Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Lyco499 Have you ever sat there and watched hours of something so terrible, so bizarrely bad you feel retarded? Well I have, for I watched every episode, both series of this over the last 2 days. I don't know why, I laughed once and I have to admit I laughed at a rather damn good sketch, in the very last episode (a "woman" narrating everything at a dinner party where the predictable punch line is everyone can actually hear her slagging them off) it wasn't clever or special or unique but it tickled me.Other than that I enjoy the South Africans, possibly because I find the accent pretty. It tries to marry the juvenile and the mature with no luck and at times you feel feel genuinely bad for the cast. By far the most painful of the recurring sketches have to be the cab driver, the art gallery chubby chaser and the white van men. Basicaly they use material that would be good for one sketch, if that, and then do it over and over and over again. Don't get me started on the impromptu lip syncing.Although it has endeared me to Will Poulter, whose hideous way of speaking in Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader made me hate him for a long time. Yes I know Eustace Scrubb is meant to be an unlikable, repugnant character but still, there is no excuse for that mannerism.And while they seem to have turned the canned laughter slider down in between Series', they still use it too much. And some of the better recurring sketches from the first series were thrown out and not replaced in the second. The misanthropic bar maid from the first series was brilliant in a cringe worthy way.That sums the whole show up really, car crash television. Some morbid fascination with misery and pain keeps you watching when you know it's wrong. And a lot of it is so bad it swings back around to good, in a cringe worthy pitiful kind of way. However I do think some of the actor's are pretty talented, some of the girl's play perfectly believable adults (one of which would do better if she didn't have braces).Well there you go, my long winded confused sh-peel.

eadverts I almost didn't watch it when I saw the first sketch, I thought it was just going to be a one gimmick show but......These kids are amazing!!!!!! I hope the material stays strong enough to highlight their brilliant talents.The second show fell off a bit but I hope it recoups some of the absolute brilliance of the 1st show in the series. I really like the lesbian jokes. I like that the kids are NOT asked to be sexual in these bits, but just edgy and witty.And wow, they can really run rings around any actor (kid or adult) with some of the dialogue requirements ,such as, the character "Steve" in the "Pitch-Bitch" skit. Lots of range on these kids. Let hope they get good material to show it off.

Richard Baylis I was dubious about the idea behind this show, and at times am still uncomfortable about gaining laughs from children swearing, whether they are behaving as adults or not. Of course they know all of the words but that doesn't mean using them is right. Fortunately the best sketches so far are the ones without any swearing - with the sole exception of the farmer sketch for episode 1 which depended on it for the punchline.I agree however that some of the sketches just aren't funny, and yet it has little to do with the performances of the child actors. Will is very good and I'm looking forward to seeing him as Eustace in the next Narnia film.When the writing is good it is very good. The Job Interview sketch from episode 2 with the names confusion was classic two-handed comedy. But too many fail to deliver clear comedic content and should have been rejected. Better to have made a shorter series with premium content instead of thinning out the laughs with weaker material. Perhaps those with recurring characters will become funnier as they develop over time, but so far the Pub Landlady has failed to impress.I will continue to watch in the hope that it delivers on the potential that I believe is in the show.

edwardhendryuk "School of Comedy" is E4's new comedy sketch show. Like the show "Beehive" that came before it, "School of Comedy" is different from the bulk of today's comedy for featuring a less diverse cast - in this case, kids.It's a good idea in theory, but in practice, it doesn't work - the reason being that not even the most competent young actor/comedians can carry a comedy show if it's written as poorly as this show is.The comedy in "The School of Comedy" is as bad as it is simple: Kids act like adults (wear moustaches, work in a courtroom etc.), while putting on exaggerated comedy accents (Yokel, Cockney and hilarious White South African) and swear - because often, kids swearing is the punchline in this comedy - you can tell by the canned laughter that seems to punctuate each naughty word.However, the performances the young actors give cannot be criticised too much, because they're only young. They haven't been in comedy too long. They act out many different accents and personalities required of a sketch based show - but at the end of the day, they are kids playing doctors/teachers etc. with squeaky young voices. The writers and producers on the other hand (unless they are also 14 years old) deserve no such sympathy, writing the lamest jokes and the weakest characters, and giving us a show that is just another one of those wretched sketch based comedies that will last one series, and be reborn 1 year later as another weak comedy.Needless to say, I didn't smile once through this first episode, and I can safely say I won't expect to be bellowing with laughter during any of the following episodes.