Ok, so I assume it's sexual conquests? No?
But who are the gold digging women? You mean all gold digging women are virgins? This is my main problem.
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Quote: ian_w @ April 9 2008, 9:49 PM BSTWins at what though?
Spooky. Yeah. What he said.
Quote: Aaron @ April 9 2008, 9:52 PM BSTWins of what though?
Phew, not just me!
Quote: Aaron @ April 9 2008, 9:52 PM BSTSpooky. Yeah. What he said.
This is worrying!!
Quote: ian_w @ April 9 2008, 9:52 PM BSTOk, so I assume it's sexual conquests? No?
But who are the gold digging women? You mean all gold digging women are virgins? This is my main problem.
Sexual conquests yes and the confusing Aaron part was that perhaps Aaron had been duped by Brian's tricks. 
Woh....my post confused even me.
Did you put your French hat on this morning?
o_O
Anyway. Right. Well, I grew up in the 90s, watching a mixture of Nickelodeon (before it was shit), Cartoon Network (before it was shit), and CBBC (before it was patronising and shit) - so mostly American shows. Also programmes like Noel's House Party, Big Break and so on. I don't think I was really aware of the concept of 'comedy' as such, just that these shows entertained and amused me.
At some point, Paramount Comedy launched, and replaced Nickelodeon at 7pm each night (it was Zee TV before that, if I remember rightly), so I was naturally drawn into that. Roseanne was one show I particularly remember seeing quite a lot of, and also Cheers, some Seinfeld and Frasier, Cybill, Diff'rent Strokes, and so on and so forth.
I, too, was always drawing and doodling, making little cartoons and comics. And also making people laugh (although looking back on it, perhaps just AT me - my face, specifically). But anyway. At some point, I guess it would have been around 1997, I became a huge (and I mean, HUGE) Simpsons fan - to the extent that I knew the production numbers of each individual episode.
I think it must have been 2002 before I even started getting into British comedy. I think that the then-brand-new Fawlty Towers and Blackadder box sets were my first TV show DVDs, and had only previously seen a couple of episodes of each. I got a bit more interested from then, but it wasn't really until Septemberish 2004 that I got into it as anything more than a 'passing' fan, when I was going through a lot personally and just immersed myself in sitcoms (Yes Minister, in particular, probably saved me from myself).
From there my interest just grew, much like it did with The Simpsons in the late 90s, and now I am the ever-expanding, walking comedypaedia you see before you today.
I LOVED Roseanne!
And The Cosby Show. And that spin off about their daughter at university - Different World.
Oooh, and Blossom.
Morecambe and Wise and Tommy Cooper totally sold me to comedy. Singing in the Rain sketch by M&W was totally brilliant!
A lot of people involved in comedy say their talent came from coping with being bullied. I was never bullied myself - luckily, I was always one of the biggest lads in my year at school, so I never had to worry about being picked on. In fact, once, when my sister, who was 2 school years above me, told me that she was being picked on, by two boys in her class, I was able to give them both a slap, as I was bigger than both of them! Aaah, great days! It's funny really, because my Mum and Dad are both short-arses. I'm sure I was the same height as my Dad when I was 12/13. I stopped growing when I was about 15, and am now a pretty average 5ft 11".
Anyway, I also used to draw cartoons. I got a lot of attention for them, when I was a kid. I was even asked to draw a Christmas card, by my school, when I was 8, which they duplicated, and started selling. Actually, even today, the pads that I write all of my sitcom ideas in, are filled with cartoons, which I draw when I'm deep in thought. This is probably why I often draw the same character over and over, as I never concentrate on what I'm drawing.
As for the Monty Python characters being hard to understand, I'm sure there were a lot of British people who found them hard to understand as well. The characters were usually cockneys - unlike the Pythons themselves, whose attempts at the Cockney accent often sounded worse than that of Dick Van Dyke, when he was in Mary Poppins (particularly Palin and Jones), especially if they were playing women, and were doing those annoying screechy voices.
Quote: catskillz @ April 9 2008, 11:10 PM BSTA lot of people involved in comedy say their talent came from coping with being bullied. I was never bullied myself - luckily, I was always one of the biggest lads in my year at school, so I never had to worry about beingpicked on.
I was never bullied but I wasn't one for confrontation and being one of the biggest lads at my school, I often encountered a lot of people with a Napoleon complex, who felt the need to prove that they could beat me in a fight. If they didn't go away laughing, they went away crying.
Quote: zooo @ April 9 2008, 11:06 PM BSTI LOVED Roseanne!
Good show, good show. Got a bit tiring with all of the repeats and repeats after a couple of years!
Quote: zooo @ April 9 2008, 11:06 PM BSTAnd The Cosby Show. And that spin off about their daughter at university - Different World.
Not bad either. Wasn't such a fan of Different World though. Felt like something was missing, but I could never figure out exactly what.
Quote: zooo @ April 9 2008, 11:06 PM BSTOooh, and Blossom.
Don't recall that one.
Blossom's a classic!
I wasn't bullied, but I did draw cartoons!
There should be a poll...
I wasn't bullied either. Or if I was, I was oblivious to it. Is anyone else like that?
I dunno though zooo, most of the shows I watched were 80s! None of them look even remotely familiar though, so it must have just not been played on any channel I watched.
I think Blossom was just on channel 4. I was about 12 or 13 ish I think.
I used do cartoons as well, and then I wrote stories for a friend to draw when it became apparent that I couldn't.
Lots of shared family laughter watching comedy as I grew up in the 70s and early 80s - M&W, Ronnies, Dad's Army, etc. From an early age I loved Tom & Jerry, Laurel and Hardy. Also, I think being the youngest of four siblings meant firstly that I was introduced to what they found funny, and also that I had to compete to be funnier than them so that I'd be noticed. One day, they will notice, one day.
I think drawing cartoons seems to be the common theme.