Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Joe said:
A BBC series I liked was Ambassadors. Bit annoyed it was only three episodes.
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Bit like how Some Girls was only six episodes :'(

The very lovely Mrs Godders came back from town yesterday with a copy of "All the Saints" and I am astonished at the players I had forgotten had played for us and most of them were recent. Is that an age thing as I can name most of our team for games played 40 years ago but struggle with some of the players who were with us under the "Horrible Evil One" and his mate Askham.
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If it's any consolation, I can barely remember any of the players that played for Portsmouth last season. Although that's partly because we used about 50 different players over the season.
 
Found a stream which shows back to back episodes of Seinfeld. I remember finding it funny when it was on in the 1990's, but I'd forgotten how funny I'd actually found it. It was one of the reasons why I never got into Friends. In comparison, this was actually very well written comedy performed by consummate actors.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Found a stream which shows back to back episodes of Seinfeld. I remember finding it funny when it was on in the 1990's, but I'd forgotten how funny I'd actually found it. It was one of the reasons why I never got into Friends. In comparison, this was actually very well written comedy performed by consummate actors.
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I like the canned laughter. It lets you know when you're supposed to laugh.
 
TheSecondStain said:
I think they stopped canned laughter decades ago. A comedy has to be funny enough. If people are not laughing then the show gets canned, not the other way around.
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I was being a little flippant. That's actually what Ricky Gervais says to Larry David re Seinfield in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
 
Modern Life is Rubbish said:
I was being a little flippant. That's actually what Ricky Gervais says to Larry David re Seinfield in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Yeah, I guessed you were but I couldn't resist writing my reply. :)

Never got into Curb Your Enthusiasm, even though I knew it had all the ingredients to be great. These days I can't do that scheduled thing of being around when a TV/radio programme comes on. I blame the iPlayer for starting that, and the further side effect is that by not being locked-in to a schedule, I tend to not bother to watch any of it. Hence, I occasionally miss the stuff that's actually worth watching.
 
If you're watching a sitcom and you notice they always film the set from such an angle that there's one wall you never see (the big apartment in Friends, for example) it's because there is no wall there and there is in fact a studio audience.
 
Joe said:
If you're watching a sitcom and you notice they always film the set from such an angle that there's one wall you never see (the big apartment in Friends, for example) it's because there is no wall there and there is in fact a studio audience.
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Indeed. The thing I can't stand about all American comedy [Seinfeld included] is that there is inevitably a sofa which faces the studio audience, and years ago the actors would all line up in a row with their feet all toeing an imaginary line, while facing the audience. Thankfully, British situation comedy has never suffered from that. Even the worst ITV crap hasn't suffered from that, and they've suffered from a lot. Quality being amongst them. :)
 
TheSecondStain said:
They don't can laughter. They stopped doing it in the late 60's.

EDIT: I must admit, I don't quite know why I'm making such a point about this..! :D
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Oh yeah, by canned laughter I meant a laughter track in general. I think the only FT episode which wasn't in front of a live audience was the last one in case someone had a fear of rats!
 
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