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Reminds me of “Coupling” - a brilliant British TV sitcom. It is incredibly funny. The US version had the same text, with minor changes to account for e.g. the
by beagle3 4y ago
Reminds me of “Coupling” - a brilliant British TV sitcom. It is incredibly funny.
The US version had the same text, with minor changes to account for e.g. the different way to call back to the last incoming call on a landline. The US version had reasonably good actors.
But … somehow, it was just not funny.
- nkrisc 4y agoI think in this kind of thing the cultural context is important and provides necessary components of the humor that are critical to the jokes, but not part of the script. It’s why the American version of the Office couldn’t just be directly transplanted. It had to be re-rewritten for the American cultural context. I think if you took the script for Peep Show, for example, and set it in the US with American actors it would probably be pretty bad.