Dead Ringers is a truly funny show. The wide variety of different acts I think helps to keep it funny, but even so there are so many different sketches that are still funny. The impressionists on the show are some of the best impressionists I have ever come across and I congratulate them for all their work on this show, as the scripts and the acting are always funny. I just hope that they will continue to write more sketches for new seasons of this show. I know I will always watch this show when it is on and I'm sure many other people will as well, because it truly is a wonderful show.
It is by far the best sketch show that I have ever come across. Everyone seems to be so caught up by \'Little Britain\' at the moment (which is a very good show) but I prefer this. With it\'s incredible likeness to the personalities they are portraying, it makes this the funniest thing on the box at the moment. I love their impressions of Jack Johnson, Tony Blair and Jeremy Kyle! With catchphrases like \'I\'m Jeremy Kyle...and you\'re scum\'. This is easily the cleverest impersonation show around at the moment and for me it deserves at least a 9/10! Funny as hell!
This show is really funny, especially when they do impressions of boring old Time Team and boring old politics, I'm telling you, their impressions should rank among the best in the world, even! Whoever doesn't like it should eat rat poison! It's so funny, i was crying with laughter when they did Time team!
I personally love Dead Ringers, it has to be the best impersonation programme of the decade, obviously spitting image was the best of the 1990#s.
However, if you're not British, the programme may be a little difficult to understand. The show's basic principle is to mock our government, so if you're unsure of cabinet members, or you have no idea what the hell this Bil or that Bill is, then you could be screwed.
There is alot of mention to British television as well, so if US viewers have no idea what Balamory is, then it may be difficult to understand, or to know what Sophie Rayworth sounds like, or what other people are doing.
The show is excellently written and very comical, and the fact that they have a maximum of 7 days between each episode to film the current events, porves just how dynamic and intelligent the writers are.
Dead Ringers has become a favourite of mine recently. The whole basis of the show- satirical parodies of British TV, among other things- is a good one, and there are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. One of my favorite 'trademarks' of the show is when they parody voiceovers of different British channels (for example, for a fake BBC voiceover, they said' If you're here, you probably forgot we no longer show The Simpsons. Here's a double bill of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air'. Classic.) Another fav is the sketches with the puppet newsman. This show is genius, satirical and has some very clever parodies. Catch it if you can.
Sketch shows in general, suck, but Dead Ringers like a lot of British sketch shows is a great show, it is for the most very funny and worth a watch now and again for a quick laugh.
The impersonations of world leaders and others are fantastic, but a lot of the British Celebrity send-ups are lost on us Australians.
This is a truly great show as all the sketches are about current events.
Dead ringers is a truly classic TV show and with the radio series running along side it there is plenty of material for the show itself.
The only downside to this show which prevents it from getting out to a wider audience is that you really have to be British like me to appreciate the humour.
If you like this show then you should check out 2DTV.
The thing that makes dead ringers so great is how off the wall and random the sketches are with things that are so unbelieveable it's funny. Like when Ozzy Osbourne (John Culshaw) went to New York and made people beleive that Ozzy was really a posh britsh guy who is only playing that character because the cameras are on. Also the impressions are top notch with most of them looking like the characters they are pretending to be.
But the only downside is the fact that they tend to repeat the same jokes again and again, sure it's funny in one episode, but when they repeat it in every episode in that series, it gets a bit boring Also to find them funny you need to be up to date with topical affairs at the moment so not so great if it's a years out of great but it's still funny if you remembered what went on that week. But overall it is a great sketch show with it's moments and will make you laugh out loud.
