― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
The only funny thing to me these days is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. That shit is fucking comedy gold.
(Fawlty Towers IS funny! Why? NO COSTUMES).
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)
I haven't seen the state for a long long time.
Of course you also talking to someone who laughed until he cried when Tom Green was on.
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)
I got the whole run of the show on DVD a year ago.The more I watch Monty Python the more I think Momus must have been raised on it but never realized it was supposed to be ironic.
When are they coming out with Kids in the Hall DVDs? My Pen! My Pen! It's the one I do all my work with!!
And HARVEY BIRDMAN. need more harvey birdman. more harvey birdman.
Does anybody find the Naked Gun movies as hilarious as I do?
― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 November 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)
The first two seasons. Watching them only made me appreciate the show more (well, the second season especially, they were still finding their way during the first one).
X-POST
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)
Oh MAN.
What I've seen of The League of Gentlemen was perfectly all right to me! Must catch more.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)
That one isn't out yet [I think]. Hotel Le Rut is, though I have no clue if Tammy has been unleashed on DVD in full surround sound glory.
I ain't gonna spread for no roses.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 November 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago)
"GET OUT YOU LABOURER!"
Alex, oops and I all agree on Kids in the Hall, interesting.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
I love "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" more than I love oxygen.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)
but only cos i've not seen much KITH
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)
Another messed up thing about this thread is the vague assertion that all these elements belong to the same subgenre of comedy. While, yeah, clearly "Kids in the Hall" (who are undeniably brilliant, by the way) owe a huge debt to Monty Python, but "South Park" and "Chris Rock" have zero in common with either or each other.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
any Kids in the Hall sketch with either Bruce or Scott is instant bona-fide classic material
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago)
Look I was trying to reassure Emily that she didn't suck, but if you want to be an asshole about it then go ahead. ;)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)
Kind of, he's sitting in a diner doing a monologue, but when he gets to a certain point, he stands up, starts dancing, and the lights change so that it looks like a disco. It's one of my favorite sketches from season one. "I'll eat pancakes on your grave" is a household meme.
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago)
― oops (Oops), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)
Triumverate of WRONGNESS!
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)
Except, um, 90% of the Buddy monologues (they all have at least one great line, though).
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)
Monty Python the show can be inconsistent, not all of the skits are funny, but I can never NOT laugh at the concept of springs exploding out of a nice chocolate and piercing your cheeks. Also I have a really strong childhood memory of remembering my dad and my uncle suddenly spontaneously bursting out into the Lumberjack Song at a pool party my mom threw, after they had a couple bloody marys. Part of the reason why the skits are less funny is because of people who apparently made it their mission to speak only in Pythonese during their high school experiences, in fairness.
The movies, OTOH, are consistently extraordinarily hysterical.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)
Spot on. Some movie comedies never AREN'T funny no matter how much you watch them, and Holy Grail and Life of Brian are high on that hit list. I rewatch them -- about once a year or so at this point -- much more than I ever do the shows.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago)
Except the chicken lady. Yeurgh.
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)
i like the KITH sketch where Bruce is the "hot" pop singer lady, with a huge chastity belt on
oh god, and the "good fucking ham" one, where he rebelliously runs away to his friends' house and gets barfed on
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)
mind you The Simpsons managed to make me laugh by just ripping the piss out of people who i had no idea of. different thing i know but you don't need to know who Ted Koppel is to know that Homer saying 'Ted Koppel IS a robot' is funny etc.
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago)
With few exceptions, I find Kids in the Hall tend to go for a kind of absurdity that I find pretty unengaging. Sometimes I'm caught off guard, but I get used to it in a few seconds and there's nothing more for me to laugh at. To me, it's like weirdness for the sake of being weird.
The funniest sketch comedy to me is SCTV. It's so dense with ideas that it would take pages to work out all that's funny about a single line. The one that just came to mind is hardly even a line - it's Bobby Bittman's "whooooaaa!" w/hand gesture when his character sees his brother on a hook in "On the Waterfront Again".
― Pangolino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)
Ha! Great stuff. The Deja Vu episode was the first I ever saw (and I was confused when in the next episode there weren't any more exploding animals).
I think my favorite all time Python sketch is the wordless simplicity of the Fish-Slapping Dance: vaguely rambunctious music, Palin and Cleese in khaki uniforms, Palin dancing/prancing back and forth slapping a ramrod straight and unsmiling Cleese with tiny fishes across the face, then the music stopping, Cleese taking a huge fish about the size and strength of that dildo in GTA: San Andreas and clobbering Palin, who then falls into some water.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)
(xpost!)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)
I agree with Ned's post about comedy rapidly engendering contempt in those it fails to 'work' for.
― Pangolino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)
― Pangolino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago)
1) Be "offensive"2) Be topical3) Milk whatever pop culture references haven't already shown up in the show4) Be funny
The last episode they showed didn't have the first three (except for a Star Trek reference Futurama did first & better), so it was more tolerable than most of the other episodes I've seen lately, but a lot of it just seems really forced now. (On the other hand, the J-Lo episode followed that formula to a T and I nearly died. So.)
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― Panoglino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)
The MacKenzie Brothers, though. They still crack me up. I listened to "Take Off!", the song from their comedy album that featured Geddy Lee on lead vocals, and for a very brief moment, I thought that Geddy Lee was okay.
I mean, just look at them:
http://www.lallybroch.com/LOL/movie/mackenziebros.jpg
Rick Moranis in particular. Nearsighted Comedians - Eyeglasses = teh funny.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)
The Buddy Cole sketches now seem horribly dated, but at the time they were great, and one of the best parts of the show.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― Pangolino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)
the Ed Grimley CARTOON was great too!
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)
― Pangolino again, Friday, 12 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)
― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Friday, 12 November 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)
Oh, and neither am I, Forehead Boy.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)
Hence, I fucking hate Monty Python.
― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)
i don't know. there are some parts of all of those shows that need to be deleted from the annals of history altogether. and other parts that are so funny you'll cry (bob odenkirk's "mouthful of sores" comes to mind), but you've already decided you don't like that show, so you probably won't get around to seeing them.
shrugsy. opinions and whatnot.
― slapster mcgee, Friday, 12 November 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)
― slapster mcgee, Friday, 12 November 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)
I love KITH and most Woody Allen, I'm indifferent to Monty Python and I hate Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and anything where David Cross is on-screen. I watched the season premier of Arrested Development - maybe I just don't get it but it sucked mondo ass. Last week's West Wing was funnier.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)
― Nowell (Nowell), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago)
That plus one of the metal band sketches were about the only two I think of that really worked for me, and I've seen a slew of episodes over time now. That's a pretty low ratio.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 12 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago)
― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago)
also, here's a tip- monthy python's worst sketches shit all over woody allen. woody allen is the mathematical inversion of humour. seinfeld is not that far behind. do you like will and grace?
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)
anyone for the fast show or family guy?
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago)
No reflection on you, Alex. I consider your family guy fandom perfectly in keeping with your wonderfully skewed aesthetic. (that's not true, actually. I just like you and I don't know who the hell the Woody Allen-hater is.)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago)
but i just don't find woody allen funny- he is very obviously aiming for an intellectually aware, preppy humour and forgot to supply the jokes. his entire ouvre is an ego trip, and if i never see him tongue kiss an actress young enough to be his daughter (OOPS) it will be fine by me.
family guy is clever enough to be dumb, and to know it. but it is very, very funny.
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:57 (twenty years ago)
family guy is what it is. there's no real explaining it. i don't think anyone watches it for the animation, to be honest.
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago)
Woody Allen not funny?? What is WRONG with you people? Okay, granted...his humour has moved steadily away from its absurdist origins, but he's still incredibly funny. Like Scott says, see Take the Money & Run (which, to be fair, he did not direct). Better yet, see Sleeper and/or Bananas. See Broadway Danny Rose. Better still, read "Without Feathers" and/or "Getting Even". The man inside considered a comic genius for nothing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago)
Sorry, I'm multi-tasking at the expense of logic. That should have read: The man isn't considered a comic genius for nothing.
I never found "Seinfeld" particularly funny.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago)
any other 'classics' that probably are worth a miss? don't even start on animal house
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)
OTMFM. "Family Guy" is painful to watch. They try way too hard.
For example, there was this one scene where Peter was talking about how something was "like stealing candy from a baby". Then we jump to a flashback scene of Peter standing in the park next to a baby carriage, you can see it coming, stealing candy from the baby. Now multiply these obvious unfunny jump scenes by 200, and you've got an episode of "Family Guy".
And their attempts at shock humor is assmoric. Like when the boy got his JFK Pez dispenser shot off in a convience store and then says, "At least I still have my Bobby Kennedy dispenser!" Huh? Oh, haha. Whatever.
Stewie makes me laugh sometimes. Sometimes.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)
22:10 Straight Steer for the Clueless Queer Comedy parodying recent American import Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Unreconstructed straight men effect a heterosexual makeover of Brendan Courtney (irish celebrity homosexual)
sounds like fun.
― D.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 13 November 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)
― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago)
Anyone remember "Frank's Trip to the Orient"?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago)
holy shit, i'm now remembering the lizz winstead/frank decaro movie reviews on teh daily show. that was like SIX years ago.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 04:53 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago)
buddy of mine was a PA on that show. never did tell me if he ever got to meet (fellow Univ of Mich alumni) the Sklar Brothers.
also, i like how Jon Stewart would openly mock the show each night...
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago)
I don't think it is feasible that Python should be asked to overcome BBC production values from the early 1970s in comparison with more recent shows. They recorded most of their eps live and had very little scope to re-do. Sure they look quaint today, but there's a quaintness to, say, the Beatles today that might mute their impact until you immerse.
The key point about their surrealist comedy instincts is that they invented the shit. They exploded their form. Not ending their sketches just because form dictated a lame punchline was one of their great innovations. They got meta before it was fashionable, and did it really smartly. The odd thing falls flat, but once you get over how lowbudget it all seems, it is as great as it is cracked up to be, IMO.
but remember a lot of references are lost on many of the British audience as well - i'm unaware of any undertone to the rubbish (on the surface) cheese shop and parrot sketches as well.
-- Freelance Hiveminder (stevem7...), November 12th, 2004. (later)
Alls you got to know about these scenes is that IT IS A CHEESE SHOP WITH NO CHEESE! And the man KEEPS ASKING FOR CHEESE!!!!
Comedy doesn't come much purer than this.
― plebian plebs (plebian), Saturday, 13 November 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)
i only started watching the fast show this week. it's all about the repetition: it gets funnier the more you watch it. i don't love it as much as the office (yet).
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 13 November 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)
nice try, but not so much. anyone who quotes monty python is a fucking nerd, and quoting monty python is LEAGUES worse than ragging on someone who does.
― flinker, Saturday, 13 November 2004 11:58 (twenty years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 13 November 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago)
I cannot stand Seinfeld because of the relentlessly cheery and BLOODY OMNIPRESENT slap-bass (which is also a feature of every single yuppie-targetted commercial on US television, ARGH).
― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago)
i love kids in the hall, i could watch it forever. i love mr. show, i was a fan from the first time i saw it.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)
-- You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhan...), November 12th, 2004.
OTM
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago)
i hear what you're sayying though, and that is the superstructure joke that makes it all work. like i said, different levels!!
i love Scott's big gay monologues in KITH. it's totally different to the rest of the show but that's fine by me, it gave the shows it appeared in a little bit of a classic variety light entertainment feel
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 13 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago)
-- suzy (theartskooldisk...), November 13th, 2004.
It's not even a slap bass, it's about 6 different samples played in some sort of shuffle-mode, isn't it? Whatever it is, I think it's the worst god damn music ever composed for television.
― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)
we tried to implement this policy at the bar i did sound at, but the owner wouldn't let us. not even after we all witnessed this pouncey git playing a bright-green 8-string bass.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago)
x-post
― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago)
― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 14 November 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago)
exactly. the key to the fast show is repetition, but i can't tell you why this is so. it gets better and better, trust to this.
― d.arraghmac, Sunday, 14 November 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)
The Python movies are good, but I defy anyone to actually watch Python the series with a clean slate of expectations and actually find it consistently funny.
the (mostly awful) last season aside, i think MPFC was the most consistently inventive and unpredictable comedy series ever. no matter how many times i've seen an episode, there's always some hilarious little bit i've forgotten about. the "people quote it too much for it to be funny" argument makes no sense to me because there are TONS of skits on the original series that no one ever quotes. watching even the best SNL after a Python episode is a little like drinking diluted root beer.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 14 November 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago)
― tremendoid, Sunday, 14 November 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago)
I've indulged in a bit of Python quoting (not much, because I like to do everything in a half-hearted, lukewarm sort of a way) not because I'm a nerd or I like Star Trek or Lord of the Rings especially (I like them both fine, but not in any geeky way) but because it can be great fun with the right person, like dancing, or some other types of things likeminded people do for pleasure in concert with one another (I'm sure these exist but I can't bring them to mind).
― plebian plebs (plebian), Monday, 15 November 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago)
tammy - "i ain't gonna spread for no roses"
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago)
Chris Rock's stuff I don't know well enough, but I do think a lot of what he does pales next to Richard Pryor, his obvious hero. But I need to get one of his concert movies out or hear one of his albums really - i've enjoyed him in movies and on SNL. South Park i just never catch nowadays, though the last one i saw - where they mixed up a porn video and the lord of the rings tape - was absolute unmitigated genius, as is the NAMBLA episode...
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)
― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 15 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)
I hate warm, fuzzy, jazzy talk-show themes almost more than the slap-bass interludes (and always imagine the news-music writers from Broadcast News taking a meeting to come up with it)
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago)