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Blaise Joshua
Blaise Joshua

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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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Apr-17-2005 17:20

I guess that the TV industry, is an industry before it is an art. :)

Blaise Joshua
Blaise Joshua

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"?

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

May-14-2005 09:34

Ali G......I can not STAND watching him. To me it is sooo not funny.



deleted_detective76228
deleted_detective76228

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!

Cee Cee Cane
Cee Cee Cane
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May-14-2005 23:36

I love Kath and Kim !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awling
Awling

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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