Blog:Harry Rants: The Last Leg

(If anybody reading this like this show, I'm not shoving my opinions down your throats, this is what I think of this show, and you might think of it differently. If so, that's fine, but my taste in humour isn't constantly making sexual jokes or pop-culture references.)

In the UK, there are many comedy shows that appeal to anyone's interest, from sketch shows to dark comedy, there's a taste for everyone. Channel 4 airs quite a lot of comedy shows and sometimes stand-up comedy, ranging from Jimmy Carr's stuff to The Inbetweeners, to Whose Line Is It Anyway?, to the gross-out classic ''Bo! Selecta''. These shows can appeal to anyone to likes that type of comedy (or not), but however, there is one show, that is pretty much just in what I think, is not just an insult to comedy, but is one of my most hated TV shows of all time and it's actually not an animated show(surprisingly enough). Anyway, this so-called comedy show is called... The Last Leg. It is a variety comedy show that's hosted by comedian Adam Hills and his two butt-buddies- I mean co-hosts, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. The reason for the show's name is because Adam Hills was born without a right foot, and Alex Brooker had his right leg amputated. Josh is the only co-host who isn't disabled, so it basically makes this show hypocritical on it's own terms.

The show's original purpose was originally meant to be a look back at the 2012 Paralympic Games, which Channel 4 held the rights to, and showed viewers how good these kind of people are even with disabilities and what makes the Paralympics great. The show was a big hit, and the channel kept it, and Adam Hills and his goons decided to turn it into nothing more than poking fun at politics. Yes, the show jumped the shark in only it's the FIRST YEAR. As I'm not a fan of politics, this surely wouldn't appeal to me, but why I'm complaining? It's only used for those three goons to shove and force opinions down our throat! It doesn't help that the show is a live broadcast, so basically, anything goes between these three and the guests.

Now onto what I think of the hosts. In a nutshell: they're all unlikeable. Adam Hills is nothing more than a complete jerk who loves calling people "Dicks" and bashes on the Labour Party and Donald Trump as much as possible. Alex just is... there, and Josh's only purpose is a stereotypical bully who likes to make fun of Alex and gripe him as much as possible. Adam and Alex also make fun of disabled people as well and they claim they can do it because they're disabled themselves, so not only they're mean-spirited, but they're complete hypocrites as they also complain about having disabilities.

As it's a comedy show, you'd think there's good humour, right? Nope! All the show has going for it is mocking political parties as much as possible. The show also heavily abuses sexual slurs and pop-culture references as well. I've not seen a single episode or a clip of the show where there isn't a sign of sexual slurs or pop-culture references being used. Mentioning things for no reason is just plain random. How pop-culture references are meant to be funny is if they lampoon something that happened in real life, not just randomly mentioning characters for no reason. (In one episode, they mentioned Thomas the Tank Engine randomly- I mean "Thomas the Wank Engine" as what Adam calls him. Not only the joke is just stupid but it's been used before in a flash video from Rathergood.com that later got taken down by then-owners of the franchise Gullane in 2002). Of course, the show has a LOT of swearing, which is usual in these types of Comedy Show, but since the show isn't scripted and live, there's a lot of it. Some jokes on the show actually resolve this. Once again, swearing constantly isn't funny, it makes you look like a total jerk. Sometimes, these kinds of jokes are dragged on far longer than they should really do. In one episode, Adam goes on a long rant about the UK government that drags on for about 15 minutes. You'd think by 5 minutes he would have shut up, but he hasn't at all. He just drones on, and on, AND ON!

Lastly, the main reason why I hate this show? It shoehorns in Politics. This is all the show has going for it and the show loves to constantly bash on any right-wing stuff, so it disguises itself as one of those SJW shows in terms of this kind of topic.

And shockingly enough, and I'll admit this, but this show has a redeeming quality, and that's the relief presenter Lorraine Kelly. Sure enough, she isn't needed on this show and is better off on breakfast TV hosting her own self-named show, but she is at least funny to a degree and isn't jerky unlike Adam is. The reason why Lorraine hosted the show recently (2020) was that Adam was stuck in Australia due to the pandemic. But still, the show is better suited to another comedian as a host.

Overall, this is much as I can take of this abomination to comedy. I'll likely update this blog as time progresses, but as of now, The Last Leg is an unfunny, left-pondering, annoying, offensive, tasteless excuse for a series. This is Harry, signing out.