Examples of comic similes

• You will be able to think of better but here's some from the net to keep you amused and get you thinking of a killer line to include in your Controlled Assessment.
• "All the talent of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs. In a bag."
• "He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “when.”
• "You really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter "
• "I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese" - Rowan Atkinson, Blackadder
• "I'm thick. I'm as thick as the big print version of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens" - Hugh Laurie, Blackadder
• "This show is about as funny as being stuck in a bathroom with a very heavy guy who spends two hours releasing his burrito combos then he leaves"
• "This show is about as funny as gettin stabbed in the eye with a dull pencil."
• "This show is about as funny as toothache!"
• "Unfortunately, this show is about as funny as Tron, which is to say, not at all."
• "This show is about as entertaining as watching mould grow"
• "This show is about as entertaining as lima bean casserole"
• "This show is about as interesting as changing cat litter"
• "The presenter on this show is about as interesting as a binbag."
• "He has all the personality of an airport departure lounge"

"She has all the personality of a plastic chair"

"As boring as a wet weekend in Wigan"

"The only people who might be entertained by this are those who have not encountered electricity before. And even then I'm not too sure."

REMEMBER: Do not steal lines - but nothing wrong with a bit creativity and inspiration. Use what is out there to guide what your review contains. If you like something here, think about how you can change it to make it your own.