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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Monty Python reunion crashes and burns. Reply #15 - Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 2:30pm Last of the Summer Wine is the most excruciatingly unfunny English comedy I've ever seen.
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Reply #16 - Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 2:37pm

bogarde73 wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 2:29pm:

I could have told them their brand of humour is way past its Use By date.

couldn't agree more. I mentioned before that the particular humour they came out of - Cambridge theatre - just didn't wear well. Thus, Pete & Dud, Sorry I'll Read That Again and some others just don't hack it anymore.
On the other hand, a lot of old Brit sitcoms remain funny - Last of the Summer Wine of course, in fact anything written by Roy Clarke.
Also the Goon Show is still funny after 70 years. The humour in Dickens novels is still funny.
What makes for lasting humour is hard to say.

Mate, if you could define that you'd be on a hiding to nothing to be the worlds first sqillionaire! Grin

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Monty Python reunion crashes and burns. Reply #17 - Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:03pm Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 2:30pm: Last of the Summer Wine is the most excruciatingly unfunny English comedy I've ever seen. It's an acquired taste. US sitcoms work for a lot of people, they don't for me (Seinfeld excepted)
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Monty Python reunion crashes and burns. Reply #18 - Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:18pm Notice I said English comedy. I love English comedy, I just don't count Last of the Summer Wine as one. Mrs Browns Boys is about as unfunny. Most US comedies I don't like, however two recent ones which are very funny are Arrested Development and Archer.
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Reply #19 - Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 4:33pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 9:41am:

"Monty Python reunion crashes and burns."

No surprises there.

Most superannuation tours are crap, and this one was starting to smell from the day it was announced.

I love Python, bit I wouldn't go see this reunion show if you paid me.

I call them nostalgia tours... bands seem to reform and tour on the nostalgia circuit 10, 20, 30 years after they had their time in the spotlight.

Personally, I think they're all crap. You see people past their prime who have lost that certain something (ummm.. perhaps it's just "youth") and there's absolutely no sense of joy de vivre in regards to what they're doing.

You'll usually get a better show and more accurate portrayal of what they were like seeing a tribute act than seeing the originals as old codgers quite obviously just going through the motions for that paycheque at the end.

See 'em first time around or buy the DVD. Avoid the disappointment.

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Reply #20 - Jul 6^th, 2014 at 11:16am

austranger wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 1:14am:

Yeah, they're basically out of context, anachronistic, they outlived their relevance, not to mention that being trail-blazers they've been copied to death and audiences are well jaded now.
Sad but true.

In their time they were edgy and risque. I remember watching their TV show in the 70s when it was on at an adult time and rated AO. I was bemused when recently the ABC showed the same TV program at 6-30pm rated G. It shows how much our society has changed.

Some of their sketches have become part of popular culture. The parrot sketch, the four Yorkshiremen (which still makes me laugh to this day) and the Black Knight in the Holy Grail (ditto).

The reason we call unsolicited emails "spam" is also the result of a Monty Python sketch.

They must be in their 60s and 70s now so it is no surprise that they have lost their comedic edge.

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Reply #21 - Jul 6^th, 2014 at 1:45pm

Life_goes_on wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 4:33pm:

I call them nostalgia tours... bands seem to reform and tour on the nostalgia circuit 10, 20, 30 years after they had their time in the spotlight.

These are 'Taxation Time' tours, and also to finance their huge ongoing maintenance bills to their one-time groupie followers who bore their children as Single Mothers.

And then there are the drug debts to pay off.

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Reply #22 - Jul 6^th, 2014 at 1:57pm

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:18pm:

Notice I said English comedy. I love English comedy, I just don't count Last of the Summer Wine as one. Mrs Browns Boys is about as unfunny.

Most US comedies I don't like, however two recent ones which are very funny are Arrested Development and Archer.

The Brits were good in their day, but US comedy is the best these days:

Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Parks and Recreation
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Jon Stewart
Bill Hicks
Louis C.K.
etc.

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Reply #23 - Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:30pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 6^th, 2014 at 1:57pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:18pm:

Notice I said English comedy. I love English comedy, I just don't count Last of the Summer Wine as one. Mrs Browns Boys is about as unfunny.

Most US comedies I don't like, however two recent ones which are very funny are Arrested Development and Archer.

The Brits were good in their day, but US comedy is the best these days:

Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Parks and Recreation
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Jon Stewart
Bill Hicks
Louis C.K.
etc.

REALLY....I find American humour childish immature...obvious...annoying...the 70s show OMG...Big Bang...ugh...as for the mostly black shows.. UGH again...Brits have lost the plot lately I agree Mrs Browns Boys.. omg...awful...

its really hard to get a really good laugh anymore...pretty sad a bit like life...

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: Monty Python reunion crashes and burns. Reply #24 - Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:51pm Now that the Gillard government has faded into history I'm finding it hard to laugh at anything anymore. There's just no more comedy around that's worth sitting through the commercials.
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Reply #25 - Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:56pm

cods wrote on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:30pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 6^th, 2014 at 1:57pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:18pm:

Notice I said English comedy. I love English comedy, I just don't count Last of the Summer Wine as one. Mrs Browns Boys is about as unfunny.

Most US comedies I don't like, however two recent ones which are very funny are Arrested Development and Archer.

The Brits were good in their day, but US comedy is the best these days:

Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Parks and Recreation
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Jon Stewart
Bill Hicks
Louis C.K.
30 Rock
etc.

REALLY....I find American humour childish immature...obvious...annoying ...

Yes, I do love it so.

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Reply #26 - Jul 10^th, 2014 at 3:00pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:51pm:

Now that the Gillard government has faded into history I'm finding it hard to laugh at anything anymore.

There's just no more comedy around that's worth sitting through the commercials.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/theroast/about/

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/06/troy-kinne-comedy-coming-to-7mate.html

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/shaun-micallefs-mad-as-hell/

http://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-bolt-report

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: Monty Python reunion crashes and burns. Reply #27 - Jul 10^th, 2014 at 7:58pm I'll check those out, Greg ~ but I'm not hopeful. The only reason those 'comedians' are doing a show under the patronage of the Sheltered Workshop we-know-and-love hate as the 'ABC' is because they're not good enough to be a profitable concern on the commercial channels.
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Reply #28 - Jul 11^th, 2014 at 3:32am

cods wrote on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 2:30pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 6^th, 2014 at 1:57pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2014 at 3:18pm:

Notice I said English comedy. I love English comedy, I just don't count Last of the Summer Wine as one. Mrs Browns Boys is about as unfunny.

Most US comedies I don't like, however two recent ones which are very funny are Arrested Development and Archer.

The Brits were good in their day, but US comedy is the best these days:

Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Parks and Recreation
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Jon Stewart
Bill Hicks
Louis C.K.
etc.

REALLY....I find American humour childish immature...obvious...annoying...the 70s show OMG...

Big Bang...

ugh...as for the mostly black shows.. UGH again...Brits have lost the plot lately I agree Mrs Browns Boys.. omg...awful...

its really hard to get a really good laugh anymore...pretty sad a bit like life...

As I wend my way through this thread, I am feeling like a low brow, secretly reading the tastes of the more sophisticated members. I've enjoyed plenty of American comedies.

I think Big Bang Theory is one of the cleverest comedy shows I have ever seen.
Every character is just exquisite and whoever wrote the script is familiar with aspergers syndrome, for sure. I just laugh and laugh, as it is so true to type, though carried to the next level. Grin

The show is an art form.

I used to love Faulty Towers back in the day, and I still think of the episodes as classics and very funny. But even they have dated. I am not sure they would even make the screen these days, they are so politically incorrect.

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Reply #29 - Jul 11^th, 2014 at 4:02pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 7:58pm:

I'll check those out, Greg ~ but I'm not hopeful.

The only reason those 'comedians' are doing a show under the patronage of the Sheltered Workshop we-know-and-love hate as the 'ABC' is because they're not good enough to be a profitable concern on the commercial channels.

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