It seems to rely on people finding the same thing funny over and over again. Some people do like that. Everytime I've watched it it's felt like Groundhog Day with added deju vu.
The Nigerian trying to get bank account details is also funny. That man's big jaw moving up and down, while the rest of his face stays still, is so funny!
Oh well, perhaps I haven't given it a chance. Regarding the woman in the gift shop who was holding the phone up to her ear all the time the gun shots were going off at the other end, supposedly in Afghanistan...my son said it was funny because why was she still sitting there with the phone to her ear as if this was a completely normal conversation with someone?
I guess I don't find it funny when people are cross and irritated by the silly phone calls.
I thought Fonejacker was better that Facejacker.
I really liked the calls where the caller was trying to get cinema tickets or a pizza etc. and the "automated" reply kept getting his order wrong !
oh yes, this is always so funny. Human confusion is wonderful. Always makes me laugh out loud and no one is particularly humiliated. Of course its nothing new, prank phone calls have been going on since the dam thing was invented. I used to do it as a boy in the 70's!! Noel Edmonds did it well on his radio show. Oh yes, you can't beat the old wind ups!!
Yawn. Yes, it was amusing when Peter Sellers did "funny voices" half a century ago. But once you've seen The Pink Panther ("a berm?", "a minkey") the novelty wears thin very quickly.
Just watched an episode that my son taped. Singularly unfunny especially the clip about Afghanistan, or are they all in on the joke? :mad:
I like it, and find it funny, however I didn't like facejacker, where it was the bloke dressing up meeting people, instead of animation, I thought that was about as funny as a dose of piles.
I recall one of the sketches had Fonejacker as a middle-aged foreign man ringing up a record shop and pretending to be after a record, and saying he did not know the title and so would hum and sing it for them. He then goes on to, without lyrics, going, 'Hmmm-mmmm! Da da da...!' etc. The record shop staff were being filmed through the shop window as this happened, and the bloke listening waved his friend over, and they were both silently cracking up! That was pretty funny!
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And i'm not a schoolboy, and when it first aired i wasn't a schoolboy.
Only infantiles say such a thing as a deregatory term. Please, shut down your computer and bask in the sunshine. Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH9cEoEup8
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xk1z-8KAU&feature=related
I guess I don't find it funny when people are cross and irritated by the silly phone calls.
I really liked the calls where the caller was trying to get cinema tickets or a pizza etc. and the "automated" reply kept getting his order wrong !
Why are you getting your knickers in a twist?
One of the best British comedies I've seen.
Nowadays it's merely derivative.
I like it, and find it funny, however I didn't like facejacker, where it was the bloke dressing up meeting people, instead of animation, I thought that was about as funny as a dose of piles.
I find Terry Tibbs most amusing. Talk to me, sell me!!
And how many British comedies have you actually seen?:D:p