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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10a4mni$nple$1@dont-email.me>, did   
   YourName@YourISP.com deliver unto us this message:   
   > The same can be said for all the attempted American remakes of various   
   > British comedies. Americans just don't get British comedy ... probably   
   > because the shows rarely have lots of loud-mouthed idiots shouting   
   > garbage, like most American "comedies" do.  :-p   
   >   
      
   Our comedies have gotten away from that, actually. That's the stereotype   
   from the 90s and some of the Aughts, but comedies no longer focus around   
   how "funny" some jerk is.   
      
   Even in the 80s, this was a problem. They weren't yet basing entire   
   series around what a jerk one guy was, but many passed off simple   
   insults as jokes, relying on the laugh track to make us think there'd   
   been a witticism.   
      
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   Trustworthy words are not pretty;   
   Pretty words are not trustworthy.   
      
   -Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words.   
      
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