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[noonereal]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

I personally think stereotypes are funny & people just need to get over themselves. My wife & her friends are always telling people what a tightwad Scotsman I am.
Case in point..."All In The Family."
Best sitcom ever IMO.

no it is not

Honeymooners was the funniest ever followed by The Larry David Show and Seinfeld.
4th is Two and a Half Men .

I can let you have the 5th position for All in the Family.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

I personally think stereotypes are funny & people just need to get over themselves. My wife & her friends are always telling people what a tightwad Scotsman I am.
Case in point..."All In The Family."
Best sitcom ever IMO.

It was a classic. Especially when you consider that it was a parody of people like Archie.

Regards,

D-Ray

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

It was a classic. Especially when you consider that it was a parody of people like Archie.

Regards,

D-Ray

I remember ole Archie in All In The Family. Boy, he really done a 180 in the heat of the night though, didn't he.

[merrylander]

I thought all the stereo types were over in that other group.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I thought all the stereo types were over in that other group.

:rim shot:

You musta been hanging around the Thedelihaus.

Regards,

D-Ray

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by noonereal

no it is not

Honeymooners was the funniest ever followed by The Larry David Show and Seinfeld.
4th is Two and a Half Men .

I can let you have the 5th position for All in the Family.

I agree on The Honeymooners being funny.

The Larry David Show is fairly good.

Now, I might be the only one that thought Seinfeld wasn't all that funny. In fact, both Seinfeld and Friends are good depictions of what I like to refer to as the vacant 90s. All in the Family was very good and O'Connor and Stapleton both did a wonderful job. The spin offs Maude and The Jeffersons also broke new ground dealing with feminism and mixed marriage respectively. All three of the shows had a more significant and deeper impact than the trite pablum of the 1990s. Though the subject matter wasn't funny, MASH was another great show of the 70s. The episode without the laugh track is particularly poignant.

O'Connor, despite depicting and appearing as a bumbling sort of character, was actually quite erudite and held a BA in English and an MA in Speech. BTW, he was a left winger that supported liberal causes throughout his life.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by bhunter

I agree on The Honeymooners being funny.

The Larry David Show is fairly good.

Now, I might be the only one that thought Seinfeld wasn't all that funny. In fact, both Seinfeld and Friends are good depictions of what I like to refer to as the vacant 90s. All in the Family was very good and O'Connor and Stapleton both did a wonderful job. The spin offs Maude and The Jeffersons also broke new ground dealing with feminism and mixed marriage respectively. All three of the shows had a more significant and deeper impact than the trite pablum of the 1990s. Though the subject matter wasn't funny, MASH was another great show of the 70s. The episode without the laugh track is particularly poignant.

O'Connor, despite depicting and appearing as a bumbling sort of character, was actually quite erudite and held a BA in English and an MA in Speech. BTW, he was a left winger that supported liberal causes throughout his life.

By golly, we have something else we agree on. I don't think I ever watched an entire episode of Friends. It seems that I lack the intelligence to recognize the comic genius of Seinfeld.

I do, however, appreciate the genius of Norman Lear. Besides giving birth to some of the shows you mentioned, he was also a founder of People for the American Way.

The fact that Carrol O'Connor played his opposite on a long lasting number one show is quite a tribute to his acting ability. We probably should also mention that Maureen Stapleton was quite removed from the ditz she played.

Regards,

D-Ray

[piece-itpete]

Another vote for The Honeymooners.

Pete

[d-ray657]

Gleason also conducted a silky smooth orchestra.

I picked up a couple of his albums at the thrifts. Can't say I really enjoy them, but I can appreciate the professionalism.

Regards,

D-Ray

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by bhunter

I agree on The Honeymooners being funny.

The Larry David Show is fairly good.

Now, I might be the only one that thought Seinfeld wasn't all that funny. In fact, both Seinfeld and Friends are good depictions of what I like to refer to as the vacant 90s. All in the Family was very good and O'Connor and Stapleton both did a wonderful job. The spin offs Maude and The Jeffersons also broke new ground dealing with feminism and mixed marriage respectively. All three of the shows had a more significant and deeper impact than the trite pablum of the 1990s. Though the subject matter wasn't funny, MASH was another great show of the 70s. The episode without the laugh track is particularly poignant.

O'Connor, despite depicting and appearing as a bumbling sort of character, was actually quite erudite and held a BA in English and an MA in Speech. BTW, he was a left winger that supported liberal causes throughout his life.

a key component to comedy is identification
I think Larry David is way funny in part because I can see myself become just as frustrated as Larry constantly is by circumstance. Seinfeld was like watching my buddies on TV. The building in Manhattan I lived in looked just like Jerry's. In fact the dinner featured so prominently was only a few blocks away and I ate there all the time. Friends by contrast my oldest daughter thought was hysterical and I never so much as broke a smile watching it.