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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 OP 14 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Orange Pill Diaries: The Lebowski Brothers bitcoin
Python was by far our favorite. The PBS local station in New York would air an episode of the TV show on Sunday Nights. This was when I was in high school. We also loved Mel Brooks movies. All In the Family TV show was very popular. Saturday Night Live was very popular. Woody Allen early films, Bananas, Take The Money And Run, Love and Death. Annie Hall. Stand Up- George Carlin, Richard Pryor.
Did Fawlty Towers get a showing? Saturday Night Live can be very hit and miss even today. I recall Brewsters Millions as a great Pryor film and Eddie Murphy was also pretty popular along with his films. We used to have to get those on VHS though
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Yes. We loved Fawlty Towers. "Manuel!" I only liked Saturday Night Live until Eddie Murphy left. Haven't watched it since. Where did you grow up?
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I spent a lot of time all over the place; Europe, Canada, United Kingdom. The one constant has probably been British comedy.
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For absolute years I've always wondered about this - any ideas why this is the case?
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I guess this is the billion sat question that's been asked for years. I guess there's no a straightforward formula.
Just enjoying yourself and not having overbearing production constraints might be a large part of it.
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Perhaps also having production costs covered by a publicly funded broadcast organisation. At that time the BBC were moving away from informative and educational programming (watch early Dr Who or the earlier work of Michael Palin etc) into more pure entertainment. I suspect a lot of the quirky comedy projects would have been a hard sell commercially.
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