>>23039
I haven't "gotten" tv comedy since King of the Hill ended.
90% of the time it's just a series of brightly clothed actors in "totally awkward" situations to justify what people are actually tuning in for - the laugh track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs

>>23040

I was thinking about king of the hill the other day and how grounded and realistic most of the world is and how well developed the characters are.

A lot of sit coms are just endless recycling of the same 1D character joke. Sometimes that joke is good enough to justify a call back but regularly it is just lazy formulaic writing because that's how they get paid and the average tv audience isn't paying enough attention to care they heard the same joke last week when they tuned in.

I think historically there has been a selection process that means the shows with the worst troupes perpetuate. Essentially lowest common denominator, ratings haven't cared how much you are paying attention just as long as you have the tv on that channel. So the the surface level inoffensive and simplistic has thrived. Hopefully streaming services will lead to better comedy as people will have to proactively seek it out rather than it just being the thing someone doesn't change over from after the last show finished.

>>23041
>Hopefully streaming services will lead to better comedy as people will have to proactively seek it out rather than it just being the thing someone doesn't change over from after the last show finished.

I don't know, at work there seems to be quite a few 'Netflix zombies' who are continually asking other people what they should watch and seem to reluctant to face up to the fact that they've already consumed all of the decent content on the platform so will end up watching any old shite just because it's on Netflix.

>>23039
>Ant and Dec, meanwhile, enjoyed their 19th straight NTA success as best presenters.
Can we just create an award just for them so someone else can have a go? Particularly piss-taking given Ant was out of the picture with his ... issues.

Boomer comedy. My dad's obsessed. I suppose it's reminiscent of daft 70s sitcoms like On The Busses or that one with the baldy racist in it.

I can't really talk though, we're not far off my generation's classics like Black Books and Mighty Boosh are coming back around as "classics".

>>23043

If they really wanted to put a cat among the pigeons, they'd create an award for "Best Ant or Dec".

>>23044
I can watch a lot of 'Boomer' comedy, Open All Hours, Dad's Army, Porridge, Rising Damp, Allo Allo, Are You Being Served, etc., but Mrs Brown's Boys is just plain shite.

The people I know who like it tend to be simpletons.

>>23044

The target audience for black books was always the kind of people who described the things they like as classics, and have the power in society to declare it.

Mighty Boosh is pure nostalgia. You liked it as a teenager because your parents thought it was stupid and that made it better now those people haven't reconciled they over hyped it. It is essential the same principle as the young ones. Not that I didn't like both those shows but even as I watched mighty Boosh the first time round I knew most of the audience were drawn in by a 'lol random' of Noel Fielding rather than the charaterisation and Victorian Yarns of Julian Barret. For me it spark an interest in drawing a direct real world parrell with Nathan Barley and Dan Ashcroft with Julian Barret once again being the suffer Auture paired up with a popularist imbacile.

Mrs Brown's Boys in a nutshell:

>>23040
These videos are fucking stupid. It sounds as awful as it does without the laugh track because the performance was timed for its inclusion. It's the pregnant pauses that are unbearable. That's not to say these shows are as funny as their laugh tracks make out, but everyone knows that.

>>23039
How do you even know Mrs Brown's Boys is bad? I've never seen it but you only need to take one look at that promo shot to realise it's a non-starter. All but one of the fuckers are smiling. There's no comedy in light-hearted happy-go-lucky scenarios. You need more misery and misanthropy.

>>23052
9.7 million views on YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjJc8xLYhak

>>23054
9.7 million views by people who can vote.

>>23055
Based off the massive sample size of two people I know who watch it, you can predict with 100% accuracy that people who watch Mrs Brown's Boys consistently vote for the Labour party AND voted remain.
They are however split on the issue of over-hand or under-hand bog rolls.

>>23045
"Best Rehab Session"

Is it worse than Little Britain or Catherine Tate though?

>>23058
There's a couple of reasons I'd prefer Catherine Tate over it.

>>23048
> Mighty Boosh is pure nostalgia. You liked it as a teenager because your parents thought it was stupid and that made it better now those people haven't reconciled they over hyped it. It is essential the same principle as the young ones.

Am I alone in feeling that the young ones came from a similar vein of comedy as Monty Python - rather intelligent people acting very silly?

>>23048
I only discovered the Boosh in my mid to late twenties, and I think it's an extremely well-crafted show. Yes it's easy to think it's just a bunch of lol random silliness, but with repeat viewings you appreciate it's all-round robustness. Well written stories, a variety of excellent characters, its ability to acknowledge subjects that other comedies perhaps wouldn't - the darker sides of life, unfulfilled hopes and dreams of success in a creative endeavor, recreational drug use,... I'm going to have to dig out the DVDs.

>>23059
She is a proper woman. Would, no guilt whatsoever.

>>23048
I'm not so sure. I watched The Mighty Boosh for the characters and music, mainly, not to mention the colour. Forgive me for saying but it sounds like you might be a bit high on your horse. You know Howard Moon was written as a more intelligent version of Juilian Barret, right? And Vince Noir as a stupider version of Noel Fielding?

>>23054
Would have been funny if the guy came in complimenting the smell of the cooking. Everything else.. just no.

I still like The Mighty Boosh but, in an act of typically inadvertent pretention, I think the best series is the radio one. Tragically in the current political climate you can't even quote Bob Fossil's immortal line "I hate whites" without some rabid Thatcherite cancelling you on social media, so that's a shame.

I was never a fan of the boosh but other than having a chuckle at Simon Amstell taking the piss out of Noel's sense of humour I don't really care.

I had a powerful dislike of the Mighty Boosh when I was younger (and I'm sure I must have typed a bunch of angry shite here about it at least once back around the dawn of time) but in retrospect it was just a bunch of silly student bollocks, hardly worth getting worked up over. I think part of it was that Noel Fielding somehow looked a bit too old to be fannying around with shows (and hair) like that, he's probably not a bad bloke in reality but if it turned out he was a nonce all along I wouldn't be too shocked.

I suspect I'd still genuinely despise Little Britain. No interest in checking though.

>>23066
I'm with you on both. I found the Mighty Boost just completely mystifying. Little Britain is just bad.

>>23063

>You know Howard Moon was written as a more intelligent version of Juilian Barret, right? And Vince Noir as a stupider version of Noel Fielding?

From >>23048

>For me it spark an interest in drawing a direct real world parrell with Nathan Barley and Dan Ashcroft with Julian Barret once again being the suffer Auture paired up with a popularist imbacile.

I feel like it was self evident that I knew that information.