Eastenders promotes gloom doom and misery - to the exception of almost everything else, except immorality, and couldn't do comedy to save it's life. One of the reasons that Corrie is generally a much better watch than Eastenders is that they employ good character actors, rather than people who are just good at playing themselves, and many of those actors have fine comedic talents (eg those who play Roy, Hayley, Mary, Norris, Steve McDonald etc etc). Very occasionally you get someone in Eastenders who can do comedy (like the girl who plays Kim), but since the writers think slapstick is the only form of comedy, laughs for the viewer occur about once every 2 years - if we're lucky. Eastenders is on a mission to swiftly eliminate the feelgood factor in the UK that the Olympics built up so successfully!
