{"id":1097,"date":"2011-01-16T06:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2011-01-16T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T06:03:34","slug":"laugh-for-twenty-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/16\/laugh-for-twenty-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh For Twenty-Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I remember when mum was homeless for six months and she took a chalet over the winter to live in. She had an old black and white TV on which every week she watched a British sitcom called It Aint Half Hot Mum. There were times when it was very funny. This was years after we had all followed Lucille Ball and her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every Saturday at school I and a few friends had tea with a maths master who besides having a Bang &amp; Olufsen stereo had a colour TV on which it was a must to catch the latest episode of Happy Days (admittedly it went off a bit when the kids joined the army.) Not having a TV I have never been a part of the generation that remembers Cheers or Friends but I have caught episodes here and there and want to watch Frasier up until Niles and Daphne actually become an item, after which it went rapidly downhill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I understand the rhythm of the writing in these shows and the need to have jokes and not just funny situations though I have to say it is funny situations that are far funnier. Which is why Laurel and Hardy will never age but all these shows in a hundred years will look archaic. And the reason Laurel and Hardy are lasting is because they are the great ancient tradition of clowning with no pretence to anything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A show that was pure clown would go down a \u00a0storm today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when mum was homeless for six months and she took a chalet over the winter to live in. She had an old black and white TV on which every week she watched a British sitcom called It Aint Half Hot Mum. There were times when it was very funny. This was years after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[279,284,323],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-frasier","tag-friends-cheers","tag-happy-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}