Sponsor |  jenjen1352 | Dec 13, 2007 2:03pm | funny or not?
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Dec 13, 2007 2:04pm | Definitely, but I am biased. Do we grow up appreciating the humour typical of our country?
How is British humour defined? Off the wall? Some of our sitcoms are not really off the wall, in the way Python is, but are quite pedestrian.
My favourite humour tends to have a satirical edge; is there a difference between British satire and other satire?
(blimey Jen, you didn't waste any time getting over here). |
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Sponsor | | jenjen1352 | Dec 13, 2007 2:16pm | (saw your review on What's new!)
I feel that British humour can be best characterised as (dry) wit and quick repartee. my favourite form of humour is definitely of the quick retort, smart one liner variety a la Stephen Fry, Julian Clary and the like. |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Dec 13, 2007 2:19pm | | Yes, I agree: would also include Jeremy Hardy, Marcus Brigstocke, Jack Dee (in fact most of the usual suspect from shows such as "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", and "The News Quiz" and "Have I got News for you")... |
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Sponsor | | jenjen1352 | Dec 13, 2007 2:26pm | also the gangs from Never Mind The Buzzcocks, They Think It's All Over and, perhaps surprisingly, A Question Of Sport.
I say this having not actively watched telly for an entire year, so anything could be happening out there in humour land. either way, I still think Jonathan Ross is far too funny for my own good. |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Dec 13, 2007 2:32pm | Nope, I'm afraid Woss leaves me cold (just shows how strange humour is, as we seem to like a lot of the same stuff)!
I do love the Fast Show too! ...and the Office, and Extras.
...and a lot of the funniest stuff is on the radio - BBC R4, especially, but some of the golden oldies (Goons, Round the Horn) on BBC R7. |
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Sponsor | | jenjen1352 | Dec 13, 2007 2:58pm | dunno why I like him so much. mind you, I do rather fancy him so that may colour my judgment slightly:P
speaking of golden oldies on the radio, I used to love The Clitheroe Kid when I was young, also Just A Minute with Kenneth Williams, Clement Freud et al. |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Dec 13, 2007 3:03pm | Just a Minute still going, but a lot different without those old stalwarts (Clement Freud does still make appearances now and again).
I do recall the Clitheroe Kid - we always seemed to have R4 on, and I do seem to remember we didn't have a TV for a longish while when we were children, so that was all we had. "Where's me shirt" was about all I remember from that. Bet that's on R7 too.
Now I really must go to bed! |
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Sponsor | | marielaem | Dec 14, 2007 2:46am | Thanks to the rodent for posting about this group. I am with jen re. the one liner stuff. I hardly watch TV, but did manage a documentary on Kenny Everett the other week. I had forgotten how hysterical he was - there is a ton of his material on YouTube. Billy Connolly is great on a good day - ditto Jasper Carrot. I have to dash.
PS: The few sitcoms I have seen lately have sucked big time. So feeble that I can't even remember what they were called - that Wolfie bloke from the Tooting Bec Popular Front was in one of them. Older, greyer, wrinklier and not funnier. |
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Sponsor | | ericthehamster | Dec 14, 2007 2:51am | Yeahl, I think it was "My family" (you're thinking of Robert Lindsay, who is a great theatre actor). I don't watch sitcoms anymore - only the more zany stuff (which I don't think are classified as such), like "Father Ted", "Black Books" and "Red Dwarf"!
Good to see you here M!
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