Christmas wouldn't be the same without an outing from Jeremy
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Ghoti Fingers, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 20:38,
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Each year this is posted
I try so hard to understand why it gets the LOLs it does, but I just cannot fathom where they come from. I've watched it 3 years in a row or so now and I barely flinch.
I'm sure it's me, as enough people I admire (many on here) find it hilarious. I just don't get it.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 20:53, Reply)
Everyone has..
...different tastes. I just didn't get Shooting Stars when that was on.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:00, Reply)
This is
true. In part.
I think there's such a thing as an accepted level of quality within that concept of taste that's measured against the years of programming since the first mass broadcasts began. Mrs Brown's Boys/Keith Lemon might be resoundingly popular, but I think most well versed in what has come before, in terms of comedy, would agree they are fucking awful examples.
Which is why I'm curious if it's something I'm missing, given that people who've made stuff I think is brilliant seem to like it so much.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:13, Reply)
Isn't it funny because he burped?
???
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:27,
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Mrs Brown's...
...Boys I just don't find funny. Stick Airplane on though and I'll laugh like a loon. I still like The Young Ones, Monty Python, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Harold Lloyd, laurel and hardy but can't stand Chaplin. Could go on for ages but won't unless someone else carries on....
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:32, Reply)
Don't you think it goes beyond the black and white 'I don't find it funny' argument though?
With Mrs Brown's Boys, anyone with an admiration for something like Fawlty Towers or Father Ted can surely ascertain that the writing is resoundingly poor? Not just in direct humour, but the delivery, the way the jokes are so childishly set up, the way the jokes are so poorly woven into the fabric of the plot?
In that respect, Cleese and Linehan are masters at creating comedy without seams. Not at any point do I feel in either Fawlty Towers or Father Ted that I'm being beaten over the head with a joke.
Some might disagree. I mean they're wrong, but they might still try.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:40, Reply)
But in defence of Mrs Brown's Boys
Sure, the script is rubbish, and delivered like an am-dram panto, but the cast are not pretending it's anything else, and clearly they are enjoying it immensely. They just seem to be having huge fun doing it.
It actually reminds me of a cheerful version of Bread. If you want dire, look up an old episode of that.
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Ghoti Fingers, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:46,
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"Educate, inform and entertain"
I've always looked at that maxim as a sentence in its instruction, not as a set of categories to meet separately.
In that respect, I view appealing to the lowest laugh as essentially dumbing down.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:51, Reply)
Lordy...
...Bread !! I remember watching that on a Sunday as it was only the semi decent thing on sometimes. Should I be concerned I still watch Cheers ? Even now I think the writing in that is better than say Friends...
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 22:06, Reply)
Lloyd Bridges was fantastic in Airplane.
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gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 21:46,
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It's an impressive performance,
and I like the tradition of it being posted. That said, I can enjoy it rather than laugh at it.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 22:33,
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True. On that level
I think I can definitely appreciate it. He's not boring.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2014, 22:52, Reply)
This man shags Lucy Porter
every night. Does he do this act because of or in spite of the fact?
(, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 19:41, Reply)
This is up there with Snoopys christmas
And trifle.
Best things about the season!
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jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Thu 11 Dec 2014, 5:49,
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