Posted By Devil's Advocate on Mon Jul 24 20:01:: Told you so, L&H should be comedy critics, not comedians. Subject: Re: Time Gentlemen Please: An open letter to. But we feel you're all starting to believe your own PR, and are content to put your names to a weak product simply because you can. We have no problem with the Pub Landlord as a stand-up act, and we know that Richard and Stewart are self-evidently capable of writing exceptionally original and funny dialogue. We really did want Time Gentlemen Please to be fantastic, in the same way that we want *all* comedy shows to be fantastic. Think yourself lucky you don't have to sit with them. ![]() They were one step away from doing Nazi salutes. The Larry Sanders-style opening titles say it all: you are more interested in creating a cool, easily-exportable 'product' than you are in writing a piece of comedy which people can actually enjoy for its own sake.īut they DID enjoy it, surely? They were laughing, weren't they? Yes, but have you taken a look at your audience recently? They are halfway between Iain Lee and Ibiza - the irony of the Pub Landlord's bigotry going right over their heads. ![]() Overall, it seemed almost spitefully dumbed down. But what you have with Time Gentlemen Please is a pointless mongrel of these two approaches - a show which is lazy in its clockwork plot and non-dimensional characters ('Ah, it's THAT sort of person - I see.'), yet unpleasantly manipulative of its target audience. Equally, people enjoy shows which totally rip apart sitcom conventions and present something utterly original. Secondly, why does the show seem so embarrassed about being a sitcom? Traditional, studio-based sitcoms with good-naturedly obvious laughlines are what people like. It was tantamount to Al pointing at the cast in turn and saying, 'Right, these are the characters, and the *reason* why they're amusing is.' Why, for example, do you have so little faith in the audience's intelligence that Al has to spend his warm-up routine *explaining* who all the characters are before they're wheeled on? Are we so stupid that we can't be trusted to follow a storyline AND laugh in the right places? Yes, some scenes may need partially setting up if they are presented out of sequence, but you took this to a ludicrous and patronising extreme. You've created the sitcom equivalent of 'The 11 O'Clock Show'. We genuinely wished the series well, and believed that your involvement in the script would result in some sort of quality control. ![]() We approached Time Gentlemen PLease with a completely open mind. Time Gentlemen Please: An open letter to Richard Herring, Al Murray and Stewart Lee Hey Guys I think the jokes gone far enough Message to scornful creators of this WEBSITE FORUM ARCHIVE: Time Gentlemen Please: An open letter - Posted Mon Jul 24 17:27:
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