National sense of humours are a very curious thing. Individual sense of humours are even weirder. For instance my American friends find Blackadder boring...
I laugh at it, but I always feel guilty afterwards. By far the funniest bits are his ad libs when something goes completely wrong, like when one of the cameras came through the window.
Raising Hope has made me laugh recently, but I don't tend to watch too many American comedies at the moment. I used to like Cheers and Frasier was good for a while - There are so many though, so I suppose it helps if you've got plenty of time to check them out and sift the quality out of the dross
Not really PM. I once watched every episode of the Prisoner during a 20 hr marathon session, with a little chemical assistance - I wasn't sure if I'd seen what I thought I'd seen by the end, but I confirmed it later when I watched it again. I suppose I must stay straighter than it feels at the time. Back to Boosh, pure genius, and I don't tink there is a single episode that I haven't laughed out loud whilst watching. Noel's solo project recently was indulgent nonsense however and I just didn't get it.
Atleast i'm not the only one! Friday Night Lights was only screened on ITV2 I think back a few years ago but never continued, so great to see Sky Atlantic picking it up - the book by H.G Bissinger is even better and is a fantastic insight into the US small town and its support of school football. Easily one of the best sports books i've ever read and it's up there with a book on Ian Wooldridge i'm reading right now.
There's a question PM, this whole reality that I think I'm experiencing could be part of a trip I'm still on, and that it's actually still 1984!
Shameless is a really well made show as well,I don't watch it a lot as it's a bit strange,but it looks really realistic.
The Ricky Gervais show is awful, three self-indulgent idiots spouting rubbish. And you know what else was awful? An idiot abroad. It's like FFS, you're doing things people can only dream of and yet all you do is whinge and complain, shut the **** up!
Both are just insights into one hilariously simple man's life. Ricky Gervais might have a rather enormous ego, but I agree with him on most of the things he says, and he's a very smart man. Merchant and Pilkington are two of the least self-indulgent people you could ever find. I can't help but think you're missing the point of these shows if Karl's whinging just annoys you.
It's more on an Idiot Abroad that his whinging annoys me considering all the amazing stuff he does which he doesn't seem to appreciate one bit and I'd love to see the Great Wall of China for example or do some of the other amazing things he did, as would most people I'd imagine.
