Best British Comedy

Post by **danlo** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:04 pm

To quote John McEnroe, "YOU CAN"T BE SERIOUS!!!!!!???"

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:07 am

Not at all. It just doesn't push my buttons, with the exception of the Holy Grail - that had some funny bits. The other films and the Flying Circus just leave me straight faced.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:36 am

Come to think of it you've been the MPFC stick in the mud even all way back to the old EZboard.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:57 am

At least I'm consistent.

Post by **drew** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:25 am

Tony Slattery was great on it...and that girl-I can't remember her name, but she could make up songs just as good as Wayne Brady in the American show.

And Clive Anderson is a way better host than Drew Carrey...

Funny though, how the two funniest guys on either show (Colin and Ryan) were both Canadian eh?

Post by **danlo** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:54 pm

Right! The original Who's Line completely blew away any thing Carrey tried to do with it!

Post by **CovenantJr** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:32 pm

drew wrote:and that girl-I can't remember her name, but she could make up songs just as good as Wayne Brady in the American show.

Probably Josie Lawrence.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:51 am

danlo wrote:Right! The original Who's Line completely blew away any thing Carrey tried to do with it!

Totally agree.

--A

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:08 pm

Post by **Hound Of Chulainn** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:20 am

The best British show since The Office (the greatest TV show of all time in my opinion) is easily Green Wing. And Big Train is the absolute greatest sketch-comedy show of all time. EDIT: Also Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps has been consistently excellent.

And the US version of Who's Line...

Let's see: there's what's-his-face who gets typecast into doing anything involving singing and carries the entire show, and Drew Carey is a no-talent moron who should have been banned from TV after the first episode of his sitcom.

"The points don't matter? Geez it's lucky you dumbed it down for us Drew - we wouldn't have figured it out by ourselves thanks to all of our lobotomies and missing chromosomes."

Post by **variol son** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:15 am

Hound Of Chulainn wrote:"The points don't matter? Geez it's lucky you dumbed it down for us Drew - we wouldn't have figured it out by ourselves thanks to all of our lobotomies and missing chromosomes."

That's exactly what I used to think everytime I watched US Whose Line!

Man, new New Zealand members rock!

Post by **Tulizar** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:29 am

The funniest Brit show has got to be Footballer's Wives. My wife and I have a great time laughing our asses of whenever it's on!!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:32 am

*shudder*

--A

Post by **Tulizar** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:12 am

Post by **Trapper** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:17 pm

Human Remains, a truly great British comedy, six episodes of two wonderful impressionists playing six incredibly dark and dysfunctional couples:

eg

I'm not pregnant as such, but... y'know, it could happen at any time... Steven's got quite a temper

or

I feel my songs are like my children, yet they're also like my parents. Sometimes my songs can be a special uncle, y'know, a favourite uncle, who is particularly friendly at Christmas-time

or

...friends and, not even friends but acquaintances (sp?), have said to me "Life has dealt you a bad hand". Well, I'm pretty philosophical about that. If a life of turmoil, anguish, sorrow, doubt, fear, regret... and longing, is "a bad hand" then, yes, I've been dealt a bad hand. But is it?

btjunkie.org/search?q=human+remains

You might need to get utorrent first.

Disclaimer: or at least that's what I have heard. Friend of a friend, etc. I am in no way condoning the pure evil of file-sharing, but I just have a hunch. The URL came to me in a vision.

If you've got nothing better to do with your bandwidth or have an interest in UK comedy I strongly recommend this.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:38 pm

If we're including Father Ted, which we shouldn't, it'd be my fave.

Another classic...

Not the nine o'clock news
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I&mod ... ed&search=

I was absolutely livid

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykN-00i7VVs&mod ... ed&search=

Post by **duke** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:12 pm

I guess I'm the only person in the world who thinks Monty Python, and Fawlty Towers are both horribly overrated and cheesy.

Here's my top 3.

1. Yes, Minister (and Yes Prime Minister)
2. Goodnight Sweetheart
3. The Office

Post by **Edge** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:41 pm

My top favourites, in no particular order:

#1 Balls of Steel

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:05 am

My taste if just so...off from everyone else's.

My two favorites are:

Butterflies

and

To the Manor Born

neither are down and out drop dead funny, but...I like the storylines of both.

Post by **amanibhavam** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:28 pm

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Best British Comedy