[Glenn.]

Schitts Creek is a master piece

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Is it Schitty?

It took a season and a half for me to get into it but it's better than Friends I swear

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Schitts Creek is a master piece

I love it so much, when I watched the final episode , I straight after put on S1E1 qnd watched the whole thing again, literally loved every character besides Mutt

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It took a season and a half for me to get into it but it's better than Friends I swear



I love it so much, when I watched the final episode , I straight after put on S1E1 qnd watched the whole thing again, literally loved every character besides Mutt

Better than friends?!? Hmm whenever someone says that my default is to think no, just like I say no when people say Seinfeld is better. I'll give it a watch

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Better than friends?!? Hmm whenever someone says that my default is to think no, just like I say no when people say Seinfeld is better. I'll give it a watch

I didn't like Seinfeld

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I didn't like Seinfeld

Mmm that explains a lot LOL

I absolutely LOVE the Seinfeld series ..

He’s a legendary stand up comedian as well

[rusticgal]

My friend got tickets to be part of the audience whilst recording and episode of Birds of a Feather....I seriously struggled to raise a smile.

[ThomasC]

Sit coms imo aren't that funny.

It's forced, stupid humour.

Being daft for the sake of being daft. It's immature humour.

Barry Humpries was a master of humour, but then a lot of it probably went over people's heads.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

Sit coms imo aren't that funny.

It's forced, stupid humour.

Being daft for the sake of being daft. It's immature humour.

Barry Humpries was a master of humour, but then a lot of it probably went over people's heads.

Have you watched Scitts Creek though?

[ThomasC]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Have you watched Scitts Creek though?

Nope. I just don't really have any intention of watching sit-coms as I just don't really find them that funny.

I have a very dry sense of humour. Maybe that's why.

In real life people people often tell me I'm hilarious and have no idea why. I don't intentionally go out to try and be funnu

Friends, although may have had a live audience, engineered the laughing. People sometimes laugh just if others are laughing even if it's not that funny.

[ThomasC]

Friends is so unfunny they have to add laughing to it. Lol

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

Friends is so unfunny they have to add laughing to it. Lol

That's just the way they filmed sitcoms in the 90's

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

That's just the way they filmed sitcoms in the 90's

Exactly
Not sure why people always get harsh with friends, when personally I never understood the appeal of Seinfeld or everyone loves Raymond . But we all have different tastes I guess .

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by ThomasC

Friends is so unfunny they have to add laughing to it. Lol

Literally had a live audience every week

[jones89]

I thought it was 30 years last year

[James]

I was a convert to it. Didn't like what I thought it was like, but when I actually watched it thought it was really well-written and funny.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by James

I was a convert to it. Didn't like what I thought it was like, but when I actually watched it thought it was really well-written and funny.

Same. Always dismissed it as corny American rubbish, but when i got with my first girlfriend, i was like 12, i would walk her home from school and go to hers for the evening. Her family watched Friends every Friday night, i think S6 had just started, anyway, i had no choice but watch, after 1 episode i was hooked. Borrowed my girlfriend's sister's VHS box sets and binge watched them to catch up. I feel like S4/5/6 was peak Friends.

Talking of worst sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory is the worst sitcom in the history for the world ever!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Swan

Same. Always dismissed it as corny American rubbish, but when i got with my first girlfriend, i was like 12, i would walk her home from school and go to hers for the evening. Her family watched Friends every Friday night, i think S6 had just started, anyway, i had no choice but watch, after 1 episode i was hooked. Borrowed my girlfriend's sister's VHS box sets and binge watched them to catch up. I feel like S4/5/6 was peak Friends.

Talking of worst sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory is the worst sitcom in the history for the world ever!

The Big Bang Theory is squarely aimed at the 12-16 age group tho

[Zizu]

I wonder what the emotions are when people watch Friends these days after Matthew Perry passed away ?

[Livia]

Don't like Friends, don't like Schitts Creek, have never watched Gavin and Stacey. I'll get my coat..........

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It took a season and a half for me to get into it but it's better than Friends I swear



I love it so much, when I watched the final episode , I straight after put on S1E1 qnd watched the whole thing again, literally loved every character besides Mutt

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Better than friends?!? Hmm whenever someone says that my default is to think no, just like I say no when people say Seinfeld is better. I'll give it a watch

…I’ll give it a watch with you as well, CeeCee….I did watch some of the first season a while ago and I liked it ok…but I didn’t live it and sitcoms are not usually so much my thing…Friends was quite exceptional but maybe it was just more THAT TIME…I think also with Friends, it was that there were so many traits in them that were in my own Friends or myself, you know…similar with Sex in the City and that friendship group that had some relatable things…anyway, it’s nice to have something lighter to tap in and out of as well so I’ll re-try Schitt’s Creek…I love Catherine O’Hara anyway…

…a recent excellent comedy series I’ve watched the first season of…(…because it’s only one season in…)…is Nobody Wants This, I would totally recommend that one…I just couldn’t put it down until I’d watched the season to the end…

[GoldHeart]

As for the " laugh track ", I remember watching a behind the scenes documentary about friends .And they had a real audience...but they would use a quick short taped laugh track for some of the jokes,as the audience laugher was interrupting the actors next lines,which made sense.

[Ammi]

…didn’t Cheers and many other huge sit cons have that live audience at that time…?..it was ‘a thing’…but yeah, I can understand how it can irritate as well…like being told when to laugh…come to think, didn’t things like The Lucy Show, back in the day…have that audience/canned laughter, thing….I mean, the audience had probably sat there for around 75 hours so what else could they do but laugh for their release…

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…didn’t Cheers and many other huge sit cons have that live audience at that time…?..it was ‘a thing’…but yeah, I can understand how it can irritate as well…like being told when to laugh…come to think, didn’t things like The Lucy Show, back in the day…have that audience/canned laughter, thing….I mean, the audience had probably sat there for around 75 hours so what else could they do but laugh for their release…

Yeah many sitcoms did both live audience & canned laughter for sure .

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

As for the " laugh track ", I remember watching a behind the scenes documentary about friends .And they had a real audience...but they would use a quick short taped laugh track for some of the jokes,as the audience laugher was interrupting the actors next lines,which made sense.

The episode where Monica and chandler get married is the prime example of this when Chandlers mum asks his dad about having too much penis to be wearing a dress like that. The audience went crazy and for about ten minutes. They had to shorten that.

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

The episode where Monica and chandler get married is the prime example of this when Chandlers mum asks his dad about having too much penis to be wearing a dress like that. The audience went crazy and for about ten minutes. They had to shorten that.

There's a few where they had to switch to laugh track,I think the las Vegas one was like that aswell . But I've noticed when I watch some old comedies , including British ones...the laughter sometimes drowns out actors lines which is annoying.

You can tell at times they try to wait for the audience to
stop laughing to deliver their next line,but other times
they just echo over it.