The TV Quiz Show Thread

BlueMoonAcrossThePond said:
UK humor and US humor are different - but I'm pretty sure there are numerous US comedy shows which you'd enjoy.

Curb your enthusiasm?
Seinfeld?
News Radio?
Everybody Loves Raymond?

News Radio is a special gem - probably my favorite comedy. It didn't last long though (2 years?) due to, I think, poor ratings for whatever reason.

And the Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that you didn't enjoy - I guess requires inside knowledge about Jeopardy and maybe Norm MacDonald. SNL is very hit-and-miss though - sometimes it's great, but mostly it's just not funny.

As an American, I'm a fan of some - but not all - popular UK comedy, e .g., Fawlty Towers. Some of Monty Python is very funny to me. Cunk on Britain and the other Cunk stuff is great. But many popular UK comedy shows I just don't get, e.g., Blackadder.

We're two nations divided by a common language.
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It’s just choice, I don’t like a lot of our middle class “comedies”. Tried watching Everyone Loves Raymond, completely unfunny to me, will give Curb Your Enthusiasm a go but not expecting anything to change my mind
 
dronefromsector7G said:
Lots of the humour in Frasier was very English in my eyes. Classic farce episodes like the ski lodge, Frasier being courted by the gay man. Also lots innuendo regarding Niles and Daphne. To write a whole country off comedy wise is bizarre. Probably never watch most of their shows, and probably like Miranda and Two pints of lager
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If you’re referring to my post I did say I’m not a fan of middle class comedy such as Miranda.

I like working class and dark humour, Early Doors, Fools, Men Behaving Badly, League of Gentlemen and Blackadderbeing amongst my favourites. Never liked slap stick comedy or unobservant lazy programmes reserved for Saturday nights.

Outstanding comedy from years ago like Hancocks half hour, Steptoe, Fawlty Towers and Dad’s Army were truly original and groundbreaking.

I’ve not seen any of this generation comedy that ticks any boxes for me, proper shite but I’ll stick to my original observation that most US comedies are utter dross but I did love MASH and could enjoy Cheers and Taxi but the latter two were a bit formulaic.
 
hammocity said:
It’s just choice, I don’t like a lot of our middle class “comedies”. Tried watching Everyone Loves Raymond, completely unfunny to me, will give Curb Your Enthusiasm a go but not expecting anything to change my mind
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You are in the swing of it already. Your enthusiasm is well and truly curbed by the sound of it :-)
 
hammocity said:
It’s just choice, I don’t like a lot of our middle class “comedies”. Tried watching Everyone Loves Raymond, completely unfunny to me, will give Curb Your Enthusiasm a go but not expecting anything to change my mind
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For me, Curb is very hit and miss. Long stretches of mundane, not-funny but trying to be so periods, punctuated by episodes of some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen.

Me?

I go on youtube and search for "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - which more often than not, captures the worthwhile scenes.
 
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