The Office at the Golden Globes

[Dago]

I thought all British comedies involved men in dresses, or slapping bald guys in the head?    

I still have a crush on Felicity Kendall though.

dago

[rpm]

Originally posted by lazs2
while you can understand perfectly everything that we say...  we can maybe catch every other word that you slur/mumble out.

Careful laz, you say this while living in the State that made Ebonics a language.

[gofaster]

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

That one is worth remembering.

[Makarov9]

Young Ones is stil my fav British comedy.

"PISS OFF YOU BASTARDS!"

[Raubvogel]

The Office is fediddlein hilarious. I watch it on BBCAmerica(DirectTV). Bought the 1st season DVD. Glad to see they got some recognition.

[Frogm4n]

Ban award shows.

[Dowding]

Here are some lines from the series:

You sure Ravells? I thought I knew the series pretty well but don't remember any of those.

[ravells]

Ummm the website said they were David Brentisms, but you're right, come to think of it, I never heard them mentioned in the scripts.

But this line was:

“When was the last time you had an actual girlfriend?”
“I don’t look on it as when. I look on it as who, and why.”

[Dowding]

I'm very sure they are not from the show - think I saw them as part of an email. They are not really like anything Brent would say. He specialises in improvised moronic mixed metaphors, whereas some of those lines are actually pretty astute.

[lazs2]

rpm... I do not speak ebonics.   In fact... I have about the same amount of difficulty understanding it as I do the average brit.   Mostly when talking to black people who use ebonics I just say "forget it... I can't understand a fu#king word you are saying."   This is pretty much what I had to say while in england too but I was more polite because they really were trying to make themselves understood.

conversly.... neither ebonics speakers nor brits had/have trouble understanding me...

I suppose I should ask the brits to sing their responses since they sound real American when they sing.... very understandable.

lazs

[Dowding]

They were doing it deliberately lazs. They probably thought you were a ****wit too. As for understanding you... well even chimps manage to communicate with their keepers. You probably grunt really clearly or something.

[lazs2]

When in england I speak slowly and loudly... seems to work.

so dowding.... maybe you could sing for us?  Why is it that you all sound American when singing?   Like other speech defects, stuttering, british accents... they are fixed by singing...  start by singing everything and work your way up to speaking.... watch a lot of American movies... soon... you too will be able to speak American and be understood.

lazs

[Dowding]

Grunting extra loudly probably helped as well. Was this when in that London bar for effeminate men?

I'd say you were wrong about the singing. I could name a load of bands that sing with distinctive British regional accents... but you would deny their existance purely on the basis that you haven't heard them. The bands that want to sing in American accents do so because it lends something to the type of music they perform, which is usually emulating something from an existing American group. What difference does it make?

[FUNKED1]

Golden Globes, has this got something to do with boobies?

[Pei]

Well this thread went down hill fast.

On the subject of Brit comedies if you get chance pick up the DVD of Black Books.