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Post by jarmo on May 3, 2006 13:24:12 GMT 2
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Post by CrazyMary on May 3, 2006 13:41:18 GMT 2
Nice topic, jarmo.
Australian comedy TV is pretty much dead in the water these days. There was good comedy in the 90's, like Full Frontal (launched the very hot Eric Bana) and Fast Forward. Our latest offering, Kath and Kim, is successful overseas (so I hear) but not really my taste. Comedy doesn't seem to get programmed on free-to-air TV, we get a lot of locally duplicated US shows like Survivor, Next Top Supermodel or Biggest Loser.
I've always had a fondness for the dry, sarcastic humour of the British. Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, The Goodies, Father Ted and more recently Peep Show.
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Post by DaveTheRake on May 3, 2006 13:47:57 GMT 2
I see almost no Tv, but if I've got to say my prefferences in comedy I'd say:
Los Muñecos del Guiñol: it's a 5 minutes review to the news of the day; it's hilarious. there appear puppets that are different real people, form the Spanish prime minister, to bullfighters, footbal players, actresses and of course Geroge Bush, Condi Rice, the Pope etc etc. The puppet that shows it is Michael Robinson, an tv presenter in Spanish who was a football player in the eighties in Liverpool Fc; he signed for a Spanish team, Osasuna, and made his life here.
The Simpsons
Doctor House: my last discovery in Tv. I love this program, I fall to the floor with Doctor House; and the actress playing the role of Cameron is the most gorgeous actress I've seen lately.
La Noche Hache: Tv magazine at nights. I almost never watch it since it begin at 00.00; but it's a great show;also it makes a review of news of the day, but in an ironic tone I love.
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Post by HerraHirwi on May 3, 2006 14:31:15 GMT 2
My absolutely famous comedy series was Finnish soap opera Salatut elämät (in English it would be something like "Hided lifes"). And yes it was namely a comedy, because of it's funny characters and brilliant oneliners. It was my favourite comedy serie for about five years, but it isn't anymore, as it repeats itself and one can guess all the time what's gonna happen and there isn't a funny characters and good onliners anymore. One of the best characters was absolutely Aki Nikkinen (Sami Uotila), who was a little rascal with rat's moral. For him was always the best dialogues written, as he talked himself all the time out of the problems with words filled with black humour and fuck offs. Ie. in one episode where he was in jail, he was throwing darts in the exercise yard. One big long-haired guy went before him and took the darts off from the dartboard. There was such a dialogue: Aki Nikkinen: Hei heviletti! Anna tikat tänne! (Hey heavy-haired guy! Give the darts to me!) A guy gives a bad eye to Nikkinen. Everybody thinks that there's gonna be fight soon. Aki Nikkinen: Hei kuulitsä, Ossi Ospourne! Anna tikat tänne! (Hey did you hear me talking, Ozzy Ozbourne! Give the darts to me) A guy snarls and then gives the darts back and Aki can continue with throwing darts. The other comedy series I've watched, there are many of them. Finnish sketch-series I can tell Kummeli, Pulttibois, Pulkkinen, Studio Julmahuvi, Trabant Express and Vintiöt. Foreign TV-series I've watched Married with Children, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Ren and Stimpy and stuff like that. Black humour is the best humour!  |
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Post by TomS on May 3, 2006 17:25:21 GMT 2
Almost everything British: Little Britain, Fawlty Towers, The Fast Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Black Adder, Coupling, Allo!Allo!, Keeping Up Appearances, ... Or some Belgian series like: Het Eiland (The Island), In de Gloria (In Glory), Buiten de Zone (Outside the Zone), ... And ofcourse, my alltime favourites, cartoons! The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants (Yeah, I know  ), Invader Zim (see my Avatar ), (old) Disney, etc... |
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Post by jarmo on May 3, 2006 17:36:43 GMT 2
Black humour is the best humour! Then you almost HAVE to see League of Gentlemen... It is pure black humour. Some guy from outside the village comes to the Local shop (which actually is some distance from the village) and the shop keeper asks if he is local. He is not so they burn him (you see him stoking a fire)... In a later scene, a police officer comes to the shop. Interrogates the shop keepers and they tell they don't know anything from the buy. Then, when the police officer is leaving, one shop keeper shouts: "We didn't burn him!!!" And another scene: A boy runs towards an ice cream van. The ice seller gives him an ice cream, boy pays. There is some red topping on the cream. And the boy says: I didn't ask for sauce. Then the ice seller tells him he didn't put sauce on. Then the camera zooms out, and it reveals the nosebleed of the ice cream seller. Al characters of the serie are cruel/weird characters. Most of them can be quite freaky. Los Muñecos del Guiñol: it's a 5 minutes review to the news of the day; it's hilarious. there appear puppets that are different real people, form the Spanish prime minister, to bullfighters, footbal players, actresses and of course Geroge Bush, Condi Rice, the Pope etc etc. The puppet that shows it is Michael Robinson, an tv presenter in Spanish who was a football player in the eighties in Liverpool Fc; he signed for a Spanish team, Osasuna, and made his life here. It's a bit like the English "Spitting Image"? |
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Post by TomS on May 3, 2006 17:45:02 GMT 2
I forgot Black Books in my list. Great series!
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Post by bearclaw on May 4, 2006 3:11:02 GMT 2
Nice topic, jarmo. Australian comedy TV is pretty much dead in the water these days. There was good comedy in the 90's, like Full Frontal (launched the very hot Eric Bana) and Fast Forward. Our latest offering, Kath and Kim, is successful overseas (so I hear) but not really my taste. Comedy doesn't seem to get programmed on free-to-air TV, we get a lot of locally duplicated US shows like Survivor, Next Top Supermodel or Biggest Loser. I've always had a fondness for the dry, sarcastic humour of the British. Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, The Goodies, Father Ted and more recently Peep Show. |
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Post by bearclaw on May 4, 2006 3:15:03 GMT 2
Nice topic, jarmo. Australian comedy TV is pretty much dead in the water these days. There was good comedy in the 90's, like Full Frontal (launched the very hot Eric Bana) and Fast Forward. Our latest offering, Kath and Kim, is successful overseas (so I hear) but not really my taste. Comedy doesn't seem to get programmed on free-to-air TV, we get a lot of locally duplicated US shows like Survivor, Next Top Supermodel or Biggest Loser. I've always had a fondness for the dry, sarcastic humour of the British. Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, The Goodies, Father Ted and more recently Peep Show. You not wrong, comedy here is pretty woeful... a bit like our metal scene too. The british stuff is much better |
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Post by DaveTheRake on May 4, 2006 11:22:52 GMT 2
It's a bit like the English "Spitting Image"? Well, I don't know that program, but I know that Los Guiñoles were inspired on a tv program at the BBC which was not broadcasted anymore on 1996 after more than 10 years on the air; I'm sorry but I don't remember it's name, but it was something like "puppets" Here is a pic of former Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar as portrayed in Los Guiñoles  Maybe that's a clue  |
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Post by jarmo on May 4, 2006 14:21:24 GMT 2
Yup, then it was Spitting image:  |
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Post by Hiding on May 4, 2006 16:47:02 GMT 2
Haha, there were such program in Russia too in the beginning of 90-s. And all characters were recording by the only one actor. It was rather funny and treated politicians very critically ;D
I don't know if it was made by BBC-idea, but it seems to me that it was original
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Post by teuton on May 4, 2006 19:31:43 GMT 2
SIMPSONS! Definetely.
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Post by ♥Saawaaah13™ on May 4, 2006 19:41:52 GMT 2
Simpsons and Little Britain!!!! |
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Post by Olli The Drunk Bear on May 4, 2006 19:58:31 GMT 2
Quintuplets is my fave becuase some of the kids are so funny at what they do, it is hard to explain. You should have to see for yourself really |
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