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As I write this Lenny Henry has just appeared on my telly in a bright gold suit and a slightly greying beard. Yes, in case you don't know, that means I'm watching the 25th edition of the Comic Relief telly show. I love comic relief, something about it makes me feel incredibly warm inside. For twenty-five years in a row, the biggest and best names in British entertainment, comedy and music have got together to, for free, make some great telly in order to encourage us to give a shitload of cash to a very worthy cause. AND every year the people of Britain do raise a shitload. It's incredible.

If you pay any attention to the news you may think everyone and everything is a piece of shit. Well, everything is a piece of shit but in fact most people are brilliant, brilliant human beings who respond to comic relief and raise loads of wonga for some very needy people and do a great deal of good. It makes me so warm and fuzzy inside. I hope you have or will donate some cash. That would be good.

Anyway, that wasn't what I wanted to blog about. I actually wanted to reflect on some otherstuff I've seen on the telly recently. 

If you were to try and teach how to make great sitcom, you have recently been given two amazing case studies. One brilliant and one fucking shit. The brilliant one, shown on Channel 4, is Ricky Gervais' latest creation Derek. The shit one, shown on BBC Three, is Bluestone 42.

To me, the more creative and daring a sitcom is - the better it is. So you'd think the one set in Helmand Province would be better than the one set in an old folk's home. But no, just no!

Derek was one of the most moving and funny shows I've ever seen. I was so gripped in by all of the characters. Each one I loved in their own way and I cared so much about them, I was moved so much by every single action. 

In Bluestone 42, frankly, I couldn't give a toss about these characters. They are a bomb disposal unit, you see them crawling around next to an IED and you just find yourself not giving a toss about whether or not they get blown up. These are all just one-dimensional figures, not characters just faces and hence no-one cares. They're not even funny, you can't laugh at someone who you can't conceive. They're also not funny because they've not assigned funny lines to characters based on what that character is supposed to be like, they've instead just thought up some almost amusing lines and assigned them at random to characters in order to make it seem about even! That's just bloody terrible.

I'm sure there was more I wanted to say on the topic but I've realised this blog really isn't that funny, sorry about that. 

By the way, I was thinking on doing a blog were a reviewed all the adverts I saw, would that be funny? Might do it in a few days.

:p

Over and out, I've been Russell Parker and this has been shit.