Bugs Bunny? Or someone in Mr Ed's extended family?
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I just feel that too big a writing team gets past the reality stage and it's just gag gag gag!
Sounds like a gang bang to me 
Right - I've just watched Episode 1, series 1 of Curb your Enthusiasm on HBO.
There were several very funny parts - but they just dragged the jokes out. Maybe it would have made a good 15 minutes. It seems more like One Foot in the Grave.
And you're supposed to know he's famous. Is he? They said he wrote Seinfeld. So what?
In LA, maybe that means a bit more than in Basildon.
Or wherever you might be from.
Quote: zooo @ July 15, 2007, 1:13 AMIn LA, maybe that means a bit more than in Basildon.
Or wherever you might be from.
Basildon? That's bloody Essex! I'm not that common. I'm from Surrey!
I do apologise.
You know, I've never heard Curb compared to One Foot In The Grave before, but you're right.
It's the middle-aged embarrassing situations isn't it.
Yup.
Victor Meldrew is totally Larry's English twin.
Who knew!
Americans in general....No, they don't understand irony..
But New York Jews, that's a different proposition.
The Simpsons, Friends, Seinfeld, Frazier, Taxi, Curb your enthusiasm, anything by Woody Allen.
All from close knit New York Jewish writing community.
The more you get to know Larry, the more you'll appreciate his reactions to the sticky situations he gets himself in.
Maybe I'll watch episode 2 later today - after The Visit.
But the great humour is purely a New York , Jewish thing. I have travelled around the States and 99% of them [ OK 98.5 % ] don't really " get " British humour.Why this is, I'm not too sure.
The references, the culture, the accents, the fact that it's not about them, they're idiots?
Yes Leevil but as Roy Keane once famously said, "All empires finally run their course".
I just wanna take my kids to Disney Land before the American One does.