PhoneShop, E4

Haha your problem is that you're actually reviewing this show. It's light hearted and never going to be the office lol. For a young person from London (which if your not from there most things will go over your head) it is a side-splittingly rolling round on the floor laughing show. P.S. best line was definitely 'u go tell Dr.Dre that- Man'll **** you up !

He's right, Phoneshop is complete rubbish. Trying desperately to substitute 'yoof culture' for comedy to appeal to the 10 year olds. Too much swearing and not enough laughs. If only London teenagers can understand the terrible dialogue and 'in jokes' it won't get very good ratings, will it? I disagree when he says it's difficult to judge a series after one episode. If it doesn't do it straight away it isn't worth watching. It'll go the same way as BBC2's truly awful 'Persuasionists'. Good riddance.

Too much nonsensical slang. "Man a ting"? who are they trying to appeal to here? And don't get me started on that Ashley character, who is, as you say, an Ali G type character but unfortunately without any of the satire. Complete dross from start to finish. Not many comedy programmes infuriate me, but this one certainly did.

Is'nt tv always the last resort for entertainment anyway.Something we all sit and watch when there is simply nothing better to do.this new tv show "phoneshop"is exactly what i expected it to be.There are plenty of laughs,like when christopher did the little brave smile thing in zizzi,or when he said do you want anything from the toilet,or the bit when he simulates a bj in the store room,the list goes on.these guys definately know what they are doing.The characters idiosycratic details should'nt be ignored.seems to me the writer of this site probably watched phoneshop once then judged it.Only after watching it twice did i pick up slight details i missed the first time round.Compared to nearly all current comedies being aired at the moment "phoneshop" is clearly the best by a long way.And comparing it to "the office" is ridiculous. After i saw the office for the second time i soon got bored.When you think about it a comedy in an office sounds dull anyway you look at it.Its obvious gervais only had control of the character christopher.and to be honest he done a real good job.i love ashley and his getto slang "ting".i love jerwayne just for being there for ashley to bounce off of.janine is histerical.What i also like about phoneshop is that it's filmed in a real shop in a real precinct.I've never seen anything like that before. Anyway i love phoneshop and long may it continue..........

You're too old! Hahahaha.....Bad luck, your time is passing people - don't understand the youth culture anymore, do you.

I think you are taking this wonderful, refreshing new comedy show far too seriously. It was brilliant. I have not laughed so hard intentionally at anything C4 have ever done and I hope they do another series of this show. How can you not get, that these characters are caricatures and are meant to be laughed at? Of course Ashley is 10 years out of date and talking the way he does, he works in a mobile phoneshop in Sutton. What did you expect, Prince Charles on his Duchy estate? Jerwayne, being a Big Man player and still iving at home with his Mum. Newman a graduate with a degree in Hotel management and sports??? what kind of a degree is that? and Lance married 16 years to Shelley a woman he met in a hot tub on a hedinish holiday three days earlier. No, these were the same sad characters from the Office who we are meant to laugh at but this time much, much, much funnier. I really liked the Office but Phoneshop has surpassed its predecessor.

I'm an American and I'm seeing a real parallel between british reception of Phoneshop and the reception of The Colbert Report in my country. For those of you who haven't heard of it, the Colbert Report is a show in which mock political pundit Stephen Colbert offers his ridiculously right wing views on current events in America. I have found that people tend to respond to him in three ways. Really unintelligent people tend to like him, because they think he is agreeing with them, when he is really mocking them. Middle class people with average intelligence tend not to like him, because they think he is too slapstick in his approach to humor. Intelligent upper class people tend to love him because when you get pass his ridiculous surface, Colbert offers his more tuned in viewers some truly wonderful esoteric satire. I find the same to be true with Phoneshop. Unintelligent "tuned in" youth like Phoneshop because they think it's trying to appeal to them, when the show is really satirizing their way of life. People who are what you might classify as average both intellectually and financially tend not to like it because they think it is too ridiculous and because they believe it is trying appeal to the latter group, who they for the most part despise. However the upper class and intellectually gifted person will take notice this is not a show about youth culture or being "gangster", those are nearly characteristic of the group that the show is really taking shots at (and doing so wonderfully), poor people.