The Thin Blue Line - Is this show good? Funny?

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1

My wife and I adore:

  • Blackadder

  • The Office(UK)

  • Spaced

  • Fawlty Towers
    Is The Thin Blue Line equally funny? Does it have cutting, wicked humor like a lot of the others I mentioned?

2

That’s the one with Rowan Atkinson as a cop, yes?

I liked it better than Fawlty Towers. But, then, I don’t actually like Fawlty Towers.

It’s far from Blackadder level, but it’s clever enough.

3

Fun and funny, if generally lightweight. It was interesting seeing Mark Addy play a bad guy, and still get laughs.

'Tis the season to check out Bernard and the Genie - a great Xmas movie with a Rowan Atkinson cameo as the world’s worst boss, and with Alan Cumming and Lenny Henry in the titular roles. Typo Bob says check it out!

4

I didn’t find it particularly funny. Very lightweight mainstream humour.

Opposite opinion to Tengu, basically. *Fawlty Towers *rivals Blackadder for my favourite ever comedy; *Thin Blue Line *doesn’t even register on my comedy radar.

5

I liked it enough to buy the DVDs. Not a classic, but funny enough.

6

I found it fluff comedy. It’s not going to make you think, but it gives a few good laughs. I wouldn’t say it’s “wicked” humour, though, more gentle ribbing of overly serious characters and the situations they find themselves in.

7

It was a giggle, if somewhat weak in star quality. I wouldn’t put it anywhere near the four you listed, though:

It’s more along the Black Books, IT Crowd level of “almost funny, if only it was tightened up a little.”

8

That’s how I’d describe it. It’s very very sitcommy.