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J-J-Jean-Paul! G-Get in here and serve these customers!

Oct 25, 2006 15:38

A sequence of commentary to a recent post (which has now wandered off into rat-fetish soap opera. Thankfully I don't watch anything like enough telly for it to make sense) reminded me that many things that are clearly considered funny by the majority, are in fact deeply depressing ( Read more... )

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sarah_mum October 25 2006, 15:44:28 UTC

The first episode of Steptoe and Son (which was actually intended as a one-off) looks astonishingly like a Pinter play, only not as cheery.

Some say that Comedy = Tragedy + Time, I argue that it's Tragedy + Distance.

Then again, the secret of good comedy is utimately, not timing, but *being funny*.

echo_echo October 25 2006, 16:36:22 UTC

I remember when The Royale Family came out...a friend said, you should watch it, it's great. So I watched it. I told him I didn't find it funny at all, in fact, it reminded me a lot of my own family.

sarah_mum October 25 2006, 17:21:21 UTC

For similar reasons, I cannot stand The Office.

hirez October 25 2006, 19:15:33 UTC

Quite.

The only one I've managed to watch is the Christmas special.

Perhaps I am a simple sort who prefers redemption and closure in his stories.

Mind, anything Carla Lane touched ever can jolly well fuck off.

markeris October 25 2006, 19:43:57 UTC

having said all that, and having not entirely *got* the office (though the stapler encased in jelly was genius) I kind of appreciated, via the Xmas special, that there actually was an over-riding story arc - to the specific end of redemption and closure. I didn`t expect it from what went before, but it made what went before *make sense* as a valid piece.

Christ, how many things I don`t get on with are one Xmas special short of me going "OH!"?

quercus October 25 2006, 21:00:08 UTC

What do you know of such things? You didn't grow up Scouse, having to suffer the relentless cheeriness of "there's always that cheeky Scouse wit" to keep you smiling in the Prole Office.

You're from Manchester. Knowingly sneering musical one-upmanship comes easy.

hirez October 25 2006, 21:32:09 UTC

Butterflies.

Wendy Craig was never going to be the acceptable face of Montpellier.

girfan October 26 2006, 08:51:05 UTC

Ditto.
Though I have managed to watch Extras without too much pain. The last few were brilliant, actually.

inulro October 25 2006, 18:55:17 UTC

The equivalent of that for me is Roseanne.

I have an aunt and uncle who are Roseanne and Dan.

They even had the exact same piece of shit kitchen table. My aunt has the voice too, and is about as pleasant.

I'm not just saying that because they didn't make much TV about redneck po' folk back then.

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