Hey, did you know the remake of ‘The Fly’ came out in 1986? Well, if you didn’t, ‘The Comic Strip’ sure as hell is going to remind you of it…TWO YEARS after the fact.
Landing with a wet limp squelch onto television screens in 1988, ‘The Yob’ has one joke and that is to parody ‘The Fly’ but instead of a scientist and a Fly getting mixed up, it’s a yuppie and a yob.
That’s it. That’s the whole hour long episode. And it’s unappealing in almost every sense of the word. Nauseating direction, irritating scoring, bad performances. Jokes that fail consistently and border on the homophobic and full on tip into the sexist and classist.
Someone turns up dressed as a nazi in black face at one point…its boring. A waste of an hour and arguably the worst of the comic strip…if it wasn’t for a literal handful of interesting cine choices. This would be down at a half star.
I’m not a fan of Keith Allen, and I’m not a fan of punching down. This does both.
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