Blunder

This is a truly dreadful show, for many many reasons.

For starters, it apes the modern comedy trends that have made shows like Tittybangbang and Spoons so unbearable...every episode is barely distinguishable from the last. The same tedious catchphrases are trotted out each week, by the same tedious characters, in pretty much the same tedious circumstances. Tedious.

The cast is almost uniformly dreadful...previously I've enjoyed Rhys Thomas and David Mitchell, but find the latter's ubiquity and refusal to turn down even THIS rubbish has put me off him quite a bit. He's coming across as someone who is desperately greedy, and who cares not a jot about the art-form which he makes a living from.

Tom Meeten and Simon Barnaby are particularly terrible in Blunder, and tend to perform the most uninspired and embarrassing characters...particularly Meeten's "Karate Man" who dances around with his testicles hanging out. That - apart from some under-written build-up - is the entire joke, and on average it's repeated twice a show!

This is a real stinker and has been recommissioned already, presumably because it's clearly so cheap to make. It shows the sheer contempt Channel 4 have for their audiences these days, and is a long way from the intelligent (and FUNNY) programmes they used to produce as a matter of course in the long and distant past.

Quite definitely one of the worst comedy shows ever written, and I say that without an ounce of hyperbole. It's right down there with Tittybangbang, Spoons and Dare To Believe.

I'd guess that Blunder was David Mitchell's equivalent of the first Genesis album in that both had to start somewhere despite the results. Much better was to come from both! Karate Johnson was the best-loved character in our house, though Emperor Boswellox came close. I know someone who's just like Emperor Boswellox in that they make a big deal of getting the orders in!

I first got to know of Tony Way here as the father who keeps telling his son to shut up. Way is one of those performers whose face is recognisable whatever role he plays, though he's never had a major leading role. When I first saw him as Gary in 'Mongrels', I said to myself 'That's Emperor Boswellox'!

Nina Conti, who operated the singing cat, is another person who's done all sorts since as was Simon Farnaby, who's best known to me as George IV in Horrible Histories!

For some reason almost everybody hated this show. I don't know why, it was amazing. I mean Blunder was comedy genius. The sketches were all insanely funny.I was particularly impressed with Tom Meeten's controversial character, The Baron. This character was topical and culturally informed, for instance his one joke mentioned that he "hunts foxes with nuclear weapons". They reference two controversial topics. The Baron impressed also with his ingenious spoof apology. This show got cruder, funnier and zanier every episode. It was an unrelenting and rebellious little show whom the wrongly offended public got rid off. People these days have lost their sense of humour. We should hold this show in high regard as a crude comedy-fest that pokes at your sensibilities and entertains endlessly.

The most aptly named show on the box. Just when you thought catchphrase comedy couldn't get any worse, along comes this garbage. It makes Little Britain look like Cook & Moore.

David Mitchell is clearly slumming it here; he's capable of far far better, as seen in the recent That Mitchell And Webb Look. Some might claim that he's the show's sole redeeming feature, but to be honest most of his characters are as weak as the rest of this mire. The Nigel Livid sketches, though, featuring a character marching into C4 to berate them about their dire programming, achieve a kind of brilliant irony.

It's inconceivable that anyone involved in this production can be looking at the end result and thinking "Yes, we've really done some first-class work here". It seems to be a soullessly constructed replica of a sketch show, made without any understanding of how the content is actually supposed to work.

Tom Meehan should be very concerned that his knackers are getting better laughs than his material. Still, at least the show has that reliable comedy standard, pædophiles, to fall back on...

I've seen some rubbish, and I've seen some ultra-broad stuff that I didn't like but can't judge people who do.

Blunder is different. It's incomparable. If someone actually likes it I have to worry what's wrong with them. The internet is so full of hyperbole and "worst/best something ever!" headlines and I don't do that, but every second of this blew my mind as to how it got anywhere near public attention, never mind television.

David Mitchell is funny enough but It's not worth sitting through one minute of Blunder even if 50 seconds of it was Mitchell. It's that bad. And I'm a big fan of him.

My heart drops at the mention of certain dumbed-down programs but this is the first and only time in my life the quality of a production has literally made me angry.

The Mitchell sketch I saw was even about someone getting angry at an awful TV program, going to the execs to complain about it, and realising that he should just stop watching. Hmm. I wonder why he thought he had to make that point...

Look. I'm a peaceful person. I feed the birds. I drink green tea. I love just sitting outdoors. I try to the good in everyone. But every being involved in this cack getting on to tele should be napalmed.

It's just an obscure little program not getting upset about? You'd think so. I'd say see for yourself but my humane side wants to beg you not to. You know that video on The Ring that makes you die after a week of watching it? Persuading you to watch that would be kinder.