You Cannot be serious

[HowardKennitby]

Watching the first of this series with Alistair McGowan. I don't think I will be watching any more. Seems utter tosh to me.

[daisya]

My OH has just said the same thing!

[mojay]

Must admit I expected better - but having said that the whole Saturday night viewing is abysmal - I assume they think all the beautiful people that matter are up town clubbing it etc

[Andyvon]

I haven't seen it but that's because I gave up with TV several years ago. British TV was always regarded as the best in the world but it's just degenerated into utter trash now. It's dumbed down, politically correct, socially engineered, offensive and quite obviously aimed at those with limited intellects and attention spans of just a few seconds.

We do have a TV but I only watch a large selection of DVDs I've amassed. Lots of natural history and classic films (and not one with a four-letter word in as they go straight in the bin! Ever hear the greats such as John Wayne use the F-word?)

I'm sure You Cannot Be Serious is as PC, socially engineered and dumbed down as the rest of the prole-feed churned out today.

[quizzywig]

I tend to agree with you Andyvon. There are some good things on tv but only a very few. Saturday night tv is just abysmal.

[bibblebub]

Frankly I reckon a touch of the rose-coloured spectacles is required to think that tv was significantly better in the past. Sure, everyone can name a handful of programmes but that is all it is, a handful of programmes, just as now. The rest of the schedules was at the same level as it is today (and if you watch some of those "special" programmes now they are more likely to produce a meh response at best). And I certainly wouldn't trust the judgement of anyone who rates John Wayne amongst the greats.

[I.Don No]

I think itv were trying to reproduce Harry Hill's tv burp concentrating on the news rather than a wider range of programmes and they failed miserably. Alistair McGowan is no replacement for Harry Hill for no such being exists..lol

[trt]

It was crap IMHO!!!!

[mata hati]

Certainly not the best! I'm sure he was miming at times - especially the badly done Adrian Chiles take off.

[monkeyboy_harris]

Alistair McGowan suffers from the same problem as a lot of impressionists - he's a mimic, not a comic. While some of his impressions (note I said some) may be quite accurate, he's simply (IMHO) not very funny.

[factor-fiction]

I actually quite like some parts of this show- eg the footage from matches or when he dubs a conversation between players. But I cringe when he resorts to a silly song in Harry Hill style or brings on a guest in Harry Hill style.