Dave Gorman: Terms and Conditions Apply

Have followed Dave Gorman for many years, seeing him often both at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the country. We also very much enjoyed his Modern Life is Goodish tv series. Was a little concerned when I heard his latest show included celebrity guests, but I must admit I trusted Dave to know best. I was very disappointed. The show is just a clone of other panel shows, with gags set up for the guests to offer (the often not very funny) punchlines for. The first section had me cringing as even the typical DG material of finding the funny side of the banal, (this time in the FAQs of websites) fell very flat - I just thought it was all pretty unfunny. It got going a bit more after the break, but everything he did could have been done better without the guests. I understand he found the Goodish series lengthy to make, but I'd rather he had not done anything that this. We couldn't bring ourselves to watch the second episode at all.

Dave is not a panel show host, he is an observational comedian with an eye for detail and a wry observation. Here the guests are just to take some of the run time up so Dave can do a shorter version of what he does best. Sadly not only do we get a parade of unwanted and pointless guests, we also get a stack of recycled Good-ish material.

Sometimes Dave (the channel) hit gold with the likes of Taskmaster, Judge Romesh and Modern Life is Good-ish. Other times you get this and Ultimate Worrier.

Go see him live instead.

I am a HUGE fan of Dave Gorman, and although I have never seen him live(as much as I want to), I absolutely love Modern Life is Goodish. I was immediately sort of confused by the existence of this show, and I was sadly right to be so.

To put it simply, Dave Gorman is a panel show host. He seems incredibly nervous in the show, and doesn't let his guests talk as much as he should and all of the "challenge" tasks are incredibly awkward to watch. He seems to have written jokes beforehand and is looking for ways to shove them in, treating it like another episode of modern life is goodish.

At the end of the day, why should I watch this when I could be watching any number of hilarious British panel shows currently airing? It's pretty funny, sure, but I just fail to quite see the point.

Modern Life is Goodish - brilliant, couldn't get enough. Terms and Conditions - absolutely awful. Can't believe Dave Gorman lowered his standards to this rubbish.

This is Dave Gorman. He has a show, and it's very much a show that someone named Dave Gorman would probably make.

I like his guests. They are probably all friends with each other. I can imagine that they hang out at bars and talk about these things and they all think that Dave Gorman is very strange and weird for caring about whatever these inventions are.

Modern Life certainly is Terms. And Goodish. And Conditional.

Literally.

What an R-List comedian.