[arista]

BBC Text
[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

[Alf]

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.?

[bitontheslide]

if the french had a show that constantly took the piss out of the british, im sure we wouldnt find it funny either

[arista]

We need our Capt. Remy
to tell us

[Cherie]

I wonder if they get Dads army

[Kizzy]

It hasn't aged well to be fair I used to think it was funny.. now it's just a bit cringe :/

[Oliver_W]

I've never seen it tbh

But isn't the French having no sense of humour just one of "those" stereotypes?

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I've never seen it tbh

But isn't the French having no sense of humour just one of "those" stereotypes?

yes its like saying Americans dont get irony

absolute bollocks

[arista]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I've never seen it tbh

But isn't the French having no sense of humour just one of "those" stereotypes?

There you are Oliver
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

Youtube video

[Toy Soldier]

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

[arista]

[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

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It hasn't aged well to be fair I used to think it was funny.. now it's just a bit cringe :/

They should show it again.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It hasn't aged well to be fair I used to think it was funny.. now it's just a bit cringe :/

It's timeless comedy. It's aged perfectly fine. It's probably you that's changed to fit in to the new world.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

They should show it again.

Buy the boxset and you can watch it whenever you like. It's better that waiting around for the head of some TV network to give it the Green light. Control your own viewing, instead of someone else controling it for you.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Buy the boxset and you can watch it whenever you like. It's better that waiting around for the head of some TV network to give it the Green light. Control your own viewing, instead of someone else controling it for you.

No I only Buy
Blurays discs
and 4K Bluray discs,



I ain't going to lower quality vision
those days have gone

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

No I only Buy
Blurays discs
and 4K Bluray discs,



I ain't going to lower quality vision
those days have gone

Well good for you, but I get to watch the same programme as you for cheaper. You're only robbing yourself in an attempt to look cool and trendy.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Well good for you, but I get to watch the same programme as you for cheaper. You're only robbing yourself in an attempt to look cool and trendy.

No, it is better for your eyes.


It is not Trends


2022 it is 1080P and 4K
Utter Bliss

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Alf

It's timeless comedy. It's aged perfectly fine. It's probably you that's changed to fit in to the new world.

Forgive me for maturing... :/

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Forgive me for maturing... :/

You are forgiven my child

[Mystic Mock]

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.

[arista]

2 Great writers got it Right
in the 1980's


Jeremy Croft and David Lloyd

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

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.

Some seem more sensitive to it than others - there's a YouTube video of a voice coach doing various accents that I love (because she is 100% serious, but they are AWFUL ) and she does like 10 accents. Comments are full of people finding it funny/laughing about how bad she is at the accents...

...then you get to the Liverpool ones . The Scousers are ****ing FURIOUS about it and don't see the funny side at all

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Some seem more sensitive to it than others - there's a YouTube video of a voice coach doing various accents that I love (because she is 100% serious, but they are AWFUL ) and she does like 10 accents. Comments are full of people finding it funny/laughing about how bad she is at the accents...

...then you get to the Liverpool ones . The Scousers are ****ing FURIOUS about it and don't see the funny side at all

She should simply reply to the scousers by saying "calm down, calm down"

[bitontheslide]

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.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Some seem more sensitive to it than others - there's a YouTube video of a voice coach doing various accents that I love (because she is 100% serious, but they are AWFUL ) and she does like 10 accents. Comments are full of people finding it funny/laughing about how bad she is at the accents...

...then you get to the Liverpool ones . The Scousers are ****ing FURIOUS about it and don't see the funny side at all

I'd agree with you that some cultures are more sensitive to this stuff more than others.

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.