Bring on Bernie

ROMESH didn’t go down too well in Albania. “Is British humour funny?” asked one poor soul who had travelled in a van with him.

A TV director, watching Rom sleepwalk through a live TV interview, asked: “What’s wrong with him? Why does he look so bored?”

I felt their pain. Many fashionable comedians are overexposed and underperforming.

They might be smart, they might be graduates, but sometimes you’d be happier with Bernie Winters. Albanians famously loved Norman Wisdom.

THE best modern TV theme tunes: 1) The Big Bang Theory

2) The Americans 3) Game Of Thrones 4) Curb Your Enthusiasm

5) Rick & Morty.

Worst: Orange Is The New Black. But I haven’t forgiven Netflix’s Lost In Space for mangling the classic John Williams opening theme.

DIMBO quiz answer of the week from The Chase. Brad: “Other than Xenon, what other element has the letter X in it?” Not-so-clever Trevor: “Xylophone.”