On a level, we’re laughing at how Stephen Merchant looks here. There’s an expectation of gangly awkwardness that comes with his frame, and his glasses only compound it. And that incredible grin gets a good work out too, never better than when it suddenly has to disappear, or when it’s offset against something appallingly embarrassing.
Merchant played a similar role in one of the chapters of Movie 43 and it was easily the funniest part of that film. And I mean candy-from-a-baby easily because that film was rather toxic.
But Hello Ladies looks like it has real potential. And while we’ve had a lot of this sort of material from Seinfeld and The Chris Isaak Show through Curb Your Enthusiasm and Louie, when it’s well executed, it works as well as anything else.
Article source: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/08/11/nice-new-teaser-for-stephen-merchants-hello-ladies/