Open Slather

wow, if this is the current state of Australian comedy, no wonder Tony Abbot is Prime Minister. The best I can say about this tired, formulaic turd of a show is that after a while, it finishes. The targets of the parodies are already doing a good job of that themselves (and so don't need this show to help them along) so this show is completely unnecessary. There's nothing new in anything I saw here. It starts to make me think that "Pompidou" by Matt Lucas was better than I thought it was. If you want good Australian Comedy, watch "Danger 5" not this abomination. I can only surmise that the sad "comedians" that appeared here were paid so much that they threw any integrity out the window and I think I can safely say, there won't be a Season 2

It was with great excitement when I saw the adverts for this on Foxtel that I ensured that my IQ was set and ready to record. Being a fan of "Fast Forward", "D-Generation" and "Kath & Kim", then more recent "Summer Heights High", "We can be Heroes" and "Please Like me" - seeing some of my old favourites come back in "open slather" well I was very much looking forward to this.

OK so we are now 5 episodes in, I really, really want to like this, I want to support it. But I am at the point of nearly deleting it from the Series Link. There are some mildly smile on your face but not LOL moments, maybe its still finding its feet. But to be honest 5 weeks in after watching todays episode I am about the point of just giving up.

Thankfully in a way its on Cable and so Foxtel are not going to pull it off the air, maybe my sense of humour has changed over the years and stuff I used to find funny is about as entertaining as my 2013 episode of Cholera.

So many great comedians such a crap show. So disappointing.

I wish you could give a lower score than one star.

I made this IMDb account just to vent about this visual vomit. Think about that.... I've seen reality shows (which are terrible), daytime chat shows (garbage)..... And I still think this is the worst product I've seen. At least reality shows and daytime chat shows are open to being cheap and catering to the lowest common denominator. This is worse than all of it.

It's like it's willfully oblivious to how awful it is....

Let's counterpoint it with SNL, a live show that written each week. Better writing, performances, actual satire and wit - when it doesn't work, at least the excuse is the time-frame. Now.... Open Slather isn't live. People sat in writers rooms and thought 'this is funny'. Inexcusable.

Take the recent ad, a 'parody' of 'Bang Bang'. It'd barely be acceptable as a parody performed by a local amateur comedy troop. People got PAID to write, produce and film that. Ugh. Also; how bad is it that this song is deemed to be the highlight and is the main thrust of an advert for the show....?

If this isn't on TV to fulfill some kind of mandatory percentage or quota for locally produced work....then for shame.

If this is supposed to demonstrate the 'cream' of Australian sketch comedy then it just demonstrates how far behind we are. Look up UCB or Groundlings, those amateur up- and-comers can IMPROVISE an hour that's more topical, biting and laugh-out-loud funny than this dreck.

Whilst the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse are well known by name and nature, I'm amazed that their battle plan name, the Open Slather, to end humanity has taken this long to become known. Maybe its wishful thinking that's the worst this show can get.

Five words - where the f..k is Kelvin Cunnington? Thats six but I'm being as economical with words as these guys are with laughs. What happened to Australian comedy? Why did our media get gang tackled by the political left in the late 80's and hasn't looked forward since? The reeffo epilogue was just a gross indulgence by the creators. Lets get to the point. I'm sick of Micallef telling me how stupid the right is, so I don't watch anymore after his breakthrough "hilarious period" - then there's the Project which quite funny but the comedians always stuff up the gags as they forget their lines. Now this dross. Our media is a gov subsidised joke of an industry. Just leave the political stuff to commentators and make us laugh. Paul Hogan talked about who we were in our own language. Barry Humphries laughed about who we think we are. The current generation of comedy writers have no idea who we are so they tell us who we should be. Living in leafy suburbs, wafting around in expensive cars between meetings then make a social comment comedy series. Out of touch, bereft of creativity, without any clue that there's about 15 million people who live here that they forgot. Like Cath and Kim. Geez, Fox have taken a risk on this bunch.