I remember posting it on the original forum back when it won. There was also...
Guy walks into a bar and walks up to a young man sitting in a group around a table. He pokes the guy's shoulder and says 'HEY! I fucked your mom.' The young man just brushes it off and goes back to what he's doing. A few minutes later, he comes back again 'HEY! I fucked your mom.... in the ass!' Once more, the man at the table shrugs it off and goes back to his conversation. Finally a few minutes more pass and the man walks up again, smacks the man at the table in the back of the head and says 'I'm going to fuck your mom again.' Finally, the young gentleman at the table stands up, turns around and says 'go home Dad you're drunk.'
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Debated putting this in the telly thread but it's more about funny things, or unfunny things as the case may be.
On one of my rare forays into telly watching, I noticed ads promoting a show called Mrs Brown's Boys. Â My immediate thought was "You can't be serious Channel 7" and upon viewing a few clips of the show and reading a few accounts of it my initial reaction seems accurate.
I got to reading about its genesis and how it won a BAFTA after being 20 years in the making. Seems it's been enormously successful and that is doubtless the reason why it's been picked up here, rather than any qualitative one.
It looks to be the kind of comedy that inspires its fans to unleash "Whaddya mean ya don't fookin' like it ya fookin' snob" on the poor soul who claims he doesn't like it because it's dumb. Â It appears to be a Catherine Tate Nan sketch extended to 25 minutes, only less appealing and with less creative swearing (but more of it). Â Clearly it appeals to someone though. Â
I expect it will be incredibly successful here because as a rule we don't have much of a collective head for comedy. Â There have been a few exceptions but on the whole, cookie cutter setup-punchline-laugh imported comedy like Two and a Half Men seems to dominate prime time television in this country.
So, impressions? Â Have you seen it and laughed to tell the tale? Â If you're reading this Bugul, our sitcom idea seems to have already been made.
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I don't understand the appeal either. Unfunny shite, but there are a few chaps at work going mad for it. Same goes for Two and a Half Men and Catherine fucking Tate, except even the chaps from work won't watch them.
Is that the Brendan O Carroll thing? He's been flogging that for a hundred yeats it seems, the unfunny little cunt. It's the kind of humour your granny thought was risque and should have died with Benny Hill. I saw the little bastard in the street in Dublin once, was tempted to kick him in the arse.
I've been reading some reviews and associated comments. Â Reviled by critics but loved by scores of plebs. Â If you don't like it then you are apparently snooty, pretentious, have no sense of humour and are too politically correct, as if they know what that actually means. Â A stark reminder of the cultural divide within cultures then.
As keeps popping up, it's like a real life When The Whistle Blows.
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Yer read that. Seems to be the basis for the telly show, the theatre elements.
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I watched that a couple of times. Â It seems awfully proud of the format it has invented. Â Because, you see, the lead character, that feisty woman who calls a spade a fucking spade, is PLAYED BY A MAN! Â A man, I say! Â Ah ha ha ha ha HAAAAAA! Â Fucking brilliant. Â A man playing a woman. Â Comedy genius. Â And look, they film it in front of a live studio audience, so when the actors corpse or through in the occasional unscripted knob-gag or fart joke, it's EVEN FUNNIER.
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It's the biggest pile of shite ever. There was one guy at work who I'd always suspected was borderline retarded, once he told me he loved that show I had the confirmation.
In unrelated news: I watched Tim Minchin at the Sydney Op House with the SSO again.
pretty freakin amazing.
Dude is very funny, very clever, and writes some genuinely catchy/awesome tunes. Has a really good voice, and manages to write some genuinely moving stuff as well. White wine in the sun turns me into a gibbering girlie man.
i know quite a few people who find Mrs Brown's Boys hilarious, which has led to me having to watch more than my fair share of episodes...the problem is it's all seemingly setup to convince this Brendan guy he's the funniest thing on the planet, so the entire cast and crew exist only to laugh and giggle 'out of script' at every single thing he says and does, whether it's funny, obvious, or mostly just not funny. Â and then they play the 'we're just actors on a set card', and you think 'kind of funny...', then they do it 5 times every episode and you think 'idiots'.
I saw the condom clip and a few others. It doesn't seem to have... jokes. There was a sort of maybe almost joke, the underwear one; this only came after what the audience treated as a joke but was in fact just a reasonable answer to a question. When she mentioned having to get them out of her handbag, the audience exploded as though this was the most inventive bit of misdirection ever committed to paper and how amazing to follow up a line as funny as the previous one with such unexpected genius.Â
I do not understand why they were laughing, I don't. I mean I do, as this is surface level comedy (the likes of which I've never seen and I've seen early 2000s Aussie sketch shows) and there's clearly a market for non-thinking comedy (hello Hangover), but it does not justify its own existence in any way that I can see. The waving his/her head around following the one eyed robber 'joke' was cringe inducing. I say again, it just doesn't seem to have any actual jokes in it. It's just a man dressed as an old lady who says feck a lot. If I was watching it from far away with the sound down to a low murmur, it might resemble something comedic. Up close it's two forks in the eye.
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it's peer pressure! Â the 'audience' laugh, the crew laugh, the cast laugh...therefore it must be funny, so people laugh cos they don't want to think they don't get the joke! Â i'm pretty sure the audio commentary on the DVD will be Brendan O'whatever repeatedly screaming "This is funny, LAUGH! Â This is funny, LAUGH!"