Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:24 PM BST

Becuase the lines were just so clever and true. I guess she got carried away with making it quite prosey and I accpet it isn't to everyone's taste however for those who are into that type of comedy it is amazing. Though, I must admit I have stopped writing on every synposis I send to a production company that I want to be a modern day Carla Lane- it probably wasn't doing my unfunny scripts any favours.

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Yeah so why is that poetry which I believe was the question I asked?

Then it is like a chicken flavoured donut, a hat shaped like a cock or a porn model who ressembles Jaqui Smith. It may do a job, but it is not fit for it's purpose!

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:24 PM BST

Becuase the lines were just so clever and true. I guess she got carried away with making it quite prosey

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Poetry or prose?

I'm sure I heard the following dialogue in one of her shows: "life is like a feather duster blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

the lines were poetic. She even admited that the dialogue was very self indulgent. One of my favourite lines ever is 'his face hasn't reached any definite decisons' in the episode where Adam ran away. This doesn't sound much but in context it was pretty amazing.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 24 2009, 10:28 PM BST

Poetry or prose?

"life is like a feather duster blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

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Wonderful when it's on your balls but lousy when you have to clean the house with it?

Quote: sootyj @ August 24 2009, 10:29 PM BST

Wonderful when it's on your balls but lousy when you have to clean the house with it?

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That would have been better than the real line.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:29 PM BST

the lines were poetic. She even admited that the dialogue was very self indulgent. One of my favourite lines ever is 'his face hasn't reached any definite decisons' in the episode where Adam ran away. This doesn't sound much but in context it was pretty amazing.

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She is the Megrahi of the sitcom world. Alright people think she should have died in a Scottish jail.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 24 2009, 10:30 PM BST

That would have been better than the real line.

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Well it's how I described my ideal match at match dot com.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 24 2009, 10:28 PM BST

Poetry or prose?

I'm sure I heard the following dialogue in one of her shows: "life is like a feather duster blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

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well it was sort of prose which you read and you think 'f**k that was poetic.' Yes I know her characters were quite stereotyped but surely someone on this site has to agree with me that writing a sitcom with such an attitude is pretty amazing. The Royle Family is the only sitcom of recent years that I think has been heavily influenced by her.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:32 PM BST

The Royle Family is the only sitcom of recent years that I think has been heavily influenced by her.

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No! The Royle Family is free of any such pretensions.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:29 PM BST

the lines were poetic. She even admited that the dialogue was very self indulgent. One of my favourite lines ever is 'his face hasn't reached any definite decisons' in the episode where Adam ran away. This doesn't sound much but in context it was pretty amazing.

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Clever verbiage does not a good sitcom make.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:29 PM BST

the lines were poetic.'his face hasn't reached any definite decisons'

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Right. I must have misunderstood what poetry is.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 24 2009, 10:34 PM BST

No! The Royle Family is free of any such pretensions.

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honeslty it isn't and there is nothing wrong with being prentious as long as you're good at it. There are millions of examples of this self indulgent poetry in the royle family there is brilliant line in sunday dinner ep where Nana is talking about the woman whose hubsand hsad just died. She said the husband used to folow her around the shop taking stuf out of her trolley. She says 'he wouldn't let her have jaffa cakes only rich tea.' and then she says 'she'll have jaffa cakes now'. Okay I don't expect you all to get it but someone has to admit it was not only carla lanesque but also genius writng.

Quote: Aaron @ August 24 2009, 10:36 PM BST

Clever verbiage does not a good sitcom make.

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thank you aaron for sort of agreeing with me for once. I agree you need other stuff however once you have that stuff if you had the 'clever verbaige' it can turn it inot something great.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:39 PM BST

genius writng.

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Which was precisely why it was nothing like Carla Lane.

Quote: Sebastian Orange-News @ August 24 2009, 10:32 PM BST

surely someone on this site has to agree with me that writing a sitcom with such an attitude is pretty amazing. The Royle Family is the only sitcom of recent years that I think has been heavily influenced by her.

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Yeah they were so influenced by the Liver Birds. Come on they are working class and Nothern.

Ey up Pet
Is T'dinner on yet
Nay love
Not yet
We're liverpool you know
Not Solihul.

Oh and I love the Royale Family and it made me laugh, which Carla Lane never did.

Apart from being real and funny the ROyale Family felt like it was about people I might actually meet. Carla's characters are soul less and dead, mere automatuns for her Frankenstein writing.