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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Nothing in excess
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Posts: 7,496
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It wasn't just overacting and cheese that was the problem with Friends though. Just general overstated verbal quips, lack of wit and poor timing (much of it thanks to the stilted acting). I make no exaggeration, at least 9 out of 10 of the jokes fail to get even a chuckle out of me. Phoebe -incidentally the best actress in the show- seemed to have a monopoly on the remaining 1. Friends is not even close to being in the same league as Seinfeld or Roseanne.
And fair enough, Ab Fab isn't going to win any awards for subtlety. The humour is broad... but then that never made the League of Gentemen or Bo Selecta any less hilarious at their best moments. It is Ab Fab's infectious silliness that sets it apart from most other sitcoms, moreso than Bottom imho.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off?
- Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis
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