Comedy Is … Based On A Hit Movie

June 1, 2021

Comedy Is … Based On A Hit Movie

I didn’t watch everything the Paramount Comedy Channel offered up or course, most notably the early evening fare. So I never watched the sitcom Clueless. I’ve no idea what it was like. And I only recently watched the movie it was based on too.

But it does give me the opportunity to note an interesting difference between British and American sitcoms, and their relationship to movies.

It’s a quirk of the Atlantic divide that successful British sitcoms tend to end up being made into movies, while American sitcoms are often based on successful movies.

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SHOW NOTES
Music by Kevin McLeod, Poddington Bears, Anonymous 420, and James S Levine
All Interviews available here in full.

Comedy, Comedy Is …, Sitcoms, US

A League Of Their Own, Mash, Nearly Departed, Parenthood, Working Girl

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