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by **milkisobel** on 03 Jun 2011, 23:59

all the big bang crew, especialy the two top ones

by **Jessie** on 04 Jun 2011, 00:02

Jim Parsons is hot. Also loved him in Garden State.

by **ursulabear** on 04 Jun 2011, 00:58

yesplease hot nerds please

by **Weirdelves** on 04 Jun 2011, 01:27

Ugh I hate the Big Bang Theory. Almost as unfunny as Two and a Half Men.

by **Riv** on 04 Jun 2011, 01:58

Adrien Brody!

I liked The Big Bang Theory at first, but once the novelty and cuteness wore off, I've found that it's gotten really gimmicky (just my opinion). The characters are pretty two-dimensional, so I guess it was inevitable that it'd get boring eventually.

My hottie for today... Dustin Hoffman! Although he's definitely far more 'aww! cute!' than hot, but oh well. I really want to meet him and hug him someday. He looks like he'd be a nice guy in real life.

by **Ceb** on 04 Jun 2011, 02:16

by **Weirdelves** on 04 Jun 2011, 10:35

Two and a Half Men is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. The jokes are as weak as a midget made of wet paper in a boxing ring (wow where did that come from), and for long stretches of the show I'll hear the audience's canned laughter and literally have no clue what people are laughing about. It's alright when shows like Friends and Frasier aren't massively funny but are warm and fairly intelligent so very watchable, but these new sitcoms I just don't understand, more often than not I just see no humour there. Same goes for How I Met Your Mother after Season 3 or so.

I wish everyone would watch shows like Arrested Development, 30 Rock and Archer so that cutting humour became the norm for comedy rather than all this shite.

by **milkisobel** on 04 Jun 2011, 10:40

hheeeyyy!!! i just discover it! actually it's kind of entertainment series i like to see at morning before going to work, like the IT crowd, it's easy, of course it's note really well written but it's just fun
@tom alas i don't know any of the series you wrote, have to ask my series master friend

by **Weirdelves** on 04 Jun 2011, 11:02

The IT Crowd is like an infinitely better version of BBT. I love it.

by **Jordan~** on 04 Jun 2011, 11:47

Tom: 30 Rock, Arrested Development and Archer.

I totally agree about 99% of American sitcoms. Why is this canned laughter here? Are some people so well-trained that they assume hilarity is occurring whenever they hear the same stilted, artificial clip of laughter over something so painfully ordinary?
You know what would be funnier? Canned laughter over footage of famines. Because at least that would be dark and horrible enough that you'd have to laugh out of incredulity. Two And A Half Men is worse than footage of dying children with a live soundtrack of real people finding it genuinely hilarious.

by **ursulabear** on 04 Jun 2011, 12:50

[quote=\"Jordan~\"]Tom: 30 Rock, Arrested Development and Archer.

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I love 30 Rock. Arrested Development was so so so so good. Everybody says I look like Maebe. Archer is really funny,. FX does really good sitcoms. I am so in love with \'Always Sunny\'. I have the biggest crush on Charlie Day. \'Community\' is good, too. But you guys are right, \'BBT\' is getting gimicky. I only like it because of the nerd love. But I spend the majority of my time watching Law and Order.

by **Jordan~** on 04 Jun 2011, 12:53

Milki, Archer is wonderful. You should watch it. I can link you to torrents if you like.

Website · by **rainbowdash** on 04 Jun 2011, 13:45

I don't watch much, er, "serious" TV shows at all.
I liked Flight of the Conchords and Pushing Daisies, but I watch mostly cartoons.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. And Young Justice. And a bunch of other stuff on Cartoon Network because that is what all the mature kids watch. I just love cartoons.

Oh, I do like some of the side characters in The Office though.

by **Jordan~** on 04 Jun 2011, 13:48

Archer's a cartoon! But probably not one you should show to children.

Tom, do you find yourself now thinking of Jessica Walter more as Lucille Bluth or as Malory Archer? When I watch AD now, I find myself thinking of her as Malory more than as Lucille.

by **Weirdelves** on 04 Jun 2011, 13:49

Yeah, US comedys seem to have an alternative edge that works better than the mainstream.

Archer is so dark its brilliant. I love the way once you get into it every episode is an endless stream of cruelty and self-referential jokes, about halfway through each episode I can't possibly laugh as much as I want to because the jokes keep coming so thickly. Excellent.

Although Family Guy isn't really that great, I do love American Dad. It's like FG's sharper, smarter older brother. And the new season is fantastic (Greg to Haley "We're fighting as often as well-managed boxers"). Same goes for Futurama, I loved it and the new season is better than anything we've had before. South Park is an old stalwart, always great but I don't tend to watch it on my own, prefer SP when I'm getting high with my flatmates or whatever. Simpsons kinda ran out of jokes a while ago but I think its cultural importance shouldn't be ignored, and it's definitely the warmest of the cartoon group and the only one apart from occasional episodes of Futurama that can really tug at the old heart strings.

In the UK we seem to have a different contrast. We have middle of the road, but still okay sitcoms like Vicar of Dibley and all that. Comfy viewing. And then on the other side instead of going dark, great UK comedies like Black Books, IT Crowd, Father Ted (Graham Linehan much?) are more absurd. Wonder if that reflects on our culture.

by **Jordan~** on 04 Jun 2011, 14:05

We do have some dark, alternative stuff, too, though. The Armando Iannucci shows shouldn't be ignored; or anything Armando Iannucci's worked - most notably, The Thick of It, which I think is among the best comedy produced in the last twenty years. And Stewart Lee's stand-up is wonderfully dark and irreverant.
I think the absurdist humour in UK comedy largely derives from the enormous influence the goons and Monty Python have had on the Footlights and the Oxford Revue, who are the pool from which the BBC draws so many of its comedians, and by extension on the rest of British comedy. The Pythons in particular now loom massively over British comedy. And they've had a lot of influence on absurdist comedy in the US, too - MST3K often references Monty Python, for example.
I think it reflects on our culture in that we've always had a tradition of absurdism in comedy. A lot of Shakespeare's comedies draw from Greco-Roman Old Comedy, Aristophanes has always been a favourite of classicists in the UK. And that kind of bizarre satire's had a lot of influence - Swift, for example. We seem to respond to things being taken to a ridiculous extreme - Stewart Lee's "vomiting into the gaping anus of Christ" routine, which he wrote in response to his being charged with blasphemy during the Jerry Springer: The Opera debacle, springs to mind.

by **ursulabear** on 04 Jun 2011, 14:43

I like family guy, but I was raised in Rhode Island. I watch so many cartoons. Nickelodeon from the 90s (KaBlam!, Angry Beaver, AAAAH! Real Monsters), early 2000s cartoon network (Courage the cowardly dog, because it\'s so dark, Ed Ed &Eddy, and Billy and Mandy, my fave episode being the one with the brain eating meteor, which has a song by one of my favourite musicians), and Flapjack (a show about candy, hallucinogens, beards, the Victorian Era, and homelessness), Adventure Time, and Regular Show. I also reallyreallyreallyreally like good horror, historical, ans steampunk anime.

by **Weirdelves** on 04 Jun 2011, 15:05

Adventure Time is excellent.

by **Jessie** on 04 Jun 2011, 17:25

My favs... BUFFY, Angel, 30 Rock, Soundstage/Storytellers and all the live music we can get our hands on, Flight of the Conchords, Tosh.O (sometimes), The Soup, Bones, Futurama, the Science Channel, Raising Hope (LOVE), VH1 Classic, Mythbusters, Scrubs.

Website · by **rainbowdash** on 04 Jun 2011, 18:24

As for the original topic of this thread, here's Natasha Khan

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