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Favorite comedies
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:40 pm
by Fist and Faith
Barney Miller
Hogan's Heroes
Odd Couple
Honeymooners
M*A*S*H
Seinfeld
Friends
It's Like, You Know
Bob Newhart Show
Mary Tyler Moore
Carol Burnett
Taxi
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:43 pm
by matrixman
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:04 pm
by Ylva Kresh
Monty Python, Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Scrubs, some of Bottom, some of Ripping Yarns, some of Fawlty Towers and some of Ren and Stimpy, some of MASH and some of Absolutely Fab and probably many more I have forgotten. Pete and Pete is fun too. And Parker Lewis of course.
(I have this gnawing feeling that I have forgotten something very funny here. I will have to get back to you on that.)
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 5:33 pm
by Nav
Spaced. I'm not sure if it ever got exported, but I think it has to be the best twentysomething comedy ever.
"You ready?"
"I was born ready, Timmy."
"Yeah, but are you ready now?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Bitter, Mike?"
"No, are you?"
"Would you like a pint of bitter, Mike?"
"Yeah."
"Oh Brian, you came!"
"No, I just spilled my drink."
"I had to dress up as an elderly Israeli woman once."
"Really?"
"Well, I didn't have to..."
"I see all my ex-girlfriends. Well, not so much 'see' as....watch."
"That's chaos theory. The belief that the future is in fact a mathematically predictable preordained system."
"So somewhere out there in the vastness of the unknown there's an...equation for predicting the future?"
"An equation so complex as to utterly defy possibility of comprehension by even the most brilliant human mind, but an equation nonetheless."
"Oh. My. God..."
"What?"
"What?"
"I've got some Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket!"
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:38 pm
by Fist and Faith
Nice!!
That last bit reminds me of this, from
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand:
Gail Wynand was twenty when he fell in love. He had known everything there was to know about sex since the age of thirteen. He had had many girls. He never spoke of love, created no romantic illusion and treated the whole matter as a simple animal transaction; but at this he was an expert and women could tell it - just by looking at him. The girl with whom he fell in love had an exquisite beauty, a beauty to be worshiped, not desired. She was fragile and silent. Her face told of the lovely mysteries within her, left unexpressed.
She became Gail Wynand's mistress. He allowed himself the weakness of being happy. He would have married her at once, had she mentioned it. But they said little to each other. He felt that everything was understood between them.
One evening he spoke. Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her, he allowed his soul to be heard. "My darling, anything you wish, anything I am, anything I can ever be... That's what I want to offer you - not the things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get them. That thing - a man can't renounce it - but I want to renounce it - so that it will be yours - so that it will be in your service - only for you." The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think Im prettier than Maggy Kelly?"
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:04 pm
by aTOMiC
simpsons
futurama
Married With Children
Seinfeld
Cheers
Fraiser
Freinds
Scrubs
Andy Richter Rules the Universe
Malcom In The Middle
M*A*S*H until Alan Alda got involved with the writing and decided to preach instead of make me laugh.
Police Squad
Get Smart
Hogan's Heroes
and a butt load of stuff I can't remember at the moment but will the moment I log off.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:08 pm
by Fist and Faith
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
And I agree about M*A*S*H.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:24 pm
by I'm Murrin
Don't like british comedy, Tom?
Spaced had its moments, I agree, but it seemed a little wierd for my tastes...
Monty Python goes without saying.
Red Dwarf was good, but I'm starting to think it had already gotten a little old by Red Dwarf IV.
Blackadder II was great.
Scrubs is good.
Oh - Family Guy. I have one series on DVD.
Then there is Trigger Happy TV, the Fast Show - all good stuff.
Oh yeah, and 'My Family', cos I just watched it.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:35 am
by Fist and Faith
I just want to say that I
SWEAR I intended to include
Flying Circus in my original post!!! I was debating whether to put the entire title, or what I just put, or just
Python, and somehow lost track of it entirely!
Yup, that's me, folks. But hey, I started a rather successful Python thread months ago in the General forum, so maybe I'll be forgiven?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:41 am
by Loredoctor
You're only forgiven if you can do the fish slapping dance.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:49 am
by Fist and Faith
Hmm, not sure I could pull that off. How about if I cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring?
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:54 am
by aTOMiC
Okay, I didn't mean to exclude British shows. The only problem is I don't have cable so I only get stuff on PBS from like 10 years ago. PYTHON rules! Dwarf is very cool. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was unreal. I've watched a few episodes of Fawlty Towers that were pretty funny. I just don't watch much PBS beyond NOVA.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 4:55 am
by Taiga Tzu
Fist and Faith wrote:Hmm, not sure I could pull that off. How about if I cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring?
FIST AND FAITH!!! Don't you DARE!!!
