So Much For Subtlety: Of stuff, nonsense and other things…
Well, am creating my first trackback on Blogger, so I have no idea how this is going to come in… Let’s hope for the best… And yes, I am using Opera, which for some reason, Blogger hates to the core. Expect reduced functionality.
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There is comedy, and then there is comedy. If you have watched comedy of the likes of Absolute Power, or Coupling, or even Frasier, or heard shows of The Goon Show on BBC Radio, you will quickly realize what intelligent comedy is. (That most of it comes from the Queen’s land, is maybe, mere coincidence.) Contrast it with shows and sitcoms like Friends or That 70′s Show and you will understand how lame they are. Most of the later shows rely on jokes and situational comedies which have no play in the longer storyline, or plot. The former, on the other hand, have a coherency to such an extent, that if you are to miss the beginning, you will not, rest assured, enjoy the show to the fullest. There are references, and cross references to so many things, that if you are to detract your attention, you will surely miss out.
While some might argue that what is a comedy, if you have to pay attention to it, I feel that such comedy is intelligent. And the average TV viewer is not dumb. It is just that the average TV producer feels that he is dumb, and therefore produces TV shows that are dumb. I do not mean to slander such shows, for they too are indeed comedy at times. It’s just that the dumb TV viewer is more or less a direct result of these TV shows.
I must praise the BBC studios for time and again churning out such programming. And deplore American production houses for not doing the same, at least in enough numbers.
It may not therefore be Nadeem’s sister’s fault in entirity (this is surely a spelling mistake, the first one to post the correct version gets 20 brownie points, redeemable for McDonalds’ Softy per 100 points) that she did not understand the joke, or in a larger perspective the entire comedy. Whether she understands Maths or not, is another topic in entirity (again! And on proof reading, I feel it should be softy points).
I will refrain from commenting about the anti-religion stuff in this trackback, expect one later, if I feel upto it.
Update: I managed to screw up the HTML once again, with an open italics tag. The result being that all posts and all of the right hand panel was now italicised. I don’t understand why Blogger could not limit the problem to this single post. It could have closed all open tags, and confined the problem.
