The worst one of all is when they make jokes about a disparate group of characters in perpetual conflict, who find themselves trapped in a situation they can't leave. And at the end of each episdoe things return to how they are each week.
Cliché sitcom jokes that really piss you off Page 9
Quote: dellas @ September 27 2011, 7:37 AM BST
Yes, like I need my bush cutting, roars of laughter.
I need a long length, up there guttering.
I found it too hard to swallow, generic comment.
I like jumbo sausages, hilarious.
We are sharing a cabin, whooo Whooo?
I like sunbathing in the nude, phnaw phnaw.
Aren't they more innuendo than cliche? (ahem)
It's not a problem to see the joke coming if it's what we've come to expect from that character/s like Frank Spencer or even the old ones like Laurel and Hardy, you know what's coming but the enjoyment is in watching it unfold.
Regarding women clichés YES.
Quote: Ian Wolf @ December 31 2008, 1:03 AM BSTOne problem with mocking the "Daily Mail" is my personal theory that it is much easier to mock right-wing things than left-wing things. Hence why "The Great Dictator" is one of Chaplin's greatest films, but I am unaware of a great comedy film about Stalin.
The Red Monarch with Colin Blakely as Stalin with an Irish accent (standing in for Georgian I think). Co-stars David Kelly, with both arms, as a KGB henchman.
Just released on DVD a few months ago-
Quote: Shandonbelle @ September 27 2011, 9:21 AM BSTAren't they more innuendo than cliche? (ahem)
It's not a problem to see the joke coming if it's what we've come to expect from that character/s like Frank Spencer or even the old ones like Laurel and Hardy, you know what's coming but the enjoyment is in watching it unfold.
Yes it's very funny when Laurel and Hardy are ribbing each other and while one of them prepares something the other just watches and waits! Lovely timing and facial expressions, their 20-minute shorts still make me laugh.