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TV Review: The Cafe (Or: Ralf Little Writes Awful Sitcom; Su Johnston Starts Screening Her Calls)

August 5th, 2012 By Robin Darke

Remember back in the mid noughties when everyone was all ?Oh, The Royle Family is so indicative of the modern day working class, and it's a problem that we need to address,? and ?I know someone just like Denise. She's a feckless moron as well. Terrible BO? and everything was ?My Arse??

We all can. It was a sad era for sitcoms. An era that would?ve contributed to Lucille Ball?s suicide. If she was alive still, and wanted to do go ?Garland Style?.

Well Ralf Little, him with the really ordinary looking face, has tried to reinvigorate his career by co-writing a piece of trash called ?The Cafe.?

Review: Comedy Central’s Threesome

August 5th, 2012 By Michael Park

When hecklerspray do reviews, it’s usually of a national institution like the X Factor, The Apprentice or Nick Knowles Dusts The Natural History Museum. It’s very rare for us to see something on television and write about it unless it’s likely to spawn pseudo-celebrity targets for us. Why is that? We’re not a TV website.

It’s pretty much as simple as that.

Still, that brings us around neatly to Comedy Central’s brand new situation comedy Threesome which starts next week on the channel which actively encourages “Two & A Half Men”. Still, let’s not hold that against Threesome, which is the very first British sitcom to be commissioned by the channel.

Americans Are Stupid And Their Love Of Two And A Half Men Only Proves It

September 21st, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

America. Bless you for the insanely good things you’ve given the world. Muscle cars, hamburger joints, rock ‘n’ roll and television will always be your crowning glory and us Limeys will forever be in your debt.

However, your taste in television shows is awful. From a country (nay, virtual continent) that gave us Taxi, The Simpsons, M*A*S*H, Roots, Ren & Stimpy, The Muppet Show and more, what in Christ’s name are you doing frittering away your time with dross like Two And A Half Men?

Seriously. What’s with liking Two And A Half Men so much that it breaks network records? Eh? And don’t think we haven’t noticed how much you enjoy the unswerving dreck of The Big Bang Theory.

Brady Bunch Mum Caught Crabs From Mayor Of NYC, Which Is A Headline We Thought We’d Never Write

June 27th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Imagine if The Brady Bunch contained a story where perky mum, Carol, had an affair with the mayor of New York and caught crabs off him. Well, it happened in real life as the actress Florence Henderson in the famed cutesy sitcom did exactly that.

She caught crabs after a one-night-stand with John Lindsay while cheating on her husband, which is exactly the kind of behaviour we expect of our celebrities.

Henderson reveals all this in her upcoming memoir, which also points out that she was cheating on her husband with a pig of a man and had a face so ugly that it could curdle a summer sky. He’s going to love reading all about that isn’t he?

Chandler From Friends Goes To Rehab After Realising How Pointless He’s Become

May 13th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Remember Matthew Perry? Y’know? Chandler from Friends? If you do, you’ll remember he went as thin as a heroin-addict’s dog for a while, before ballooning to the size of a shed full of butter, before going thin again and walking off the edge of the Earth, never to be seen again.

Well, Chandler is back to tell us something!

That’s right! He is here to announce that he’s been looking at himself in the mirror, horrified with what he’s seen and been drinking or gobbling handfuls of pills or something to deal with the wreck he is. And so, without anyone actually caring thus far, he’s announced he’s off to rehab to ‘focus on his sobriety.’

Hugh Grant As Baffling Replacement For Charlie Sheen On Two And A Half Men?

May 12th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Hugh ‘It’s All About The Twiglets’ Grant is, and take this with a whole lake of salt, apparently being touted as a replacement for Charlie Sheen in the abjectly awful and heavingly unfunny Two and a Half Men.

It would appear that the actor-turned-paparazzi snitch started to be courted around a month ago by CBS boss Les Moonves and President Nina Tassler, knowing that, for some reason, Americans just can’t get enough of posh Englishmen pratfalling and pulling worried faces constantly.

And, the good news for Grant is that, even if he stint only lasts for one season and he hates working on an American sitcom, he’ll be able to comfort himself with a cheque for $1 million. Per episode. Even more baffling is that Charlie Sheen was getting more than that per episode when he was on the show. With $1.25 million per show, it is hardly surprising he could buy suitcases filled with weapons grade cocaine when it took his fancy.

Badvertising: Cohabitation & Why It’s Not That Funny

August 7th, 2012 By Michael Park

Hello, readers! There’s a Royal Wedding tomorrow! I’m sure you’ve missed most of the coverage though, the press and media have decided to be quite low-key in their build up to the nuptials and have decided just to show the odd quick snippet of footage just to remind people that it’s actually happening.

Here at hecklerspray we want to offer our own form of congratulations and advice to the happy couple who are going to spend most of their lives dodging the limelight. Married life, eh? Living with someone? It’s tough, it really is.

In sitcoms, relationships are used as devices to reveal character traits that one would usually miss, usually a negative one for comic effect. Or, in the case of Two & A Half Men, to parallel Charlie Sheen’s life for no comic effect whatsoever.

Campus: The Warty Comedy About Students And Scumbags

April 4th, 2011 By hecklerspray staff

After a pretty decent pilot, Channel 4 have gone and actually commissioned Campus, which is a sitcom set in the strange, dysfunctional world of academic mediocrity, Kirke University. It’s like Green Wing if someone replaced bins filled with surgical bandages with bins filled with the books and dreams of students.

Or something.

And with that, we have a nice trailer you can watch that hasn’t been on the television yet because it has ‘night time language’ in it, which we’re all rather fond of here, right?

How I Met Your Mother Season 5 – DVD Review And Exclusive Clip

August 5th, 2012 By David Scarborough

How I Met Your Mother?s popularity has been, quite appropriately, infectious like some sort of venereal disease. Taking the template of Friends and leaving the casting of the ?Rachel? character an ongoing mystery has managed to ensnare the attention of young whatnots across the land.

Season 5 shows no sign of slowing things down, indulging in this hump stage ? like most US sitcoms do ?by throwing some extra cameos into the mix, flapping their proverbial arms for attention like an annoying child.

Jennifer Lopez, Rachel Bilson and Chris Kattan all duke it out for the converted title of ?Most Outdated Celebrity?.

Courteney Cox Makes A Sitcom About A Slaggy Old Lady

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Courteney Cox must have been sad when Dirt was cancelled – her one chance to feel up a string of younger men for cash, gone.

So Courteney Cox must be thanking her lucky stars that she’s just signed up to star in a new ABC sitcom by the creator of Scrubs called Cougar Town, where she’ll get to play a woman in her forties who basically has it off with a string of younger men a lot.

Look, we know what you’re thinking – first Dirt, then Cougar Town. Courteney Cox is a really big fan of these salaciously-named TV shows, isn’t she? That’s good news for us, because the last three scripts we’ve written have been entitled Giant Slag, Tits! and Sluttybum McHussyknickers. We’re going to be rich, we tell you. Rich!