[SOC] Talking Brit

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:31:35 -0500

Personaly I don't find comedies without a laugh track (or live studio
audiences laughing) very amusing.  If you were to take the exact same show
and make two copies, one with laughs and one without, I'd probably laugh
myself to tears on the laugh track copy and mildly snicker at the other.

Of course, laugh tracks do and don't have their place.  You wouldn't want to
hear the sounds of an audience laughing on ER when a doc kills someone would
ya? :^)

72/73/oo
Rob, w0jrm

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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Bartlett <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Talking Brit

> I hope the sentiment gets over, but one of the things that seems
> to me to separate British and American humo(u)r  is summed up
> by the fact that in the States, it was deemed necessary to broadcast
> M.A.S.H. with a 'laugh' track.
>
> I've just watched the final episode (again....got it on tape) and I
> understand that Alan Alda insisted that it be broadcast in the US
> without the laughs. In the UK, we wouldn't really have noticed the
> difference since the BBC never broadcast the laugh track anyway.
>
> It' was/is very very funny and very very sad as were most episodes.
>
> Comments?
>
> Paul#529
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Redding" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 7:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Talking Brit
>
>
> > That sounds like Eddie Izzard, who is a self-confessed 'mild'
> transvestite,
> > although he is not gay.
> > We have a tradition of that sort of thing here, but I don't know whether
> is
> > crosses the pond well. It's a bit like trying to explain Pantomime or
> 'Carry
> > On' films to a foreigner.
> >
> > We also have a few other 'drag' acts. If you can, catch Lily Savage, who
> > plays the 'Antichrist' of Danny LaRue. Lily Savage (Played by a man
called
> > Paul O'Grady) is a well time-expired Liverpool prostitute with language
to
> > match. Would be on VERY late on US TV. (Here we have 'the
> watershed'...it's
> > clean until 9pm, then the gloves come off and almost anything can be
> shown.
> > Of course we are lucky in only having one time zone here).
> >
> > I can't believe they are still showing Benny Hill...Not one of my
> favourites
> > to be honest.
> >
> > Keep it coming.
> >
> > Chris G4PDJ
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jan <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 5:41 PM
> > Subject: [SOC] Talking Brit
> >
> >
> > > Chris - I was eagerly awaiting a response to that one and I commend
you
> > for
> > > your self-control (Jerry Springer IS a low blow, however... although
he
> IS
> > > ours.... blush). I'm trying to remember the name of the little guy
whose
> > > show I've seen a couple of times who wears women's clothes and
obsesses
> > > about sex a lot
> >
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