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Or should I say how do people appreciate humour where you live? In Singapore, it's slapstick humour or nothing. Punch, kick, slap, wobble wobble, fall -- followed by rapturous laughter. If you have ever had the chance to watch a movie here and an intelligent comedic line comes on, be ready for deafening silence and a few crickets.
So, what's the situation like where you are?
I noticed that in South Korea as well. Much of Asia, actually.
Vietnam really summed it up for me. I went to some random place, can't recall why I was there, but one of the side things was a bear on a bicycle. The locals were howling with laughter watching a bear on a bike and if it fell or did anything that looked painful, the laughter really went up.
Meanwhile, every white person was in complete and utter shock.
Yet pretty much all of the popular comedies we watch are from the US.
You are obviously a lot younger than me, I grew up on Benny Hill, Monty Python,Fawlty Towers, Keeping up Appearances, The Vica of Dilby etc and from an Australian Perspective love anything from the crew at the D generation.
Outside of the Simpsons, and now I think of It Married with Children, I have never really liked american Comedy.
Do you think a Classic Aussie Comedy like The Castle, would be understood by Americans?
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^ Both American and British comedy, and Aussie comedy, is popular here. Lately though it seems there aren't many good ones on: you know it when the most popular is The Big Bang Theory and you have awful shows like 'Two Broke Girls' on.
Just recently the IT Crowd is one good one among many great British comedies.
For some reason Aussie sitcoms didn't really last the test of time, there was Hey Dad...Australian humour tends to be low-brow, not always particularly intelligent, a lot of panel/skit type shows, from Full Frontal/Fast Forward to a spate of them about 10 years ago. Of course there's the observational humour of Kath'n'Kim and Chris Lily's various projects.
Just listening to Singlish can be a humorous experience, how they talk and what they say. My friend found it rather hilarious but endearing lol.
How can I not know the sitcom Under on roof ?? But all this are all just made for entertainment purposes .. Doesn't very much show the real life of locals ..
Outsiders may find our Singlish funny, but for us we use and hear it so often so the "humour " aspect is gone too
You are obviously a lot younger than me, I grew up on Benny Hill, Monty Python,Fawlty Towers, Keeping up Appearances, The Vica of Dilby etc and from an Australian Perspective love anything from the crew at the D generation.
Outside of the Simpsons, and now I think of It Married with Children, I have never really liked american Comedy.
Do you think a Classic Aussie Comedy like The Castle, would be understood by Americans?
Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers..I Googled those, and yes they are before my time.
But today shows like Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother are pretty much the comedy centre of gravity. Even reaching back into the 90s it seemed all Seinfeld, Cheers, the Simpsons, Friends, Murphy Brown and the like.
The Castle? Would anyone other than Aussies really understand that? It is pretty dated though.
Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers..I Googled those, and yes they are before my time.
But today shows like Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother are pretty much the comedy centre of gravity. Even reaching back into the 90s it seemed all Seinfeld, Cheers, the Simpsons, Friends, Murphy Brown and the like.
The Castle? Would anyone other than Aussies really understand that? It is pretty dated though.
Yep it is getting dated and I doubt it would receive the same reception in 2014 as it did when it was released. However it is classic example of unique Australian Comedy, which I believe the OP is looking for?
How about a more modern example like Rake, which certainly has comedy elements to it. They are actually remaking it for the US market, It will be interesting to see how it goes and how the US version differs from the Australian version.
Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers..I Googled those, and yes they are before my time.
But today shows like Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother are pretty much the comedy centre of gravity. Even reaching back into the 90s it seemed all Seinfeld, Cheers, the Simpsons, Friends, Murphy Brown and the like.
The Castle? Would anyone other than Aussies really understand that? It is pretty dated though.
I adore British comedy. 'Fawlty Towers' 'Mind Your Language' and 'Keeping Up With Appearances' are some of my absolute favourites. Regrettably, I was introduced to these shows only with the advent of the Internet. They were probably aired on TV in my country but I wasn't of the right age to appreciate them. When I was a child, the kind of humour I was more familiar with could be found in 'The Simpsons' and I thought it was the epitome of saracasm.
Probably no different from your country, people laugh at things they find funny.
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