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Old 02-05-2009, 12:20 PM   #192 (permalink)
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I cant get enough of it. I really the love the way the show is written and produced (with no scripts and more or less fully improvised) and maybe because its because im a Brit but I love Larry Davids dry, blunt sense of humour.
I think I tend to like a dry sense of humor too, but my problem with CYE is that after a while I find Larry David more irritating than funny.

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A lot of Brits will tell you that ALL American humour is the same and CYE (among with others of course) is proof that those people are way off the mark.
Heh, well looking down on all things American seems to be a favorite pastime of some Brits. But of course thinking that everything produced by a given culture is entirely homogenous is a silly and simplistic way of looking at things to say the least.

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I think it was the first episode, or the pilot and the first episode that were a straight remake of the British one. I think Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant also wrote the scripts for the first few episodes or possibly the first season? Ill probably give it a watch sometime, ive been meaning to for a while once I started to hear good things about it.
If you do watch it, make sure you check out more than one episode. I had to watch a few before I stopped comparing all the characters to their British counterparts and just enjoyed them as their own characters.
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