so i feel like i harp on accents a lot, and this post is no exception. i've come to realize that people with australian and/or new zealand(ian) (ese) (ish)? accents are automatically ten times funnier than people with not those accents. aka americans. kath and kim proves my point. when nbc decided to pull another "let's make a united states version of this comedy" with the australian show kath and kim, i thought, okay, they pulled it off with the office, perhaps molly shannon and selma blair and their ridiculous outfits will be able to pull this one off too. falsefalsefalse. i didn't laugh once during the pilot. granted, i hadn't seen the aussie version at this point and figured it couldn't be much better. again, falsefalsefalse. kath and kim australia is one of the funniest shows i've ever seen, and i can really only chalk it up to the accent difference. i don't know what that means, though. anyways, here's one of my fave kath and kim clips:
if you'd like some more laughterthoughts from down under, you should try watching summer heights high if you haven't already. it's a mockumentary that follows three characters, all played by the same guy. probably the best show ever, no joke. or, well, lots of jokes, but you get what i mean. here are some clips of thattt...
and finally i'd like to give new zealand a little shout out. i bet you're thinking, yeah whatever, i already watch flight of the conchords and that's plenty new zealand for me. well, i bet you haven't heard of eagle vs. shark, which is like, the new zealand answer to napoleon dynamite only 800 times better (again, i attribute the laughs to the accent). it's w/ jemaine clement from flight of the conchords, looking super-fug i might add. i highly recommend you watch it. here's a clip:
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