Horne & Corden

We started to watch this the other night and after 15 minutes, my fiancée turned to my and said "this is sh1%, I am going to sleep". Not exactly constructive criticism, but to the point and all too accurate. This was tortuously unfunny, which is sad because I really wanted to like it. The two leads are so funny and likable in Gavin and Stacey- but this is a sketch show, a totally different animal. The writing, performing and set up is different to a sitcom series, and the decision to apparently give them creative control has got to be questioned on this debacle. I have to question who was watching the sketches and nodding approval? They should have been offering advice or telling them straight "this isn't going to work, it's just not funny". If you look at recent sketch show success (and there isn't a lot) such as Little Britain, The Fast Show, Harry Enfield and chums and compare them to this, they are poles apart. New (better) writers and less "yes men" required and I fear the new film "Lesbian Vampire Killers" will be as poor. Corden and Horne's stock is currently high, but will not remain so if they keep this up. Awful.

I've always felt that Horne and Corden are overrated in the flavour of the month Gavin and Stacey but it seems they are beginning to believe their own hype.

This " sketch show" represents the nadir in a shameful line of allegedly comic failures the BBC has produced in recent years.

The arrogance of the duo is that anything they do is funny and they don't really have to try..they're not the first TV celebrities to think this of themselves and they probably won't be the last.

The thing is: fat people are not intrinsically funny, homosexuals are not intrinsically funny.

The thin one is not funny and quite dour but he is not offensive.The fat one is just downright annoying.He has no talent at all.

Avoid...and pray they don't get a second series.

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.

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.