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Interested to see your various replies.
For my money, both shows are rather limp so far : BT has had a substantial change of crew (one of the main writers now not so, people such as Chris Morris not involved, howsoever tangentially, and different directors from last time round), to the extent that it's almost a different show in terms of pace and content, and STP, despite a talented cast, is quite frankly lazy in the extreme (memo to writers and directors : if you don't have a high point on which to end the sketch, just cut to the next one - slow pans to left or right do not a punchline make, though granted they do waste time, thus saving money and effort).
I can't help but wonder if maybe we've almost gone far enough with sketch comedy shows which effectively take comedy apart to see how it works, if you see what I mean; whilst this may have been new and inventive with Milligan's Q and the Pythons, now I fear it may have reached the point where sketches are just a vaguely amusing idea fleshed out, and without any apparent need to worry about whether the sketches are tight or funny overall. I'm almost fed up with sketches which take two minutes to build up to a three second punchline... as with shows like Eastenders, I think both BT and STP need some serious script editing to stop them simply being shows which look as if the cast and writers have had an awful lot of fun with what they've done, and the audience can quite frankly lump the end result. I guess what I'm talking about would be a sketch show with the snappy writing and playing and direction of something like Spaced, which has (I feel very rightly) been praised in this thread...
And as for the Big Handed Twat sketches in BT, here's a thought : that physical deformity, and the mockery the man suffers as a result, is funny, is it ? Boy, that's edging dangerously close to a return to schoolyard 'Joey Deacon' jokes. And let's not pretend that the sketch is in any way trying to poke fun at people who poke fun at people with deformities, cos it plainly ain't...
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