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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

certainly everyone involved in 'extras' should be shot boom boom

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno, it looks a bit different to other UK shows but perhaps it is just DV after all.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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

its intriguing, isn't it? episodes of the office, for ex., have a very filmy grain to the picture, but its video...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Doug Stanhope.

least funny much-hyped stand-up i've ever seen or heard.
not a titter missus.

― pisces (piscesx), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

BRITISH PEOPLE ARGUING ABOUT COMEDY

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

chaki.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

whoever said looney tunes upthread is wrong. That shit is madcap.

― pj (Henry), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

racial slurs against chaki

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The missus could not believe it when she first saw some '70s/'80s Britcom - the switch from VT to film and back as Compo fell over a hedge/Margo fell over some chickens/Rodney fell over a dog. She thought it was laughable. Ah, but who's laughing now, eh?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, presumably not Pam if she's watching Last of the Summer Wine

*ba-dum tish*

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

family guy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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

-- EARLY-90S MAN (miltonpinsk...), Today 11:13 AM. (Enrique) (later)

dude do you not get that it's supposed to look like a cable news show?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i really fucking hate the word 'fugly', just by the by.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

people have different senses of humor, sometimes

there's nothing funny about that.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS THREAD.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

people actually expect this thread to be funny even tho it's talking about stuff which isn't funny, and use uppercase to empthasise their outrage, as if they've been deceived somehow?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hiroshima: necessary? hasn't made me laugh ONCE.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Tom Goes to the Mayor

wtf@people saying bernie mac

also it bears repeating

family guy
family guy
family guy

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

are you denying my assertion that this thread is not funny? Things that are also not funny: Darfur, coffee beans.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

no i just think having three different people single this thread out now is a bit harsh. altho Family Guy is still winning in this respect. i have to agree about coffee beans being unfunny tho.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

arguing about funny

― how much, latebloomer? (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

two people beat me to the punch? I did a search and everything. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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