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30-04-2022, 11:53 PM | #1 | |||
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[Former star of Allo! Allo! has told the Daily Star that French people have no sense of humour when it comes to the comedy show. Sue Hodge, who played Mimi Labonq, tells the paper the French just don't get the programme, with the Star wondering if "perhaps there was something lost in translation".] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Hodge Last edited by arista; 30-04-2022 at 11:56 PM. |
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01-05-2022, 12:30 AM | #2 | |||
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It's simple to understand
All of the French characters are horny/randy (Rene is a super stud who everyone lusts after) All of the German characters are kinky (they like the flying helmet and the wet celery) and all the British characters are stupid (Good moaning) It's seaside postcard humour. They're all trying to keep the portrait of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies hidden from the Gestapo so they can sell it after the war. It's far better than French New wave, what was all that rubbish about.? Last edited by Alf; 01-05-2022 at 12:38 AM. |
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01-05-2022, 06:54 AM | #3 | |||
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if the french had a show that constantly took the piss out of the british, im sure we wouldnt find it funny either
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01-05-2022, 09:29 AM | #4 | |||
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We need our Capt. Remy
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01-05-2022, 09:32 AM | #5 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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I wonder if they get Dads army
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01-05-2022, 09:44 AM | #6 | |||
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It hasn't aged well to be fair I used to think it was funny.. now it's just a bit cringe :/
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01-05-2022, 10:16 AM | #7 | |||
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POW! BLAM!
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I've never seen it tbh
But isn't the French having no sense of humour just one of "those" stereotypes? |
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01-05-2022, 10:29 AM | #8 | |||
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01-05-2022, 10:34 AM | #9 | |||
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Sexy French Workers Jolly nice Nazi Airmen In the Wardrobe. (Upsetting real old Granny) Gruber a Gay Nazi Officer 30 December 1982 – 14 December 1992 Sold around the World by BBC Commercial Worldwide group What more could you want Some outsider has added piano backing Not on the Original Last edited by arista; 01-05-2022 at 11:06 AM. |
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01-05-2022, 11:49 AM | #10 | ||
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The French tend to have quite a blunt/dry sense of humour, something like Allo Allo is just a bit too... over the top?
Its like saying the British don't have a sense of humour because we're less likely to like American humour. Although these days American humour has adopted a lot of elements of traditionally "British humour" (you'll find people like Stone and Parker, Will Ferrell et al. have all mentioned being influenced by British comedy and that's now sort of filtered down through the comedy landscape stateside). Humour does differ around the world . Japanese humour is often very different to Western humour as well for example. Even more locally... I've found that a lot of English people (even northerners) often find Scottish humour quite aggressive. Honestly after living and working in England for two years then moving back up here, I had to readjust to it a bit at first, for the first 6 months or so I quite often thought customers were angry when they were just having a joke |
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01-05-2022, 01:14 PM | #11 | |||
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[The French tend to have quite a blunt/dry sense of humour, something like Allo Allo is just a bit too... over the top?]
Yes thats why it was a Big hit in the 1980's. 2 Top Writers, helped |
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01-05-2022, 01:15 PM | #12 | |||
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01-05-2022, 01:53 PM | #13 | |||
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01-05-2022, 01:58 PM | #14 | |||
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01-05-2022, 02:14 PM | #15 | |||
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Blurays discs and 4K Bluray discs, I ain't going to lower quality vision those days have gone Last edited by arista; 01-05-2022 at 02:17 PM. |
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01-05-2022, 02:22 PM | #16 | |||
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01-05-2022, 03:23 PM | #17 | |||
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02-05-2022, 09:28 AM | #18 | |||
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Likes cars that go boom
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Forgive me for maturing... :/
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02-05-2022, 01:10 PM | #19 | |||
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Last edited by Alf; 02-05-2022 at 01:10 PM. |
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02-05-2022, 02:49 PM | #20 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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Personally I haven't minded the episodes that I've seen of Allo Allo in the past.
I think it's daft to say that an entire nation of people doesn't have a sense of humour, I just think that a lot of people don't like seeing their country having the piss taken out of them.
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02-05-2022, 02:55 PM | #21 | |||
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2 Great writers got it Right
in the 1980's Jeremy Croft and David Lloyd Last edited by arista; 02-05-2022 at 02:58 PM. |
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02-05-2022, 03:01 PM | #22 | ||
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...then you get to the Liverpool ones . The Scousers are ****ing FURIOUS about it and don't see the funny side at all |
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02-05-2022, 03:04 PM | #23 | |||
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02-05-2022, 05:37 PM | #24 | |||
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allo allo was basically the same joke repeated 30 times each episode and it was humour specifically targeting france, so it's not exactly surprising that a fair proportion of french people don't like it.
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02-05-2022, 07:58 PM | #25 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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Like it doesn't surprise me that Scousers were furious because sadly there are quite a few English people that can't take a joke about England. I always remember some of my friends used to take a funny at Family Guy because they joked that watching our TV is like watching "condensation" and it used to piss them off. Personally speaking I like to think that I can laugh at people taking the piss out of British culture.
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