Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it’s quite theatrical.
Meaning of the quote
This quote means that the TV show "Black Books" uses an old-fashioned, traditional style of comedy that is similar to a play or a stage performance. The comedian, Dylan Moran, thinks this style works well for the show because it has a theatrical quality to it.
More quotes from Dylan Moran
I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
{mb_by_description:plain}
If I hadn’t done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I thought The Office was good, though I didn’t think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren’t any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I’d give that a twist.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don’t think I’d be very good at it.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I don’t want to do the same thing over and over again.
{mb_by_description:plain}
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it’s quite theatrical.
{mb_by_description:plain}
One thing that’s coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
{mb_by_description:plain}
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
{mb_by_description:plain}
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.
{mb_by_description:plain}
The truth is that I’m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
{mb_by_description:plain}
We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
{mb_by_description:plain}
Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.
{mb_by_description:plain}
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
{mb_by_description:plain}
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
{mb_by_description:plain}
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
{mb_by_description:plain}
It’s true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
{mb_by_description:plain}
The characters can’t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
{mb_by_description:plain}
You try various things when you’re growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
{mb_by_description:plain}