it needs a thread really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFMWXF4FTnE
it needs a thread really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFMWXF4FTnE
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Funny!
Frasier is the greatest comedy ever not named Blackadder
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Patrick,
Like you, my wife and I enjoyed Frasier quite a lot. In fact, my son who was less than ten at the time it was airing, got a few laughs at the show.
One of the few newer TV shows that we could enjoy along with "Everybody Loves Raymond".
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Hmm... not sure I agree with that one.Originally Posted by Patrick_Bateman
Perhaps it's the difference between British and American perspectives, but I find it fairly average. To be fair, it's much better than any other American comedy I've seen, but it falls short of most of the pantheon of British comedy from the last half-century. Though perhaps the Americans here would disagree with me.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Sorry, I have to strictly disagree. The best comedy ever was, is and will be the one and only "Cheers".
Even Frasier himself was a bit funnier in it than in his own series.
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I agree with Loe, Cheers was better by far, but Frasier is very funny and I have recently been re-watching it via internet.... always a good entertainment
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Does anyone (or, did anyone) watch the sitcom Frasier? I have always liked the show, but as the years go by, I like how I get more and more of the literature jokes and cultural references. Just yesterday there was a reference to Scheherazade.
I think Frasier really is the funniest American sitcom ever done, aside from Seinfeld. It really got bogged down in the whole Daphne/Niles story line of later seasons. It's a wonderful celebration of high culture, while also justly mocking it. The final season had some hilarious episodes, though. I think Frasier was much funnier, particularly much wittier, than Cheers was.
As to it being better or worse than British comedy . . . I think the two are so different it's hard to even begin to decide definitively which one is "better." Two completely different types of humor. I love both, though.
Also, Lok, have you ever seen an episode of Seinfeld (not from the first or second season, that is)?
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Canadian comedy is more British than American, I think. We're big fans of sketches and impossible situations.
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I haven't, I'm afraid. My housemates had Curb Your Enthusiasm on the TV the other night, which I understand is somehow related to it - I wasn't particularly impressed with the few minutes of it I saw.
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Haha, I think that to most North Americans, the idea of never having seen an episode of Seinfeld is the equivalent of never having seen the sun.
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I've never seen Seinfeld, Frasier, or Cheers... not one episode.
the equivalent of never having seen the sun?
...hmmm, not in my book!
I've watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I don't get the hype. The main character is just annoying. The only thing it seems to have in common is that absurd situations the main character gets in . . . but the same could be said of almost any American comedy show. Still, check out Seinfeld if you get the chance.
Kramer has to be one of the greatest television characters of all time.
P.S. Check out the very end here, because it's great and the above clip cuts it off early.
Well, it is pretty hard to avoid, as it's shown multiple times on multiple stations.
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No one in my family watches television, so I miss most of these unless I pick them up as DVD sets from the library.
Because I recalled people mentioning it in other posts, I checked out a season's worth of the The Big Bang Theory yesterday and found it amusing. South Park and Family Guy are also pretty good. One thing about getting these from the library is you skip the commercials.
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