American comedy
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Little bit of trivia...at the time the "Avengers" came here to the US, where it wasn't a very big hit in the UK like it was here, the No.1 hit show in the UK was reruns of the '50s American show "This Is Your Life".
A great deal of Pythons animation was tedious and unfunny, as well as a lot of the sketches; I still laugh out loud when I watch the production of "Every Sperm Is Sacred".
And I will watch the Holy Grail 'til I die, after watching the Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, and the parrot sketch to warm me up.
Different strokes, dudes and dudettes!
(...a wafer-thin mint...:rofl2: )
A great deal of Pythons animation was tedious and unfunny, as well as a lot of the sketches; I still laugh out loud when I watch the production of "Every Sperm Is Sacred".
And I will watch the Holy Grail 'til I die, after watching the Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, and the parrot sketch to warm me up.
Different strokes, dudes and dudettes!
(...a wafer-thin mint...:rofl2: )
Simple really;
English comedy: Can't be beat.
American comedy: Does it exist?
Come on. American sitcoms are so poor. I for one don't find Fraiser funny.
Don't get me wrong, some things America make are funny. Like The Sopranos, it's side-splitting funny at times.
Fantastic English sitcoms;
Only Fools And Horses
One Foot In The Grave
Porridge
Steptoe And ***
The Office
15 Storeys High (quite possibly the mose under-rated comedy ever)
Bottom
The Young Ones
Men Behaving Badly
Fantastic American sitcoms;
English comedy: Can't be beat.
American comedy: Does it exist?
Come on. American sitcoms are so poor. I for one don't find Fraiser funny.
Don't get me wrong, some things America make are funny. Like The Sopranos, it's side-splitting funny at times.
Fantastic English sitcoms;
Only Fools And Horses
One Foot In The Grave
Porridge
Steptoe And ***
The Office
15 Storeys High (quite possibly the mose under-rated comedy ever)
Bottom
The Young Ones
Men Behaving Badly
Fantastic American sitcoms;
dave_rhino
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Don't really agree with you on the ****** guy/simpsons thing But when it comes to Bill bailey i agree with you 100%. Do you watch Never mind the buzzcocks?
Yeah never mind the buzzcocks is the best quiz show ever. Purely because they don't actually give a crap if anyone answers anything right, they would just rather make jokes and have fun
Indeed, thats why his last DVD was called "Part Troll" :tongue:
Agreed.
Did you see what those bastard Americans did to The Office?
In England it was one of the funniest and most original shows on television, and then America scoops it up and turns it into what? A god damn sitcom...
There are other types of comedy show, not just sitcoms, but it seems they haven't realised that yet.
Apparently there is an American version of The Vicar of Dibley coming soon, sure that will be completely ******** too...
dave_rhino
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Don't get me wrong, you have some greats. And don't forget Bill Hicks.
But you can't win the comedy war with one man. It takes a whole army
Elwood70
Torn & Frayed.
Don't get me wrong, you have some greats. And don't forget Bill Hicks.
But you can't win the comedy war with one man. It takes a whole army
.....unless it's Richard Pryor.
don't forget Sam Kinison
and Denis Leary.
dave_rhino
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Ok.
Bill Bailey
Ricky Gervais
Peter Kay
John Cleese
Tommy Cooper
Rowan Atkinson
To name a few...
And don't get me started on our television shows, because it will make America look like a bunch of humourless drones :1orglaugh
Bill Bailey
Ricky Gervais
Peter Kay
John Cleese
Tommy Cooper
Rowan Atkinson
To name a few...
And don't get me started on our television shows, because it will make America look like a bunch of humourless drones :1orglaugh
As I've already mentioned in the wrong thread,
Hmm ... isn't Denis a plagiarist?
By the way, what's with the hatred for American comedy? It's like as if you haven't heard of George Carlin or Doug Stanhope or David Cross.
