Amazingly, the thing.s the actors are mocking in England are exactly what we are dealing with here. Government, gays, global warming, politicians, etc. Examples: 'Last of the Summer Wine, Waiting for God'
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Amazingly, the thing.s the actors are mocking in England are exactly what we are dealing with here. Government, gays, global warming, politicians, etc. Examples: 'Last of the Summer Wine, Waiting for God'
Some Mother's is sitcom Gold! Michael Crawford is so good in it. He manages to make his utterly hopeless character really likeable. You root for him and also pity his wife Betty! The entire 70's and some of the early 80's in brit sitcom terms was just untouchable. The standard of writing and casts... so good. Who's your number one America sitcom character? Probably Al Bundy for me!
Funnily enough I don't watch a lot of American TV (or any TV, movies, etc at all these days), but there was a lot of Green Acres, Get Smart and Dick Van Dyke when I was growing up, so likely Dick Van Dyke would be a favorite if I had to choose. I love Al to though! He's a classic and a lot of fun and so spot on with some things these days.
it's funny, I found M.C. as the Phantom first (amazing to see live), then that compelled me to go through his older works hence how I found Some Mother's.
I always leaned more towards our American Nature shows/documentaries, like National Geographic. My hero growing up was Bob Ballard (who went on to find Titanic, so I suppose I could have chosen worse!)
I adored Mary Tyler Moore and DVD, also Bewitched and Beverley Hillbillies, both easily as good as our best (Brit) comedies. Superb comedy actors and sparkling scripts. Comedy is dead in the cancel culture age imho.
Oh I forgot about Bewitched and then that just reminded me of I Dream of Jeannie and Mr Ed :D
You guys produced some utterly superb shows... and then in the 90's both our countries just forgot how to be funny. All the shows we've mentioned from either side of the pond were brilliant because they were based on characters we knew in our daily lives. Stereotypes if you will, and the writers knew how to bring them to life. Now its so sparse and obvious and very contrived and therefore very unfunny.