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Black Books《布莱克书店》

Any writer who offers a comedy where the intent is to ‘…cram as much elaborate stupidity into a half hour…’ is likely to need a very real situation and balance it with a keen eye for absurdity in modern life. Writer Dylan Moran and co-creator Graham Linehan did that to perfection in 2000 with the story of a people-hating bookshop owner in the hit comedy Black Books. The British sitcom starring comedians Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey is about a bad-tempered, eccentric bookshop owner and his long-suffering assistant Manny. Offbeat and quirky show that hasn’t lost its fun since it originally aired.

如果一部喜剧想要“……在半个小时里尽可能多地塞进各种精心设计的蠢事……”，那它的编剧很可能需要一个非常真实的情景，还得以捕捉现代生活荒谬之处的敏锐眼光加以平衡。编剧迪兰·莫兰和联合编剧格雷厄姆·莱恩汉在2000年播出的大热喜剧《布莱克书店》中完美呈现了这一点，该剧讲述了一个孤僻厌世的书店老板的故事。这部英国情景喜剧由喜剧演员迪兰·莫迪及比尔·贝利主演，故事围绕脾气暴躁、性格古怪的书店老板和他吃苦耐劳的助手曼尼展开。自开播以来，这部荒诞另类的喜剧从未让找乐的观众失望。

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I mean it. I want a life. This is life! We suffer and slave and expire, that’s it. Don’t make me laugh… bitterly. Fran will fail, you’ll toil your life away and I’ll die alone, upside down on the floor of a pub toilet. 

我是认真的。我要好好生活。这就是生活！我们受苦，被奴役，然后蹬腿，就是这样。不要让我苦……笑。法兰会半途而废，你会虚度光阴，我会趴在酒吧厕所的地板上孤独死去。

Be on the lookout for things that make you laugh. If you see nothing worth laughing at, pretend you see it, then laugh.

注意那些让你发笑的事。如果没看到什么值得发笑的，就假装看到了，然后大笑。

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▲ 片段一：这样的老板

▲ 片段二：我太难了

▲ 片段三：口是心非

▲ 片段四：这是啥

▲ 片段五：推销

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