acting like chandler bing

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ok, so i think a lot of people of my age group (including myself) have incorporated a lot of chandler characteristics and mannerisms. (that's chandler from the sitcom friends). his style seems to have influenced people's senses of humour a fair bit. while i think that people quote from, say, the simpsons more, there are a lot more chandler-isms than homer-isms among folks i know. the style more than actually lifting lines - very deliberate sarcasm, loud self-deprication, you know? i quite like chandler and he has given me a few laughs. uh, people who started watching friends in their adolescence picked it up a fair bit, even now when they maybe don't like friends anymore and don't watch it, it is still very much ingrained.

do you act like chandler bing? do people you know act like chandler bing? who are other tv stars whose style has been mimicked greatly?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

what are dem teenagers mimicking these days???? well???

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you certain this is a Friends thing and not a general stereotypical Gen-X apathy thing which existed well before the sitcom but was well used by it?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

in film school people said I acted like chandler because I would talk about how something was SO not something.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, I was just remarking this (quite old) tendancy to someone the other day. So obnoxious. It's definitely been on the decline, but I've noticed some horrific "that 70's show" aping. Mainly Kelso, but sometimes people do Hyde and Eric, who is quite chandlersome himself.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

(it's definitely something we woz doing a lot and much more deliberately back in 1995/6 say, but the last few days i've been struck by how much it's still present, and whenever i make a joke i naturally reach for the chandler waving of hands, or the chandler emphasis on particular words)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I should note that I don't actually watch Friends and that all similarities were (are?) painfully coincidental.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer to emulate Toby from the West Wing.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always thought of Butters from South Park as my role model.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, so i think a lot of people of my age group (including myself) have incorporated a lot of chandler characteristics and mannerisms.

Get someone to program an alternate personality immediately, please.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, between Butters and Cartman, gen y'ers such as myself have some of the best comic role models evah.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to go out with this girl who started to freak me out with how much she talked like Elaine Benes. Once I noticed it it wouldn't go away!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work with a girl who talked exactly like Ralph Wiggum. And about her cat. And cat food.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Get someone to program an alternate personality immediately, please.

This sounds very Chandler!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YECH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't watched Friends enough to be able to emulate any of the characters or notice when others are doing so. I never really liked that show.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact I'm having trouble right now remembering if Chandler is Matthew Perry or David Schwimmer. I think it was Perry, but....???

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's perry. for the record I hate the show too, but ive seen enough to know when someone's acting like chandler.

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

less imitating chandler bing, more imitating der bing please k thnks off to get pie bye

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

if a friend of mine started acting like chandler bing, i'd beat him into a bloody pulp. this is a depressing line of inquiry.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

LAUREN IS MY HERO.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Could you BE any more obsequious, Ned?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you, David R., please have my babies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

in film school people said I acted like chandler because I would talk about how something was SO not something.

William Safire traces this linguistic phenomenon, for no good reason, to the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

do you act like chandler bing?
fuck no.
do people you know act like chandler bing?
no & they fucking beter not start.
who are other tv stars whose style has been mimicked greatly?
bender.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to try acting more like Dougal from Father Ted.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually base all my mannerisms on Fish from Barney Miller.

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an unhappy moment to admit that my childhood was perfectly dramatized by Sam Weir.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

...

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read Paul Feig's book "kick me"

― Huck, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

How was it?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.springfield.at/galerie/bender/bender06.gif

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to do it a lot. god, i cringe at the memory. people used to laugh though, mine wasnt quite as obviously lifted as a friend of mines at the time. his was like karaoke chandler.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Could this thread BE any more lame?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

well, I AM on Vicodin...

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon, it's 2004. Everyone's acting like Jon Stewart now. Mmmmmmm, this thread just got a little ToAsTy!

(Which, yes, means that everyone's doing weird second-hand imitations of Johnny Carson. That is something that I can live with.)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Ted.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Barker would be better:

"And YOU're our PuhRize Poster! Guh-REAT! ComoOON DOWN!

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

best part of that Safire piece: "Mena Suvari, described by Newsweek as ''the thinking man's sex kitten,'"

Thinking man's sex kitten!

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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