On 19 Oct 2005 20:12:20 -0700, "marika"
wrote:
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>k wrote:
>> John Cleese, I take it, is a Brit who fancies himself as funny?
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>I have watched him. He's cute. He used to be on Thurs nights on that
>Will and Grace, .
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>That and Dexter's lab were some of my all time favorites.
>
>nowadays all the work he is getting is sitting in someone's lap on the
>subway while drinking a cup of tea. i think he's shilling some sort of
>audio equipment.
>
>read an interview with comic book artist of Sin City, He said the movie
>is very faithful to his oeuvre
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>
>mk5000
No-one from the British Isles or Australia could possibly
have written that. To us, that's about as accurate as it
would be if you inserted Seinfeld, or Carson, or Aykroyd, or
Murray, or Candy, or Newhart in lieu of Cleese. I think I
struggled through three episodes of an unfunny Seinfeld,
although I thought Newhart and Sherman were hilarious many
years before. And I loved John Candy.
Obviously, you never saw any Python sketches, or the "Life
of Brian" or "The Meaning of Life" or a multitude of other
Python works - or "A Fish Called Wanda".
Humour is in the mind of the listener or viewer. As an
Australian who grew up listening to, and watching, British
humour and then saw a gradual swamping of our media with
American humor, it's quite obvious that a significant
proportion of the British and American audiences find their
respective transatlantican humour incomprehensible or just
unfunny.
We seem to be able to "get" both here - although I must
admit I'm biased towards the Python side of the pond.
Cheers, Alan, Australia |