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There is more good American comedy than good British comedy.

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Thrillho:

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--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 18 Nov 2012, 18:08 ---Instead, [the BBC's] funding comes from a legalized protection racket.
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"Oh, look at us, we're independent of any government influence!"
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"We can't man up and deal with adverts! Please send your bully boys around to threaten people into paying for stuff they don't want..."

I wouldn't mind if you only needed a license for BBC programs, like a subscription. It doesn't matter if you only watch non-BBC stuff, you must have a license unless you only watch web-broadcast programs. Seriously, if there aren't enough people paying to watch your stuff out of choice, you're doing it wrong.

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License funding actually does go to other channels, not just the BBC, it just isn't as widely known.

pwhodges:
It is indeed required by law to purchase a licence in order to use a TV set to receive broadcasts over the air from any station. However, the collected fees (minus the cost of collection) go to the BBC alone.  Some parts of the BBC receive other funding - the World Service from the Foreign Office, though that's about to end - and the Worldwide TV services are fully commercial.

Carl-E:

--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 19 Nov 2012, 04:21 ---...
Roseanne,
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Roseanne,
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Roseanne,
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Ok, you only had it in there twice.  But really, it was (and still is) one of my wife's and my favorite shows.  Probably because we were married and raising a couple of kids when it was new, and could identify.  That, and the general snarky senses of humor we both inherited. 

But some things can't be replicated - there's an early episode about a trip to a mall, my favorite.  Lots of good one-liners, but the one that had me doubled up was, when asked where he parked, Dan says "Gdansk". 

But bear in mind I'd spent the day working at the radio station hearing about Polish elections and Lech Walensa, then trying to park in our building's parking lot.  So it just tickled me.  Reruns can't hit that.  I'll always laugh at that line, but my kids just say, "what?"


Then I have to explain the joke...

ackblom12:
I really think one of Roseanne's big successes is in how well they portrayed a poor Working Home. Practically every other sitcom in existence in the US centers around the financially successful, or at least the "we're going to skip over finances entirely until it's convenient for comedic timing" type of family/person.

Lupercal:
I'm a Brit and I find Fraiser pretty consistently hilarious. Friends - well, I'm re-watching that out of sheer boredom and yes, got to Season 8 and it has really dropped off.

Conversely, I ended up watching Two and a Half Men a while ago and wondering what the actual fuck that programme was about. Why was it ever considered funny?

A lot of the time I think that 90s American sitcoms tend to be quite funny, or at least more identifiable to me than a lot of current stuff. I don't know why, because ackblom hit the nail on the head - I often wonder why you never really see people in sitcoms struggling with money, and if you do, its only for a few episodes until they get a great new job somewhere.

On the other hand, for us Brits there's always been a Baldrick around somewhere...

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