Tv programmes/Sketches not as funny as you remember them to be

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I remember watching Paul Merton The Series on channel 4 back early 90's.He did a sketch where he went to the cinema & recorded the film being shown with a camcorder.I remember at the time finding the sketch to be really funny.Fastforward to just the other night where i saw the sketch for the first time since then & it was no where near as funny as i remember it.

Now i know as we get older sometimes things we did find once funny we don't feel any longer.

So is there a programme it could be a particular scene or a sketch that you saw again that you didn't find as funny as you did when you first saw it?.
 
Harry Enfield and Chums .. never missed an episode back in the day. Also used to watch his Loadsamoney and other characters he did (i think, on the Ben Elton show ???). No longer funny. Maybe the 'not very funny' Harry and Paul show has taken some shine off the old ones... but not too sure.
 
This, I was a major fan of the first series (not so much the other two) but whenever I catch a minute or two of a repeat of it now, I feel compelled to turnover.
 
Yea another one for Little Britain here. When it first came out I was 14, so to me it was hilarious! Now when I watch it, I just think 'oh, really not as good as I thought'. I do still enjoy the fat fighters sketch though.
 
Most sketches I watch a second time aren't really funny anymore. Knowing what is about to be said ruins the comedy value for me :o
 
I loved that sketch - "the Berlin Affair" - when I first saw it and I still love it. He was a rotten actor but a very funny bloke. I wish he was still doing sketch comedy.
 
I increasingly found the Fast Show to be unfunny. It relied on a series of characters who were dysfunctional, unhappy and unbalanced - consider Colin Hunt, Unlucky Alf, the "hardest job in the world" man, not to mention the Ted and Ralph series where the "funniest" sketch is about a man's wife dying. You can imagine them doing a sketch called "Smallpox Sid" and the main character wondering why nobody wants to be friendly with him and the audience laughing like drains.
 
While i know what you mean.There are a few Two Ronnies sketches that i could watch again & i'd stll laugh at it.

It just doesn't have to be sketch shows that you once found funny.It could be a sitcom.
 
I watched Tutti Frutti inthe 80's,with Robbie Coltrain and thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen.
I recently bought the DVD of the series.
Oh dear,it is not funny at all.
 
The Charlie Drake sketch where he plays every member of an orchestra. Seeing it after a gap of 20+ years didn't make me laugh- very clever for its time though.
 
Ben Elton did appear on Harry Enfield's show in a sketch sending-up both Benny Hill and Elton's criticism of Benny Hill, with Ben Elton running around to that music from Benny Hill...and covering up women! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBA_sHHg7Xs&feature=fvst

Harry Enfield's programme and The Fast Show seems a bit dated to me. Whenever I watch the latter, I just skip to the Rowley Birkin parts.

But then there's so familiar from watching them on VHS/UK Gold/DVD.
 
Yet another vote for Little Britain. Also, my favourite comedy shows from my teenage years, Gimme Gimme GImme and Smack The Pony. Maybe my sense of humour matured as I grew older! :p
 
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