Saw Little Mosque on the Prairie last night for the first and last time.
So Sorry. Not funny. Not any of it. Not even a little. If it wasn't about Muslims on the prairie it wouldn't even be slightly interesting.
Corner Gas=Funny.
Little Mosque=CBC. Earnest. Well acted. No Jokes.
I wanted to like it because, well, we're all supposed to. But NF. Not funny. Not even one joke.
I like all the people on it, they are very pleasant.
If you want to hear a funny discussion of the series go here. Now.
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I am saddened to agree with you.
I really wanted to like this show...you know support the home team and all. But after watching the firs two episodes (the third is waiting on the PVR)...it's just not that funny.
Now a Canadain show that turns out is indeed funny is this season's This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Our buddy Shaun Majunder is really good.
Check out some Raj Binder at the all star game...funny stuff. www.cbc.ca/22minutes
Posted by: bingobob | February 1, 2007 / 10:24
"Little Mosque" depends of offensive stereotypes for its humour.
Also, while at times funny, I do wonder about how "real" the situation is. I once saw a show about how the Nazis made two propaganda films about the conflict between the British and the Irish. The films, at least according to those who were interviewed who had seen them were quite good. The only problem was that the people in the movies were not Irish. What I mean by that was that the culture of the Irish portrayed in the films in no way reflected actual Irish culture as I guess the Germans who wrote, produced, and acted in the movies never took the time to get to understand the traditions and feel of the Irish people. It just wasn't important to them because in the end it had nothing to do with the Irish. It was as one commentator of the movies said "Germans talking to Germans".
And that is kind of what I am getting with the "Little Mosque" show. In the end it isn't really about small town Saskatchewan or Muslim communities living within small town Saskatchewan. In the end what it comes down to is just Liberal Urbanite Canadians talking to Liberal Urbanite Canadians, with their political message being far more important to them than whether or not the situation portrayed reflects a real situation in the country accurately enough.
By the way, why does "The She Mayor" remind me so much of the mayor on South Park?
Posted by: Tom | February 5, 2007 / 15:31