DROP THE DEAD DONKEY VIDEO REVIEW - April 1996
| You know the score. Like Big Mouth, Through The Cakehole or Endsleigh League Extra - stuff you watch when there's nothing else on, on the grounds that there's a 50/50 chance it'll be funnier than Newsnight - Drop The Dead Donkey is one of those shows that's alright while you're waiting for a new series of Have I Got News For You? to come around, and not much else. It's less a sitcom, more a transparent vehicle for all those gags that weren't quite clever enough for the Rory Bremner Show, and apparently aimed at an audience still not quite bright enough to appreciate them (hence the embarrassing telegraphing that precedes almost every joke). There's the odd neat line at the expense of notorious hard-target Princess Di, and a pleasing singularity of dimension not seen since the days of Mind Your Language, but DTDD does just enough to be more amusing than the competition (the "And finally..." bit at the end of News At Ten), and no more. Watch when there's nothing else on? Sure. Pay money? I should coco. |
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