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Thread #28473 Message #354510
Posted By: Mrs.Duck
10-Dec-00 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Your attitudes toward 'what's funny'.
Subject: RE: Your attitudes toward 'what's funny'.
I think some of the best comedy shows/films are the ones where the humour is not based on jokes or slapstick but just on the way characters live. Prime example being the Royle family with Caroline Aherne where nothing actually happens at all. Films like the Full Monty mix humour and sadness and had me in tears on both counts. Tragedy and comedy are often close. Things that are over done leave me cold so I have never got on with Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom or The League of Gentlemen. Having said that I loved Monty Python simply because it was so off the wall.