[SOC] Talking Brit

Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:15:22 +0100

Ah, well..We're obviously a world (or at least an ocean...) apart here, Rob.
It's not a good idea to generalise on the basis of a single example but
M.A.S.H
is/was a superb series with dark humour, wit and an incredibly talented cast
and writer(s). It simply did not need a laugh track.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Matherly" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Talking Brit

> 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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