Two and a Half Men for me is as Peter says medicore at best I'd say it was
tosh.
I will name a few sitcoms that have been imported to the UK that I feel had an
excellent team of writers that kept the viewers coming back for more. Some
might be classed as Comedy Drama.
Boston Legal (one of
Yes, buit only the UK edition of MASH which the BBC insisted did not have the
laugh track.
Without the ghastly laugh track, MASH was quite a different show altogether.
Phil
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From: Adrian Cowdry
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09,
If I needed any re-assurance NOT to sell on eBay anymore, the simple fact that
my current 30 items that will be ending in about four hours do not have a
SINGLE BID so far, certainly does it! (Actually, I had to end one item early,
because somebody ordered it from my website:
Are you trying to say MEDIOCRE?
Or is medicore some new word I don't know. That, too, is possible.
Kirby
On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Adrian Cowdry wrote:
Two and a Half Men for me is as Peter says medicore at best I'd say it was
tosh.
I will name a few sitcoms that have been imported to
hey kirbymedicore provide really average health insurance.neil
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] ONE AND A HALF MEN
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Date: Wednesday, 9 March, 2011, 14:04
Are you trying to say
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Ade-Boston Legal-not a sitcom, which was the topic. The others all gone(except
Scrubs maybe?). You could keep naming past sitcoms back to the 50’s that were
quality. My point was that most of what currently passes for comedy is base,
pedestrian crap.
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Totally agree the laugh track had to go.
This never happened to the other fella.
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Yes, buit only the UK edition of MASH
Peter
you are not wrong.
Most of the sitcom's today and this includes the UK are tosh. I looked in on
Hot in Cleveland from the same stables as FrasierUgh! If this is what you
come up with after a very good quality sitcom in Frasier then please shut down
now.
But I digress, sitcom's
Greetings from France,
I'm looking for following US 1sh :
whatever works
midnight in Paris
you will meet a tall dark stranger
hereafter
Alice in Wonderland (tryptic)
All Christopher Nolan movies as Director
Di Renjie (director Hark Tsui)
Russian ark (by alexander Sokurov)
the sun (by Alexander
I was a bit harsh earlier saying I think the show sucks.
It's ok in my opinion, just doesn't float my boat enough.
Not sure exactly why, don't always need to be sitting in front of
something great, and for some reason (great though it was not), I
could enjoy King of Queens.
But it is
Dave
Live audiences have been in front of the stage
for almost all the history of television and
laugh tracks - if you recall - we available
during the 1950s from a machine that Rudy Franchi
evaluated on Antiques Roadshow
Rich
At 05:39 AM 3/9/2011, Dave Rosen wrote:

I had no idea a
Rich:
Yeah, after I sent my email I remembered I Love Lucy was filmed (not taped) in
front of a live audience and, of course, The Jack Benny Show, etc, etc. I
simply forgot. But in the 60s a lot more sitcoms (Get Smart, The Munsters, The
Monkees) had bigger budgets and so were shot like
Ultimately my point is this: If a show is truly funny it doesn't
need a laugh track.
that is completely true
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But all live audiences are not created equal and all sitcoms are definitely
not created equal
There are and were differences in those formats and it wasn't just about bigger
budgets and backlots and a variety of sets. There were and are issues that
relate to Union jurisdiction. Generally live
Like all things Hollywood, that got subverted into Let's make the home
audience think our show is as funny as the show taping next door by dubbing-in
their laughter.
Now THAT's funny.
Dave
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there are other reasons also Phil
one major aspect being that TV shows are intended
to be over quickly (30 minutes), so the pace has
to be fast. While most good comedy writers are
intellectuals, the audiences are not. Urban
audiences are more intelligent than rural
(generally speaking) and
You're right about the psychology of the laugh track; that it's partly a
Pavlovian-like cue that coaxes a laugh out of people who might not otherwise
get a joke. Also, yes, it gives one the sense that one is part of an audience
and not sadly sitting on the couch all by yourself.
I worked for a
NICE job on that poster, Dario!
Jeff
On Mar 9, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Dario Casadei wrote:
Pretty spiffy shape prior to backing .
Minor X fold loss. Poster has seen water and resulted in minor
staining.
Most have been washed out.
Poster is displaying EX/++ with uber minor touch ups and next
i don't like the way that cigarette bleeds through from the back. it makes it
look like she's smoking ;-)ps great work!
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Subject: [MOPO] FS: 1951 Pick Up 1 sheet ... Best bad girl
Original Sophia Loren Lobby Cards
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My husband is doing this basketball thing that's looks very cool. I
didn't want to just post it to MoPo, so if you're interested, let me
know and I'll forward the information. I know many of you collect
more than movie posters and haven't paid attention to which of you
were into what.
I had never watched it, but after reading what some had said, it sounded like
it
was somehow different, it was on TV last night, so I tuned in.
Tuned out about half way through.
Same old crap. Sure it is fine. But what I saw was nothing new or different. A
joke about a kid masturbating was
PICKUP is a great title. The one sheet is handy. The six sheet - if you have
room
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