I PuLl ThE tRiGgEr CoS tHeRe Is No TrIgGeR

[2thomo]

I Don't know if anybody has done a similar post but i have been away for a bit so i don't know.

Since the curtain has come down and trigger happy tv is put into cult status it's series put in reels and stored in a warehouse some where. The mobile phone is put on silent and the dog suits are put in the costume room to collect dust for a century.

I ask the question will comedy be the same again?

For me now many be being a die-hard trigger happy tv fan i have come to expect a higher standard of comedy to be presented to me. What i get instead are boring new series and old sketches will the same old theme (i.e. Big Train and Smack the pony) Or being grinded down to go to sleep by watching The office or that new one about books on c4. The only think that come close is PETS on lat nights on channel 4 but even the tourment is not stopped as this has been took off our screens. Do we pray that trigger comes back to lift the curtain once more or stand back and admire it for years to come so we can tell our children in years to come what comedy use to be and how it died.

I wonder!

God it's good to be back.

[casual]

'Old sketches with the same old theme'. Erm, isn't this describing Trigger Happy TV in a nutshell? It was extremely over-rated although some of it was actually funny, meanwhile Big Train and Black Books are two of the best comedy programmes of the last few years.

[2thomo]

I agree that the christmas special was over-rated but this is because they where limited to the sketches they could do because by the end a series two everybody new who yhe was and what he was about but if you see the first two series you cannot beat them.

[Tru Blu]

I think Big Train is really creative and original and thats what makes it so funny. The sketch last week about Gladiator not leaving his dungeon unless Keith Lake and his Keyboards came too was hilarious! Smack the Pony is alright too. Black Books is good - anything with Bill Bailey in it usually is but.

And The Office is SOOO unbelievably painful to watch. But fantastically done and very very funny.
Trigger Happy hasnt made me laugh out loud for ages.

[pinster2002]

I agree, TH has declined in quality, but the first series shall remain in my memory forever, JACKASS is truly number one on tv at the moment, and friends how good is friends, some say its dead, as they have expired all the jokes, but i still think it is as witty and as quirky as ever. new series started last thursday at 9. on each following thursday

[culby]

TH at the start was unbelievably funny but then it got harder for him. but the thing in the christmas special with the 2 moving hedges was dom back to his best. the royle family is class as well as was the ali g show

[Horsey]

I really don't think trigger happy's death is that much to mourn about. After all much of it was repetitive and I can only remember myself laughing out loud a few times in the whole lot.

The simpsons is still the king of comedy. It works for both kids and adults and I think there's still lots on. Things like Big Tran and Graham Norton who is very funny (even though everyone admits he's a bit of a tosser)