Coupling is the Best comedy ever! Written by the same guy who wrote the later episodes of Dr Who Steven Moffatt
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The first season of “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” (1976) and any Three Stooges shorts.
Kenny Everett - Bee Gees Kit
There was an episode of Kenny Everett where he provided answers and people had to mail in the questions. One of the answers had two parts a) Tom Jones and b) Eight and three quarters.
Mum and Dad cracked up laughing and I was like “Huh?”
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I love that ending too, but my memory of it is Max was the love interest and Rex was the dog. Sigrid was surprisingly good at comedic timing. When I have seen her interviewed I have reconsidered the teenage crush I had on her.
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Have you heard her talk about her mum? She was one of those hussies trying to get a drink in the Men’s Bar, chained themselves to the brass foot rail at the bar,got arrested
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Two Ronnies, Porridge and Hale & Pace were gold.
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I’m Alan Partridge was brilliant. That character has a life of his own. I’ve met people like Alan.
I’d imagine that his reenactment of the opening of The Spy Who Loved Me would crack even the stoniest visage.
Also, these probably don’t meet the sitcom criteria, but Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job gave me plenty of laughs.
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There are fewer comedy movies being greenlit.
Not really sure why.
Probably another 196647 Spider-Man stories to get through.
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And 1960s TV series to be made into a movie.
Still waiting for Rin Tin Tin.
Surely due for another remake of Get Smart? The Steve Carell version must be 10 ish years old.
Fast Foward and Full Frontal were also gold
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streaming killed them
the audience for comedy stopped going to cinemas
comedies get released on streaming platforms now
Modern Family was very good. I think it is rated about right. Always Sunny is fun, but I don’t feel compelled to keep watching it.
Thanks to this thread I’ve just started on Coupling again. Not sure how many seasons I got through the first time around.
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That episode where Steve is at Susan’s place and can’t work the remotes because there are no batteries because Susan uses them for another purpose.
And where the girls are going to a funeral in a reenactment of the scene in Reservoir Dogs.
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That’s going back a bit. Reggie Perrin was great – an example of British deadpan comedy at its very best. The books are good too.
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Why has specifically comedy been hit worse than other genres?
Horror still being made, action, thrillers etc
Is it because everything’s written and re-written 20 times by a team of 300 writers?
opinion only: it’s to do with the “cinema experience”. franchise movies are designed to look and sound good on a massive theatre screen. horror is being in a dark room as an almost social event. something of that experience is lost in watching those movies at home. with comedies the experience is the jokes, which hit the same on a imax screen or a phone screen, the medium doesn’t matter as much. i mean you lose a little bit of the experience of others also laughing around you, but the movie is still about as funny.
i’d also speculate that the audience of comedies were a lot more casual for lack of a better term - “let’s go see a movie” vs “let’s go see that movie”. netflix meant that you didn’t need to go out to see a movie.
-edit- also what looks better to mba-brains: a $20m budget and $90m return, or a $150m budget with a $1.2b return
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I guess.
It is a thing, though.