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May 5th, 2005, 11:25 AM
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
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British humor is just odd.
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You THINK British humoUr is odd. Some of us find it funny.
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It's funny because it's odd. People get too used to American "humor", where the joke is spelled out in painfully obvious detail, and then the show laughs for you.
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
Canned laughter is the most reliable guide in the world. It's use signals awful comedy that no audience would have laughed at. It works because once someone else is laughing it lowers the "joke threshold", so people start to laugh at something which isn't objectively funny.
But if you start to actually watch and pay attention the spell is broken.
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May 5th, 2005, 11:58 AM
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
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It's funny because it's odd. People get too used to American "humor", where the joke is spelled out in painfully obvious detail, and then the show laughs for you.
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I know what you mean... literally painful in some cases.
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May 5th, 2005, 01:59 PM
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
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British humor is just odd.
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You THINK British humoUr is odd. Some of us find it funny.
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People who are easly offended ought not be so easly offended.
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May 5th, 2005, 02:01 PM
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
Slippery slope that, especially for an American talking about comedy.....
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May 6th, 2005, 01:38 AM
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Re: HHGTTG Movie Review (And it IS good...)
I am not saying that british humor is bad, I am just saying that it is not my cup of tea. 
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May 6th, 2005, 02:05 PM
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I am not saying that british humor is bad, I am just saying that it is not my cup of tea.
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