Channel 4′s 30 Greatest Comedy Shows
Saturday, 21.00, Channel 4
The channel that doesn’t do list shows, there, doing a list show. But it depends what they’re about and this should be entertaining enough with the various participants all turning up to reminisce and the fact that at least some of them are among the funniest shows ever made, and the bonus that The Mad Bad Ad Show won’t be included. And then at eleven, we’re promised a full hour-long episode of the winner followed by two documentaries about it. We dunno what it is, but we can certainly have a guess, because there’s been one really big Channel Four comedy that’s surprisingly not been in this season so far, featured an hour-long episode and has been the subject of two documentaries which you’ll assume would be repeats given it’s midnight, so… “Ted! Ted! You’re not going to believe this! Clint Eastwood’s been convicted for a crime he didn’t commit… oh wait, it’s a film.” Er, unless it’s The Inbetweeners, of course.
Iain Banks – Raw Spirit
Looks good – I might try to catch it at work.
Without saying anything bad whatsoever about Father Ted, it being #1 had to be about as predictable as Jack drinking an entire bottle of Dreamy Sleepy Nightie Snoozy Snooze once he got his hands on it… ;)
Not too surprising either that Peep Show and The IT Crowd were #2 and #3 respectively.
Elsewhere, some raised their eyebrows at The Inbetweeners being only #5, while others were disappointed to see Drop The Dead Donkey down at #16, and Smack The Pony down at #20.
And others still wondered if the producers chose to limit the thing to sitcoms and sketch shows – since there was no sign of Whose Line Is It Anyway?…