Horne & Corden

This BBC Three sketch show was broadcast in 2009. It's a badly-written, badly-acted mess that repeats jokes which were worse than mediocre the first time.

After the success of Gavin and Stacey, two of its actors, Mathew Horne and James Corden, tried to become a comedy duo. They failed miserably at that.

This truly was 30 min of dismal, dreary, pathetic, amateurish, puerile drivel. A series of tedious, unfunny 'comedy' sketches which feel as though they were knocked up on the back of a fag packet by 2 blokes who clearly see themselves as national treasures. It would appear that they were given licence by the producers to do their own thing in this attempt to showcase their 'comedic' talents and this has proved to be a big mistake. The fat one in particular seems to think that the sight of him being semi-naked is hilariously funny as he seldom resists the opportunity to strip off and start wobbling his sumo-sized belly. Oh my ribs. The end result is a miserable failure that's about as funny as a dose of food poisoning. Watch this at your peril.

No. But with the amount of hype given to it by the BBC this falls WAY short of what is expected. I watched the first episode and gave it a second chance this week, out of hope more than expectation. I won't be watching next week.

Lazy homophobia, fat jokes, lack of gags, Horne is utterly charmless. The Gervais sketch was appropriate given that Horne is attempting to become a Gervais/Pegg facsimile himself.

I'd go as far as to say this program is the nadir of the British sketch show. Hopefully it'll act as a ground zero for genuine talent - not 'rising stars' who are given a vehicle and carte blanche and produce such depressing rubbish.

Did you catch the first two episodes of Horne & Corden? I did. FML.

I'm angry at myself for a start here, after falling in love with the show "Gavin and Stacey" I, very stupidly, got very hyped for this. Needless to say, it did not satisfy my hype. Although just to make clear, I am not judging this as bad simply in comparison to "Gavin and Stacey", as a stand alone show I found this utterly unbearable.

My main gripe with this show is the fact that it seems so awkward all the time. Every single scene, it seemed like they just weren't comfortable with their parts and of course, didn't pull it off well. Add this to the fact that, at least as a comedic duo, there is no chemistry between the two lead actors, it just makes it incredibly hard for what I imagine would be a lot of people.

In my opinion, they neither got the acting right or the writing. Maybe if they had got better writers on the show, then it could have been a far better show. Although, even with the best writers, I just don't see Matthew Horne and James Corden as a suitable duo for a sketch show.

Firstly I'll confess to being one of those strange people who don't think that Gavin and Stacey is the most wonderful sitcom in history, but as much as I could do, I tried out Horne and Corden with as open a mind as possible.

I need not of bothered, I can sum it up by saying throughout the shows I've seen, my mouth has literally dropped open in amazement, at just how unfunny and lame this show is.

The 'studio' segments are dismal only serving to show up James Corden as a deeply irritating 'man of the moment' and sadly once into the sketch parts, it doesn't improve. Numerous 'ha ha look at Corden's belly jokes' are bad enough but the 'gay northern reporter' is comedy reaching a new low.

I'm all for offensive comedy personally, but to work it really has to be funny, nothing I saw in this debacle reached that level.