Hilarious British shows
 

Give me some to watch.

The Office is good of course. And Peep Show is incredible.

So give me some shows that are funny like that.

I enjoy Russel Brand's Ponderland. It's just kind of him riffing on topics he chooses, so it's more like stand up. But I find it quite hilarious.

There's a lot of it on Youtube. So, you can see if you like it instead of downloading it.

brass eye and the day today are must watch. there are only 6-7 episodes of each and they're all totally genius. you can watch it 10 times and find something different to laugh at in each scene each time.

other than that, the first series of "a bit of fry and laurie" is really good.

Only Fools and Horses
Chewin The Fat
Rab C Nesbitt
Father Ted

Some good suggestions here.

Perhaps try 'Phoenix Nights' and 'The League Of Gentlemen'.

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Agreed it's a bad choice for Americans though.

One Foot in the Grave. Seems like a boring mundane sitcom about a retired couple to look at, but when you actually watch it, its a very dark, surreal and hilarious show packed with pathos, absurdities and observations.

Avoid series one though.

like CSL said, Black Books. It's fantastic.

Operation Good Guys, too.

Nathan Barley.

I think Americans would be quite puzzled by both of these personally.

I mean I think PN is one of the funniest sitcoms ever without a doubt, but so many of the gags are either very regional, very quick and subtle or based around minor British celebrities. Plenty of British people seem to miss half of the humour in there, which is probably why its never quite as celebrated as it should be.

And as far as LOG is concerned...Well that freaked me out enough, never found it hugely hilarious, just...Odd

Only Fools is a sure fire hit wherever its shown though, probably same goes for Dad's Army.

I actually thought that myself - especially about LoG - but I figured Triple A was down with British humour as he specifically asked for Brititsh shows. :?:

^ Was gonna mention red dwarf. Only fools n horses also deserves a mention.

Gotta go with Spaced like CSL.

Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones.

Spaced

Spaced and Red Dwarf

Also it isn't a comedy, but a drama, but has its hilarious moments. I highly recommend Cracker starring ROBBIE COLETRANE. Show is soo awesome, I made all my friends borrow my dvds of it, currently my grandparents are borrowing it and hopefully watching it.

OK I am downloading Spaced, Black Books, Red Dwarf, and Brass Eye right now since those sound like they could be good to me. If I love these I might try some of the others mentioned here.

Are the BBC and Channel 4 just like regular channels, or "premium" channels or what? Cause I noticed there is a lot of cursing and sexual stuff on them. Like stuff that would only be shown on HBO here and not at all on regular TV.

Nah they're just regular channels. American TV is just surprisingly tame, really.

Spaced is fantastic, one of the best examples of a 'pop culture' referencing show ever, probably. The early years of Red Dwarf have dated a bit (IMO) but it's still pretty good. Black Books is a great sitcom. Bernard :love:

But yeah, Brass Eye above all. Magnificent satire.

Also do you not have commercials during the shows?

On Channel 4 (and all other non-BBC channels) shows there would be commercials. I imaginbe you're downloading DVD versions though...so they wouldn't include comms.

Well obviously. But I mean The Office episodes are 30 mins long. They are on the BBC though so that explains that. And Peep Show, episodes were like 26 mins or something, and in the first season I don't think there were any breaks. In the others, they had one break in the middle. So there is only one commercial break or what

Here you get one ad break in a 30min show and usually 3 in an hour long show.

I'm guess (from watching RAW) that the US is waaaaaaaaaaaay worse for ads!?

3 per half hour show

JESUS!

Yeah the BBC has no ads whatsoever. Seasons are structured differently as I'm sure you've noticed, we don't really have 20+ episode runs of shows, 6 is about the norm for a comedy show.

alan partridge, of course. fucking hell.

List of British comedy shows I love (probably missed a few too). Asterix implies probably wouldn't translate all that well across the pond.

Only Fools and Horses *
Marion and Geoff
Peep Show
Men Behaving Badly
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
Harry Hill TV Burp *
The Thin Blue Line
I'm Alan Partridge
The Day Today
Brass Eye
Operation Good Guys
The Office
Extras
Bo Selecta! *
Black Books
Game On
Coupling
Father Ted
One Foot In The Grave
Bottom
The Royle Family *
Time Trumpet *
Nathan Barley
Life On Mars
Gavin and Stacey

Not really a full on comedy but Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is a good show to check out too. Again, rather British though. I think pretty much every episode is on YouTube. Check out http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=xthemusic

Amongst random other playlists you will find Series 1 to 4 of Screenwipe.

Hmmm... in this one he rips into some American TV... see how this suits you...

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lol that was good