Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps

Sheridan Smith doubles up on her roles from Two Pints... and Grownups as the casts of these shows and the dreadful (no, really it is) Coming of Age come together for a comedy pub quiz for Comic Relief. Should be fun if you can bear any of these shows.

Two Pints Of Lager Live

That is where Two Pints came into its own. Its testosterone-fuelled ladcom themes and innuendo certainly thrived in the adrenaline-rush of the format, but whether it made up for a top-notch script I'm not so sure.

Clogging up BBC Three's late night schedule is this 'comedy' (pardon my French) which is nowhere near as clever or as funny as it thinks it is. Instead, the script relentlessly spews out unfunny, groan-inducing crudity and passes it off as 'humour'. For example: "When are you coming back for more sex?". "When Uranus circles Mars.". "Me arse?". Sigh. I rest my case.

Forum Discussion

Is Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps the worst show on telly? It's just not funny on any level as far as I can tell. Or have I just reached 'a certain age' where the comedy shows produced for todays youth are beyond my ability to understand?

Two Pints Of Lager: a modern day travesty

Some things make you feel so angry, so filled with bile and rage that you have to speak out through fear of internally combusting. Pick a weekday, any weekday, and you can be sure that this shitstorm of a TV show will be blathering its nonsensical, desperately unfunny comedic wares to an apparently eager-for-more audience.

Two Pints TV Review

Who watches this shitty excuse for a programme? I've always wondered that. Now, having seen the show live, I know exactly the kind of person that watches this pitiful show, namely people who will laugh at absolutely anything... and in fact, they do.

Bad TV Redeemed

Ask people to think of one thing that sums up the worst of BBC Three, and odds are that it'll be Two Pints. So why is it actually so decent? For a start, it's surprisingly well-plotted.

According to BBC3 controller Danny Cohen "a huge focus on risk and innovation" is what his channel is all about. Fair dos. Let's have a look at BBC3's comedy output, then. What's on tonight?

12.15: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
12.45: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Ach. What about tomorrow?

11.55: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
12.25: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
2.20: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
2.50: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Balls to it! Surely there's something good to watch on Friday?

12.40: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
1.10: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Oh for heaven's sake. I'm pretty radged off at being presented with dreck like Two Pints twice a bloody evening while genius like Snuff Box lies dormant - and nobody at the Beeb seems to be worried.

57 Pints of Lager (so far)

Think there are too many repeats on TV? An episode of Two Pint Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps has clocked up nearly 60 showings!

I'm only here for the beer

The Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps world is inhabited by flimsy stereotypes cut out from How To Build Your Own Lad And Ladettes Funbook, who spout pseudo-smart one liners and for whom smoking a fag qualifies as a defining characteristic.