For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.

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    It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

    Its not just that the humor is unfunny (and basically just bigotry porn with a side of cringe), its that none of the “friends” in the show are even friends with each other. The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes and then you are supposed to think that its funny.

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      The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes

      yes

      and then you are supposed to think that its funny.

      do it

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      Well, yeah, the whole show is based around each character being the worst narcissistic and self-serving asshole you can imagine, and then some.

      I personally find it really funny, but I can sort of see why some people don’t like it

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      I think it’s supposed to be Seinfeld but moreso. Part of the humor is watching these assholes screw themselves over with their terrible plans.

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      They take their twisted logic and antics to such extremes that it resembles a live-action version of some mid-20th century American cartoons. Same level of slapstick cruelty but the plotlines make it all more premeditated and sociopathic.

      (I laugh hysterically at it, but I totally understand anyone who thinks it’s depraved!)

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      This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I’d refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.