That’s what I hear!!
Jodie Foster won her Golden Globe in her PJs on the coach with her wife by her side 
Kinda surprised to see Borat beat Hamilton
Shoulda given it to Schitts Creek
I will buy you a month of Apple+ to watch Ted Lasso if you can’t afford it, DM me. or better yet I’ll give you an invite to a private b1tt0rr3nt tracker. Fuck the man. Yes I know those 2 things are fairly contradictory.
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I watched the first season and enjoyed it. Don’t watch it if you can’t stand violence.
Oh, yeah, I don’t know if people like to read that stuff, but I wrote one writeup of Ted Lasso after watching it and another article recently getting into why I think I liked it so much when so many shows about niceness just leave me cold.
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Last Week Tonight hasn’t been funny in a long time.
I think their new producers cut their budget because they’re not doing all the crazy stuff they used to do. Even before the pandemic, the days of creating a megachurch or buying then canceling debt seem to be gone.
Without that, the show is no different from the other political “comedy” shows.
I haven’t watched the show in a while so it may not be funny anymore but just last fall he spent like $50k to rename the sewage plant in Danbury CT something like “The John Oliver Memorial Sewage Plant”. Idk if $50k is way less than those other things but it’s certainly in the same spirit.
Have now watched this clip a half dozen times today, cried each time:
Ok lets play a game, everyone.
I slightly chuckled at one of the jokes in this clip.
Which one was it?
“She might be contagious!!!”
No, I’ve never found a single thing Sheldon has done to be funny
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One thing I really got from this clip is that I can’t stand how much shows like this hammer on the canned audience responses, like the audience at home wouldn’t know how to feel if the laughter and the awwing weren’t being beaten into their heads (to say nothing for how often it drowns out the actual dialogue).
(Also, that Joss Whedon line didn’t age very well.)
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I guess it depends on your connection to the show, but shows like BBT and Sports Night make me feel like you describe. They’re telling me when to laugh rather than letting the humor speak for itself.
But then there are shows like Frasier where the laugh track enhances the experience for me because I feel like that’s obviously funny and someone is laughing along with me.
Fwiw, Sports Night realized how poor a sound track came off even in 1999, and phased it out eventually dropping it after episode 6 I think. If that stopped you from watching it, you’re missing out on one of my favorite shows ever
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Can confirm that Sports Night dropped the laugh track pretty early on.
I’m sure there’s some part that has to do with not having a connection to the show, but even by the standards of laugh tracks or live audiences, BBT’s here is just overwhelming to the point of drowning out actual dialogue. (Not the first time I’ve experienced that with it, either.) When used well, I think of something like NewsRadio, which was filmed in front of a live audience and has a very filmed-stage-show feel to it, with gags that are heavy on precise timing. The audience laughter there I never found overwhelming, and the performers worked with it to fit it into the timing of their deliveries and gags. (You could probably film it without the laughter and tighten it up a bit, but I don’t think I would want to change the multi-camera setting or staging of the show at all.)
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Fresh Prince audience GOAT
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