NOT FUNNY.

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.

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

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

xpost, cilla makes me laugh.

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

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).

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.

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

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

*ba-dum tish*

-- 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?

wtf@people saying bernie mac

also it bears repeating

family guy
family guy
family guy

Michael is OTM. Everyone involved with this show should have at least one of their fingers chopped off for being involved with something so dull and ugly.

And then they'll pull back the corners of their eyes with their (remaining) fingertips and be all "ching chong bing bong" because tired racial humor = EDGY!

Artie Lange - sometimes funny

Season 1 was the Groening/Simon/Brooks, whatever that means to you. Sam Simon hires the Army Man staff as writers, most notably, George Meyer and John Swartzwelder.

Season 2 was still crediting them, but Al Jean & Mike Reiss were doing much of their work. The show starts to get funny.

Al & Mike take over totally in season 3 and were scared as first-time showrunners, demanding as many rewrites as possible. Full on funny.

After season 4, Al & Mike left to do The Critic, which I never watched...because...Jon Lovitz NOT FUNNY

Dave Mirkin took over the Simpsons in seasons 5 & 6. Mirkin is kinda funny, but hits you over the head with the joke (followed by lengthy explanations of each joke on the commentary track).

Mirkin was the man behind Chris Elliot's Get a Life, which I only thought was funny in its final season.

Even worse was that John Swartzwelder, an adamant supporter of smoker's rights, was no longer allowed to smoke in the rewrite room as of season 6, so he began submitting scripts form home and not attending rewriting sessions.

Mirkin lost out to newcomers Bill Oakly & Josh Weinstein, who worked with the writers at the Harvard lampoon long before any of them got jobs as writers in tv. Bill & Josh were hardcore Simpsons fans and wanted to overthrow Mirkin's big-dumb reign and return it to Al & Mike's style, which they did greatly in nearly all of season 7 and most of season 8.

Ironically, Al & Mike returned for like 3 episodes in season 8, which ended up being mirkin-esque duds (eg the x-files ep)

Everything at this point ranges from excellent to good. But...

Mike Scully took over after that, and was extremely hit or miss (mostly miss). He lasted from seasons 9-12. Anything after season 10 makes me violently angry.

Fans complained greatly about Scully. Al Jean took the show back over, but by then, the writing staff had MUCH turnover, so there was no saving it, even with george meyer on staff.

The movie is going to fucking suckkkkk