so,this is humour of british style. it is disgusting and nasty.
it is even worse than pink flamingo. where are the lavender hill mob, the lady killers gone.
shareIt's always interesting when Americans decide to comment on British TV Shows. For a start LOG is a a dark comedy, a very dark comedy. The series always was as is the film.
Americans always seem to believe their comedy is better than ours, despite how many American comedians cite British comedy as an influence, and they always seem to disregard their appallingly bad shows like Will & Grace or Dharma & Gregg.
Stupidity isn't a tool.
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British comedey writers generally have creative control over their shows in terms of what they can do. Shows like this or Peep Show could never be made in America for a start it would never get commissioned and if it the network would affect what would happen too much. There are very few dark US comedies that I can think of stuff like Freinds or Will & Grace are more the norm, the only one I can think of is Curb Your Enthusiasm a HBO comedy, which therefore doesn't count.
Disgusting and nasty though, I'm guessing the OP has seen none of the series then, but it's no worse than any US gross out comedy.
Stupidity isn't a tool.
What made you people immediately assume that this guy is American? He said nothing about the US, but just made a comment about "british style". I see no evidence that he's American: first, he uses the British spelling of 'humour'. Second the entire subject sentence is completely ungrammatical for American English as WELL as British English: "so, this is humour of british style"? No, that sentence doesn't parse in the US. And the guy's nickname here is 'ferdinand'. It's more likely that he's a non-native speaker of English from some third country.
From this I conclude that you all seem to have reflexively assumed every criticism made of something from your country is from an American. Very strange. This says more about you than of Americans.
For the record, I'm a fan of both British and American humor; there are inspirational geniuses working on both sides of the Atlantic.
Fair point. As I made those comments. However I have seen critcisms like these before from Americans regarding British media, wherein they tend to be very hypocritical.
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Look khu, this is blatantly a local board, for local people.
shareIm I the only one a little confused by the original posters comment? They are offended by the 'disgusting' nature of the comedy, but label it as being 'even worse than 'Pink Flamingos' - PF being one of the most brilliantly disgusting, offensive, stomach churning films of all time, and genuinely makes TLOGA look like Last of the Summer Wine - people are strange . . .
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I was thinking the same thing. How can anyone say any movie is more disgusting than "Pink Flamingo"? I mean, really. That is really just the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a very long time. It honestly makes me doubt they've seen "Pink Flamingo" if they can really say the League has offended them more than flipping "Pink Flamingo" did. lol.
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American comedies are *beep* compared to the British.
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I am Canadian, I loved the film, perhaps mostly as I am a huge league fan, I'd rather sit back and watch some good british television then american television. I was however slightly dissapointed with the films ending, still loved the film though. so sad royston vasey will be no more...
shareA lot of our stuff is *beep* too, Two Pints, The IT Crowd and that's just recent - the poor Americans are still suffering with repeats of Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served and May to *beep* December.
So let's get our heads out of our arses and remember how much we all enjoyed friends which, by the way, is *beep*