>>>>>>>Speaking of great British comedies, there's a good one running Saturday nights (right after Rosemary & Thyme and Python remix) - "Red Dwarf". I never thought anyone would ever be able to put up a good SF comedy, but this one has me bowling of laughter.
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>>>>>>Totally agree! You only just getting that. I think they did c. 6 series and they get better towards the middle series.
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>>>>>>>nb. I had a dispute with one of the daughters on "But HGTTG is a comedy", where I argued that HGTTG is first and foremost a full scale SF novel, which is funny all the way, but has all the plausibility of serious SF work. It's, IMO, much more than just a comedy.
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>>>>>>If you're saying this about Red Dwarf - exactly, but I don't understand what "HGTTG" is ???
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>>>>>The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
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>>>>Ah, but Red dwarf features some very clever SF stories, such as time travel paradoxes, the crew meeting other dimension versions of themselves, time dillation, etc. etc. - very respectable stories but FUNNY!!
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>>>Sure, and that's what I think makes it so funny - and the dispute wasn't about that, but rather about The Guide.
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>>Aye, I understood that. I wasn't too struck with HGTTG - too many "pan-Galactic ..." and "mega ..." prefixes in it. The TV series anyway (bit dated now) (and the original BBC Radio 4 production whence it came). I read all the books though. Was very disappointed to see they made a major film of it, and with an American Ford Prefect (that was an old Ford UK model, back in the 50s/60s BTW),and had no intentioon of seeing it.
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>So did you see it ? I thought it was pretty good. A lot better than the tv series.

Nah, like I said, I had no intention thereof. I'd got bored of the story, esp. as they repeated it on Radio 4 (during my drive-time) just before the film (as always seems to be the case when there's a remake) and I couldn't be bothered even listening toi it again, didn't even twitch my mouth up in a smile. :-(