>>>>>I was just catching up on some New Yorker reading before falling asleep and this knocked me out. Wow. It's by the English writer Zadie Smith.
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>>>>>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_smith
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>>>>Don't understand what it's about, who could care less about this family's comedy viewing, how you know half of them, and what knocked you out.
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>>>Frankly, I enjoyed the article a lot. I remember Tony Hancock and loved his show. Although, I have to admit I didn't care for Fawlty Towers at all - far too much screaming and running around for me.
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>>Didn't care for that snarling oaf, Hancock, but FT is an all-time comedy classic series which, although only a handful written, one can watch over and over and still find them funny - like "Allo, Allo" (although many series produced) and "Father Ted".
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>>>What's to understand? It's one person's reminiscence, not Joyce's Ulysses for Pete's sake.
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>>Aye, but why should we give a toss about them? Just scanning the article I perceived a list of the guy's preferred comedy show. So what? I thought and moved on. I could write a list of my comedy preferences. Who'd be interested in that?
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>That is really not an accurate summary of the article. I see in another post that you only read the first paragraphs. It's OK, though. People don't have to agree with me.

Maybe not, but that was my perception of the article. After a few paras it didn't grab me and I couldn't be arsed perusing the rest - only scanning it, and seeing a list of comedy shows. I thought, who are these and why is this article.?