The crazy world of comedy

A couple of weeks ago I saw Knocked Up at the cinema.
I have to say I enjoyed it. Actually I really enjoyed it.
It wasn't the funniest comedy I'd ever seen, it just had this weird sense of realism, some of the scenes you could actually imagine happening (or at least being vaguely similar in real life). Also the humour swung from stoner, gross out stuff to observational comedy.
The final thing that really did it for me was seeing a load of actors from Judd Apatow's (the directors) previous work (Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared and the 40 year old virgin) in new roles, it was an entertaining case of recognise the cameo.
So in conclusion Knocked Up = good times.

A couple of days before that I saw Evan Almighty.
It was shite.
I had heard as much but I was hoping that Steve Carell could still make it amusing to me. The problem with that movie turned out not to be the cast or the ridiculous but hilarious premise but the fact the writers had forgotten to put any jokes in. How do you make a comedy without jokes? I dunno, maybe this was originally intentioned as a documentary, possibly? Yer that's right a documentary about a senator becoming the reincarnation of Noah.
Anyway the only thing I drew from this film is that Morgan Freeman would make an excellent God.

Finally the IT Crowd has been on Channel 4 for a few weeks now and so far this second series has been really funny (even though they did kill of Chris Morris who is a bit of a legend). I fully recommend you watch the next few episodes or get hold of them on 4OD.
Just so you know what to expect I'll tell you that tonights episode covered those crappy piracy info-ads, German cannibals and the smoking ban now making smokers feel like persecuted Russians under a communist dictators regime, well I thought it was funny even if you don't.