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But the unfunny stereotypes are just awful

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But the unfunny stereotypes are just awful.Jeremy Hardy ComedianSo Haunt Me - that was bad. Miriam Karlin as a Jewish ghost, George Costigan played the dad That was bad. And Gimme Gimme Gimme? Kathy Burke is fantastic, she should be Dame Kathy. Yes, Minister was fantastic, I certainly couldn't vote that the worst.Philip Hensher AuthorThat's easy It's Last of the Summer Wine Christ it's bad.

It went on for 25 years, who watched it? Alzheimer's patients? Every week some jelly fell on somebody's head. Were the people who made it on drugs? It was terrible.Lauren Booth JournalistWhat's that one with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay? My Family? Oh, please No, it's the worst The guy who plays the son is a genius though I loved Robert Lindsay when he was Wolfie Smith He's still my icon, I love him. If I don't like something, though, I just turn it off - that's how I deal with bad sitcoms.Jon Snow NewsreaderOh Christ, I don't even watch the good ones let alone the bad ones I remember Are You Being Served? from when I was a kid That was grim It was too grisly for words. It was racist, xenophobic and extremely unfunny.  Beryl Vertue Hartswood productions, makers of Men Behaving BadlyI don't like programmes that rely on crude jokes for their humour and those that aren't well written Bo Selecta! is crude and not funny. Queers were caricatured in ways not far removed from Nazis' ridiculing of the Jews.

John Inman's character reinforced every sad, pathetic clich?nd stereotype about gay men. His limp-wristed buffoonery demoralised a whole generation of young queers and set back the cause of gay emancipation.Andrew Neil Television presenter and newspaper publisherMind Your Language. They're just vile people with absolutely no redeeming qualities. I could go on, it's just so terrible.Mark Borkowski Showbiz PRThe Vicar of Dibley is the most overrated programme on TV - I just don't get it. I find it bemusing that it makes it on to "best of" lists and it's a classic example of bad writing. Love Thy Neighbour was fairly racist and I didn't understand the popularity of On the Buses. In fact, there's a lot more about sitcoms that winds me up instead of making me laugh.Peter Tatchell Gay rights activistAre You Being Served? was the gay equivalent of the Black and White Minstrel Show only worse.

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