Eldon (Read 6030 times)

dave · March 17, 2013, 11:34:46 pm

Anyone else just watched "its kevin"? Verdict?

I'l be honest, I though it was a massive disappointment.

andyd · March 17, 2013, 11:48:09 pm

I lasted 6 mins. Didn't smile once. Sometimes I put it down to being too old (no longer into teenage humour) but I don't think it'd be funny to them. I'm struggling to think which demographic this would appeal to...

andy_e · March 18, 2013, 09:12:27 am

I haven't seen this yet but I love Kevin Eldon. I am a bit worried about watching this though as there's probably a reason why he's been in the business for so long and not had a TV show until now.

Duncan Disorderly · March 18, 2013, 01:07:00 pm

We watched it as he's seeing my Missus's cousin, is a thouroughly decent bloke and I've always liked his stuff but I have to say that I can't find much good to say about it unfortunately..

I'm not sure what I was hoping for in a sketch show (not really my cuppa in general) but it seemed a bit disjointed and didn't really make me laugh - I thought the intro was apalling too...

Hoping it gets bettter really.....

Jaspersharpe · March 18, 2013, 02:01:02 pm

When I first heard about this I thought it would be the best thing ever as Eldon is a comedy genius but then when I read the Guardian article about it, it sounded a bit shit. I don't think I'll bother now as I'd prefer to remember stuff like this instead:

Wood FT · March 18, 2013, 02:06:03 pm

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on March 18, 2013, 02:01:02 pm

When I first heard about this I thought it would be the best thing ever as Eldon is a comedy genius but then when I read the Guardian article about it, it sounded a bit shit. I don't think I'll bother now as I'd prefer to remember stuff like this instead:

I know it's not written by him but reading this thread made me find this classic

andy_e · March 18, 2013, 07:47:58 pm

It's Kevin. It's Crap.

Some bits quite good as expected but it's moving too slowly and a lot of the jokes seem to be taken from Family Guy (they had something about Peter Griffin having a soundtrack to his life and the guy flinching in pain for about 5 minutes which was also a running theme in Family Guy) and it seems to be bizarrely xenophobic (a quick sketch about a French guy and a horrible lottery, why does it need to be Portuguese?)

It's such a shame as he's a truly funny bloke. His part in the first series of Partridge was so brilliantly played.

dave · March 18, 2013, 08:00:49 pm

Maybe if we all post up some classic Eldon clips I can erase my memory of last night.

I'll start us off:

andy_e · March 18, 2013, 08:11:14 pm

Amo tetrum. Abadaynum.

moose · March 19, 2013, 09:45:09 am

I read the positive newspaper reviews of It's Kevin and thought, in advance of viewing, you were all being a bit harsh..... then I saw the programme. I sincerely apologise for ever doubting the taste of the UKB massive!

The material was weak but that might well improve - many ultimately successful sketch shows have ropey beginnings. But, to me, the entire format seems misjudged. Eldon's perennial presence in disquieting comedies owes a lot to him being, frankly, very good at seeming creepy. He always reminds me of those fishes that live under frozen-over seas: a pallid, dead-eyed relic of some earlier, colder era. So all these matey little straight-to-camera links just don't work. He can't pull them off: he's insufficiently charismatic; he's not funny-ha-ha, rather he's funny-peculiar. He's like the sketch show equivalent of Steve Buscemi: talented, capable of stealing scenes, but not a leading man.