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The Office
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Blaise Joshua
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Apr-7-2005 07:19
I saw on the news the other night that the American version of 'The Office' has just been launched. Has anyone seen it yet? The Office became one of my all time comedy favourites (I don't know how well it's known yet outside Britain) and I am curious to know the reaction to the American version - particularly how it will translate into American humour which is vastly different from British.
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ichiban
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Apr-16-2005 02:16
What about the show with the two chicks AbFab the blonde high society who sleeps around and is smashed only when she is awake. Her friend runs a magazine and her daughter who doesn't get along with the blonde one.
Blaise I am with you on the Friends type and I know real life people that are kinda the same except way funnier because they aren't acting bad either.
And jstkdn you must be kidding the masters have got to be the Japanese. Old Samurai movies maybe you don't count them but they are pretty awesome even with sub titles.Cartoons,game shows, the commercials and infomercials are just about to die for. They are so far ahead thay had a childrens show about 25yrs ago called the Go(5) Rangers they had little trading cards and if youhave ever seen Power Rangers Talk about copy they whole show is even filmed in same manner.
And finally they are so far ahead that they have to make the televisions and recorders for the rest of us so we can at least have the same picture quality.
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ichiban
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Apr-16-2005 02:43
American primetime tv is made and promoted on trends that seem to be so played up to be good or even great when they are really temporary passing Fads. that appeals to those who can relate at that time. Good has to be when it is watched by those who can relate and those who cnnd appeals to people who don't really care for the shows
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ichiban
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Apr-17-2005 00:29
Please forget that last thread I must have been in bar sipping Cutty.This must be what jstkdn feels like typing so much
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Moonshh
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Apr-17-2005 15:33
Okay, how about Jeeves & Wooster? I love it so much I had to buy all the episodes on dvd. Now I get a kick out of watching "House" on FOX, partly just to see Hugh Laurie use an American accent.
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jstkdn
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Apr-17-2005 17:20
I guess that the TV industry, is an industry before it is an art. :)
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Blaise Joshua
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May-14-2005 09:31
Sorry to drag this old thread I'm again ... but I really would like to know ...
Did anyone here see the full American version of The Office?
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the reaction to Ali G (another British comedian) and his American show "Ali G in the USAiii"?
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jstkdn
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May-14-2005 09:34
Ali G......I can not STAND watching him. To me it is sooo not funny.
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deleted_detective76228
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May-14-2005 20:59
Hey all! im 18 and Im from australia, and even though our humors a lot different from the english, i like to think i got a bit of an english funny bone, and i think the office is bloody great! Its a ripper!! I also just love fawlty towers. American humor is great too, love the simpsons, but have any of you heard of katd and kim? They're this little aussie show that i think is over in england at the moment, that is true aussie wit at it's best!! speak soon!
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Cee Cee Cane
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May-14-2005 23:36
I love Kath and Kim !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awling
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May-15-2005 09:28
I loved Mr. Bean, but only the first series - the rest was hit and miss. The swimming pool episode was great, but my favourite had to be the on ehwere he was in the park making a sandwich. the first words he ever spoke were "My flexible friend" and it cracked me up.
I haven't heard anything about the american version of the Office, but since american shows tend to take the english ones and chop off about ten minutes (BBC format is just under thirty minutes since they've no ads and even shows with ads are twenty five minutes as opposed to twenty minutes for a show that's supposed to fill a half-hour slot), it can't be as good as the original.
Surprising I saw the english apprentice and I loved it. I prefered it to the american version, since you got a better feeling that the person chosen would actually be a direct apprentice to Sir Alan Sugar, rather than a faceles executive somewhere in the company.
He just seemed more involved than Donald Trump, or maybe he'd more charisma or something.
I waited and waited for Paul to be dumped though. Aargh, he was so smug.
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