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Because I don't think it's particularly well-written, and if that is the best thing that you've seen for ages, it suggests that there are a lot of pretty unfunny comedy series out there (the terrible "Miranda" springs to mind).
We are being the fun police today aren't we? Can we please have an approved list of things to find funny please. :) :( ;P :-D :rolleyes: :cool::rose::thumbsup::thumbsdown::mad::confused: :doh: :( :^) :sigh: Various smiley things there to try and indicate that I am not being serious.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Because I don't think it's particularly well-written, and if that is the best thing that you've seen for ages, it suggests that there are a lot of pretty unfunny comedy series out there (the terrible "Miranda" springs to mind).
I have to admit that I laugh at pretty much anything but this is well written (apart from one episode in series 4), the characters are plainly enjoying it and Lee Mack clearly knows how to deliver a line. Besides, my wife doesn't laugh at anything. Except this so it must be funny. :)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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We are being the fun police today aren't we? Can we please have an approved list of things to find funny please. :) :( ;P :-D :rolleyes: :cool::rose::thumbsup::thumbsdown::mad::confused: :doh: :( :^) :sigh: Various smiley things there to try and indicate that I am not being serious.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Sorry, I've got a headache and feel grumpy. I will shut up.
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Because I don't think it's particularly well-written, and if that is the best thing that you've seen for ages, it suggests that there are a lot of pretty unfunny comedy series out there (the terrible "Miranda" springs to mind).
Last of the truly funny sitcoms was the Thin Blue Line. DI Grim : "My Arse's on the Line, and I don't want a c0ck up" Ispector Fowler : "Of course not!" DI Grim : "Remember Fowler, Your C0ck up, My Arse!" Classic!
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I have to admit that I laugh at pretty much anything but this is well written (apart from one episode in series 4), the characters are plainly enjoying it and Lee Mack clearly knows how to deliver a line. Besides, my wife doesn't laugh at anything. Except this so it must be funny. :)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
digital man wrote:
Besides, my wife doesn't laugh at anything.
:( I'd find that hard to cope with!
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Sorry, I've got a headache and feel grumpy. I will shut up.
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Last of the truly funny sitcoms was the Thin Blue Line. DI Grim : "My Arse's on the Line, and I don't want a c0ck up" Ispector Fowler : "Of course not!" DI Grim : "Remember Fowler, Your C0ck up, My Arse!" Classic!
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Last of the truly funny sitcoms was the Thin Blue Line. DI Grim : "My Arse's on the Line, and I don't want a c0ck up" Ispector Fowler : "Of course not!" DI Grim : "Remember Fowler, Your C0ck up, My Arse!" Classic!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Humour is a very personal thing, and if no-one found things funny they wouldn't watch and they wouldn't keep getting made. Not Going Out was cancelled and then resurrected after a petition. I used to love Green Wing[^] which is currently being repeated on GOLD. There is a new program from them Campus[^] the second of which is on Channel 4 tonight which I thought started well last week. For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Humour is a very personal thing, and if no-one found things funny they wouldn't watch and they wouldn't keep getting made. Not Going Out was cancelled and then resurrected after a petition. I used to love Green Wing[^] which is currently being repeated on GOLD. There is a new program from them Campus[^] the second of which is on Channel 4 tonight which I thought started well last week. For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
+5 for that! I'm not much one for picking the greatest of anything, but I agree that Porridge is truly one of the all-time great sit-coms. "With these bad feet...?!" Marvellous :-D
Cheers,
Wilber."I was fortunate to be raised among men, in the old sense of the word. I learned to hunt and shoot, and I learned to appreciate fine guns." - Ted Yost
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Humour is a very personal thing, and if no-one found things funny they wouldn't watch and they wouldn't keep getting made. Not Going Out was cancelled and then resurrected after a petition. I used to love Green Wing[^] which is currently being repeated on GOLD. There is a new program from them Campus[^] the second of which is on Channel 4 tonight which I thought started well last week. For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
It was very good, but I'd have to put Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister as the best (even better, for me, than Fawlty Towers).
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
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Humour is a very personal thing, and if no-one found things funny they wouldn't watch and they wouldn't keep getting made. Not Going Out was cancelled and then resurrected after a petition. I used to love Green Wing[^] which is currently being repeated on GOLD. There is a new program from them Campus[^] the second of which is on Channel 4 tonight which I thought started well last week. For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Green Wing and Porridge were excellent. I'll have to check out Campus, if it gets close to Green Wing it'll be well worth watching even if it doesn't have Tamsin Grieg. :(
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ChrisElston wrote:
For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
It was very good, but I'd have to put Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister as the best (even better, for me, than Fawlty Towers).
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
With a name like O'Hanlon I would've though a vote for Father Ted might be more appropriate? ;) For what it's worth I think Father Ted is a work of genius, definitely my favourite. Andy B
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ChrisElston wrote:
For me personally the greatest sit-com ever was Porridge. Wonderfully written and beautifully played.
+5 for that! I'm not much one for picking the greatest of anything, but I agree that Porridge is truly one of the all-time great sit-coms. "With these bad feet...?!" Marvellous :-D
Cheers,
Wilber."I was fortunate to be raised among men, in the old sense of the word. I learned to hunt and shoot, and I learned to appreciate fine guns." - Ted Yost
I started watching them again from the start recently, and the second or third episode was just Fletch and Godber in their cell talking through the night. No-one else at all. Incredible writing to pull that off, and so soon into a new show too.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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With a name like O'Hanlon I would've though a vote for Father Ted might be more appropriate? ;) For what it's worth I think Father Ted is a work of genius, definitely my favourite. Andy B
Loved Father Ted, "if it goes above 3 miles an hour Dougal, it'll explode", but the Jim Hacker series were superbly written and even better acted.
I'm not a stalker, I just know things. Oh by the way, you're out of milk.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
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I started watching them again from the start recently, and the second or third episode was just Fletch and Godber in their cell talking through the night. No-one else at all. Incredible writing to pull that off, and so soon into a new show too.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Gave my brother in law the dvd set for xmas a couple of years back (it must have been around 2005 - I've been in France for 4 years this year!) and spent one of the best christmas days ever watching them one after the other... I remember that episode and you're right, the writing's top-notch. But the acting... I'd have listened to the pair of them reading the phone book... I was all the more astonished the first time I heard Barker talking in his "real" voice - a very middle class English chap stylee - he really "became" Fletch... a timeless classic :) If the dvds hadn't been shrink wrapped I'd have knocked off a quick copy before I handed them over ;)
Cheers,
Wilber."I was fortunate to be raised among men, in the old sense of the word. I learned to hunt and shoot, and I learned to appreciate fine guns." - Ted Yost
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digital man wrote:
Besides, my wife doesn't laugh at anything.
:( I'd find that hard to cope with!
Ah, yes, perhaps a teency clarification: she doesn't tend to laugh out loud unless it is rip-roaringly hilarious or very, very witty.
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