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This programme is too much about the self inflicted problems Khan gets himself into. I'd like to see some change where others get him into the you know what and how he gets them out of it or the laugh is on some of the others more.

I knew a mile off that the 25 thousand was going to be rupees so I was kinda watching the clock wanting the first episode to end quickly and thought about skipping it to the end.

I thought it was quite hilarious! I know it's not 100% brilliant, but it's a good 30 mins of laughter.

So dire it's hard to find words. Terry & June got Islam, only not really.

This is in absolutely the same category as MBB, the only difference being that Brendan O'Carroll is an aged old hack whereas Adil Ray seems to think he's the very epitome of cutting edge young humour. It's hardly surprising it's so desperately unfunny when you see an interview with him (and he's been on quite a bit) - he's so up himself yet never gets near to cracking a joke. That the Goodness Gracious Me mob are also involved should be a warning - another show based on about 3 gags stretched out forever.

Now if there was genuinely a dangerous, cutting edge comedy based on a Muslim family then it might have some worth. As would Ray's head.

Let's see him write an episode about a gay cousin and the family's attitude. That would be satire.

Watching this now on BBC One and i have not laughed once.

I have one question, why is the white bloke talking in an Indian accent?

Like the time Only Fools and Horses did an episode about their gay cousin, to satire working class cockney attitudes towards homosexuality?

Oh no it never happened, so why should Citizen Khan?

Very well put.

I cant believe were on series 3 of citizen khan, and the main story is still about this wedding. It's seems like the writer has no other ideas or has a weird way of writing think of one story and base the entire show around that.

Are the BBC filling an ethnic quota putting this garbage on for a third blooming series?

Going against the flow clearly, but growing to love this. Ok, not original but some great slapstick comedy. The running wig joke was good, though a bit reminiscent of Basil Fawlty trying not to mention the war to his German guests.

The "white" bloke happens to be a Manchester born Muslim called Abdullah Afzal.


I guess people learn to speak like their parents or their peers.

Loads of young British born Asians talk in that kind of accent for some reason, just like British black kids talk with a Jamaican twang....& some white kids try it as well!

I watched a bit of S1 to give it a chance & decided against watching S2.

Funny in bits. But thats about it

it sounded more like a west Yorkshire accent to me, like from Bradford.

I cant say I love it, but I do find it funny in parts. My Asian work colleague is going through the process of marrying off one of her daughters so it does make a great talking point.

Apparently the pet name the daughter has for Amjad is "Buddhu" which seemingly means dumb but in an affectionate way. Certainly fits

Just remembered the wig joke may be another nod from Adil Ray to Father Ted as they had an episode where the drunken Irish TV presenter landed on Craggy Island with a very obvious rug, setting Dougal up for an "it's a wig!" moment.

Gotten very silly now. The scene where he is thrown through the video was stupid.

This show contravenes the trades descriptions act...it's absolutely diabolical. Makes Mrs. Browns Boys look like the Award Winning Bafta show it is.

But thats the very nature of sitcom. It fits the formula perfectly.

Take a sitcom formula thats 60 years old if its a day, insert a picture of "modern" Britain and it fits the BBC's agenda for racially diverse and politically correct programming. Its as if a commitee had deigned it so. Which it probably had.

What I dont understand is why most of the characters talk like they have special needs. Only the wife appears to speak "normally". And no, I dont just mean the accent.

I get that but with the exception of last night's episode, most of the grief and laughs are either by Khan or at his expense and they are hardly ever done by anyone else either way.

I love it when the co stars get a fair few gags, either by making them or being on the recieving end of them. For example, in Only Fools and Horses Xmas special, The Jolly Boys Outing, I absoloutely loved the gag done in 2 parts involving Del throwing the "Great Romondo's" suitcase out of the winda. When he threw it you could hear a little noise outside and later on at the end, it was revealed that the suit case hit both Mike and Boycie as they were walking past the house by sheer coincidence! The way Uncle Albert told Del about what happened was absoloutely hilarious and brilliant.

In On The Buses, characters like Arthur and Blakey were at the butt of a lot of jokes or made them and thats what Citizen Khan needs to do, allow the gags to be shared round more.

In general, last nigts episode was a good one. It should have been the would be mother in law that slipped off the chair and out of the winda as well as being thown back through the winda.

I also can't believe that Shazia and her lofty fiance still aren't married and its now in series 3.

I don't agree that they do speak like that but what it probably is, is the mixture of accent and pronounciation of the words they use which is mainly english but with some punjabi words added into it and how they pronounce those words too.

They also speak with a fair bit of affection for each other don't they, like with the older daughter engaged to Anjum and what they say to each other and how the dad dotes on his younger daughter especially and she takes advantage of that by often calling him "Pappa Jee" in a affectionate way.

It could be good, with different actors.

Just caught up with yesterday's episode and Alia looked hot again, she seems to be favouring those tight dresses this series which is great.

I'd like to see the actress interviewed on TV.

Adil Ray was on BBC Breakfast a few days before the first episode went out and he said between those watching it on TV and I player, the programme gets about 4.5 Million viewers. Pretty good viewing figures in this day and age with satelite channels taking up a lot of their viewing share now.