If you’re eating a meal & the first mouthful tastes disgusting, you don’t keep eating it hoping the taste will improve. If it tastes shit, you STOP EATING IT.

There are lots of Bishop clips on youtube & it beggars belief how many people actually think he’s funny…comments like “genius”!! Let’s all bow down to Bishop & his creative genius as he does a spoof of “Ross Kemp on Gangs”…”Ross Kemp on Drugs” “Ross Kemp on Viagra” “Ross Kemp on the Toilet”…..are these people who find this dross amusing 12 years old or just very stupid?

It’s anti comedy & nobody questions it because everything is “post modern”. How else do you explain “The Charlotte Church Show”, “Fone Jacker”, “The IT Crowd” & “The Friday Night Project”? All channel 4 shows, all featuring comedy of the most banal, peurile & embarassingly unfunny kind. Perhaps if you’re 20 years old & have been brought up on US made comedy tripe, you just don’t know any better & your expectations are as low as can be.

I have done some research into Kevin Bishop this evening. First of all, Ryan, he isn’t 21. He’s 28. Actually, that is the same age as myself – I’m two months older than him – but whilst I don’t have my own TV show, I do have a PhD. I did have a job at age 21 as well, but then, I am exceptionally talented. I also think it’s worrying that we, as television viewers, have lowered our standards to a point where we accept something imperfect, flawed etc. It’s dangerous, accepting dross as something that we like simply because there’s nothing else. “Funny enough” should never be something we settle for.

Psilas, given that he’s actually 28, should we still give him a chance? I do think that his career is somewhat based on nepotism, as he’s basically ridden a wave of TV shows and films since childhood based on only a mediocre slice of talent. Did you know that he starred in Muppet Treasure Island, the film that killed the Muppet franchise? I blame him for that. I am a huge fan of all the comedies you mention, but I can promise you that none of them would make a Gladiators joke, and I did not laugh at Vaginal Discharge being a name of gladiator. He could have written any basic vulgarity, and the effect would have been the same, let’s be honest.

And Luke, giving him “the biggest credit” is confusing. Is this young person slang? I imagine his credit is quite good, as he has his own telly show. Mine is capped at £500, because I really shouldn’t be trusted with more.

Regardless, I have tried with this – I love comedy shows, and I wanted it to be good, but it isn’t. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

Still, thanks for reading, everyone! This has been great.

Big Bother

PS: Kevin Bishop has also featured in My Family, which is only one step better than that Jasper Carrot thing with all the minorities featured in it. It’s nothing to be proud of.

I think Kevin is funny, talented and very good looking,
quite deserve to have his own show at 21.
What did you do at 21, Big Bro, I myself didn’t even have a job.

Show like these, Can’t expect every single sketch to be so great.
And awful accents / terrible impressions can be funny too.
I think the show is funny enough.

Keep up the good work Kevin!
And do more movie please!

I also have the GREATEST awarness of what good comedy is, ie Bottom, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Falty Towers, The Fast Show etc. and this is by no means as good but still showed promise.

His sketch about the new gladiators was very funny……

…’And now meet our new Gladiator…..Vaginal Discharge’ LOL.

Maybe it will appeal to the more childish comedy fans out there, but comedy is not in abundence at the moment and this type is more than welcome.

Good luck Kevin!

I will be buying the 1st series on DVD.

I love it.

Thanks Kev!

I’m sorry, but it is absolutely dreadful. Big Brother is dreadful as well, but I suspect that it knows that itself. The Kevin Bishop show is – honestly – absolutely bereft of anything funny. It’s utterly tepid and rooted in comic mires that I hoped we got rid of ten years ago – terrible impressions, awful catchphrases, awful accents and satire that barely classes as such. Last night – this would be the evening of the second episode of the show – I watched it again, hoping I was wrong, and I saw an awful joke about tanorexia that seemed to focus on the word being the funny thing, a word that has been around far longer than the Kevin Bishop show, and a terrible Dutch accent stolen from the Fast Show years and years ago (when, I should stress, it was only quite funny).

I understand that you are defensive, Lewis: you have chosen to watch this, by which I must deduce it is your first ever comedy show, and we all love our first time, right? But no. It’s isn’t a highlight of Channel 4. And that is my opinion. It’s an opinion based upon watching Channel 4’s many documentaries, comedy shows and dramas, and finding it one of the best channels in the UK. The Kevin Bishop lets it down horrendously.

It is true, however, that I have no sense of reality: I even doubt that you are real, sometimes.

Yours,

Big Bother.