The Wedge

...have I seen a show that is as pathetic as The Wedge. What were Ch 10 thinking when they decided to run this show. It is seriously not funny, and thats a big problem for a show that is supposed to be a comedy.

A bit of advice for anyone tempted to watch this show...Don't. I cannot even begin to describe just how bad this show really is. It is pure unadulterated TOSH. If anybody knows of a worse show, I'd like to hear about it. Channel ten, it is high time you got your act together and actually put something on your station that is entertaining.

Steer clear

Cheers

this is possibly the worst television sketch show ever spawned from the loins of the ten network, or any network for that matter. this show perpetuates right-wing neo-uber-conservatism politics at the expense of Australian culture. the show is neither funny, witty, clever or even entertaining. alternatives to this show include suicide, corporeal mortification, or just turning the television off--permanently! avoid like the plague, this show will do more damage.

all the sketches portray the worst of Australian society and then take it to the worst extent, people in Australia are not that screwed up, nor are they ultra-conservative. australians are good people, this show makes us look like total scum!

PS: its also boring as a demtel infomercial

Scattered amidst the elephants graveyard of bad Australian television there has always been one dependable genre: the sketch comedy show. Whilst our country has only made a handful of genuinely good sitcoms, the sketch comedy genre has been the source of numerous gems. "Fast Forward", "The Late Show", "The Big Gig" and "The Micallef Programme" are just four examples of great Australian comedy.

Sadly, the last few years have not been so kind, with duds such as "Skithouse", "Big Bite" and the disastrous "Let Loose Live" going some way to degrading a once reasonably proud tradition. Now along comes "The Wedge", an amalgam of every single thing that is wrong with Australian TV comedy.

If you're the kind of person who finds bogans, wogs, fat people and overbearing laugh tracks automatically funny - without anything so intrusive as wit or irony - this is the show for you.

"The Wedge" tries desperately to be a "Little Britain" or "League of Gentlemen" for Australian audiences, which is a worthy idea, except that to succeed in that goal, the writing actually needs to be, y'know, funny. All the performers try too hard to be funny, as if you were stuck watching a bad university revue. The writing is loaded with tired stereotypes, grindingly predictable setups and lame puns (Sandra Sultry - stop, my sides!) backed up with the world's most unsubtle laugh track (Laugh dammit! LAUGH!!!!!) which often runs when there isn't even a joke! If "The Wedge" had run on Nine or Seven it would have been axed within six weeks. Ten may be more patient, but based on what "The Wedge" has come up with so far, that goodwill is sorely misplaced. It's truly disheartening that Ten has given a 26 episode commitment to this garbage when we have some of the best stand-up comedians in the world who can deliver more laughs in 30 seconds than an episode of "The Wedge" can muster in 30 minutes.

The Wedge is a sketch show which takes place in the non-existent Australian town of Wedgedale. Here we meet a variety of recurring characters, like the farmer, the local sports hero, the two gambling slags and the psycho teenage girl, who's stalking the college's heart throb.

Not much is sacred in this show, so if you're easily offended, steer well clear. On the other hand, if you enjoy shows which take the p**s and satirize things like local news reporting, sportsmen as role models and those awful British "documentaries" about people fighting e.g. fat, this show is for you.

Another plus is the fact that it's Australian - it makes a nice change from the usual US and UK sitcoms and comedy shows.

Watched a couple of episodes of the first season, it was terrible. Thought I would give the second season a chance as Cal Wilson has joined the cast, but even she can't lift this rubbish, Honest I can't believe it got a second season as it is the same unfunny pap as the first season. Many skits are repeated over and over e.g the Sandra sultry skit, it was almost funny the first time but went nowhere or the mental school girl with the web cam, Ahhhh not even slightly funny. One small benefit the skit of the sisters who joke about leaving their kids in the car while gambling seems to have been pulled, pity the whole show couldn't follow it!