Comments on: ‘Kath & Kim’ Are Comin’ To America

By: ailsa

ailsa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:05:50 +0000

selma blair is SO NOT FUNNY. hate her…it looks awful

By: ames

ames — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:12:06 +0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo. good luck to them. i’m sure they will do their best but…somehow dont think it will catch on. at this lay-te stay-ge, i’m having iss-ewes at the mow-ment ploi-se.

By: Alissa

Alissa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:06:21 +0000

I’m sorry but this show cannot be recreated into an American version. American humor is so in your face that it is impossible to miss. The Australian Kath and Kim humor is subtle which is what makes the show so brilliant and so popular in the first place down here in Aus. Changing the show for an American Audience will change the very core of the show. And anyway the American version will have to be totally different because the whole Aus show if full of AUSTRALIAN jokes, to make an American version will just turn out to be a some what crappy version of the original version. And Kath and Kim with American accents just won’t work.

By: That Girl

That Girl — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:26:03 +0000

One of the reasons why I feel the original show will be more successful than the new US version is that the Aussies appear REAL (in an over-the-top sense). The characters’ clothing, hairstyles, accessories are organic, naturally a part of them. With Molly and Selma, the outfits appear too sleek, too polished and put together. It seems like a masquerade – making beautiful women seem quirky and absurd by throwing on fitted mis-matched clothing. I wish they got “nobody” actors actors to pull this off. It’s so hard not to see “Molly” and “Selma” as anything but themselves. (Selma more than Molly).

By: liam

liam — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:51:59 +0000

ugh, that is just *awful*. jeez, you americans don’t get anything right. it SUCKS.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:09:00 +0000

DUDE, Where’s the perm??
There are so many firzzy hair jokes in the aussie.
And the whole sharon thing, desperate, loves sport. Do americasn even now what cricket is?

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:42:52 +0000

Both women from the original are producers so it should be good. I imagine they can’t wait to tell Americans how trashy they are.

By: SARAH

SARAH — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:10:17 +0000

nooooooo the australian one is sooooo much betterrrrrrr don’t ruin it for everyone!!

By: georgie

georgie — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:41:56 +0000

not even funny. kimmy is supposed to be chubby, and as said above… the same age as kath (actress wise) so its totally weird. this will just not work

By: emily

emily — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:35:21 +0000

i dunno…it looks kind of obvious and lame….sorry people.
you never know, they might just make the comedy this obvs for the first few episodes to gradually get people into the dry comedy. i hope so.

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:19:43 +0000

Hmmmmm, I’m not convinced by the trailers. Kath and Kim is one of the best shows ever and if they don’t mention the words ‘you big hunk of spunk’ then how can it be worth watching??

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:31:58 +0000

This is a fear of mine as well, the Aussie-isms are what make the show amazing. My guess is that they’ll use American-isms to compensate … trashiness, etc. It could work, we’ll see.

By: debho

debho — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:09:28 +0000

I can’t possibly see how they’re going to be even remotely the same sort of show. Our Kath and Kim is full of “Aussie-isms”, which is the whole charm of the show. That sort of Ockerism just doesn’t translate.
Hearing Kath say “look at moy, look at moy” in an American accent just won’t be the same.
It’s all a bit of a foxy-moron really.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:03:17 +0000

I am the 1st to admit that I have never seen the Aussie version, but from the 1st promo for the US version I was pumped to see it! I love Molly Shannon and Selma Blair and hope that this show will be ab fab! BTW, Molly is only about 8 years older than Selma.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:42:38 +0000

FINALLY, someone gets it. My boyfriend and I had the exact same reaction—the US version seems to try for the deadpan but makes it waaay too obvious. I mean “O-V-U-R”? Ugh, no. A real Kath and Kim joke is so subtle that you don’t even realize it till several beats later. Another thing is that part of the great formula of Kath and Kim is that the two lead actresses are so close in age as to give the mother-daughter dynamic a level of creepiness and hilarity that just doesn’t spark with Molly Shannon and Selma Blair. And ANOTHER thing: WHAT could possibly be the American analogue of Trude and Prue!?!

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:40:30 +0000

It looks hilarious! never heard of the original but Molly Shannon and Selma Blair are awesome.

By: CkayM

CkayM — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:38:46 +0000

lolol i watched a few clips from the original aussie one. so funny.

By: Mr. Gyllenhaal

Mr. Gyllenhaal — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:27:09 +0000

I have never seen this show before but it looks like Absolutly Fabulous. If it is anything like that I am going to love it. I’ll keep my eye out for it!!

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:18:48 +0000

I’m sure most people are going to like it since they won’t have any idea about the Aussie version….it’s just like Ugly Betty..people here love the American version, which is nothing like the original Colombian version….btw, the best version ever.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:15:32 +0000

Hopefully it won’t be like the American version of Coupling… the original BBC version of that was hilarious, but the American version just bombed!