Saturday, 3 July 2010

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show

The warning signs were all there. It's broadcast on BBC3, famous for commissioning dreck that makes channel 5 look intellectual. The iplayer suggests it contains adult humour, despite having a photo of some Pee Wee's Playhouse cunt dressed stupidly and looking stupid - oh, it's our lovable loudmouth host himself.
The opening sketch's jokes seem to be - Mr Nelson does a 'wanker' gesture with his hand at a policeman, then he kicks a bag of chips out of a fat bloke's hands. Then he does a stupid voice. Yup, we're in regressive primary school 'post-pub territory' here.

So most of the show takes place in a studio full of whooping YOOFS while Lee Nelson - the comic creation of Simon Brodkin, from SOME OTHER SHIT BBC3 SHOWS - runs about, screams a lot, ridicules people encourages mindless school-bully chanting from the audience, with occasional sketches which aren't funny either but at least give my poor ears a miss. It comes across so gutterdraggingly awful I thought it was some kind of parody of shit comedy - but no, playing an annoying sub-Harry Enfield twat doesn't automatically make you funny, but it does make you annoying.

Shit jokes, can spot the punchlines a mile off. Is this aimed at the drunk, stupid or both? Didn't I hear that flowers from the accident blackspot chestnut twenty years ago? And didn't laugh then? Some fat bloke who he refers to as 'Omlette' and 'you fat legend' is sitting on stage for no good reason, probably just thought it was funny to have a fat bloke sitting there.

People are ridiculed and humiliated in a ridiculous laddish manner. Stupid primary school games renderred 'adult' with references to sex and drunkenness WHICH IS WHAT UZ YOOFS LIKE INNIT?!?! Someone is tricked into choosing a man as their date cos he looks like a bird from behind HA HA BUMMERS EH LADS??

Catchphrases include 'Do IT Do IT Do IT!' which the audience is encouraged to chant when someone is reluctant to do something embarassing, degrading or stupid.

Sketches ... 'Jason Bent' - and his lazy HOMO surname gets a laugh, much to my disgust - a preening, dimwitted footballer - didn't Paul Whitehouse do this in the 90s? 'Doctor Bob' - Simon Brodkin puts on a silly moustache and comedy foreign accent and does lazy insensitive/bumbling hospital gags 'Falaraki Nights' - the bizarrest of the lot, comes across as a parody of the kind of shit that Lee Nelson does in the main show but with a different accent. I almost get the impression that Brodkin, or whoever writes this shit, hates their intended audience.

Anything I've left out? Old people are laughed at for being old. Fat bloke has to do something stupid at the end. Another old person sings badly, which is supposed to be funny as well. Oh my God, when will it end?

First four episodes are on iplayer now. Check it out, if you hate yourself. I only lasted one.

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