Had this female friend who went on and on "Lily, "Lily,"Lily,and would do her one-ringy-dingy impersonation of Lily. I pretended to be amused.
This friend also said she did not find Lucy funny,that she didn't have the patience for her. However, Lucy is my favorite.
What about the rest of you: do you like Lucy ?
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shareI like both Lucy and Lily. For different reasons of course,
We all know why Lucy is loved of course but Lily is harder to describe
Aside from the phone operator and her "big kid" Edith Ann,Lily's style of comedy is just "take it as it's given". Yes,one has to think a bit more for this cerebral kind of humor but take my word for it,she is funny.
I think if you saw more of her works,you might understand. I doubt you'd feel different overall though.
You;re like my brother. He loves high comedy but can;t stand "dry" humor or humor like I described.
Everyone's different so,to each his own y'know?
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I saw parts of her "Signs" project.
Let me ask you something: would you agree that there's a difference between the lines being funny vs. the person saying them?
I thought she was funny when she did the act of finishing-her-unfinished sentences on Laugh -In, and perhaps the cheerleader character. As much as I love Lucy, that was when only when she wasn't silly, like in some of the earlier episodes.
I actually liked Tomlin better as the somber character in Moment by Moment.
In stand up comedy , the lines being delivered can be funny but they have to eminate or be part of the person saying them.
In TV or movie comedy acting,that kind of actor can make any line funny if they are really great at it. Jim Carrey (for me anyway) can make anything he says funny in a movie and when he ws on In Living Color.
In his stand up act,he did what he was comfortable
with and what he knew both he and the audience would like.
In Lily's case her lines of dialog depend on her personality,just like Lucy's comedy character of the "crazy Red-Head" is a part of who she is.
I saw Moment By Monet once,with all due respect to you,I was both bored but at the same time,laughing at the unintentionally funny dialog. See my review of that here on IMDB.
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So do you feel that Lily's execution of her lines,and the lines itself, are both funny?
shareThat's a hoot, maybe we know the same woman.(she also did imitations)
I mentioned in my OT about the possibility of a pattern to the Lucy /Lily preference/comparison. The woman I knew said she didn't have the "patience" for Lucy; that sticks in my mind. It's akin to having to wait for the punchline, except I thought Lucy was consistently funny on any given episode, not just at the climax.
There's a difference between being brave vs. inherently funny; even Lucy modestly said she was brave and not funny, but I disagree with her.
I bet if I think about my taste in others areas of performing,I'd find more such patterns.
Yes. I like many kinds of humor.
The only kind of humor I'm not into is "dirty" or "sophmoric" humor. Like you find in say "American Pie". I watchd that movie and just found it idiotic.
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