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surely funny = stuff that I/you/we laugh, smirk or smile at?

this shocking revelation could really undermine the purpose of this thread tho i fear.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This debate is certainly NOT FUNNY.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not supposed to be.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not supposed to be a "debate" either. List things that are NOT FUNNY instead of burbling on about nothing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The Mornington Crescent thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I forgot ILX was just about lists, not debating anything.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dissensus

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Still not over them?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit Louis it was PROTESTACULAR.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Careerist trolls

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing is always funny, kit!

― We Are The Village Green Psychogeographical Society (kate), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

badgers can be sarcastic too

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

teh ironing is funnier than teh_kit, at least.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

All "comedy" plots in EastEnders

most OTM.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why then are wimmin never funny?

xxxpost

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the Jennifer Saunders Barclaycard ad is like some kind of alternate universe version of unfunny in that i can't even understand what's the funny supposed to be.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i think we can all agree there at least.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, yeah, OTM! and i thought i was stupid for not 'getting' it.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit Louis it was PROTESTACULAR.

-- a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (crucial.bonu...), September 27th, 2006.

Not when Tobias Funke said it. :-D

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i only saw (a bit of) 'arrested development' for the first time on sunday. it was ok but not the yuck-fest i'd been promised. by louis jagger.

a lot of the jokes are callbacks to earlier jokes, to a point where i could totally imagine not getting half of the first shows in series three without having watched the first two series. also, i got the dvd of series three a couple of weeks ago and have already watched it twice, and ended up watching the shows on bbc2 again the other night - the density of jokes in the show is dizzying - not just background jokes a la The Simpsons (a charlie-brown-esque george michael walking past a huge doghouse still being my favourite), but lines in the show that you miss through laughing at the line immediately preceding it.

arrested devlopment is easily my favourite tv show since chappelle.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The holocaust

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I hoped I'd never have to say this, but TOUCHE Louis.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

most US network tv is so fugly is part of the problem

this stuck out to me. serious? cos everything i've ever seen on BBCA looks like it was shot by some trainee soap crew. is it some kind of transfer thing? or eye-acclimation? or ur rong, or what?

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

two and a half men. unbelievable this exists.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

US comedy always looks like it's filmed on a set. i think it's mostly just what yr used to but british TV generally looks like it takes place the real world.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

BBCA is filled with all the shitty daytime stuff like old Flog It and Bargain *unt which do cost pennies to fil, and it shows. However, you'll be pleased to know the BBC has just spent a couple million dollars/a million and a bit pounds on station idents featuring synchro-swim hippos.

NOT FUNNY: inter-newsreader 'banter'. Wins for me every time.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

splashing people

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

general water banter

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

or is this just about television?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

if we're talking that sort of thing then the ultimate NOT FUNNY is being tickled.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The new BBC idents look good altho too much like everyone else's idents now. Bring back the balloon!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Britain

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

this stuck out to me. serious? cos everything i've ever seen on BBCA looks like it was shot by some trainee soap crew. is it some kind of transfer thing? or eye-acclimation? or ur rong, or what?

i didn't understand it either. USTV pwns generally. be glad you don't get Spooks or 11th Hour over there to go with the crap comedies.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, I like Two and a Half Men.

NOT FUNNY:

Anything Leigh Francis has ever been involved with ever (Bo Selecta/Avid Merrion)
doglatin's comedy scripts that he posted on ILX once
THE GREEN GREEN GRASS
Little Miss Jocelyn

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

JACK BLACK

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ustv fugliness: i'm thinking probably slightly older shows but 'will and grace', 'friends', 'seinfeld', 'the west wing' (which i heart), 'frasier' -- ech.

cable stuff generally classier (though not 'curb').

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Cilla and Les Battersby on Coronation Street

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah curb looks terrible. frasier is a good example of a hideous looking show too but if you look at UK TV from even 5 years ago it looks horrible as well. your eye becomes so quickly accostomed to new styles that watching den give angie her divorce papers over christmas dinner looks like it happened in the dark ages.

xpost, cilla makes me laugh.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm enjoying Seinfeld repeats on Paramount having never given the show much time, at the time. Episodes from '95 really look more like they are from '85 tho - they're all so terribly dressed (EXCEPT Kramer!).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

uktv can be pretty bad, thinking about it, looks-wise; but the most "innovative" uk comedy does try things that even the best ustv doesn't. and yeah as jed says a lot of that comes from location work.

another fugly-ass but great us show: 'the daily show'. music and graphs just ugggghhhh.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Defend the indefensible: Josie Long

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

the daily show

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

US comedy always looks like it's filmed on a set.

I've noticed this! I think this was one of my primary attractions to Arrested Development, was that, even with the majority of it taking place in either the model home or Lucille's apartment, it felt like it was occurring in real places (it did help that they frequently went outside a la trip to Mexico ["20 miles to Legoland"], the banana stand, etc).

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

British sitcoms tend to occur in two places: inside (VT) and outside (film).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the key thing is it *looks like* it was filmed on a set -- it's odd how a show like friends cost $$$millions per ep because of performer fees but the set/lighting/etc costs probably ran to a c-note and change across ten series.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

that used to be true MC, but not with 'partridge', 'peep show', 'spaced' and a bunch of other things you probably don't like.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

'Extras' is shot on film, cos it has film stars in it

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

British sitcoms tend to occur in two places: inside (VT) and outside (film).

i don't think this has been the case for a fair while - does anyone shoot on film now? (genuine question, cannot think of any right now). the filmed outdoor stuff in old sitcoms always looks so much more 'realistic', less 'stagey' than the old skool video stuff, but i guess with technological advances this is much less the case.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

is 'extras' on 'film'? i would have thought everything's dv now.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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