Greatest 'respected performer' vs 'awful work' disparity
Discussion
I'm quite a fan of Al Murray (primarily via his 'We Have Ways of Making You Talk' podcast, but also the early 'Pub Landlord' satire). He's clearly an intelligent, educated, widely read and open minded kinda guy.
I'm also a fan of Richard Herring (again, mainly via podcast work. 'Richard, not Judy' was good in it's day too). Strikes me as a little bit of a knob, but a very low level one. Similarly to Al, not an unintelligent or closed minded individual.
However.... I just stumbled upon 'Time Gentlemen Please' (starring the former and written by the latter). I'd never even heard of it previously. I was quite amused for the first couple of minutes, assuming it was a satirical effort, in the vein of 'When the Whistle Blows' (albeit one that had made it beyond an embedded narrative type thingy).
My. f
king. God.
I've never seen more than 3 minutes of 'Mrs Brown's Boys', because the throbbing pain in my head and the growing desire to perpetrate indiscriminate murder persuaded me to abstain. I can't however believe it can be much worse than 'TGP'.
What could compel decent folk to perpetrate this sort of tosh? I can only assume it's the same thing that keeps people in other wholly pernicious enterprises like fizzy drink marketing or fixed odds betting terminal development ( i.e. hunger/insatiable desire for another horrendously garish watch).
What are your examples of this unpleasant phenomenon?
I'm also a fan of Richard Herring (again, mainly via podcast work. 'Richard, not Judy' was good in it's day too). Strikes me as a little bit of a knob, but a very low level one. Similarly to Al, not an unintelligent or closed minded individual.
However.... I just stumbled upon 'Time Gentlemen Please' (starring the former and written by the latter). I'd never even heard of it previously. I was quite amused for the first couple of minutes, assuming it was a satirical effort, in the vein of 'When the Whistle Blows' (albeit one that had made it beyond an embedded narrative type thingy).
My. f
king. God. I've never seen more than 3 minutes of 'Mrs Brown's Boys', because the throbbing pain in my head and the growing desire to perpetrate indiscriminate murder persuaded me to abstain. I can't however believe it can be much worse than 'TGP'.
What could compel decent folk to perpetrate this sort of tosh? I can only assume it's the same thing that keeps people in other wholly pernicious enterprises like fizzy drink marketing or fixed odds betting terminal development ( i.e. hunger/insatiable desire for another horrendously garish watch).
What are your examples of this unpleasant phenomenon?
I too have been watching 'Time Gentleman, Please' on Murray's Youtube channel where he's posted an episode a week since the first lockdown period.
It has moments of interest, which are mostly bits lifted straight from the 'pub landlord' standup routines.
The Phil Daniels 'Terry' character who just farts is the poorest part of the show.
Julia Sawalha is, of course, excellent.
It has moments of interest, which are mostly bits lifted straight from the 'pub landlord' standup routines.
The Phil Daniels 'Terry' character who just farts is the poorest part of the show.
Julia Sawalha is, of course, excellent.
RedWhiteMonkey said:
Stevie Wonder
From the highs of the likes of "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" to the low of "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
Has anyone's career gone so far south so rapidly. I Wish, Misstra Kow It All, Living For The City...just some brilliant stuff. Then, as you say, I Just Called To Say I Love You, Ebony & Ivory, and Happy Birthday. Total dross. From the highs of the likes of "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" to the low of "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
It's a mindboggling deterioration in quality.
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