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disclaimer: there is a high possibility you might be/feel insulted by this post. but read on nonetheless. you must understand i'm not trying to insult or offend anyone, but i'm just stating my stand. if you want to hate me for it, its entirely up to you. but i apologise first if i don (and probrably will) offend you.

grrr i hate miss swan.

ok lemme get this right. initaially i thot miss swan was like some random mad women goin about teh streets pissing pple off. and i'm like ok if dats wad she wans to do and its funny she's jsu crazy. and den i go to class on college day it turns out its friggin done in a studio!!!! my miss-swan-hate-o-meter like shot up ten-fold or smthn. seriously. miss swan is jsu SOOOO stupid and lame.

ok i want to reason out some stuff. there are a few kinds of humour in this world. theres the lame humour (eugene, miss swan), the dumb humour (miss swan, tom cruise jumpin on a couch, russell peters), the parody humour (scary movie, elements of whose line), the sarcastic humour (whose line, my wife and kids, seinfield and the likes, russell peters), and last but definitely not least intelligent humour (whose line, seinfield, a variety of other shows). of course some of the categories overlap, and i most defnitely would have missed out some shows/types because i don watch that much tv, but generally i believe humour can be classified broadly into the above groups.

ok so about miss swan. the whole farce falls in the lame, dumb categories. why? because essentialyl thats what it is. its humour dat insults ure intelligence. its the kind of humour that is funny the first time but painful everytime after that. theres no replay value in that. ok i shld go and add russell peters in too. hang. k done. i mean at least russell peters isnt that bad cos there are parts that are genuinely farny. but miss swan its jus so dumb. much like that stupid old hag in the LT ystd. its like:
police: wad did the robber look like?
miss swan: "oooh he looked like a man" (audience laughs)
police: i need details.
miss swan: "oooh details i haf... he look like a man!!" (audience laugh. i cringe)
ok i know there'll be pple saying i don appreciate this kind of humour but honestly, wads there to appreciate? i'm sorry if i'm putting pple down but this kind of humour is for not smart (i choose not to use dumb) pple. the worst parts of the whole miss swan thing is that 1. her voice is sooo f'in annoying i wan to stab her and 2. its all friggin done in a studio. with wad i suppose are scripted lines. i mean WAD??? ure f'in scriptin these kinds of lame humour!?! dats jus sad...

i wan to compare these kinds of humour to intelligeng/sarcastic humour, which is actually funny. essentially, the difference is that the latter categories are actually genuinely funny. and you can watch it time afetr time and still laugh. shows such as seinfield or whose line or my wife and kids and the likes. star world does show quite a few good comedies. oh friends too =D i <3 friends. the thing about these shows, they actually require you to understand a joke before laughin, as opposed to laughin to something quite meaningless. which is why i say russell peters at points is still funny in a smart way.

take friends as an example (and a VERY good one for that). it ran 10 seasons, and no one ever got tired of it. why? because it made pple laugh, but it did not insult their intelligence. there is a right balance of comic/stupid humour with sarcastic humour. and all the characters had abit of both. (i particularly like ross and chandler. hehe) it made the show fun, funny and painless to watch.

recently i haf rekindled my love for whose line is it anyway. again another show that has achieved cult-like status, as did friends. wad about the show is so good? for one you haf a hilarious host in drew carey. den some really talented cast in wayne, colin and ryan. and the fourth member is always someone gd, whether its whoppi goldberg of robim williams. and the best part of all is that everything is impromptu. i tink thats wad really makes the show stand out. the fact that these pple haf to make up everything on the spot. so whether its a jibe at someone or a parody or smthn random or a screw up it all makes for a very funny show. and what i especially like about the show is the fact that you REALLY must understand the joke before you can laugh. cos if u don understand u'll be like "HUH??" cos alot of the jokes there is a context to it which makes it really funny, such as parodies and the like. whilst admittedly its a american show and there are some jokes very american in nature and hence harder to understands (hell i sometimes don get the joke also >.<), but the majority of the jokes its quite understandable. seriously go watch it if you can.

oh yes another thing. i tink the fact there are pple in the vip watching miss swan is, for me, quite rather appalling, and also in some sense quite insulting. we're suppose to be the smartest 5% in singapore, yet there are pple watching a show i'd trust someone with an iq of 40 to watch. i'm sorry guys but its true. i somehow cannot understand why people with an average iq of maybe 90-110 (i tink?) could somehow find miss swan funny. cos she isnt. she's jus annoying and stupid and irritaing and moronic.

if you want REAL humour, go watch star world. most of the comedies there are actually good. and if you don get the jokes, i'm sorry. you're missing out. you've got miss swan =D

okie i'm off to watch another episode of whose line. ciao. oh yea and peace.