You're going to need a lot of patience with this new sitcom, starring Chris Addison (pictured, left). Either that or copious supplies of the laughing gas that the hysterical studio audience seem to be on as the first episode unfolds.
That's a shame because potentially it's good, with shades of The IT Crowd, Father Ted and The Mighty Boosh. This is skewed comedy, where nothing is quite as it seems, the main protagonists are all well the other side of barking and the plot has plenty of unexpected twists and turns.
The sitcom is set at the Arnolfini Research Laboratory at St Dunstan's University. The lab is for hire, designed to attract prestigious work that will bring kudos and finance to the college. That's unlikely to happen with the bunch of nutters who inhabit the place, led by Addison as Dr Alex Beenyman.
Tonight's opener sees Russian professor Dr Andrei Krytistyges arriving at the lab, hoping to clone his dead grandmother in 24 hours. This escalates into a bizarre tale of giant snails and enormous lemons, Toblerone chocolate hidden in unexpected places, office chairs that entrap the occupants and pink lab coats.
Hopefully it will settle into a must-see cult comedy, but on this showing the genuine laughs are few and far between.
I quite agree, seems like the BBC are producing more and more utter dross with the worst script writers and actors possible ... see Bonekickers, OMG!
July 14th - 11:07amTim said...
Ho! Ho! Ho! ? NO!
More like Oh! Oh! Oh!
Seems the writers don't understand commutative maths. If something makes you laugh until it hurts it does not mean that something can make you hurt until you laugh!
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