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gavin and stacey

Reclaim Your TV Licence Fee!

You won’t feel that you have any choice once you’ve sat through this - BBC News have announced that Mong and Bint’s James Corden and Mathew Horne have signed up to make a new comedy sketch show for BBC Three.
I shit you not.
Worse, the once respected television corporation have described it as: “traditional comedy entertainment [...]

Gavin & Stacey - It Isn’t Just Me!

I was just on the phone to the hospital to arrange the date for my lobotomy when I stumbled across a Guardian blog article on the grossly overrated and unfunny Gavin and Stacey (henceforth known as “Mong & Bint”)
In it, the insightful Gareth McLean (I’m being sarcastic - but at least he’s had the [...]

Don’t get carried away, son

Following the frankly ridiculous success seen by the risible Gavin and Stacey at the BAFTA presentation on Sunday, the improbably named Boyd Hilton - TV editor of Heat magazine (we’re scraping it here, chaps) told the BBC
“I think it won because it’s a well-observed, flat-out-funny show with a cast of funny and identifiable characters,” [...]

Gavin & Stacey - Where’s The Jokes?

I don’t mind new writers and actors being given breaks, but couldn’t they be honest about it?
Gavin & Stacey is described as a comedy drama.
Which is similar to describing George W Bush as warmongering christian (which he is, but that’s not the point).
Posing as a comedy drama while hidden away on BBC Three gives the [...]

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