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21 votes
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How Arrested Development does running gags
8 votes -
John Swartzwelder, sage of “The Simpsons”
4 votes -
Ted Lasso | Season 2 trailer
11 votes -
‘The Office’ piracy skyrocketed in the US after leaving Netflix
22 votes -
Why sitcoms stopped using laugh tracks - Short history of the laff box
8 votes -
The Pin: All our Zoom sketches in one Twitter thread
@The Pin: All our Zoom sketches in one thread (weaker stuff riiight at the bottom)👇 https://t.co/oESyCDAzGR
5 votes -
Death to 2020 | Official teaser
3 votes -
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic review – footie, Thor and Scandi noir
4 votes -
Animaniacs | First look
18 votes -
Classic 80's sketch: Peace on Earth (w. English subtitles)
5 votes -
'The Venture Bros.' creators on the show's legacy, its fans — and its cancellation
10 votes -
‘The Venture Bros.’ canceled at Adult Swim after seven seasons
13 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks | Trailer
23 votes -
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace against the Universe | Trailer
5 votes -
Comedy Central rebooting Beavis and Butt-Head
10 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks sets release date for August 6th
5 votes -
'The Simpsons' producers will 'no longer have white actors voice non-white characters'
9 votes -
8:46 - Dave Chappelle
27 votes -
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia now longest-running live-action comedy series ever after season fifteen renewal
10 votes -
It’s a wonderful afterlife: Smart, funny Upload is a sheer delight
11 votes -
Space Force | Official teaser
11 votes -
Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns for social-distancing Riff-Along special
5 votes -
How we fell in and out of love with the laff box, the laugh track machine that changed sitcoms forever
9 votes -
The constant agony of Hans Moleman
2 votes -
Taskmaster is the ideal quarantine show
8 votes -
Lucie Arnaz on ‘Will and Grace’ tribute: ‘We Love Lucy’ proves ‘healing power of laughter’
4 votes -
Titus, Episode One - Dad's Dead
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RENO 911! - Training Day (feat. Jonah Hill, Keegan-Michael Key & Nick Swardson) - Full Episode
4 votes -
‘Friends’ cast to reunite for exclusive panel discussion on HBO Max
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In retrospect it seems hard to overstate the cultural damage done by South Park
@danaschwartzzz: In retrospect, it seems impossible to overstate the cultural damage done by SOUTH PARK, the show that portrayed earnestness as the only sin and taught that mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism
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How BoJack Horseman and The Good Place changed comedy: the hit shows, both ending this week, explored humanity’s big existential questions
5 votes -
Spaced at 21 - Interview with cast
5 votes -
Netflix cancels its Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival
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Peter Kay's Car Share
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but...
This is another British comedy that I think people will enjoy. The title is weird: Peter Kay is the stand up comedian, but he's playing a character in this sitcom. IMDB calls it "Car Share", but BBC calls it "Peter Kay's Car Share". It's British, so weirdly small number of episodes: only 12 (and this includes all the specials).
The setup sounds like it's going to be unbearably claustrophobic, a series long bottle episode. A supermarket sets up a car sharing scheme, and we watch John and Kayleigh share a car as they drive to work everyday. But this creates intimacy and we get to learn about the characters. It's heartfelt and lovely. It's well acted, and I think it's very funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635922/
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Avenue 5 | Official teaser
6 votes -
Detectorists - "unremarkable lives gone slightly awry"
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two...
I'm currently re-watching all episodes of Detectorists and it's one of my favourite tv things ever, so I thought maybe Tildes would be interested. Detectorists is a single camera sitcom about two men and their friendship around their metal detecting hobby.
Here's the link to the BBC Four webpage for it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
Some review sites -
Rotten Tomatoes 100% (few reviews), 99% audience score: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/detectorists
IMDB 8.6 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/
Guardian review (because she writes about it far better than I can): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/09/detectorists-rich-portrait-unremarkable-lives-gone-slightly-awry-mackenzie-crook
Detectorists is about nothing and everything. Made with palpable love, it’s about people and their passions; camaraderie and community. As a portrait of male friendship, it is closer to documentary than drama, delving beneath the topsoil of mid-life ennui via the sparsest of exchanges. You won’t find a laughter track, or smart-arse punchlines or an oh-so-subtle veil of irony here; instead of begging for your attention, Detectorists is notable for its avoidance of snark. It’s the drama least likely to culminate in alpha plonkers blowing up cars, taking down baddies or ravishing beautiful women.
Instead, it lingers lovingly over dewdrops on grass, magpies on gateposts, scudding clouds and gently fluttering leaves. Even an alfresco wee takes on a painterly aspect, viewed solely through the steam cloud billowing from behind a sunlit tree. Meanwhile, the camera makes high art out of Lance’s face in closeup, crestfallen as he unearths a scaffolding bracket instead of an Anglo-Saxon nugget, and from Andy’s silent incredulity when a colleague jokes about Richard Attenborough when he means David.
Radio Times review https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-12-13/detectorists-series-3-review/
If all British programmes took this much care over their tone, look and overall distinctiveness, the golden age of television would never go away.
Modern comedies are often predicated on cruelty: laughs are hard, clanging or sharp as barbed wire. In its quiet, undemonstrative way, Detectorists has ploughed its own furrow. Buried in its field of fun are evergreen truths about life, and the things we don’t say but should. So if kindness and companionship are unfashionable, I know which side of the hedge I’d rather stand.
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Taskmaster now has a YouTube channel for people outside the UK
7 votes -
"Military" short from the TV show "Cake"
3 votes -
Succession: One of TV's best comedies has tricked you into thinking it's a drama
6 votes -
Even after fourteen seasons, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues to be funny, innovative, and deeply offensive. How does a show so politically incorrect survive for so long?
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Netflix acquires global streaming rights to Seinfeld for five years, starting in 2021
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Here's why adult cartoons are a huge mood right now
7 votes -
The bizarre modern reality of The Simpsons
7 votes -
The Office: How nonsense conquered the workplace
4 votes -
NBC is pulling 'The Office' from Netflix in 2021
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Canadian comedy ‘Letterkenny’ to become Hulu original as season seven launches on October 14
7 votes -
Death is just the beginning: The undead anxiety attack of ‘What We Do in the Shadows’
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Clumsy gods: ‘Catch-22’ brings the subversive humor—and horror—of the book to Hulu
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Recommendation: BoJack Horseman (2014—)
My previous recommendations: Person of Interest Psych So, I just finished binging all five seasons, and I think I can safely recommend this series to an audience that enjoys adult humor and series...
My previous recommendations:
So, I just finished binging all five seasons, and I think I can safely recommend this series to an audience that enjoys adult humor and series that juggle between the very funny and very serious.
BoJack Horseman is a series that starts slow and doesn't really seem to truly find itself until Season 3. I personally didn't enjoy the first half of Season 1 at all (got very bored). The second half of Season 1 got me to keep watching purely on the humor and the gags, which pretty consistently increase in quality as the show continues.
I especially got drawn in on all the "animal" gags. The series at some point early on becomes very comfortable going all out on visual&storytelling gags based on the animal playing them (BJH is an otherwise-normal universe where a significant part of the population is half-animal half-human). The humor is pretty high quality, I would easily compare it to the humor in Arrested Development (early seasons).
It is a series that makes fun of itself, without relying too much on gimmicks or breaking the fourth wall too much. With that said, Seasons 3 and 4 introduce more experimental episodes (including an entirely mute one, similar to the excellent Hush from Buffy, as well as another that only consists of a beautiful entire 22 minute monologue). None of them bored me. I was always extremely impressed with the execution and the quality.What really gets me to recommend this series is its later seasons. Seasons 3 and 4 are of exceptionally high quality and the show becomes… very dark. But not without losing its humor. BoJack Horseman made me cry three times. I'm not talking about tearing up, I'm talking about the full waterworks like I've done only a couple of times in my entire adult life.
It's a show that punches you in the gut not by having grand romantic storylines; not by having heroic moments with epic music; not sympathetically by having manly characters tear up; not even by killing off beloved characters like Game of Thrones. It's a show that hits you because it's too fucking real.In many ways, I would say that I enjoyed BJH for similar reasons that I enjoyed early GoT: It's unforgiving to its characters. But I don't want this to put anyone off from watching; it's a unique series to which I have a very hard time finding parallels. Its humor sits between Arrested Development, Futurama and Rick & Morty and is very much its own thing. Very reminiscent of Adult Swim.
BoJack Horseman is available on Netflix. Come for the gags, stay for your own reasons.
24 votes