I'm glad that Zach thinks that he is funny.
Because no one else will...
shareNobody voted you hall monitor. Your opinion is not a universal truth.
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MovieChat Forums > Baskets (2016) Discussion > I'm glad that Zach thinks that he is fun...
I for one am glad that you think anybody gives a sh!t about what you think.
shareI think he's funny.
shareHe's funny. That show is not.
If a non-name comedian (instead of Zack and Louis CK) pitched that show to a network, he would be laughed out of the room.
Well I enjoy the show. I think it definitely has moments of humor but I also don't think being constantly funny is one of the goals of this show. It definitely, like Louie, explores some other tones and takes on a more depressing/dramatic feel and approach. I'm okay with that and I'm enjoying it. It doesn't need to be constantly funny, just like Louie. He explored other types of humor and other feels on that show too.
You don't get hard this quick unless its real.
So what made you think Baskets was supposed to be a comedy?
shareSomeone must explain to the simple minded that this show is a 'tragicomedy'. It is not supposed to be a laugh-fest where you guffaw and roll on the floor laughing. The man's life is depressing and tragic, with small moments of hope and dark absurd comedy. If it's too hard to grasp the concept, there is plenty more hee-haw stuff to watch on the teevee.
shareThe comedian as the lead actor? If it isn't a comedy, why not get someone who can actually act?
sharecongratulations, you know how Hollywood works. Now back to your cave, troll.
shareYou have a hyper-inflated sense of the universality of your narrow minded opinion.
Hey, change the channel and go whine somewhere else, perhaps.
No one else "will?" He's been doing comedy for over 15 years. You idiot.
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I've never liked him in anything he's ever done. Just not my cup of tea.
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the trouble with your perceptions is you are looking for nothing but comedy in a tragic/comedy.. This show is for a certain kind of individual. One who feels deep enough to understand that life is a tragic/comedy. This show is about misplaced people. People who have been busted and somehow glued back together.. with flaws. Everyone in this show has needs that no one else recognizes. If this show continues we will probably find that even Dale's wife is broken, her kids are broken, Martha'a people are broken. Everything is broken. Isn't everything broken in your life? I know everything's been broken in mine. But we go on.. broken spokes & all
shareThe comedy isn't funny and the tragedy is too poorly acted to be engaging and I'm not so pompous as to blame the shortcomings on the viewer.
shareI certainly don't mean to come off as pompous. I understand being born out of place. I was born out of place. I understand people expecting you to be nothing more that where you came from and not to "get above yer raisin". I understand the life within that no one recognizes is your real life and the one YOU value. the one YOU are. Chip knows he was born in the wrong place. He looks around his town and dreams his life away because he cannot see himself becoming what they are. To become Dale is his worst nightmare. It's better to dream your life away, escape into fantasy. People ultimately think you must be crazy but.. it's either the fantasy life or the hooch
shareI haven't watched too many sitcoms over the years. Those I did watch included Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore, Moonlighting (dramedy), Newhart, Dear John, Murphy Brown, Seinfeld, The Office and Flight of the Concords. I would put Baskets right up there with the Concords. It's enjoyable and I look forward to each new episode. There's no canned laughter, in fact that's what I hate most about the network comedies, somebody walks into a room and makes a comment and that creates a big laugh even though what was said wasn't funny. I'm sure writers for those shows line up to be hired. Baskets is situational comedy and not filmed on a stage in front of an audience, sort of a mini-movie of Abbot & Costello with either his twin brother, his mother, Martha or the rodeo owner playing the stright man.
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