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Originally Posted by vid
The biggest downside though would be that some aspects of comedy and some cultural references will be lost in translation, and a lot of what already exists more likely than not has a lot of that kind of content in it. It can be resolved with creative writing but if it isn't done well, it can turn people off of a show too. A lot of CBC's English comedies make heavy use of puns that simply can't work in French.
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Netflix recently put together a global comedy series that features stand-up comics from around the world. There are about 50 of them and it's gotten some media coverage here because a half-dozen or so of them are from Quebec. (A pretty high ratio if you ask me, considering our share of the world's population.)
A few days ago a Radio-Canada commentator was talking about this. He watched a whole bunch of them from all over the world. And he had a predictable comment - some comedy translates well, some doesn't. He didn't understand why topic X was so funny to Latin Americans, and wondered if topic Y, which Québécois found hilarious, would also generate laughs from Russians.