Mostly Toss

Just caught up with the first 2 episodes of Modern Toss and I have to say that it's time to put up the screens and shoot the horse.

The Modern Toss books are superb, no doubt, and in series one some of it seemed to translate well to TV and some of it didn't. As Dinkle pointed out to me the problem could be that instead of having the character voices in your head they've now mainly got Cockney accents and that ain't good.

Certainly any sketch that featured real actors lacked any real quality and wouldn't make it into a BBC3 sketch show (and that's saying something). There are even more of these in series 2 which means I spent a lot of time pounding that fast forward button.

Regrettably, characters such as Mr Tourette's and Alan which borderline worked in series 1 have been given extended scripts which are just full of lame padding followed by a rehash of a the same punchline. The only sketch that emerges with any credit is Space Argument which is always original, always cruel and vindictive and has the accents spot on. Here's a clip, judge for yourself.