If Only Paddy McGuinness Would be Taken Out. Literally.

Since when did having an accent solely make a person funny, well it is all that seems to matter these days in the world of comedy and a glimmering example of this can be seen within the popularity of Paddy McGuinness. A man from Bolton whose claim to fame was in the comedy show Pheonix Nights alongside the equally unfunny and annoying Peter Kay, and now he is seen as one of the countries favourite comedians, but I just can’t see one thing humourous about him. Am I just lacking a sense of humour, I mean I do find other comedians funny, such as the brilliantly dry Jack Dee, the risqué Frankie Boyle and the classic comedy of the Two Ronnies and Tommy Cooper, or is Paddy just one of many unfunny men who some idiots of the public actually like and the rest jump on the bandwagon.

The fall in the standard of television and comedy in the UK can be seen with Paddy hosting ITV’s Take Me Out, now in its second series, airing in the Saturday night prime slot, a cheap and extremely tacky replacement for the long running and successful Blind Date. The show begins with 30 single ladies being introduced all behind a buzzer which they will press if they do not like the look of a man, who enters down the love lift and introduces themselves to the women. The man will then go through another two rounds of a video of himself speaking of his character and lifestyle to the ladies and then a third round of either him showing off a skill or his friends/family providing a video on the insight into the male. During each round the women have a chance to turn off their lights by pressing their buzzer, if all the women turn off their lights prior to the end of the last round then it is a black-out and the male goes home dateless, however if there are lights left on at the end the man gets to whittle down the women to two and ask them two women a question and then choose their preferred date, who they will take to Tenerife.

Now that is not the worst of it, as this could have actually made a watchable show but for the choice of host and the contestants. Whilst some of the female contestants on this show are lovely and just unlucky in love others look cheap and ‘slaggy’ such as Peggy, some are just utterly stupid such as Abi-Scarlett and some are just extraordinarily well extraordinary. The men however are just as bad, the majority of them at least, with there being no surprise why they cannot get a date in the real world and it is a shock that they get dates on this show.

Another factor of annoyance is that the ‘lucky’ couples when matched up win a date on the isle of Fernando’s, which may I say is not the name of the island it is clearly Tenerife, there is no island named Fernando’s.

Now to the biggest problem with this sub-standard show, Paddy McGuinness, his whole persona is annoying, if a man fails to get a date then he gets some Paddy love, a hug from the host who is so up himself. Never has a Lancashire accent been more annoying than when it speels out of that man’s mouth, and worst of all are his so-called catchphrases. These are some of the worst catchphrases ever heard anywhere, I’ve heard three year-olds mutter more sensible lines, his ‘classic’ No Likey No Lighty, ruins the English language, and his phrases for when introducing the man to the women are cringeworthy.

Here are a few of his poor quality lines, which to be honest make no or little sense:

Paddy In Action

Let the tongue see the twister.

Let the bow see the arrow.

Let the cookie see the crumble.

Let the butter see the fly.

Let the tooty see the fruity.

Let the string vest see the chest.

Let the toad see the hole.

The only things worse than this are his catchphrases for seeing the audience after the break which I will not bring myself to type as they are so irritating and stupid.

So how can a man with so little comic value in him be a nations favourite when these painful catchphrases come out of his mouth. I understand that comedy is opinion but surely I’m not alone in feeling that Paddy McGuinness is more of a torturer than comedian.

All this being said I cannot help but watch this crap making it a very guilty pleasure even though every time Paddy opens his mouth I want to reach for the remote and I also hope that Welsh-girl Lucy and pint-sized JoJo get chosen by a good well-rounded male.