Well comedy is subjective, isn't that what we're told?
Even if some folks don't find Derek amusing, well, anything that beats the sheer cringing crassness and mugging of Miranda or 70s panto knicker-flashing of Mrs. Brown's Boys, has to be an improvement.
I dare say Molly Sugden in That's My Boy was more amusing than these latest offerings for mainstream comedy.
Thing not to get mixed up is judging Gervais rather than his offerings - bit like thinking of Paul McCartney as opposed to The Beatles or analysing a superb oil painting by Margaret Thatcher. But how many comedies have the poignancy and nous to show real old people - and mix archive footage of how they were when they were younger as they did in one episode? You'd have to be dead from the neck up not to moved by such imagery.
Strange, I've never actually seen a Panorama doc in the style of Derek but if it was AS enjoyable, I'd watch the flagship doc series more.
