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Everyone I know loves two and a half men. I don't. I hate it.
I seriously don't think its funny at all. Maybe I'm a bit overly critical, but two and a half men does absolutely nothing for me. the delivery for the jokes are terrible. either the setup for them is so obvious that you see them coming 5 minutes before hand, or the show blurts out the punchline before building it up.
I can see that the show is trying to be funny but its falling short on its fucking face.
but still everyone likes it? I can't be the only person out there that hates it.
btw cleavage isn't a reason to find two and a half men funny
 
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Yeh it blows. Only american comedy i like atm is "it's always sunny in Philadelphia" (<3 to Brood for his blog introducing me, hooked since)
I can't stand comedies with stupid laugh track in background, i don't need something trying to tell me when something is funny.
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yeah, it's not funny.
I heard somewhere that charlie sheen is the highest paid sitcom actor right now at 300, 000 per episode.
How did we go from 1 million dollar seinfeld to 300, 000 charlie sheen?
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yeah. don't get me wrong, i'm all for watching Charlie Sheen try and get his nob a little wet, but this show is awful. it's pretty much the same thing every episode.. Charlie Sheen chasing around girls (and of course getting chased by them) half his age, sensitive brother does annoying stuff, kid tries to deliver jokes, and that fat maid is a bitch.
How did we go from 1 million dollar seinfeld to 300, 000 charlie sheen?
and do you mean current sitcoms? cause i'm pretty sure the Seinfeld cast still makes more than 300k per episode on re runs alone.
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On October 21 2008 23:22 AmorVincitOmnia wrote:and do you mean current sitcoms? cause i'm pretty sure the Seinfeld cast still makes more than 300k per episode on re runs alone.
Yeah just shows that they're still making
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On October 21 2008 23:15 Nebula wrote:
Yeh it blows. Only american comedy i like atm is "it's always sunny in Philadelphia" (<3 to Brood for his blog introducing me, hooked since)
I can't stand comedies with stupid laugh track in background, i don't need something trying to tell me when something is funny.
Watch the seasons of mash that didn't have the laugh track, eerie silence kills jokes. Although I agree that live audience laughter is 100 times better than laugh tracks, but laugh tracks are better than nothing with punchline based comedy.
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30 Rock, The Office and Scrubs are my three fav comedy shows and none of them have laugh tracks. I hate laugh tracks. Even House and Chuck, which aren't pure comedy shows (and therefore obviously don't have a laugh track) make me laugh way more than a laugh track sitcom ever has.
I've watched a few episodes of Two and a Half Men and I agree it sucks.
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Idk, I love the shows you mentioned also, except Chuck and 30 Rock (not that I don't like them, just never seen them) but I feel that the type of comedy that two and a half men does is different and needs the laugh track. Idk, just my opinion I guess.
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The only comedies that ever use laugh tracks these days are awful generic wastes of time. If you look at any really good comedy from like the past 5 years, none of them have laughtracks.
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I hate laugh tracks and I never really liked 2.5 men (likewise, all my friends liked it too...)
imo, laugh tracks are more for slapstick comedy where they need to emphasis the SLAP in the joke, whereas more witty and/or subtle comedy cannot have laugh tracks because it would just ruin the fun.
Friends had laugh tracks, and everyone loves Friends. 
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On October 21 2008 23:47 Tropics wrote:
The only comedies that ever use laugh tracks these days are awful generic wastes of time. If you look at any really good comedy from like the past 5 years, none of them have laughtracks.
I'm just going to innocently point out that Two and a Half Men is winning awards for being one of the best comedies out there. Not saying I agree or disagree with you, just saying that most people think it is a good show, thus taking away from your argument.
Edit: OP, if you think this debate is taking away from your blog just ask me to stop, don't want to piss anybody off.
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Yeah I can agree that a certain brand of comedy is really assisted by a laugh track but it's my opinion that that brand of comedy sucks. Or at least it's a genre with a LOT of bad comedy and so it'd be hard to break the pattern (like a new Seinfeld)
I googled 'Seinfeld laugh track' and this came up, which expresses how I feel: link
Seinfeld, on it's face, was straight-up, ensemble sit-com. But somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd seasons, it become this twisted, original show... that just happened to have a laugh track. After it ended, laugh tracks just seemed to be totally incapable of making an unfunny show funny... it really just made them pathetic.
Now, I've tried to watch some of the new sit-coms that have come out... but anytime the laughs kick in, it really irritates me. I almost feel like the producers are taking me for an idiot, because without the laughs, I wouldn't know that a joke just occurred. The Office doesn't do that... they play out the situations, and YOU get to decide if it works or not.
There are a lot of good articles from that google search. Pretty interesting stuff!
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Meh, it's a mindless sitcom. Watch it, chuckle (if you can), and forget about it. Nowadays, it's all about those crazy dramas that get you all emotionally invested in the characters/stories. Or it's random shit like "family guy". Actually, come to think of it, there is still a really funny sitcom: How I met your mother. NPH ftw.
EDIT: Oh yea, the office kicks ass too!
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totally with you on this one. i really don't understand how this show is supposed to be the #1 comedy ... actually I can understand it, but it's just a shame people can't watch something that's, well, 100 times better in the office or other various comedies that are much better imo.
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Nowadays I guess I don't really realize which shows use laugh tracks and which don't. I also don't watch as much tv as I would like to, so I, luckily, haven't been exposed to most of the bad comedies you guys are talking about. I guess the only time I ever noticed the absence of a laugh track was with MASH, and I thought it made the show feel...weird. So I probably just assumed that that was how all non laugh track comedies were, but I stand corrected because scrubs and the office are amazing. (Come to think of it, any sort of laughter, be it track or audience, would kill the Office.)
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On October 21 2008 23:58 Xusneb wrote:
Actually, come to think of it, there is still a really funny sitcom: How I met your mother. NPH ftw.
True that, the Barnacle will never get old :D
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There's one really good thing about the show, their housekeeper Berta. She's so brutal, I love it.
Other than that, it's just a medicore show that's usually on TV right before I go to bed, so I end up watching it and smiling at a joke or two.
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the office
nothing else is worth watching
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haven't seen it to pass judgement, but i assume it's like will and grace/everybody loves raymond kind of humour which i hate anyway.
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