comedy tonight.
Aug. 4th, 2003 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gfrancieI just acquired the neatest book today. It is all about Dodo birds. I am leaping around the apartment with great excitment.
The simple things in life bring me such joy.
Okay onto other news. I just watched the pilot episode of the American version of Coupling. It is so-so. It didn't sit quite right with me and I realized what the problem was, most of the actors are not funny. They are attractive in that traditional LA sort of way, but they just lack that certain quality some people possess.
The writer David Rakoff wrote a bit about this in an essay once. But for most funny people, being funny is as inevitable as being double-jointed; it is worldview formed long before words. One is born funny. The adage, as is, is incomplete. It should be comedy is hard...if you're not funny....But you can't really make someone funny who isn't.
So, while the actors do their best in regards to the delivery of their lines it just feels a little off.
Another interesting note was the change in some lines, not because of the inability in translation of English to American culture exactly, but because of our rating systems and FCC regulations. I told Andrew last night, Network television doesn't like the topic of feces. Even in the broadest terms.
My best advice is to get a hold of the British version first.
Now I am off to read the latest issue of the New Yorker and think lofty thoughts of dinner.
The simple things in life bring me such joy.
Okay onto other news. I just watched the pilot episode of the American version of Coupling. It is so-so. It didn't sit quite right with me and I realized what the problem was, most of the actors are not funny. They are attractive in that traditional LA sort of way, but they just lack that certain quality some people possess.
The writer David Rakoff wrote a bit about this in an essay once. But for most funny people, being funny is as inevitable as being double-jointed; it is worldview formed long before words. One is born funny. The adage, as is, is incomplete. It should be comedy is hard...if you're not funny....But you can't really make someone funny who isn't.
So, while the actors do their best in regards to the delivery of their lines it just feels a little off.
Another interesting note was the change in some lines, not because of the inability in translation of English to American culture exactly, but because of our rating systems and FCC regulations. I told Andrew last night, Network television doesn't like the topic of feces. Even in the broadest terms.
My best advice is to get a hold of the British version first.
Now I am off to read the latest issue of the New Yorker and think lofty thoughts of dinner.
