It's no contest
It's no contest
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British humour is infinitely funnier than the laugh track pandering American sitcoms.
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Most humor is funnier than a laugh track sitcom. But humor being regional is ... an interesting phenomenon if nothing else. Like yea I enjoyed the hell out of Monty Python as a kid and even now. But ill take the office from Scranton ober the og any day of the week. But I also wouldnt expect peeps from across the pond to feel that way.
Is their anything from that late 90s era early 00s British tv had to compare the chapelle show? Honestly curious, I only have so much knowledge of British humor.
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I don't think laugh track is inherently bad.
But I watched the Big Bang Theory for like the first 3 years, and it just kept devolving into shittier and simpler humour, and like really begging for the laughs with the puns, whereas in Britain it's genuinely considered somewhat important to keep it organic.
Like unfiltered BBC panel shows are just so much more hilarious than an episode of "hey come share laughs over archaic and super over-blown stereotypes".
Whatever cheap shit they've made over at the BBC is usually funnier than overproduced hyper-supervised multi-writer numbers-pleasing BS. I know that's subjective, and I won't die on a hill of "who's the funniest", because that's subjective, but that's my opinion on it.
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It's interesting when America tries to make British panel shows (like the recent HIGNFY one). The competition aspect and the points, which are only a conceit in the British version, start having importance. They care who wins and it destroys the comedy. The right answer becomes more important than the funny answer.
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The Office would like to have a word with you.
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The American version of the office has a visual laugh track, every time a character sideeyes the camera and smirks.
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But it isn’t though.
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Some particular shows are better as Americans versions, I'll not deny that.
I haven't watched either of the Offices, but I have watched the entire American "Shameless" and that was glorious and fitting. The British version I glanced at was really meh. And whilst British comedy in general might be better, good comedy in a bad show is less valuable than mediocre comedy in a good show.
It's like good food. Good side dishes won't completely cover for a bad main dish, but if the main dish is really moorish, you won't care about the side dishes being so-and-so.
Edit also do you like to think your username is pronounced "rhee-ri", or "rhow-eh-ri". People ask me about the pronunciation of mine sometimes and just made me question how you think yours...?
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Fair point.
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do you like to think your username is pronounced "rhee-ri", or "rhow-eh-reh". People ask me about the pronunciation of mine sometimes and just made me question how you think yours...?
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It’s “Rory,” but I’d never thought it could be pronounced any other way until now. Lol.
I’d imagine yours is pronounced: “Dah-suse”?
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“Rory"
Yeah okay that's a simpler way of writing the latter way, then way I thought it probably would be.
Dah-sus is more or less how I imagined it originally yes. Like the "da" from "da man" as in "the" and the "sus" not from the phenomena a few years ago where everything was "sus", but from the Finnish word for wolf, "susi".
I know it's cringe but it was like 2002 when I came up with it.
And I've had friends go "deyh-sus" "deissus", sort of, and I'm comfortable with it, but it's not like how I meant it.
Rory.... Amy relation? (Pun intended.) (so bad-ass btw)
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Love Doctor Who, love Rory, but no. No relation. It’s just a name. Boring, but the truth.
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His completely unabashed boring-ness is what makes him so bad-ass. I bet you'd wait a thousand years for your loved one as well, you bad-ass.
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