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You Know What, Hang The Experts: US 'Kath & Kim' Does Suck
Posted by Clem Bastow at 9:30 AM on July 11, 2008
Okay, so the promos have hit the internet and, well, let's just say that things don't look great for the hilarity levels of NBC's Kath & Kim adaptation. If this were e.r., they'd be shouting things about how its comedy levels were "bottoming out" and how it's joke "EKGs need BP and a crash cart, stat" (yes, it's true: I did used to be a real doctor, actually, how did you guess?).
Anyway, here it is:
Wow, where to start! How about tacking the phrase "Australia's #1 Comedy!" onto something that, on this 60-second sample, looks like it's going to be about as funny as the Nuremberg Trials?
Way to make us look like the country with the biggest sense-of-humour deficit in the world, NBC! Cheers, we'll slip another cyanide-laced shrimp on the barbie for you!
Comments
matt
Posted July 11, 2008 10:58 AM
maybe it'll grow into funny..
these crazy Americans didn't get a chance to fine tune their shtick on a "Big Girls Blouse" practice ground...
oh i dunno, maybe it is lost. i just had such high hopes for Molly and Selma
Cheryl
Posted July 11, 2008 1:30 PM
I had no high hopes for this remake, but I thought that at least if Gina and Jane were involved there might be some comedy involved. It looks like the NBC execs managed to suck every inch of life out of the premise.
Mel
Posted July 11, 2008 7:20 PM
I didn't mind the "cup of joe for this tired soldier" line.
But the rest was terrible.
subgenius
Posted July 13, 2008 1:04 PM
I'm from the U.S., and I'm sorry about this. Really. Look, we messed up two versions of Fawlty Towers, Coupling, and Big Brother. You would have thought we MIGHT get it right on at least one imported remake.
Really, I'm sorry about this.