one of my absolute favorites!

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

You know how some comedies like to slowly descend into the insanity of the show? Eg, the way Sunny in Philly goes from bar life to terrorism in around 20 mins? Well, this show is made up of bits, each one about 2 to 5 minutes long, and they start at insane and move up from there. You don't have to wait for the talking dog, the dog is talking from the beginning and he might actually be the straight man for the skit, because that's the level of outrageous, audacious mind-boggling nonsense this is. That's how insane this is. Think about the glory days of snl. And multiply that by about 15.This is perfect. Utterly perfect for anybody who liked Frisky Dingo, Sealab, Wilfred, Sunny, League... that kind of stuff. It's awesome.PLUS - Australian accents. Everybody loves Aussies. What more can you want? This is a guaranteed laugh. You have to check it out. The 3.9 rating is profane. This is 10 star gold. Watch and see. I dare you not to laugh. This was engineered for laughter. If you don't like this, your sense of comedy is broken beyond any hope of redemption or salvage.

Television needs a chance to find it's rhythm and creating a sketch comedy show in Australia - especially on a network like ABC where the average viewing age is 40+, creating something that is daring is going to be met with even more criticism. I feel that EGGKF gets better with each episode. By episode two, there was the introduction of darker, more subversive characters - like the children's TV clown with the squeaky voice - that were indicative of where this show could go if given time to grow. In a country that is 1/20 the size of the US, if a large part of the population doesn't tune into something, it's considered a failure and thus, so few television shows have the chance to respond to their audience and mature. The expectation that season 1 episode 1 will be a masterwork is ridiculous.

I looked forward to this - "a random and ridiculous ride into weirdness" and recommended by brother-in-law.Sorry guys, it was not that funny. I got each 'joke' in the first 10 seconds but after that each sketch just dragged on and felt contrived. The endings were just left hanging - no punchline, just sudden endings. The "weirdness" was not there either. Each sketch starts off normal then veers into off-centredness but definitely not weird or unexpected. The acting was good as was the staging.There are Gilliam-type Monty-Python cartoons - short and a bit funny. Also not suitable for kids.Seriously, the writers should do a total rethink. Try to do better dialogue, nuances of language, whatever.

I don't want to be a jerk, but this show is just not funny and its not cause Im some old man, i'm only twenty years old. But the thing is I can appreciate good humor, which this isn't. The creators and ABC have told us that this is a darker, surreal comedy. Unfortunately the creators have mixed up 'dark' with vulgar. The show tries to shock the laughs out of us with no success, like with a OH and S safety inspector at a porn shoot. Its not funny its just vulgar and stupid. Sketch comedy should come out of no where and make you laugh, with this sketch i knew what was gonna happen the moment that guy came on screen (and yes i can see how that links with the porn scenario <-- thats actually funny). Again the creators have told us that they wish to create longer length sketches. The whole idea of sketches are they are meant to be short and quick and funny. Packed full of laughs within a short time span. These sketches go for too long and the jokes don't keep up. Many of the sketches you can guess the punchline before it occurs, like when the wife tells her husband (who always wears hats) that she thinks he is bald and when he takes off his hat, oh would you look at that she wants a divorce. That isn't dark humor, its silly and contrived and easily guessable. Overall unless your a 15 year old boy whose watching TV by himself, this show will just annoy you. There has to be better shows out there for ABC, if there's not there is little hope for Australian television. 3/10