Fawlty Towers is a really stressful show. This is barely even a 'comedy.' It's more like a tragic farce with comedic elements. How do people watch Basil without cringing and feeling horrible about his impending doom the entire time?
Fawlty Towers is a really stressful show. This is barely even a 'comedy...
Anthony Allen
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Gavin Cruz
that's why it's funny
Joseph Powell
I actually watched an episode last night again for the first time in about a decade and it was a lot more stressful than I remember it being. Fairly funny but still depressing and intense
Lincoln Rodriguez
Most people who watch it have something called a sense of humour.
Jason Ross
Imagine getting stressed over a comedy. I'd probably kill myself if I ever got to that point
Jason Thompson
Maybe ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is more your pace, old chap.
Oliver Gonzalez
>How do people watch Basil without cringing and feeling horrible about his impending doom the entire time?
Because he brings a lot of it on himself. Same with Peep Show and a lot of other British comedy. The characters have to be sympathetic enough that you root for them, but also scummy enough that its not just pure sadism watching them fail.
Luis Howard
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What did he mean by this?
Noah Kelly
I love how his wife does jack shit then feels like she can complain about him. Would stuff her though 10/10
Connor Allen
A lot of shows are designed for people without empathy. Rather than think "how awful for them" you're supposed to think "look at funny man suffering in funny ways". If you characterize anyone as a real person then yeah it is stressful.
I suspect people were less empathetic in the 70s as well
Michael Phillips
You sound like my wife. This is literally my favourite comedy.
Cameron Bailey
Connie Booth is so hot in this
Luke Garcia
Fuck off Zoomer
Fawlty Towers is based.
Charles White
I can not watch the robbery scene from the pain it caused me
Andrew Ross
Yessir. Cleese was tapping that.
Blake Rivera
Are you autistic by any chance?
Jason Hughes
Oh yeah but imagine the smell of her AND the wife
Logan Nelson
John Cleese was married to her in real life. Lucky bastard probably sucked on those perky little nips.
Jose Powell
I always thought Sybil was kinda cute when she was angry.
Jacob Thomas
I mean this is a hotel not the Burma railway
Gavin Ward
Yfw she's always angry
Ian Smith
>british comedy
>funny stuff happens to funny guy in funny situations
>american “”comedy””
>10 season soap opera with alot of sad moments or “aaaaaaaw” moments and a oneliner every now and then
Why do mutts need so much drama in a show that’s meant to make you laugh
Jordan Smith
Sometimes I wonder if that's the case. 70's England seemed like a rough place. Ian Curtis of Joy Division was a home-invasion burglar who victimised old-age pensioners as a teen in the 70's. Marc Bolan's home was plundered by looters soon after the news of his death in a traffic crash in 1977. Etc., etc.
Michael Cox
>John Cleese admits he is 'loved up' with 31-years younger friend of his daughter
>His romantic liaisons have been plagued by acrimonious break-ups. Even so, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers legend John Cleese has now spoken for the first time of his new girlfriend Jennifer Wade and admitted he is - once again - ‘loved up’.
>The actor, 70, started dating 39-year-old Wade at the end of last year after being introduced by mutual friends.
>‘We’ve only been together three or four months – but she is the most... playful creature.’
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Brandon Flores
The Office used to make me very uncomfortable when I was in college. I cringed so hard. Then, with getting older, it became a lot better and funnier.
Christopher Hernandez
I've become more empathetic with age rather than less
Cooper Jenkins
That's because post-college life kills what is left of your spirit, and you can enjoy normie shit like that more easily. Not even trolling.
Alexander Morgan
That literally looks like a bad shoop
Brandon Gray
He's 80 not 70
Michael Bennett
imagine fucking your friends 70 year old dad lmao
Leo Phillips
It probably was yeah, I'd never thought about it in that way before. My granddad was burgled more than once and he had to fight the burglar one time after being woken up at like 3am. My dad (Early 80's) car was getting broken into on a weekly basis, they didn't steal shit they just liked to break into cars, I guess it felt good knowing they were hurting others without getting in trouble for it. Neither lived in a horrible area, they were both lower middle class. Much more rare nowadays but people back then must have been far less empathic
I can see your point at it being stressful, I've always found fawlty towers hilarious and it might actually be my favourite comedy show, either this or peep show. However yes almost every interaction Basil has with anyone is an attack on Basil in some way, he gets scammed, taken advantage of, made a fool of, physically assaulted one time, you kind of have to feel sorry for the guy. Mrs Richards was a fucking horrendous bitch, I've worked with a few cunts like her and it's nightmarish. Basil probably killed himself after the hotel inevitably goes bust
Kevin Adams
Then they divorced and still wrote the 2nd season together.