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Terribly Unfunny...

posted 10 years ago by megaknocker
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What am awful first episode. I guess this is what happens when you place an agenda over actual comedy or actual good writing.

[–] LHartz 10 years ago

Lazy writing, poor premise and bad acting. This show won't last more than 8 episodes.

[–] bricks29 10 years ago

An awful pilot and annoying laugh track. A real audience wouldn.t laugh at such unfunny and obvious "jokes."

[–] megaknocker 10 years ago

A real audience would need free tickets to Ellen for a week to be forced to sit through a taping of this mess.

[–] TMC-4 10 years ago

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/17/ellen-degeneres-s-one -big-happy-is-a-big-step-back-for-gays.html

"As a sitcom, it's as retrograde as it gets—a 'Three's Company' retread where instead of getting starkly different personalities, the characters get different sexualities," Kevin Fallon says of the Ellen-produced NBC comedy. "Hijinks barely even ensue, replaced instead by broad lesbian clichés and stereotypes that are only recognized as jokes when the unsettling, maniacal laugh track kicks in."

http://www.tvinsider.com/article/958/e-puts-fashion-police-on-hiatus-t ill-september/