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Wait, hold on, Curb Your Enthusiasm is actually coming back?!?!

Did I miss an announcement?

To me this was a double win!

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I don't know about this... Think about the best American comic right now, Louis CK. His on-stage (and on-screen) persona almost exactly fits what Fry describes as the British archetype. And he's not alone: think about Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, George Costanza in Seinfeld, Homer Simpson, even Lucille Ball.

On the flip side, British comedians like Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder (except for the first season) are more like Fry's description of American comedy. It seems to me that what Fry has done here is come up with a nice neat story about differing national character based on broad stereotypes rather than acute observation, turned that into a theory of comedy, and then cherry-picked examples that fit his theory without mentioning exceptions. It all sounds very impressive given his amazing facility with language and rhetoric, but it's not very good analysis.

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The Simpsons has no laugh track. Amazing that nobody named it yet. I think it was the first US comedy in a long time not to use one. Maybe they got away with that because it's animated, though the Flintstones did have a laugh track. Similarly, other modern animated series don't use laugh tracks (American Dad, Family Guy, Ren and Stimpy, etc.).

Also MASH banned the laugh track from the operating room in a compromise between the show makers (who wanted no laugh track at all) and the network, who insisted on it for all other scenes.

The "Ripping Yarns" DVD set comes with an optional sound track with out laugh track. I thought I would prefer the pure version, but I must (grudgingly) admit that that show seems funnier with the laugh track. It has occurred to me that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" might actually seem funnier with a laugh track, but still I am glad they don't use one--more integrity.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

No laugh track in:
30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Party Down


There was a laugh track for Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it found the show so unfunny that even it couldn't muster a laugh.

No laugh track in:

30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office
Parks and Recreation
Party Down

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I would assume that it along with the movies made by Christopher Guest which are by design a mostly improvised script (much like Curb Your Enthusiasm on TV) were excluded from the list.>> ^Duckman33:

Strange to see nothing in here from Spinal Tap since a lot of the scenes of that movie were improvised from what I understand.

You betta get yo ass outta my house you fuckin' bitch!

>> ^Issykitty:

Awwww. What a sweetheart!

>> ^Issykitty:

Awwww. What a sweetheart!