[lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY, MCGEE

From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:46:30 EST

 
<<We just don't find it  funny, he said.   But then 
he works in an office, doesn't  he?  Yes, he does.  He probably thinks it's a 
real  documentary. >> 
My husband, I may have said before,  grew up in Minnesota -- parents 
Scandinavian, and good Lutherans.  Garrison  Keillor elicits huge laughs from 
me, as 
well as being moving at  times. 
My husband doesn't understand what I  find funny.  It's just .... normal life 
that Garrison describes. 
By the way, I've worked in many  offices and I loathe "The Office".  The 
characters are one-dimensional and  the boss dude (I've only seen it a half a 
dozen times or so) is obnoxious to the  point of being painful to watch.  Kind 
of 
like Frasier's bro got to be at  one point in the show.  Frasier was very 
uneven -- really good spells and  really annoying shows.  I rack it up to 
changes 
in writers, maybe.   Lots of those out there that are not consistently good 
long-term.  But I  agree -- I can't imagine anyone watching the Simpsons and 
not 
laughing  aloud. 
Julie Krueger 
now longing for a good comedy movie  tonight

[lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY, MCGEE

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