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  • British humour is infinitely funnier than the laugh track pandering American sitcoms.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao

    • Most humor is funnier than a laugh track sitcom. But humor being regional is ... an interesting phenomenon if nothing else. Like yea I enjoyed the hell out of Monty Python as a kid and even now. But ill take the office from Scranton ober the og any day of the week. But I also wouldnt expect peeps from across the pond to feel that way.

      Is their anything from that late 90s era early 00s British tv had to compare the chapelle show? Honestly curious, I only have so much knowledge of British humor.

      • I don't think laugh track is inherently bad.

        But I watched the Big Bang Theory for like the first 3 years, and it just kept devolving into shittier and simpler humour, and like really begging for the laughs with the puns, whereas in Britain it's genuinely considered somewhat important to keep it organic.

        Like unfiltered BBC panel shows are just so much more hilarious than an episode of "hey come share laughs over archaic and super over-blown stereotypes".

        Whatever cheap shit they've made over at the BBC is usually funnier than overproduced hyper-supervised multi-writer numbers-pleasing BS. I know that's subjective, and I won't die on a hill of "who's the funniest", because that's subjective, but that's my opinion on it.

    • The Office would like to have a word with you.

  • BBT is a show about smart people for dumb people. The IT Crowd is a show about smart people.

  • If anyone is wondering, it’s totally okay to like both.

    • I would say they're like apples and oranges but they're more like apples and hand grenades. They only vaguely resemble each other and I love them both.

      The Brits try not to mix as much drama into their comedy. I appreciate that. BBT waxes pretentious then wains drama, I like it most when it's in the middle.

      All that said, I've seen the entirety of BBT maybe one and a half times, I've watched ITC probably a dozen times.

    • Please elaborate.

      • So, image there’s a pop band that a lot of people like called “Apples.” They like them because of all the reasons a typical person generally likes a pop band. For instance, the songs are easy to understand, the members are talented, the songs are catchy, they’re not too complicated… things like that.

        Now imagine there’s another band people like, but they play rock, and they’re called “Oranges.” So, Oranges are liked because they’re a bit darker, but more topical. They’re a little grittier, but they’re more centered and realistic with their songs and similarly, very talented.

        Now, picture a dude named Gary.

        Gary likes both Apples and Oranges because his music tastes are diverse. He doesn’t care about falling into groups that feel the need to chastise and ridicule others for what they like when it doesn’t make a single difference in the lives of anyone other than Gary himself.

  • TBBT can be an okay show if you don't mind the overused surface level nerd culture references, casual misogyny, and Elon Musk's appearance. Other than that it can be a guilty pleasure of mine.

  • But Silicon Valley is better than either of them.

    • SV is too real. I was close to Bay Area tech when I was watching it, and that show hit too close to home sometimes.

      IT crowd maintains a humorous distance from the really shitty parts of tech and I’m here for it.

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