Corden Bleurgh and the state of UK comedy

It seems that the BBC have found the saviours of comedy and are throwing the whole department's budget at Gavin & Stacey funsters Horne & Corden. If ever there was a flavour of the month then this pair are it. Hosting the Brits, doing a movie about Vampire Lesbians (how original we are children. Can Britain do a comedy film?) and now there are bus sides everywhere for their new "hilarious" BBC3 sketch show.

Now don't get me wrong I enjoyed Gavin & Stacey but the level of exposure they're getting is unreal. It shows how utterly bereft we are of original comedy in this country nowadays. Look at the line up for this years Comic Relief - why it's Gavin and Stacey! And Lenny Henry!

Man, we really need a British equivalent of HBO or Comedy Central that would invest in good comedy. Sky should be doing that instead of throwing money at horseshit like Hello Goodbye, Noel's HQ and Don't Forget The Fucking Lyrics Or I'll Twat You. The only original programme from Sky that's deserved a view recently has been Ross Kemp in Afghanistan. He was absolutely shitting himself when the bullets started flying and no wonder.

Anyway, I like the Old Guys on BBC1. Would help if Trigger could deliver his lines better because he is fed some classics. I watched FM on ITV2. It's about DJ's and is full of effing and jeffing. Now I like coarse but there's funny coarse and coarse for the sake of it and this was the latter. You can talk the filthiest shit with your mates and be in tears laughing but when you see that on TV it just doesn't seem funny unless the characters are spot on and these guys aren't.

BBC Scotland has been running some one off original comedy shows since the Chewin' the Fat guys fell out. Last week we had the Limmy Show, some clever bits, some weird, few laughs. This week we had Burnistoun which was a set of sketches set in a fictional town. Pretty much every sketch on it you've already seen played out better before. This programme was made by The Comedy Unit. Their website says that they have such a backlog of unread scripts that they are binning full scripts from the last 12 months. And yet shite like Burnistoun actually gets made.

Anyway, for some true comedy genius watch 30 Rock tonight. Last week it featured Jerry Seinfeld presenting a show called MILF Island. Now that's comedy.