Ah. My mum used to love I Love Lucy.
Personally, I preferred to sneak over to a friends and watch the simpsons.

So you hated I Love Lucy....

Mmmm.



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I didn't hate it as such. I just didn't consider it funny enough to bother switching on the television.

Oh. I don't know the show myself but it sounds like most "comedies".



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

1950's slapstick comedy series starring Lucielle Ball, who although startlingly savvy herself enjoyed playing the bimbo.

50's slapstick? Uh-oh.

I prefer the radio slapstick of the Goons. At least it's clever.



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Hear hear!

We can both be stuffy old fuddy-duddies about this one. Nothing better than comedy snobbery among consenting adults.

Well. I am an adult but I'm still only 18....

But yes. Let's be snobby.

I hear that the Goon Show is still broadcast in Oz?



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

No, alas. But I have cds :)

And I'm not all that much older than you (well, maybe from your perspective I am) but we can still be patronising and pompous if we really try!

Patronising and pompous about comedy? That sounds funny.

Let's try it. You start.



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Gotta say I love I Love Lucy, but if you could see most of the comedies here in the States these days, you wouldn't need to work to be pompous and patronizing…

I know. We see a lot of them in SA. Load of tripe mostly.

I prefer British humour. (And spelling...)



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Speaking of which, I always wondered how the gag about needing to conserve u's and passing it off as a regional quirk of language played out to an audience who weren't raised with extra vowels.

As an aside, I got to have great fun last week, provoking the US woman in one of my classes by persistantly mis-spelling words in an assignment I presented to the class (I tried to avoid the letter u at all costs).
She's fiercely defensive of Webster spelling, my daily dose of schadenfreude was watching the tics dance across her reddening face like epileptic tarantella dancers.

Always made sense to me. Of course, I read enough British literature to be pretty familiar with the (to my mind) extraneous u's they use.

Schadenfreude! Yay! Now I'll be singing Avenue Q songs all day!

Schadenfreude?

"Happiness at the misfortune of others"

There's a song in the musical Avenue Q about it, where they list off different bad things that can happen to people and how it makes them feel better in comparison.

Shameful joy.
But it's hard to shame this kitten.

From Martin, back again

" As an aside, I got to have great fun last week, provoking the US woman in one of my classes by persistantly mis-spelling words in an assignment I presented to the class (I tried to avoid the letter u at all costs)."

Brilliant. I love the anology with the tarantella dancers btw.... Just beautiful.

But that's a good question. How do the Herns take the gag abot not having the letter " "?


:D



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