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Old 05-28-2008, 05:51 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I felt we kind of slaughtered the Office.
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Old 05-28-2008, 05:57 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 05-28-2008, 06:06 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Old 05-28-2008, 07:05 PM   #14 (permalink)
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yea, I think the American version is so much funnier.
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Old 05-28-2008, 07:08 PM   #15 (permalink)
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The Office is amazing. My brother hates it, he thinks its really bad dry humor. Sad times for him on Thursday nights
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Old 05-28-2008, 07:18 PM   #16 (permalink)
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American comedy is hardly lacking, but it's sadly weighed down by unfunny crap like South Park/Family Guy etc. I have nothing against humor like that, just humor like that that isn't funny. I saw Monty Python (My parents are fanatics) when I was 8 and didn't get it. Not since then have I seen it though, and I'd probably like it more. I don't really know much about British comedians.
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Old 05-28-2008, 07:25 PM   #17 (permalink)
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American comedy is hardly lacking, but it's sadly weighed down by unfunny crap like South Park/Family Guy etc. I have nothing against humor like that, just humor like that that isn't funny. I saw Monty Python (My parents are fanatics) when I was 8 and didn't get it. Not since then have I seen it though, and I'd probably like it more. I don't really know much about British comedians.
Its not the same southpark as 8 years ago. You should try the newer episodes.
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Old 05-28-2008, 07:30 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I haven't kept up with much new comedy lately, whether American or British. I used to watch "Are You Being Served?" and "Red Dwarf" all the time when I was younger. I need to find "Red Dwarf" in a box set or something...does anyone know where I can get it?
I happen to also like Monty Python, but in small doses. I think the attraction with MP is that the movies and Flying Circus are so quotable. And come on...who doesn't get a kick out of "We are the knights who saaayyyy...NEEE!" hehe.
One of my favorite American comedians is John Witherspoon. He did a piece on The Rollings Stones in his show "You Got to Coordinate" that had me laughing so hard I could barely breathe!
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Its not the same southpark as 8 years ago. You should try the newer episodes.
The only recent one I've seen is where the internet goes down and the guy sneaks in to look up porn. 'Uh, it's ectoplasm!'
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Old 05-29-2008, 05:20 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Well I am neither American nor British (not immediately anyway), so I can only comment as a bystander. Bear in mind that NZ's entertainment/news is mostly dominated by the USA nowadays.

I think NZ was once a very British country but is nowadays predominantly American - I'm not sure when/how that happened, but I suspect that NZ went into the war pledging allegiance to Mother England and came out of the war realising it could stand on its own two feet... or maybe the Constitution Act had something to do with it. Point being that NZ is a mixture of both - we have British language and familial ties, but American entertainment/news.

Anyway, getting back on track... American humour differs greatly from British. I think British humour is more dependent on sarcasm, language, dark parody/satire, acting, chaos, history references and self-parody to an extent. American humour tends to be more physical and dependent on slapstick, modern pop culture references, vulgarity and everyday life in general.

I prefer British comedy but I can find a lot of good entertainment from both sides.



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American comedy is hardly lacking, but it's sadly weighed down by unfunny crap like South Park/Family Guy etc. I have nothing against humor like that, just humor like that that isn't funny. I saw Monty Python (My parents are fanatics) when I was 8 and didn't get it. Not since then have I seen it though, and I'd probably like it more. I don't really know much about British comedians.
Well I would probably present South Park as a good example of American comedy. While it might superficially appear to be outwardly vulgar, there is some very clever satirism/parody going on there IMO. If you know what I mean, a lot of the humour content isn't in the form of obvious jokes but rather more subtle themes. Regarding the internet/ectoplasm episode, I found the underlying ideas quite amusing... the parody of the fact that people rely as much on internet as food nowadays, people are more concerned with having e-relationships than real ones, and that the internet is for porn, even if no-one wants to admit it.

I'm not really a fan of Family Guy... for a show so seemingly random, it comes across as being rather formulaic and repetitive. Typically, most of its 'humour' involves unrelated flashbacks to random things and pop culture jokes. It seems like a giant mish mash of whatever they can chuck together in 20 mins. I don't mind it (and watch it when my flatmates are watching it), but I think it's a bit weak and contrived.
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