>>No, I haven't seen that one - the one where he's God for a day, right?
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>Yes, that's the one. I guess you and I have different tastes in comedy. I like the outrageous stuff like Jim Carrey, even though he can be too much at times. I loved Dumb and Dumber just because it was so dumb, but I have been getting a little sick of him. IMO, Bruce Almighty was a perfect level of Carrey and reality.

but I have been getting a little sick of him

Exactly! He doesn't know when to give it a rest! Why d'you think he got the part of Kaufman (or did he commision it for himself)? So he could continue doing what he does. I saw such parallels, it was scary. D&D, can't say I've actually seen much of, but Cable Guy - he was too much, Ace Ventura - I just wanted to smash the TV to get at him.

I don't imagine we do have such a different sense of humour, just a different sense of the absurd. The reason why I started this thread was because the American comedy psyche, that engendered the likes of Kaufman, seemed to be so different from ours back then, and I wanted to see just if you guys actually found him funny. And, if not, how did get were he got to? We are much closer now, with the likes of Steve Wright vs Eddie Izzard, for example. I just remember the bad old days of US comedy (a la Broadway Dannie Rose - with all the forced laughter, and drum rolls, telling you when to laugh). But there were, of course, your classic old commedians: George Burns, that jewish guy with the stogey whose name I can't recall right now. Woody Allen used to feature quite often over here whan I was a kid, with his off-beat stand-up and observations on life.