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You Know What, Hang The Experts: US ‘Kath & Kim’ Does Suck

9:30AM Clem Bastow | 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! More »