now that's what I'm talkin' about
Feb. 13th, 2007 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerSimon Pegg: American and British Senses of Humour Have More in Common Than We Think.
They've been saying for years that we don't have a sense of irony? Wait, what? Really? Well, I feel like a terrible Anglophile now for not knowing that. "Americans don't do irony."
I had actually heard that for the first time just last week, as I watched this video of Randy Newman's powerful and biting song "Political Science", but I thought it was just a throw-away line from the intro, not a commonly-held sentiment. How could they think that?
Well, actually, now that I think about it, I have sometimes met up with people who didn't quite understand my sense of humor. They're usually people twenty-forty years older than me, where they might ask me how I'm feeling and I'd say, "Not bad, not bad, just kind of ready to bash my brains in with a crowbar." To which they sometimes respond with a shocked, "Oh no! Don't do that!"
And yeah, how many times have I bemoaned how many people just need to pull the sticks out of their asses and grow a sense of humor, even when I myself have been known to take things perhaps a wee bit too seriously? Actually, I just realized a great point. If it weren't for my Anglophile mother teaching me to laugh at the latest horrible thing my alcoholic father did or said, I'd probably be a bitter, humorless wreck. Hell, now I'm almost inclined to agree with those Brits, except that Pegg's article brings up excellent points, changing my opinion before I'd even formed it.
"Americans don't do irony?"
Oh heck, who am I kidding? I was just looking for any excuse to post that.
And since we're talking Simon Pegg, behold the wonder and joy that is the final trailer for what is already definitely in my top five greatest films of 2007, the movie that is actually going to make me watch POINT BREAK and BAD BOYS II just to get all the references, the awesome, the beautiful...
HOT FUZZ.
They've been saying for years that we don't have a sense of irony? Wait, what? Really? Well, I feel like a terrible Anglophile now for not knowing that. "Americans don't do irony."
I had actually heard that for the first time just last week, as I watched this video of Randy Newman's powerful and biting song "Political Science", but I thought it was just a throw-away line from the intro, not a commonly-held sentiment. How could they think that?
Well, actually, now that I think about it, I have sometimes met up with people who didn't quite understand my sense of humor. They're usually people twenty-forty years older than me, where they might ask me how I'm feeling and I'd say, "Not bad, not bad, just kind of ready to bash my brains in with a crowbar." To which they sometimes respond with a shocked, "Oh no! Don't do that!"
And yeah, how many times have I bemoaned how many people just need to pull the sticks out of their asses and grow a sense of humor, even when I myself have been known to take things perhaps a wee bit too seriously? Actually, I just realized a great point. If it weren't for my Anglophile mother teaching me to laugh at the latest horrible thing my alcoholic father did or said, I'd probably be a bitter, humorless wreck. Hell, now I'm almost inclined to agree with those Brits, except that Pegg's article brings up excellent points, changing my opinion before I'd even formed it.
"Americans don't do irony?"
Oh heck, who am I kidding? I was just looking for any excuse to post that.
And since we're talking Simon Pegg, behold the wonder and joy that is the final trailer for what is already definitely in my top five greatest films of 2007, the movie that is actually going to make me watch POINT BREAK and BAD BOYS II just to get all the references, the awesome, the beautiful...
HOT FUZZ.
