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Posted: April 07 2012 at 20:17

Watching the Orioles pound the Twins. Big smile

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 14:39

Law And Order Criminal Intent with Falacci.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 12:48

Originally posted by topographicbroadways

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Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it

I don't think I like you.

I believe the feeling may be mutual good sir Thumbs Up

Why? What did I do?

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 11:19

topographicbroadways wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

topographicbroadways wrote:

Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it

I don't think I like you.

I believe the feeling may be mutual good sir Thumbs Up

As another Brit I'd think you'd get that...British humor Wink

I fell asleep with food network on, and I havn't bothered changing it. So that's on right now.

Edited by JJLehto - April 07 2012 at 11:21

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 10:29

Snow Dog wrote:

topographicbroadways wrote:

Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it

I don't think I like you.

I believe the feeling may be mutual good sir Thumbs Up

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 10:07

topographicbroadways wrote:

Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it

I don't think I like you.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 09:47

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The American version of Men Behaving Badly had Rob Schneider in the lead role if I remember correctly. ~~I think that Tony Shaloub, who went on to become Monk, had a role in the American version too, but I might be confusing my bad comedies.~~

Shaloub got his start on Wings.Not a bad sitcom either,just very underrated.

Yep, I remember him on Wings. I was thinking of Stark Raving Mad though. I think the two shows followed each other, if I remember correctly. Doogie Howser was the other guy in that show.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 09:44

Shaloub got his start on Wings.Not a bad sitcom either,just very underrated.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 09:43

Ron Eldard basically played Clunes' role opposite Schneider in the US version.He has done a ton of things but was most noted for playing the EMT "Shep" on ER.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 09:29

Just watched the boat race... that was unexpectedly interesting for a change.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:53

The American version of Men Behaving Badly had Rob Schneider in the lead role if I remember correctly. ~~I think that Tony Shaloub, who went on to become Monk, had a role in the American version too, but I might be confusing my bad comedies.~~

Edited by rushfan4 - April 07 2012 at 08:54

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:50

Enfield was horribly miscast in MBB - he is not an actor who could carry a character for more than a 5 minute sketch and the role needed an actor (ha!, just read the wiki entry and Enfield though the same). Morrissey was more suited for the role, which wasn't hugely different from his role of Rocky in Boon, and the on-screen rapour between Clunes and Morrissey was far better.

Chef! was brilliant - showed Henry as character comedian who could transition to acting, the scene where someone asks for salt and pepper was excellently observed. Whites with Alan Davies at first seemed to be a clumsy remake of Chef!, though it got better and was also amusing to watch, shame it never made it to a second series where the characters could have developed further. Not sure what happened to Kitchen Confidential - that too was a nice little chef-based sit-com that died on its feet for some reason.

It seems that from a TV persepective chefs are only viable if they can also solve crime (Pie In The Sky) .. though I would love to see Poppy Z Brite's Liquor novels made into a TV series.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:48

Men Behaving Badly was so awful.

Typical sexist derogatory badly written comedy. Or 'British Humour' as you like to call it

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:48

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^I've never seen Chef.

Shame on you. Tongue

Lenny Henry is brilliant in it.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 08:13

^I've never seen Chef.

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Posted: April 07 2012 at 07:59

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Now this...

The second series is good but if I had to choose I prefer the first.Harry Enfield was just funnier than Neil Morrissey,imho.

As much as I love Harry Enfield I have to say he wasn't very good in this. Very stilted. He should have played it as a character. He can do characters brilliantly. He is out acted by everyone in the show imo.

As much as I hate to admit it(with all the UK television we watch),this is the only thing I have ever seen Enfield in.I thought instead of stilted acting he was playing his character as a bit dim and slow witted.

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