Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz discuss filming injuries | The Graham Norton Show - BBC" video.

  1. +TheGroucho66 I can't be arsed going in to one of my long diatribes, so I'll try to be succinct and hope it comes across. Capitalism is bad. Worse than communism, worse than socialism, worse than nationalism. Capitalism is getting the most out of the least invested, this gives birth to formulae, the tried and tested, the "if it works replicate it". 90% of US shows and sitcoms don't get past the pilot, those that do are quickly hijacked by the network who hire 12+ writers to join what was once an original idea of a handful of episodes to then create 24 each year, every year. This leads to a lowering of standards but a show that is still watched. It's dumbing down of the masses. 2,000 shareholders make money, 20 million Americans learn to laugh at jokes that would otherwise fail to hit the spot outside of the US. There really is a divide between US and UK/World humour, but thanks to the Internet age all of that is changing and people are globalising. US shows now have to step up to the mark or won't get syndicated and non-US shows like IT Crowd are now available on the likes of BBCA and Netflix. American comics, with the exception of a handful of greats, have been forced to rely on obvious, easy, toilet humour. Easy being the catchword. Fuck, I created a diatribe anyway,
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