Sunday, June 09, 2019

Turning in my cool card

OK, confession time. This is a list of some of the things and people I never really found funny, even though I may have pretended to like some of them at the time just to be cool with my friends:

  • The Goon Show
  • Spike Milligan
  • Kenny Everett
  • Steptoe and Son (Sanford and Son for those of you reading this in American)
  • Lord of the Rings
  • The Young Ones in general, Rik Mayall in particular
  • Absolutely Fabulous (other than Joanna Lumley)
  • Ben Elton
  • Blackadder, Mr Bean, and frankly most of Rowan Atkinson's output except for a handful of sketches
  • Alexei Sayle
  • Pretty much the entirety of the 1980s UK alternative comedy scene, come to think of it
  • Bill Murray, except Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day
  • National Lampoon, especially Chevy Chase
  • John Hughes
  • John Waters
And just for completeness, I lost patience with David Lynch somewhere around 1990. Great, David: nothing is what it appears to be. What the fuck is it then?
Phuh. Feels good to get that off my conscience.

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