Laughing Gear

It all depends on what you find funny, I suppose. Which means in my view, most of the BBC output for the past couple of years – particularly anything involving French & Saunders or the asinine nonsense put out on BBC3 - has pretty much been dead in a ditch from the get go.

Of course there have been notable exceptions like Lead Balloon and Not Going Out – which at least had the very good sense to either model themselves, or take inspiration from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld, respectively, and therefore kept the laughs coming – along with various panel shows like the always welcome QI and the extended version of Have I Got News For You which now uses its additional ten minutes to go off the rails into madness most times.


Then on Sunday night, Top Gear - which is always good for a laugh anyway - had a review of the Peel P50 Microcar. The piece had me doubled over and laughing so hard I actually thought I was in danger of vomiting the chili I’d cooked and eaten earlier.