And Admiral, you've seen the majority of American programming? You don't even live in America, let alone seen much of any American humor.
I personally have satalite TV, so I can judge for myself but I still agree. Most of it's rather dull. theres some shows I like, but the majority of it rather sucks. Only show I really ever liked was the X-Files And thats not even a comedy so that does not count.... but you get my point (I hope)
Simpsons, Malcolm and Futurama. Only American comedy I've ever found comical. The rest... and we get a LOT of it... is pretty dull. Obvious. May go so far as to say tedious. Especially sitcoms like Friends, Frasier, etc. Though Cheers wasn't too bad. Stand-up there is almost terrible.
And trust me, we get a LOT here. You name it, you can probably bet I've seen it at least once.
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On shows like America's funniest home videos, most of the time they insert the laughter for them. I have never found anything the hosts have had to say funny, and the videos aren't that funny either.
Ever watch Jerry Seinfeld? Whether its his TV show or just stand up comedy, hes great.
I doubt the Netherlands have anything that is very funny. Maybe a couple of nerds hacking an Americans computer, because I hear computer hacking is very popular among the teens there. Not to mention trance sucks, and I hear that is another popular form of Dutch music, besides white rap.
right....
one of our most poluar programs is "kopspijkers", its so popular that the belgian ("kopspijkers") and german ("goXX") tv have copied the concept (with permission). Kopspijkers is a Dutch talkshow that has been running on Dutch public television since 1996. It has received the 'Zilveren Nipkow' award - which is awarded by tv critics every year for best tv-shows - in the year 2003.
It's a humoristic talkshow and stands out for it's extensive amount of cabaret. This cabaret is much like the English tv-show "Spitting Image" but with real actors. Political leaders like Jan Peter Balkenende (our prime minister/minster-president), Wouter Bos (leader of GroenLinks, a socialist party) and Gerrit Zalm are frequently impersonated. Kopspijkers is one of the best viewed programs in the Netherlands. The host of the tv-show is Jack Spijkerman (which is the basis for the title of the tv-show).
actors impersonating minster-president Balkenende and minister Donner.
Watch the Kopspijkers episodes online:
Realplayer version (smallband): SB
Realplayer version (broadband): BB
Windows media player version (smallband): SB
Windows media player version (broadband): BB
I doubt the Netherlands have anything that is very funny. Maybe a couple of nerds hacking an Americans computer, because I hear computer hacking is very popular among the teens there.
So wait, first you say Dönitz can't know anything about american humor (though we have quite a lot of american shows here), but you - who I bet has never seen any Dutch tv-program - can comment on humor in the Netherlands?
Plus the insult, yeah, the insults man.
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