Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:10 PM GMTI sold lots of sketch stuff to German television
Written in English? How does that work?
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Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:10 PM GMTI sold lots of sketch stuff to German television and got flown out to be part of a development team, 3 of us including Phil Nice and worked on a sitcom that got made over there.
Is that TV company funded by Germans only though?
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 25 2009, 12:15 PM GMTWritten in English? How does that work?
They translate it.
Quote: bushbaby @ November 25 2009, 12:19 PM GMTIs that TV company funded by Germans only though?
yeah it was an independent. Mind you the comedy guy there was Dutch.
Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:22 PM GMTThey translate it.
Were you essentially just writing your usual Marc P comedy, or were you deliberately trying to write for what you though a German would find funny?
Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:22 PM GMTThey translate it.
yeah it was an independent. Mind you the comedy guy there was Dutch.
We Dutch are notoriously funny.
Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:22 PM GMTThey translate it.
I'm so glad I asked.
Quote: chipolata @ November 25 2009, 12:23 PM GMTWere you essentially just writing your usual Marc P comedy, or were you deliberately trying to write for what you though a German would find funny?
No, I had no idea so I just wrote what I thought was funny.
A lot of Germans speak good English. A lot of Dutch people speak better English than a lot of the English.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ November 25 2009, 12:24 PM GMTI'm so glad I asked.
Well that was basically about it, the team spoke good English. I have no idea if the translations were good or not.
Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:36 PM GMTI have no idea if the translations were good or not.
Was it like Python's funniest joke ever... each translator worked only on a small portion of each of your gags for fear that if they saw the whole gag they would die laughing?
Quote: KJSmyling @ November 25 2009, 12:43 PM GMTWas it like Python's funniest joke ever... each translator worked only on a small portion of each of your gags for fear that if they saw the whole gag they would die laughing?
Probably not.
Seems a cumbersome and costly exercise. Must be cheaper to employ funny German writers... There are funny German writers, right?
Quote: chipolata @ November 25 2009, 12:47 PM GMTSeems a cumbersome and costly exercise. Must be cheaper to employ funny German writers... There are funny German writers, right?
Don't know. I like the Germans mind, they are publishing my book in translation next January. Big market in Germany for English crime.
Quote: chipolata @ November 25 2009, 12:47 PM GMTThere are funny German writers, right?
Oh yes... http://tinyurl.com/8kqcq
His Kristallnacht routine is the stuff of comedy legend...
Quote: chipolata @ November 25 2009, 12:47 PM GMTThere are funny German writers, right?
You ask this after discovering they fly in three British writers to write and devise their comedy? Can I have a fiver on Chip not being a crime writer.
Quote: Marc P @ November 25 2009, 12:22 PM GMTThey translate it.
How did your puns work in translation?
Isn't one of the main reasons comedy in the English-speaking countries is different to the rest of the world is because the language is so rich?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 25 2009, 4:04 PM GMTHow did your puns work in translation?
Isn't one of the main reasons comedy in the English-speaking countries is different to the rest of the world is because the language is so rich?
About as well as they do on here. 