I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot ...
I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot of baby reviews to come. I also post on Dooyoo under the name Whizz11
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King of Queens is an American sitcom set in New York. The King in question is Doug Heffernan and the Queens they relate to is actually the suburb of New York he lives in with his wife Carrie. I think this title is a really clever play on words and sets the scene for quite a funny sitcom in my opinion.
Doug and Carrie are the main couple in this sitcom and it’s really them that the whole show revolves around. They have a nice relationship but bicker like most couples and they really play on each others stereotypes to get the laughs out of the audience. For example Doug is rather fat and so they definitely play this up on the show. He is generally always eating my Carrie facilitates this by buying him or making him his favourite foods. Doug is played by the very funny Kevin James who has been in movies such as Hitch, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Paul Blart: Mall Cop. He started his career in standup and it was actually his appearances on Everybody Loves Raymond (another American sitcom) that prompted the creation of his own show, King of Queens. I think it’s his ability to not take himself too seriously that makes this show funny and the fact that he knows he’s rather large but uses that to get laughs.
Carrie is played by Leah Remini. She has quite a strong New York accent which can be annoying at times but I do find that she compliments Doug well. She is a secretary at a law firm and is often shown in various funny work situations. Doug’s job is the funniest. He works as a delivery driver for IPS (not UPS but has the same brown uniforms as they do. The fact that he has to wear shorts in his job is quite funny and I’m sure this was thought about when the show was created to be another funny aspect of his character.
By far the funniest character on this show though is Carrie’s dad, Arthur Spooner who lives with the couple downstairs in their basement. He is an old, cantankerous old man who doesn’t really seem to do anything but annoy both Doug and Carrie at the same time as them really loving him too. He always seems to come up with ridiculous thoughts, for example he will think he invented a certain well know product years before it actually came out and then try to sue that company for all the revenue they have made from his supposed product and silly things like that.
Doug and Carrie often hang out with their friend Deacon and Kelly. Doug works with Deacon at IPS. They are a black couple and although it’s not a big focus, race views do come up from time to time but they deal with it in quite a comical way and it’s nice to see these two couples really having a great relationship.
The show ran from 1998 to 2007. It won the People’s Choice Award for best television comedy in 2007 and 2008. It is show here on English television on Comedy Central.
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