I have to disagree with some of the other reviewers. One mentions that it's 'a bit of a disaster'; there's no 'bit' involved. It is - of course - a matter of personal opinion, but far from redeeming the show, for me, Cardinal Burns exemplify it's sheer unutterable awfulness. I watched this, initially, because the usually brilliant Mark Heap is in it - and he does his best, God love him, but there's just nothing to work with. In all honesty, if Mark Heap were just allowed to improvise for an hour, it still couldn't be worse than it is now - in fact, for that matter, if he simply stood there and did nothing for an hour the same would be true.
I watched the first episode expecting something at least half decent and was bitterly disappointed. In fairness I thought I'd give it a second shot. By halfway through the second episode I was still thinking 'surely this is going to get better at some point'; but, no, it was just unmitigated dreck from start to finish. The embarrassing and, yes, completely cringeworthy decade and a half ( was it that long? - I don't know: it seemed like it ) where City Boy took the stage while the audience remained deathly silent throughout, made me wonder: don't the people at Dave realise that this is exactly what's happening in our homes throughout the whole show?
The thing that's surprised me most about this is that half of it does in fact feature actual comedians - I use that word in it's absolutely most generous sense - doing their sets. I realise that comedy, and entertainment in general, ain't what it used t'be - but seriously, don't you have to be at least a LITTLE bit funny to get a spot at a comedy club nowadays?
I don't know ... on second thought, perhaps not: after all, you apparently don't have to be even remotely amusing to get an hour-long 'comedy' show on Dave ...
I watched the first episode expecting something at least half decent and was bitterly disappointed. In fairness I thought I'd give it a second shot. By halfway through the second episode I was still thinking 'surely this is going to get better at some point'; but, no, it was just unmitigated dreck from start to finish. The embarrassing and, yes, completely cringeworthy decade and a half ( was it that long? - I don't know: it seemed like it ) where City Boy took the stage while the audience remained deathly silent throughout, made me wonder: don't the people at Dave realise that this is exactly what's happening in our homes throughout the whole show?
The thing that's surprised me most about this is that half of it does in fact feature actual comedians - I use that word in it's absolutely most generous sense - doing their sets. I realise that comedy, and entertainment in general, ain't what it used t'be - but seriously, don't you have to be at least a LITTLE bit funny to get a spot at a comedy club nowadays?
I don't know ... on second thought, perhaps not: after all, you apparently don't have to be even remotely amusing to get an hour-long 'comedy' show on Dave ...