"Comedy" shows that are praised all the time, which you just don't find funny

audiodave

tish wrote:

All of them. Like Chistmas Carols, tv sucks. Read a book!

I'm sure a lot of people here do read. I read a lot. But sometimes it's just easier to watch tv. It requires so little effort.

FinsburyParkCarrots

And it would be a much bigger waste of time than idling a few minutes talking about TV. I've more than the one degree in Literature, and if I were to start spouting my literary critical training on an AET thread, I'd just be waving my todger at people. Nah, I prefer the TV threads.

Ledbetterman10

Indian Summer wrote:

South Park is funny when they are new because it pokes fun at current events. Watching reruns now aren't even as funny.

personally, I think it's totally the other way around

FinsburyParkCarrots

Blackadder Goes Forth.


There, I said it. Bloody po-faced, Reithian, supercilious "comedy" written on the back of Bleasdale's "The Monocled Mutineer" and attempting in its own haughty, posh school view, to enlighten the "stupid masses" about the folly of war via a BBC historical sitcom. With its smattering of knowledge of first world war poetry, probably some Roger McGough and an evident self delusion of being a masterwork of socio-political import, it patronises at best, and bores rigid at worst. And I speak as an anti-war leftie. It's bollocks.

PS And it's got Tony Robinson in it.

Spunkie

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

And it would be a much bigger waste of time than idling a few minutes talking about TV. I've more than the one degree in Literature, and if I were to start spouting my literary critical training on an AET thread, I'd just be waving my todger at people. Nah, I prefer the TV threads.

Fins, 'member when me, you and Ms. Haiku were discussing, "Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist", "The Odyssey" and "Ulysees". Well, I think the thread bunked out on month three to discuss "Ulysees". That really sucked because, I only understood the sex parts.

So, tv then. Uh, I hate.... think brain think...

GreenTeaDisease

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I agree on curb your enthusiasm.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I was going to do a book group on that. I was still up for it, all the way.

Let's have a TV group instead.

Slip Kid

some of the response are freaking nutz. Too each their own I suppose

and to the person who said Fawlty Towers, I disagree and anyone who said Family Guy and Scrubs

FinsburyParkCarrots

jamie uk wrote:

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And personally I find Little Britain to be complete rubbish...and to a lesser extent The mighty Boosh. I know that if I was 18 it would make me laugh, but now it just leaves me staring blankly....it's an age thing.

Matt Lucas is too angry to be funny. I think that's the problem, there.

Lesbelges

tish wrote:

Fins, 'member when me, you and Ms. Haiku were discussing, "Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist", "The Odyssey" and "Ulysees". Well, I think the thread bunked out on month three to discuss "Ulysees". That really sucked because, I only understood the sex parts.

So, tv then. Uh, I hate.... think brain think...

I don't see why you would willingly submit yourself to the torture that is "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (not the other way around).

That book was pure torture, not quite as bad as Scarlet Letter though!

Spunkie

I never read the Scarlett Letter. That's bad, right?

FinsburyParkCarrots

It is, in a TV thread.

igotid88

Most of the shows you guys posted here are funny. Except for Everybody loves Raymond and Frasier. King of Queens has its moments. Notice some shows posted don't have laugh tracks. So you probably need to know your cue.

geishagrrl

I rarely find anything on network television funny but Friends takes the cake, I think, for biggest pile of crap.

angryyoungman

cutback wrote:

the office (american version)

curb your enthusiasm - it's just too mean....i like the softer larry when he was george costanza

king of the hill -can't believe that's still on the air

everybody loves raymond - no they don't

king of queens - riding the coattails of raymond doesn't mean your funny

sex and the city - not funny, never was funny, never will be funny

i dont watch that much tv, in fact there are no shows i watch regularly. . .but for the life of me ive never understood how king of the hill has been on this long. . .the most unfunny piece of dogshit show ive ever seen. . .gaytarded. . .does anyone actually watch that show?

pjfan31

David Letterman. Except for when you know who are playing on it.

xavier mcdaniel

the knicks... actually i do find it more absurd than funny..

PearlJamaholic

angryyoungman wrote:

i dont watch that much tv, in fact there are no shows i watch regularly. . .but for the life of me ive never understood how king of the hill has been on this long. . .the most unfunny piece of dogshit show ive ever seen. . .gaytarded. . .does anyone actually watch that show?

i watched king of the hill. but im with you on it being on so long. dale is great but like the simpsons there is nothing new. everyone once in awhile i catch it when its on in the evening during reruns. but i havent seen a new episode since like the first season. its probably been a year since ive even seen a rerun now.

roar

i can't get into curb your enthusiasm. it's about as funny as jay leno.

PJ_Saluki

"That 70s Show" and "Married With Children." "Roseanne." The Nick Cannon show on MTV. I think it's called "Wild'n Out" or something. It was almost as bad as that Wilmer Valalaldlldlalsldlldlalderrama show with the goofs who told "Yo mama" jokes.

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office" make me laugh. So does "Entourage."