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On 3/10/2025 at 9:17 PM, Ted Lange said:

Meh.  Would’ve been fine with that if they released 2 episodes so when the season started, we actually got the show. 

I agree. 

Didn't dislike it, but I that wasn't the "premiere" I expected or wanted. Whatever though - I'm sure next episode will be chock full of dick jokes and over-the-top vulgarity. 

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I will admit I just kept watching, waiting for the cut to present day.  Then after 15-20 minutes, I wasn't even sure I clicked the right show. 

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I thought the first season was genuinely clever and pretty funny.  All downhill since then.  As has been pointed out, the sister and baby billy have the best scenes and I could honestly skip the rest of the show at this point.

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18 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

Adam Devine and Danny McBride aren't funny?

 

They're hilarious in this but mainly because of the characters they portray, not the actual lines. Ricky Gervais wasn't funny in The Office but the David Brent character was so pathetic he was funny to us as viewers. I think Jesse Gemstone is kind of playing the same type position. Kelvin being the stereotypical youth minister who is a closeted gay man (who might not even really realize it yet) is a funny concept.

I would agree that Baby Billy, Judy Lee and BJ bring most of the laugh-out-loud funny moments.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Ricky Gervais wasn't funny in The Office but the David Brent character was so pathetic he was funny to us as viewers.

You lost me. This just makes no sense to me.  I don't understand making this distinction, unless you're talking about unintentional comedy. Like Tommy Wiseau and The Room .

Ricky Gervais is a brilliant comedic mind and is 100% responsible for David Brent being funny to us.  

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2 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

You lost me. This just makes no sense to me.  I don't understand making this distinction, unless you're talking about unintentional comedy. Like Tommy Wiseau and The Room .

Ricky Gervais is a brilliant comedic mind and is 100% responsible for David Brent being funny to us.  

I could be wrong but I think he's saying that in the world of "the office" david brent would not be funny.  like if he actually existed and we were in that world and interacting him; he would come off much like he does to the other characters.  but from the perspective of a viewer watching a show, he is funny.  I can only hope that's what he meant because david brent is an absolute comedy legend.

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5 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

You lost me. This just makes no sense to me.  I don't understand making this distinction, unless you're talking about unintentional comedy. Like Tommy Wiseau and The Room .

Ricky Gervais is a brilliant comedic mind and is 100% responsible for David Brent being funny to us.  

What I meant was that Ricky Gervais's David Brent didn't issue classic funny lines. What was so awesome about that show -- and Gervais's genius -- is that he created comedy because his character was so terribly shitty -- and so completely unaware of how he was perceived by everybody else. He rarely had dialogue that you would sit back and laugh out loud at. That's my point. Those are the roles that McBride and, to a smaller extent, Devine are playing.

I want to be clear -- Gervais is one of the funniest minds of his generation.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

What I meant was that Ricky Gervais's David Brent didn't issue classic funny lines.

do you mean this from the perspective of his co-workers?  he issued a million hilarious lines.

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