I seem to be wallowing in my version of car crash telly. I keep watching every week because it is so, so bad and that performance by Tim Key was one of many low points. His acting was appalling.
I really should stop watching it.

It is a hugely disappointing show. After the brilliance of both The Office and Extras I had high hopes for this series.

Warwick Davies just tries to play Ricky Gervais, it's kind of embarrassing. The celebrity cameos don't feel as organic as in Extras and are falling flat. I barely raised a chuckle over the first three episodes.

I gave up after 3 epsiodes. And I struggled to get that far.

Another naysayer here. That clip is unwatchably awful and there is, to use a phrase from an old Rowan Atkinson sketch, a complete absence of anything funny, like the two episodes I watched and every other clip I've seen. It's no longer enough to say Gervais has jumped the shark. What else could we say? Perhaps Gervais has woken up and it was all a dream.

with this show is that it is based on a visual gag - a dwarf in embarrasing situations. The script and situations are familiar and the 'david brent' impersonation is well documented now - it's hard not to notice it.

You can see why Gervais would find it hilarious - 'a dwarf in a bin what's there not to like??''a dwarf in a teddy bear outfit!!' etc

If you love it visually you will love everything about it I guess. I can't sit through it tbh. Nothing about 'cruelty' just it is not funny for me. If you are not distracted by it visually all you have left is the tired script.

"Life's Too Short" is awful. It looks tired and dated. It seems Gervais and Merchant have no quality control. Office, Extras and the Podcasts where great. Flanamals, Idiot Abroad, Science and Fame - padding. Gervais has always had the ability to produce second rate stuff and this is just another example. Hopefully, after a good kicking by the critics he will take a few years to have a rethink and come back with something good. However, I won't hold my breath. Cleese post Fawlty Towers? I rest my case.

However, I watched an episode of "On The Buses" yesterday... hadn't seen it since the 1970s..... Did anyone every find it funny?

is acerbated by it being on right after Rev which is funny and human. Watching Life is Short straight afterwards makes it feel even more unfunny and brutish.

Stopped watching it after 1 1/2 episodes.

for a Ricky Gervais show, anyway.

I doubt it will return. It's just not funny (enough, if at all) and the mood of the nation means this kind of cruel comedy - and there's no denying it is all about simply laughing at a dwarf - is no longer welcome.

... Warwick Davies's character is too inconsistent - he's basically a cross between David Brent and Andy Millman - i.e. he's an idiot and quite astute at the same time - it just isn't believable.

when we could be talking about Rev? Last week's episode was an actual masterclass in sitcom.

so I haven't wasted my time on it beyond the first 15 minutes.

...those who liked The Office and Extras have a problem with Life's Too Short: to me, it's the same old same old; no better, no worse.

What were people honestly expecting?

For me it goes beyond funny to excruciating watching. I gave up after 2 episodes.

I was expecting to find it funny and laugh. I didn't.

Missed the first few minutes...

Little Chap on enormous chair to make sure his legs stick out hilariously...
Interview with member of clergy..

"So, lets get this out of the way, are you a paedophile?"

Long silence

"No"

There's something about some of the Office and Extras like Fawlty Towers and Curb where the situation part of the sit-com makes the whole thing entertaining even if there's not many "jokes", but this appeared to have neither.

It's a no from me.

... squeezed into 7 x 30-minute episodes. A 45 or 60 minute mock-doc with the best of the series could have been a real event, this is like being endlessly poked and asked "Geddit? Geddit?"

(And sorry OP, Tim Key doesn't have a funny bone in his body...)

the rather tired and non incomprehensible to people under s certain age phrase "jumping the shark" referring to the moment someone or thing became beyond the pale should now be "Gone Gervais"

Make it so

I haven't watched any more and that clip explains why.

ooh, did I swear? Ooh, see what I did there? Ooh, naughty. Nah, Gervais did one thing well (with a lot of input from the tall guy, talks funny) and he's been coasting on that for ever.