black isn't that funny"
Even Lenny Henry is funnier than this crap
(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 18:34, Reply)
Urgh
Little Miss Jocelyn is upsettingly bad. I mean it, it's really depressing that things like this can be put out by the BBC (second series! Seriously!). This can mean one of two things: One, there is no talent in British comedy at the moment or two, there is and it's being ignored in favour of this shite. Sadly, I think it's the latter.
Having said that, I can't quite muster up the same hatred for 'Little Miss Jocelyn' as I can for Catherine Tate. This is probably just a personal thing, but both of them are as tear-inducingly bad as each other.
Oh, and I must defend Extras: it's only bad by Ricky Gervais' standards. Compared to the wealth of rubbish that clogs my TV screen, it's a refreshing to see a comedy that's at least a little bit funny, has a message and avoids the use of a laughter track...
(, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 18:47, Reply)
I think he was referring to the pretend sitcom in Extras
not the actual show Extras.
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Oysdgp there's nothing to smile ABOUT, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 19:25,
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I'm 100% sure...
that there are some geniunely funny new black talents in britain. Sadly, UK TV only seems to give shows to unfunny cunts like this.
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