Q. What do you do when you are writing a comedy but can't think of any actual jokes or humourous bits?
A.Make characters so ineffably stupid and vapid that their every word and action make you laugh at them, not with them.
I've watched most of the first episode of this 'idiots stranded on an island' comedy and I really dont mind if they all die on that island, humanity would be better off. There seems to be no centre of normality around which the farcical activities can occur, no anchored observer, just.. idiots being .. idiots..
The writer/main actor, Marc Wooton seems to have some experience in writing but it just doesnt seem to show here.
I get that farcical characters means people acting in over the top in farcical ways, but this just takes it to the limit and leaves us with no character to align with. Imagine Fawlty Towers where EVERYONE was as bad as Basil. Or that the reason that Blackadder 2-4 was better than Blackadder 1 was because Edmund himself became the island of sanity surrounded by a sea of morons.
Not this show, its Morons all the way down.
Marc Wooton plays the most ridiculous campiest flight attendant this side of Dick Emery sketch. Harry Peacock is his romantic foil or something. Vikki Pepperdine does her Appallingly Rude Middle Age Harridan schtick, again. And the rest are also morons but have yet to develop their full moronity.
If you secretly browse IMDB.. please put some actually comedy in your next show, don't use this ultimately lazy path.
