Posts by Hadyn Green
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And David Brent? Painful - and it just doesn't stop.
I remember watching the second season of The Office and thinking how I couldn't watch this guy continue to get himself into those situations. Which is why I really liked the Christmas special.
re: Tennant.
I heard about it yesterday, but I imagine it'll really sink in once I get to watching the new series on DVD -
Kung-Fu Monkey had a nice take on the Obama infomercial and it's relationship to what McCain had been saying about Obama:
Chris and I were talking in the writer's room the other day, about the 30 minute ad buy that aired tonight. Chris was wondering what it was supposed to accomplish.
"Nothing," I said. "In the best possible scenario, it's so boring that people turn it off halfway through. He's already got the people he inspired. What he has to do now is get people who used to be uncomfortable with the idea of a black president, and make them so comfortable that they're even bored with the idea."
" 'Obama's not like those other black people.' He's like Rob down in Accounting.' "
"Precisely."
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Which only goes towards proving that data collected by such surveys is inherently misleading - only those who don't have a life
None taken.
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I'll tell ya what's funny... a researcher named Finding
I laughed at that too.
"Finding's findings were that..." -
I never liked Seinfeld. Does that mean I have no soul?
I don't want to get all meta-physical but ... yes. Sorry.
'The Millen Baird Show': local comedy that had a short run on TV3 the other month along with pan-asian sketch show 'A Thousand Apologies'
A friend saw them and warned me off them, I feel very lucky. But I also never, ever, liked Bro Town.
So far it's not good run for the local comedies
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Telephone marketing surveys
So how do you poll 1,000s of people and with good response rates?
I always try to do the phone surveys when they ring (rarely), because, as a researcher, I know how difficult it is to get responses. And if you don't answer the survey some other shmoe gets called.
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By the way, considering the other threads that are going, feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny.
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The one I can't quite handle is the puking racist snob lady.
According to Findings the racist snob lady is one of the "good ones" because the joke is on racism not on race. (The vomit is still on the little girl though.)
In fact I suppose the biggest finding is that irony isn't an excuse for x-ist* comedy. You can make a joke about racism for example, but racist jokes are projecting hatred.
* where x=race, age etc
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@ Llew
It's set all over Britain. In fact one of my favourite characters is a crazy Scottish innkeeper. -
using the exact same joke every episode
Not to get back to joke dissection (though it is much more fun), in an interview with Harry Enfield he said the best part of that kind of catch-phrase humour was the anticipation. The audience knows it's coming and claps when they hear it. So really all of the comedy is actually in the set up, even though you only get the laughs when "Pavlov rings the bell".
Having said that. I agree
In the pluses column, it has given us some useful catchphrases. I'm particularly fond of "Compu'er says naoooooo", and also "I am a lady. I do ladies' things".
Heh, we use the "lady" one around the house too.