Miranda Hart- Superb Comedienne

[Simonet]

A genuine successor to French and Saunders/Catherine Tate and going right back to Joycw Grenfell.

Miranda is a terrific Clown in the happy and comedic sense who is not afraid to take risks and make herself appear foolish, which she is, obviously, far from.

Great timing. marvellous "confidences" to the viewer/audience and plays her part in her feature series at just the right pitch. Her performances with the excellent Pamela Hodge are worth watching for alone. If these 2 don't win awards for the current series I will be amazed.

She also seems a genuinely pleasant and decent person. Very likeable.

I'm pleased as well, as all my funniest people have been Male for Decades from Peter Sellers to Leonard Rossiter to The Pythons to The Blackadder Boys to Steve Coogan alongside Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, Bob Monkhouse, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie and more latterly Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and if I cate to think about it probably many others.

Miranda-"Such Fun"..>:D<

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh dear, Simonet, you had me entirely until Steve Coogan.

[RosieH]

I don't understand how it's even on television - it's utter bobbins.

[Simonet]

RosieH Wrote:

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> I don't understand how it's even on television -

> it's utter bobbins.

RosieH please watch last weeks episode "Act Normal" on BBCI Player and THEN tell me she is not the new Queen of Comedy!!

Our latest National Treasure etc....:)

If its one thing its not, its utter bobbins...

[Simonet]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Oh dear, Simonet, you had me entirely until Steve

> Coogan.

As Alan Partridge is one of my favourite 3 Characters of all time, we will have to differ on that one!

BACK OF THE NET !

[flapjackdavey]

I'm not sure about her . don't think she's as funny as french & Saunders at their best .

[SeanMacGabhann]

Rosieh has it.

The woman herself seems so likeable that people seem too willing to overlook the paucity of material

I reckon she has better in her and praising her for this just means we will never see it

[Narnia]

Utter bobbins...........great sounding expression. What does it mean/where does it come from?

[RosieH]

Dunno Narnia - am a Lancashire lass, and we had a lot of bobbins in our neck of the woods back in the day, what with t'mills and all. No idea how it came to mean a bit rubbish though.

And yes Sean, you're right, she is tremendously likeable, and very happy to poke fun at herself, and seems intelligent - all admirable qualities. But I've watched two episodes of this now, and didn't laugh once.

[Nero]

I am a big fan and laugh like a drain when she is on. It is embarrassing for all around when I watch it on a plane, with headphones on, because I can't help but roll back my head, hit the armrest heavily with my palm and repeat the punchline whilst snorting loudly. More please!

[flapjackdavey]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Rosieh has it.

>

> The woman herself seems so likeable that people

> seem too willing to overlook the paucity of

> material

>

> I reckon she has better in her and praising her

> for this just means we will never see it

I agree she is likeable ,there are loads of people I think are likeable , dunno if they should get a series on the tv though. There are a lot of people I don't find likeBLE David Mitchell for instance who I think is a little smug twat , and seems to be beeming up at at you every time you pick up a copy of the fuckin observer these days

[SeanMacGabhann]

You have a problem with mitchell?? Sheesh

[Huguenot]

Manchester rhyming slang perchance?

Bobbins of cotton, rotten.

[flapjackdavey]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> You have a problem with mitchell?? Sheesh

Yep :))

[RosieH]

Hmm Huguenot, I'm unconvinced, having never once heard anyone in Manchester use rhyming slang (and rotten seems a bit harsh for the way bobbins is employed).

Just did an internet trawl and the suggestion arose that 'there were nowt left but bobbins' could be the cause. I like that more. Only the rubbish left, none of the thread. Nice.

Edited for forgetting the ion in suggestion.

[Huguenot]

Ah indeed, just the bobbin left, because everything of value had been removed. Very good.

[siousxiesue]

Have to say I hate the word 'comedienne' as much as 'manageress' both defunct, surely she's just a comedian??

[mockney piers]

Gosh how very Orwellian of you siousxie.

Go the whole hog and deprecate 'she' whilst you're at it.

Ive seen this person interviewed and find them intelligent, charming and self deprecating.

The sitcom in question is a perfect example of the sort of mediocre comedy this country manages to produce in bucket loads, and I want to hate it, but having caught it a couple of times,it is SO ridiculously daft and puerile i do chuckle away at it. I guess it must have managed to inject it with a certain infectiousness that works.

[wee quinnie]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Gosh how very Orwellian of you siousxie.

>

> Go the whole hog and deprecate 'she' whilst you're

> at it.

Siouxsie is right - "Comedienne" is in the same vein as "Poetess". (Pass the sickbag).

[SeanMacGabhann]

I dunno, I imagine a poet of any gender would rather have a few spare words in their vocab

If I?m looking for a word to rhyme with Dungeness..

[david_carnell]

Can we abolish "Best Actress" at the Oscars then?

[RosieH]

Sean, if you're looking for a word to rhyme with 'Dungeness', you'd go with 'comedienne'? Laureates of England, lock up your quills, MacGabhann's a'comin'..!

And David, yes we can.

[siousxiesue]

Anything that adds 'ess' or ett/e' to a word unnecessarily is my bugbear, as is 'lady doctor' lady driver'!

[Huguenot]

Although a lady doctor may be pertinent if the examination is an intimate one and the patient is anxious.

[david_carnell]

Not wishing to diverge entirely from the subject in hand, but feminists of the EDF.....is this really what gets your goat?

Is it such a crime to differentiate the sexes through grammar? Our continental friends seem to do it no end to no ill effect. Germany makes train stations male yet still has a female head of state.....how do they do it? Probably by worrying about something important I would imagine.