This is a truly dreadful show, for many many reasons.
For starters, it apes the modern comedy trends that have made shows like Tittybangbang and Spoons so unbearable...every episode is barely distinguishable from the last. The same tedious catchphrases are trotted out each week, by the same tedious characters, in pretty much the same tedious circumstances. Tedious.
The cast is almost uniformly dreadful...previously I've enjoyed Rhys Thomas and David Mitchell, but find the latter's ubiquity and refusal to turn down even THIS rubbish has put me off him quite a bit. He's coming across as someone who is desperately greedy, and who cares not a jot about the art-form which he makes a living from.
Tom Meeten and Simon Barnaby are particularly terrible in Blunder, and tend to perform the most uninspired and embarrassing characters...particularly Meeten's "Karate Man" who dances around with his testicles hanging out. That - apart from some under-written build-up - is the entire joke, and on average it's repeated twice a show!
This is a real stinker and has been recommissioned already, presumably because it's clearly so cheap to make. It shows the sheer contempt Channel 4 have for their audiences these days, and is a long way from the intelligent (and FUNNY) programmes they used to produce as a matter of course in the long and distant past.
Quite definitely one of the worst comedy shows ever written, and I say that without an ounce of hyperbole. It's right down there with Tittybangbang, Spoons and Dare To Believe.
