Awful...Its really just awful. Not funny, has beens re-gashing sketch comedy that only ever worked in the early nineties and only ever worked for about 5 minutes. Why FOXTEL would bother is beyond contemplation. The characters are weak and uninteresting. It throws back to old Aussie sketch comedy moments that were entertaining (but only slightly) back when they first aired and were only watched by a handful then, and expects us to remember them 15 years later. Im not 50. I cant say enough about how bad this show is. The actors are washed up, no bodies who ran out of any ability to be original years ago. Its a shame that these Australian comedians don't learn from the masters like Rod Sitch etc. The pioneers of originality. Rates 1-10.

Completely cringe-worthy. Very difficult to watch for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Some of the comedians involved have to be better than what the show produces. I cannot believe that they would watch an episode of the show and be proud that they were involved.Even the sketches chosen for ads on Foxtel are not at all funny or clever. They provide no motivation to watch the show and I would suggest Comedy Channel really suggest reviewing it.I would not recommend this show to anyone, young or old.

Five words - where the f..k is Kelvin Cunnington? Thats six but I'm being as economical with words as these guys are with laughs. What happened to Australian comedy? Why did our media get gang tackled by the political left in the late 80's and hasn't looked forward since? The reeffo epilogue was just a gross indulgence by the creators. Lets get to the point. I'm sick of Micallef telling me how stupid the right is, so I don't watch anymore after his breakthrough "hilarious period" - then there's the Project which quite funny but the comedians always stuff up the gags as they forget their lines. Now this dross. Our media is a gov subsidised joke of an industry. Just leave the political stuff to commentators and make us laugh. Paul Hogan talked about who we were in our own language. Barry Humphries laughed about who we think we are. The current generation of comedy writers have no idea who we are so they tell us who we should be. Living in leafy suburbs, wafting around in expensive cars between meetings then make a social comment comedy series. Out of touch, bereft of creativity, without any clue that there's about 15 million people who live here that they forgot. Like Cath and Kim. Geez, Fox have taken a risk on this bunch.

Ever since the Mavis Bramston show, Australian comedy has faced a recurrent problem .. while our writers have some funny ideas, they don't have enough to fill 42 minutes of airtime.So the skits they write may have some genuinely funny lines .. but they .. just .. drag .. on .. too .. longgggggg.Episode one of Open Slather was a good example.Typical was the Gina Reinhart 'Definition of mine' skit. The use of the different meanings of the word 'Mine" was amusing - but then it wasn't amusing any more because the writers belaboured the point. 15 seconds? Funny. 30 seconds? Not so funny. More than a minute? Excruciatingly not so.On the other hand, the running gag about drug testing WAS funny - because each gag only lasted 10 seconds.I'll give them another couple of episodes, to see if they find their feet - but I can't give this a passing grade, based on the first outing.