I wish they’d get the camera switching in order. Though the fact that they still can’t get it right two years in, it must be a deliberate choice. Is it supposed to be creative? I find it jarring.
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It’s to help with edit cover-ups I believe, due to the limited set size and camera set-up. They can cut to an ISO of a single to cover and edit.
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Me too. It must be a creative thing. To mix it up so they’re not just using the one camera shot. Entertainment Tonight were doing it for about a year but then stopped it. They’re also using it on the hosts of the 80s Now music channel and it’s so annoying.
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well it’s very annoying
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Zach Ruane (from Aunty Donna) is this week’s special guest.
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I’m still not sold on this show. I gave it another go tonight and watched the first segment but I only chuckled (not laughed) twice- at the human bicycle and Tim’s tearless relationship joke. Even the audience were only giving scattered laughs tonight.
I know in other episodes I have watched they seem to warm-up half-way through, but I didn’t want to wait that long. I love HYBPA? but I don’t seem to find this show as funny. They were even using scenes from Home and Away tonight??? Seems more hit and miss to me unfortunately.
Yeah, tonight’s episode wasn’t the best.
I noticed they changed the program order a bit. Mel Tracina was in segment 2, then Robert Irwin and Zachary Ruane.
New segment tonight: The House of Bracewellness, in which Melanie Bracewell introduces segments from The House of Wellness TV show.
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I think you’re in the minority. And this show is just great every week. I LOL’d a lot tonight.
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This isn’t new. They have done this quite often.
I reckon The Cheap Seats is better than HYBPA.
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Ditto. Hopefully The Cheap Seats runs as long as HYBPA has!
That’s interesting. I find The Cheap Seats’s humour is more laughing at funny clips whereas HYBPA? is more reliant on the comedians delivering funny and punchy answers.
I know. I wish I got it
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Both are good, don’t get me wrong. I usually watch both shows each week, but I usually find The Cheap Seats just edges ahead in LOL moments.
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But what are you laughing at? Kochie dancing or saying something inappropriate is his own way of being funny for his audience. I think, by showing it, The Cheap Seats think they are laughing at him but really it’s just playing along with his joke.
I saw a Today reporter repost about featuring in one of their segments so I watched it. She was interviewing an athlete by running with him. Obviously, her doing so is tongue-in-cheek and a way the breakfast shows entertain their own audience.
But I didn’t get the point of that The Cheap Seats segment and what seems to be the gist of the show- just take funny bits from other shows and play them??? Because in that segment Mel and Tim didn’t deliver any lol jokes.
it’s usually the commentary that come with/after the clips are where the show delivers and the interaction/rapport between the hosts and panellists. Not unlike HYBPA and there is a lot of overlap in what the two shows do, sometimes using the same clips.
OK maybe they didn’t. That’s one bit, not the whole show.
One audience’s comedy is another’s cringe.
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Unfortunately, that’s been my experience more often than not. Even the grabs in the promos don’t do it for me.
They must find the cringe funny because they replay it on their show. Why? To laugh at. But, I can almost guarantee the show it was taken from was being deliberately cringy to entertain their audience. So, The Cheap Seats thinks they are laughing down at others when really they are just laughing along.
I’m not sure how this is proving such a difficult concept to explain.
When they add commentary or present it in isolation, that’s a different brand of comedy.
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