Is Gavin and Stacey supposed to be funny?

[merryone]

Gavin and Stacey has just been one of those things that never appealed to me, I can't tell you why, hence never having ever watched an episode and I don't intend to either! Glad it's given a lot of people joy though!

 

[Muttley]

It never appealed to me either, and I don't like James Corden. Everyone telling me you must watch it it's brilliant (guaranteed to make me hate it). But I like Alison Steadman and Rob Brydon so I did try it, thought it was OK at first but as the series progressed really got into it. Its not a 1970s type of comedy but as someone said here more like the Royale Family.

You slowly get into the characters and watch their lives develop. This episode was to wrap things up so would be difficult to get into it if you had never watched it. I'm familiar with Essex and love the way Pam and Mick are portrayed. Pam is not that different to Abigail in Abigail's Party

And the wedding was important because in the last episode he had split up with Sonia and then Nessa proposed so we thought it was their wedding. I loved it and thought it was well written.

 

[Muttley]

I’ve watched all the tv shows and waited, not so patiently, for this final episode. It was put together to follow up on outstanding issues like what was Smithy’s answer to Nessa’s proposal. I loved the finale and wept several times. I can see me watching it more than once. There’s several videos on FB showing people watching the show in places such as pubs and cinemas and a huge cheer goes up when Mick stands up in answer to Smithy’s question as to whether he should marry Sonia.
I’m Welsh, born and bred and have visited Barry many times as a child. Perhaps you have to have lived among the Welsh to ‘get’ it all. Are any of you not Welsh and enjoyed all the shows?

See previous post, most of my family are from Essex and I totally relate to that side of it. Some are even fom Billericay!

 

[PhædrusR]

Not a fan. Saw an early episode or 2 in S1 and the Xmas one-off when she proposed 5years ago.

It's not a sitcom. It's best classed as a Comedy Drama. The 'comedy', if any is observational/wry humour, that people relate to and the situations and comments they make. Recognisable characters like the annoying/weird uncle, the class-aware, snob relatives etc. Situations and characters we may recognise and find 'amusing' or recognisable.

But I think there is an element of taking the p!ss out of 'the common little folk' with their humdrum lives, quirky natures and social and class distinctions.
The actors are being paid to take the p!ss imho, Steadman, Lamb and Wilson/Corden, laughing at us, imho.