Yeah but have you seen what happens when the British try to make a Hollywood style film? Its pretty pathetic.
Ooh just reminded myself.. Shaun of the Dead! :D
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All this talk of the best sitcoms and nobody mentions Scrubs? If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and check it out. I'd put it among my favorite sitcoms of all time, alongside The Simpsons and Family Guy, which sort of tells you a little bit about the humor style.
And I agree with the comment above. Friends was a comedy?
About chess humor, I posted the one and only chess joke I know (besides my USCF rating, which has been steadily heading in the wrong direction for months) in another thread a week or two ago. Found it. Here's the thread (if this link works): http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-jokes-anyone
--Fromper
Friends was most definately a comedy in my opinion. If something is funny then it must surely be a comedy. What other genre could it be? Also, our Stacy told a joke on here a few posts ago, albeit, not a particularly funny one, but nevertheless, a chess related joke. Fromps, your USCF rating is so funny I laughed until a little bit of wee came out ;)
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I think that joke was GREAT! :D
it was alright mate, any contribution from you is worth a read. i got one for you now:
paddy and murphy were walking through the forest when they came across a lunberjack yard. outside was a sign saying 'treefellers wanted'. paddy said to murphy, 'murphy, its a shame seamus isn't with us, we could have gone for that!'
Good joke! Much like SW Louisiana.
Sep 15, 2007
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yes all this thread was humorous, even the american spellchecker american and spelling, not something i would put side by side ....lol
That's not just an American thing, lostapiece. I've always said the first two casualties of the internet were spelling and grammar. Civility was third.
--Fromper
Hmm... been following this thread a bit, would still like to see more of the chess related jokes
Although it's fun watching the english vs american tv comedy
Although it's fun watching the english vs american tv comedy
i think i got a chess related joke: did you hear about the two irish queens? patrick fitzgerald and gerald fitzpatrick! boom boom!
I must admit Shaun of the Dead was pretty bad,
but I found Hot Fuzz to be hilarious....
To me, I feel like British humor has more class than American humor.
Scrubs is definitely worth checking out though, a fantastic sitcom!
Arrested Development is also hilarious, but only appeals to people with a certain type of humor.
Sep 16, 2007
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When i asked ' is friends a comedy ?' i was being sarcastic. I hate that irritating theme tune too by the bloody Rembrandts. Terrible!
i think friends was the best US comedy since happy days! so there!
it bloody was! so there!
oh well.. a bit childish maybe but it gets our points up!
Happy Days not funny? Heyyyyyyyyy!!
Sep 19, 2007
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I used to like this American comedy in the 80's called Alice which was a similar type setting as happy days. It was about this cafe called Mels diner and used to be on at tea time. I roared at a couple of these. Especially one episode where the owner ( Mel ) went for a nose job and the surgeon for a joke told him what sort of nose he was going to do him and produced this profile picture of this Pinnochio type nose.
Over the years, the Americans have bought the rights to several of our comedies and unfunnied them. I have never seen one that they have equalled let alone improved. Now, I'm not saying that the yanks cant do comedy, because some of the stuff they turn out is brilliant. Out of the thousands of sitcoms they churn out every week at least half a dozen contain lots of smile humour, and one or two have even been known to create a chortle.
This is a good point. We americans have good origianal humor, but when we try to remake something from a different culture it hardly ever turns out well.