The Old Jokes Are the Best

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Replace smarmy, out-of- their-depth, bullshitting politicians with smarmy, out-of- their-depth, bullshitting doctors, and cynical, lying, lazy spin doctors with cynical, lying, lazy nurses, throw in a lot of rude words and some jerky camera movements, and what have you got? [...] it made me laugh out loud twice, which is more than can be said for virtually all the new comedy I Ve seen in two years.

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The Old Jokes Are the Best

Television

The old jokes are the best

Rachel Cooke

An edgy new sitcom casts an unflinching eye on how society treats the elderly

Getting On

BBC4

I was brought up not to copy; the idea was that you did your o...

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