I watched the Simpsons thenight in the hostel wae aboot 20 other people, and their laughter put me off it a bit. I’m that used to watching the Simpsons in silence and just ignoring the unfunny bits that pop up here and there, but I had a group of people all around me howling at them, and it didnae feel right. It felt like what The Office would be like wae canned laughter in it.
There was one bit in the episode where Homer dreamed up something surreal in a wee thought bubble, and this guy behind me, after laughing at it, said to the room “It’s just amazing”. As in “It’s just amazing how they can come up with this stuff, it’s insane”.
Again, it just didnae feel right.
Just because the Simpsons can be really clever at points, dumb people have to keep going on about it all the time. It’s cos they don’t really get the clever bits I think. I hate watching comedies with other people cos they always say, ‘eh, eh?’ nod at the tv when there is a funny bit. Why?
I have to mention, yet again, that this World Tour revolves around the watching of the televisual box…………….!! I’m going to set you a task Limmy – go and find 39b Newry Street in Prahran and take a picture – I want to relive my years in Melbourne! Go up High Street from St Kilda Road and it’s a right turn just after the Greek Orthodox church about a mile up. Git off your arse and do some good for mankind!
I bet they were mostly Americans. Americans will cheer and whoop and lol at anything. I was in Amsterdam last year and this guy walks over to my table while im eating breakfast in a cafe and goes.. “Dude, is that like Wostestistchire sauce you’re putting on your eggs” and I goes “naw, it’s broon sauce” and he goes “BROON SAUCE, YEA, THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT” and laughs like a hyena with 3 other pale wee cunts standing round him laughing as well like Eddie Murphy and Richard Prior were doing a double act.
Then he goes (after about 3 minutes of laughter) “Whats, broon sauce?” maybe it was the weed I dunno.
Aye, comedies should be watched on your own or with somebody with the same sense of humour as yersel. On the total opposite side of things, I hate watching a comedy with somebody who hasn’t seen it before and you can tell they’re thinkin “this cunt finds this funny, simpleton!” Sorry to say Limmy but I’ve had that experience after recommending a few of yer videos to mates. Fuck em’.
The Simpsons is just clever enough to be actually funny, but just lowbrow enough to be accessible to the idiots who say “ha ha…wow! I mean, WOWEE!” and rant for ages about how intellectual the jokes are.
In other news, The Simpsons is no longer funny.
The Simpsons with commentary?
Shoot the fuckers!!!!!!!!!!
Only Old Simpsons episodes seem to make me laugh, the new shite is exactly that, shite.
Brammer, are you absolutely sure they weren’t Canadians?
Simpsons has nothing on the Jeffersons now thats a show!
someone in my extended family always says the classic ‘ did you hear that?’ and then repeats the whole feckin scene for you as if they can do it better. Its like they think because you didnae laugh as much as them you are a stupid cunt and they need to explain it too you.
I adopt the ‘fag oot’ approach and with out lookin at them shout ‘Saw it’ that fucks them!
yeah that reminds me of when the second plane hit the WTC towers and this guy in the pub turns around to me laughing and says “jaysus did you see that?” but then later when the first tower callopsed and i let out a giggle he stood there silently – he didnae get it.
See things like allo allo, 2 point four children, that one with Julia Sawallah and the Bisto woman, i forget what it’s called, any of those sitcoms with Judi Dench in, and Last of the summer wine etc.? Has anybody, (especially scottish folk), ever met anybody who’s even heard of any cunt even smiling at these things? They’re never off. Digital anyway. Victoria Wood. Birds of A Feather. Waiting for God. the fuckin Brittas Empire. Fresh fields.
They’ll get comedies stoaped!
Thin blue line. Only when i laugh. Fuckin Dinnerladies.
I saw an english woman in Ullapool once laughing at dinnerladies. Laughing like the middle-class whiny fuckin horse that she was.
Butterflies. mind that? Naw.
Butterflies? I thought of that for the first time yesterday. I think I heard the song “Life is like a butterfly” coming from somewhere and I thought “Was that the theme tune for a programme called Butterflies, or did I dream that?”
…and what’s wrong with Canadians, Jennifer?
Nah fuck it, who cares?
Never mind the folk you watch shows with, canned laughter has to be the biggest mass insult on TV: you should join in wi the big laughs … now. Or even: ‘Fuck, this is mince. How are we gonna convince anyone its good…?’ Sure-fire sign of a heap of piss. It would also wreck any decent show.
One exception was a gig years back where the band had a laugh track through the PA at the end of every song. So it went: last note then cheers/claps plus big laughs and the entire crowd looking about to see what the joke was. We woulda looked like total Spaniards.
The Butterflies song was big Dolly Parton.
The mad bint.
Butterflies Limmy. 30 years old anyway right? Must be. And that tune’s engrained in your heid whether you know it or like or not. No say in the matter. Like Hi de hi. A total no-win situation.
The Simpsons ain’t what it used to be. They seem obssesed with getting celebrities to appear on it.
yeh goddam Yankees
why do they need to tell the whole world what they think?
And loudly
And in detail
And again if need be
Yankees stay home, the rest of the world hates you
Canned laughter ruined Alan Partridge for me… wtf were they thinking
i love men
I have to mention, yet again, that this World Tour revolves around the watching of the televisual box…………….!! I'm going to set you a task Limmy – go and find 39b Newry Street in Prahran and take a picture – I want to relive my years in Melbourne! Go up High Street from St Kilda Road and it's a right turn just after the Greek Orthodox church about a mile up. Git off your arse and do some good for mankind!