Yanking Our Chain
‘WHEN Americans do sitcom, they set it in a lawyers office, in a fashion magazine or in a radio station and populate it with good-looking and successful (if somewhat neurotic) characters.
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When Brits do sitcom, they set it in a holiday camp or in a bingo hall and populate it with a bunch of unattractive losers.
That would be all very well if the comedy was up to the standard of the best American shows like Seinfeld or Will And Grace, but it isnt.
Faced with a choice (as you are at 9 oclock tonight), do you opt for Eyes Down on BBC1, which stars Paul OGrady (who is a far better drag stand-up than he is a comic actor) and is set in a bingo hall, or a 45-minute long episode of Will & Grace on Channel 4?
It is a rhetorical question because there is only one possible answer. Watch out for Sydney Pollacks performance as Wills father it just shows how much better the Yanks are at doing sitcom than us.’
Posted: 22nd, August 2003 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
