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His show was one of the worst pieces of ā ā ā ā I have ever seen.
Too cool for the room douchebag.
I think it was Ricky ( not Gervaise) and Sue Smith doing an Ocker version of the Royle Family. A total flop, even though I really like that Ricky.
Grab the free stan trial and check it out.
I dont keep stan on, the shows(including the tourist) are just generally too violent. I prefer more family entertainment.
But for production value the tourist is well worth watching.
Its a bit like the movie āno country for old menā except a tv version shot in Australia. (If you have seen that for a flavour)
That show was no good.
But Ben Elton is no comedy hack. He played a huge role in Blackadder and The Young Ones being so successful.
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Heās farking terrible.
The format was pants, but the guy himself is an incredibly successful writer for television and novelist.
If the consensus is that heās a hack then Iām happy to stand corrected.
Howeverā¦
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Couldnāt make me laugh accidentally.
You shut your filthy pie hole!
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Iām quietly confident that is not good comedy.
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I havenāt seen any of his other work. Maybe Iāll like them more.
The IT Crowd. Iāll always happily throw on an episode of that. Flight of the Conchords. Lots of fun.
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good contemporary catalogue there
Yeah, the production values and quality are probably 2nd rate , but that was actually the point, even back then! From memory they even explicitly stated this in a fourth wall moment. āWhy are you up there on the gantry?ā āThatās what this shows all about. Shock, right!ā Or along those lines.
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Good comedy actors live and die on good script writers. We have some of the worldās best camera artists and Directors . But fall short on script. For a comedy series itās vital, not least on timing.
The US and Brits are tops in EL, there are some good Europeans and Latinos ( but spare me Italian of the Berlusconi type, Brazilian also). Perhaps because Iām a dud in Asian languages ( something to do with tonal and atonal) Asian comedies are a turn off for me.
There have been some very funny Kiwi comedies, one set in a school.
More of a novelist now, and I really enjoy his books.
Theyāre easy to read, and he has an uncanny knack of picking up on the zeitgeist. Itās almost like he predicts it.
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Heās been one of the great comedy writers for others. Heās not a hack in that field.
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Youāre not the only one. I suspect that yours is as unplayed as mine.
The Late Show had a weekly musical number but with an incorrectly booked act that sounded like the real one - eg. Joan Kirner instead of Joan Jett doing āI Love Rock & Rollā, Pete Smith doing Aerosmith, Ron Barassi doing Shirley Bassey and Mike Whitney as Whitney Houston.
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I vividly remember Joan Kirner and Mike Whitney.
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With Health Minister David White actually playing guitar!
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