Goodness Gracious Me Reviews

I will start by telling you a joke about Cerebral Palsy. A young girl with cerebral palsy goes to the ice cream van and asks for a cone. What flavour ? says the ice cream man. It does not matter she replies I will drop it anyway. A joke that is not funny you might say but if I tell you that joke was told by one of Britains paralympic athletes who ...  Read the complete review

First of all, the good news - http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/g/goodnessgracious_66601650.shtml is the address where you can find the customary helpful BBC background info and news about Goodness Gracious Me, and the web page is as good as you would expect from the wonderful people at the Beeb (I ...  Read the complete review

Goodness Gracious Me is a show performed almost completly by four Indian actors/actresses. It is a great programme which shows through comedy the oddities in the Indian culture and the great social and religious rifts that divide the country. Anyway, back on the comedy side, there are some great sketches, especially with the two boasting ...  Read the complete review

This is the best comedy to have been produced here in the U.K. Usually we have to relly on America for our weekly fix of comedy (Simpsons, south park etc). So finally we have produced an award winning comedy. This is no ordinary comedy sketch show, it is a fairly contraversial sketch show which tackels taboo subjects from Aranged marriges ...  Read the complete review

This show should have everybody from any culture in complete fits of laughter! The concept: Indians making fun of themselves! Essentially a comedy show, commented as being a 'sort of Asian Fast show' with sketches are performed, by the four main comedians; Meera Sayal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir and Nina Wadia. ...  Read the complete review

Goodness Gracious Me is about well, nothing really. It is a programme which shows the Indian ways. But not in a normal way. Instead, GGM (Goodness Gracious Me) exaggerates the ways. For example, there is a woman who wants her guests to eat all the time and when they were full, she got out a gun and threatened to shoot them if they didn’t eat ...  Read the complete review

Goodness Gracious Me is a comedy program which evolves around the daily lives of indian people. This program takes the mickey out of both English and Indian people - but everyone still enjoys watching it. I stumbled across this show when I was at my cousin's house. They kept saying if I want to watch it - I didn't know what it was and ...  Read the complete review

The title of this comedy sketch programme brings back memories of Peter Sellars and the stereotype Indian accent. Having visited India several times and having friends there I know this stereotype to be wrong. However like all stereotypes there is real basis to it. This programme works on the same idea but also reverses the situation. Here the ...  Read the complete review

What a cool idea having an all Indian cast play typical Indians doing everyday I think Goodness Gracious Me is one of the best English comedies of recent times the show with it's favourite's Bangraman, Innit dudes and Gursef Patel is a cool group of short scenes to build up a great half hour of quality entertainment. The ...  Read the complete review

This show is quite willing to take the mickey on virtually anything to do with indian culture, hence all the jokes about "everyone being Indian" andthe going out for an english (Friday night, have a few bevvies and go for an english), nott o mention the great escape eque scene where the indians get caught out by the germans, and design ...  Read the complete review

Okay, lets face it, we all like to laugh at other people, comunities and races...and we get laughed at back. It would however be more useful if they could think of better ways of taking the mickey out of us. I am talking about those stupid rude boys who think they are really bad, and as a matter of fact are nothing like english "rudeys" ...  Read the complete review

I watch Goodness Gracious Me, all the time. It is probably the first Asian comedy show I've ever seen. I think it's really funny. In one particular sketch they dress, up as middle class white people, he wears a blazer, and flannel trousers, and has a moustache, and she dresses as a middle class lady. He talks like say ...  Read the complete review

I *love* this show, it has to be one of the best comedies on TV, and is in my eyes totally unmissable! It's true that British actors would never get away with "Goodness Gracious Me!", but with Asian actors, and Asian script writers it works fantastically well, and is enormously good at poking fun at both asian and english ...  Read the complete review

This is a truely funny British comedy!!!the actors and the characters they play are hilarious. A short group of clips prove that this show is a great laugh the idea of an group of Indian actors playing typical Indian people shows that all races can enjoy this hit show. After a while of this show being aired a similar concept movie EAST ...  Read the complete review

The concept of introducing Asian comedy to a wider audience is a stroke of genius. Not only is it hugely entertaining, but hopefully would help reduce racism. There are many excellent recurring characters in this programme but you have to watch a few episodes to get into the swing of things. The man who thinks everything is Indian is ...  Read the complete review

There are too many of these sketch show comedies. It doesn’t matter which one you choose, they are all absolutely atrocious. They present weak slapstick, immature jokes, and generally poor ideas that anyone could think of. Compared to the likes of Only Fools And Horses, or The Vicar Of Dibley this boasts so little. It really does ...  Read the complete review

This comedy show is one of the funniest I have seen in a long time next to Ali G and So Graham Norton. This is Asian comedy that can be enjoyed by everyone. They have some excellent sketches and the weekly take-off of recent bands in the charts is hilarious (their version of Bewitched immediately springs to mind). This programme ...  Read the complete review

I must say there are some fantastic new comedy programmes at the moment, hot on the heels of fantastic new shows such as "Big Train", "Spaced", "Jam", "Perfect World" and "Coupling" is "Goodness Gracious Me". On first appearances I wasn't an instant fan but it seems to have some great ...  Read the complete review

Race is unimportant - the jokes in this series could apply equally to anyone of any race - they're all about people: the pushy parents, those trying to be something they're obviously not, daft teenagers. Where Goodness Gracious Me succeeds is that it takes the funny aspects of PEOPLE and shows them for what they are. Everyone ...  Read the complete review

I just love this programme. I came across it one night by accident when I was channel-hopping. In this very politically correct nation of ours, it is wonderful to see an ethnic culture which is as happy to take the mickey out if itself are we are loath to do to ourselves. After the boring outdated Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman jokes ...  Read the complete review