Published by eltonone on April 4, 2008
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I found this video a while ago called “What What (In the Butt)” by Samwell. I laughed a good deal:
It has just been ripped off for the new South Park:
It’s funny and all, it’d just be a lot better if the humour was original and not just a carbon copy of something that exists already. What was Stans line (refering to Family Guy) in the cartoon wars episode? Something like “Have you ever noticed how none of the jokes derive from the plot? I think that’s totally gay”.
Published by eltonone on March 7, 2008
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Channel 4 series The IT Crowd was pretty funny. I was looking for an episode today and found there is an american remake currently in production. The american version of The Office is dreadful, and I expect this will be the same so I thought I’d make the point: There is no reason for remaking a series other than to appeal to a larger proportion of people and therefor make more money. Remakes are more cost effective than writing a new series. So they got rid of Chris O’Dowd and Katherine Parkinson and replaced them with Joel McHale and Jessica St. Clair respectively (presumably as O’Down is too hard to understand if you’re a stupid american and Parkinson isn’t Jessica St.Clair) yet kept Richard Ayoade, I suspect because just being British makes him a bit geeky. Lowest common denominator comedy - exactly what we don’t need.
Why is it that at the end of the day, what ever anyone sincerely claims is top of their agenda it is actually always money. This renders to me at least any other sincere claim worthless.
Blah. Always the money, never the substance…
Fake american IT Crowd | Real British IT Crowd
It’s not all bad though as according to these two reports NBC have cancelled production
american audiences seem to be a bit confused that for the first time in 30 years NBC failed to air a new series in Autum 2007. Bit odd that they didn’t just air the original.
On a lighter but still financially related note, this spoof piracy advert featured on The IT Crowd Series 2 Episode 3 is great:
