My Name Is Beki not Earl

I like Fridays. My day is spent working hard (please, please buy that and don't ask for proof) whilst being entertained via listen again at BBC7 and Radio 4. Yesterday it was One Foot In the Grave followed by a run of Baldi's I had been saving up for a big hit.

Friday night is one of the few nights I watch TV lately with most channels trying to tempt me in with comedy.  I do time my sitting down to correspond with the end of My Family. I am a rubbish critic due to my Pollyanna Gene in which I try to find something good in everything.  My Family could prove a miracle cure for Pollyanna-ism.  I find it the most puerile, ham-fisted, in fact just plain ham, load of tosh.

Green Wing on Channel 4 has slowly but surely won me round. Some of it is remarkably vulgar and pointless. These tend to be the bits I laugh at. And yes Mum I concur, the character of Mac does look like he should be Ginger Baker's lovechild. Perhaps a future plot twist?

Straight after Green Wing it is My Name Is Earl. Please slow the bandwagon down, I want to jump on. It doesn't have the pace or the canned laughter we've come to expect from mainstream American comedies and is all the better for it. I love its gentle humour. I love its sentimental streak. I don't want all the humour I see to be aggressive and sarcastic, so there.

Also, I have always strongly believed in, or feared, Karma. I was brought up with the notion of 'what goes around, comes around'

I suppose that means all those snide remarks I've ever made about My Family are going to come and bite me on the bum one day. Bugger.

Comments

[JonnyB]

"My Family" is without doubt one of the most rubbish things that there has ever been. I say this from authority having never watched a whole one, but it always seems to be on when I switch on the TV. The acting is terrible, the writing is worse. However you said it first, so I will be behind you in the karma queue.

[Kate]

I love My Name is Earl too, the characters are wonderful, even Joy, who I thought I was going to really dislike.

I don't mind My Family, but I have always liked Robert Lyndsay, not sure if I would watch it if he wasn't involved.