10 Shows That Prove BBC Three's Cancellation Is Actually A Good Thing

By Allan Johnstone /

1. Horne And Corden (2009)

Our titular funsters step into the studio as teachers, which is funny because they€™re dressed in funny clothes and the studio audience laughs because they think it€™s funny. From the preamble it sounds like they€™re going to teach sex ed. And then they say more funny things and you think maybe there€™s going to be a big funny twist and the sketch will go in a completely unexpected direction. Which it does, when Corne and Horden ritually behead each other with rusty kebab skewers. Which it does, when they roll down a blackboard to teach the kids how to draw a penis. And it€™s funny, because the studio audience laughs, and it has two chalk-drawn testicles and a chalk-drawn shaft. But for some reason Crom doesn€™t know what the helmet of a penis looks like, even though the point of the sketch is that they are teaching kids to draw penises. It looks a bit like a chicken drumstick, which is wrong and not good but still maybe funny but not really because it€™s dire and thought up in about twenty seconds and I€™m not talking about the sketch I€™m talking about the whole programme and the awful bit where Horda runs around and is fat and the awful bit where Com is a gayman or Superman or whatever and draws a penis that looks like a chicken drumstick on a blackboard in front of kids. Horne and Corden starred Matthew Horne and James Corden. It ran for six episodes.