The Comparative Study Of The Friends And My Own Swordsman

As a kind of TV series, sitcoms have reached the peak, which have had a50-year history in America. According to American sitcoms, we can feel the mode of thinking with American original flavor, the cultural connotation with American characteristics and the local customs about America, which is well received by domestic and foreign audiences. For example, Friends is a famous sitcom launched by National Broadcasting Company of the United States, which is also a mark among lots of programs in the television network of NBC. Moreover, it is worth learning from the successful elements. The sitcom has introduced into China since1992. Although the Chinese sitcom has just a decades’ development, it is also loved by more and more audiences and focused by relevant scholars. Especially, My Own Swordsman is a very successful sitcom in China and gains a complete victory from Chinese audiences. On the basis of Friends, this domestic sitcom is successful to combine post modern elements with a special Chinese mode,which made My Own Swordsman be with distinctive Chinese Characteristics.This paper, taking the comparative research method, compares and analyzes these two typical sitcom——My Own Swordsman and Friends. By means of making comparison among backgrounds, scenes, figures and audiences, with deeply thinking about the creative work of domestic TV sitcoms, this article will put forward several suggestions:Increasing investment in the early stage, training relevant talents, making innovations about the style of comedy and sitcoms, establishing a platform for communication. The paper focuses on making Chinese sitcoms draw the successful experiences of foreign countries positively and then develop with localization, industrialization and our own brand. In addition, the Chinese sitcom is necessary to link to international sitcoms’market, at the same time, has its unique Chinese characteristics.