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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
But that's not how to pronounce meme.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Maybe the kids have ironically mispronounced it though.
Comparing the writing of internet memes to that of TV comedy (Yes, Minister, Porridge) is disingenuous. There is still TV comedy written by and for young people today. We just don’t watch it. It’s probably good. Even if we did watch it, it’d no doubt be “not as good as Only Fools and Horses” for some unfathomable reason. Even when we had all this stuff, we still laughed at crap cartoons in rock magazines.
I work alongside young people who are doing science that would have been beyond the realms of belief when I was their age. Meanwhile I sit around pissing and moaning that Little Mix aren’t a patch on Motörhead.
The world keeps turning and we get older
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I think the divergence of TV, with hundreds of channels, streaming services, YouTube et al. has led to some absolutely superb drama from the UK, the US, Scandinavia, all over really. We’re spoiled. Comedy though does seem to have taken a back seat lately.
50% of those you mention were basically Ben Elton who made his name during the Thatcher years as a shouty politico railing against what he saw as bad times. It’s surprised me we haven’t seen a resurgence of the like.
I think the point I was clumsily trying to make is that our favourites are personal, and the emotions to go with them are very much going to cloud any view of new things. I’m as bad as anyone.
99% sure you’ll have seen these, but have you watched Bottom, League of Gentlemen, Men Behaving Badly (was good for a few series), the Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was a bit before my time but still loved it, the Mary Whitehouse Experience, the Fast Show, Smack the Pony, I’m Alan Partridge, any early Vic Reeves/Bob Mortimer stuff?
I’ve no idea how old you are so I just started resorting to listing the stuff I used to like
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
When I was 13, anything that didn’t interest me held my attention for about the same time as it would have done a gnat’s. Much the same as any generation’s 13 year olds, I would be prepared to bet.