Quote: sootyj @ October 26 2008, 6:20 PM BSTMaybe they have a huge audience of people with dificulty creating long term memories?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Cliché sitcom jokes that really piss you off Page 2
When someone accidentally overhears someone else talking about them, and gets exactly the wrong idea.
This used to be used a lot when somebody would feel unwell and go to the doctor, then overhear the dr talking about an imminent death (usually of a pet) and assume it was about himself.
Not so prevalent nowadays, but this used to annoy me when I was akid.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ November 20 2008, 10:18 AM GMTWhen someone accidentally overhears someone else talking about them, and gets exactly the wrong idea.
This used to be used a lot when somebody would feel unwell and go to the doctor, then overhear the dr talking about an imminent death (usually of a pet) and assume it was about himself.
Not so prevalent nowadays, but this used to annoy me when I was akid.
And yet Frasier manages to turn this conceit into an artform.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 25 2008, 5:46 PM BSTBLOKE: 'No. Absolutely not. There is not a chance in hell that you're going to get me to do that. No. Not a chance. Definitely not. No way jose.'
CUT TO:
Bloke doing thing he just said he absolutely wouldn't.
Those can still be funny when they are done in the right way, but done poorly and I agree with you.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ October 26 2008, 5:19 PM BSTThe other HIGNFY kind of gag I dislike are when they make the same kind of jokes about the same thing. Examples include jokes about Prescott being fat (as was done in the last episode), Bush being stupid and so on. Once you've done the same joke for around 8 years it does get a bit boring.
I agree, I don't think there is any new material on Bush, I'm bored of watching satire shows take the piss out of him, it's just too easy.
Hislop is funny on HIGNFY, but he annoyed me when he was talking about the Jonathan Ross/Sachs thing, basically called Ross a bully who is overpaid. I'd love to offer Hislop 18m for his own TV show and see what he says.
The thing about clichés is that they can still be funny if someone charismatic or talented says them. Same with catchphrases.
What I hate is when they make a joke, everyone laughs, and they still deliver the next line that was written to accommodate the people that wouldn't get the joke, then those people laugh.
Screw 'em. I'm sick of quality reductions to accommodate the stupid.
Quote: Sir Geoffrey Loftus @ November 26 2008, 12:46 AM GMTScrew 'em. I'm sick of quality reductions to accommodate the stupid.
OK - I'll be off then!
Where people talk about Santa not existing and it turns out someone else's child is standing behind them.
Not a cliche sitcom joke, but it does annoy me when the camera focuses on someone, then focuses on them with the door in shot behind them, and lo and behold someone enters. They could have the door in shot all the time so we don't know when somebody's going to enter instead of it being telegraphed.
S/he's standing right behind me is'nt he/she?
is getting a little old.
Quote: Afinkawan @ November 26 2008, 9:42 AM GMTWhere people talk about Santa not existing and it turns out someone else's child is standing behind them.
Had an interesting real life variant of that a couple of Christmases back. We were playing the cigarette paper game, where a name is stuck to your forehead, and you have to guess who you are by asking questions with yes/no answers. My brother was Santa Claus. "Am I real?" he asks. Everyone: "No". Cue Melissa, aged 5, "Oh yes you are!"
Timbo, Your anecdotes are so cliched. Sort it out!
Quote: Sir Geoffrey Loftus @ November 26 2008, 12:46 AM GMTWhat I hate is when they make a joke, everyone laughs, and they still deliver the next line that was written to accommodate the people that wouldn't get the joke, then those people laugh.
Screw 'em. I'm sick of quality reductions to accommodate the stupid.
Here here! I haaaate that. It really does take the edge off and downright ruin some otherwise very funny jokes.
I do apologise, I have used the line "well my day couldn't get any worse" I thought it worked in the scene it was used in, I'm a bit worried now, cos I sent it off.
Quote: bighead65 @ December 3 2008, 4:41 PM GMTI do apologise, I have used the line "well my day couldn't get any worse" I thought it worked in the scene it was used in, I'm a bit worried now, cos I sent it off.
Believe me if they use it you won't give a shit. And neither would anyone else on here if they were in the same position.