Re: Dry Humor and Obvious Lampooning
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 14 May 1999 12:39:30 +1000
Jason wrote:
> I think you really expected too much out of Goering and clan. The man
> knows one thing, American People. He doesn't know Aussies and he's wise
> not to try to lampoon a culture he has no intimate knowledge of.
> In short the Simpsons is so successful simply because it causes
> Americans to laugh at themselves. I'm really not sure why any other
> culture would enjoy the show.
Yeah, you're probably right. There was a lot of ballyhoo around the time
that episode was first broadcast saying `well, it's actually just as much
of a send up of Americans as it is Australia'. But I guess we didn't really
agree (: But I do think that the Simpson's humour is pretty much Universal
for a Western audience - Australia is in essence not so different from
America as you'd think, and, like I said, the dominant brand of humour here
is dry and self-deprecating (and, I'd like to add for Robert) I have found
that American humour is *generally* quite the opposite - `Friends' for
example is pretty much beat-you-over-the-head-with-the-punchline type
stuff.
Camille
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