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Old 04-27-2008, 04:41 PM   #1
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Fawlty Towers
Watching it on DVD. loving it. Any other British comedies I could check out in a similar vein?

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Old 04-27-2008, 05:01 PM   #2
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Nothing apart from The Office even comes close I'm afraid
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Old 04-27-2008, 05:29 PM   #3
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The Office is a steaming pile of turd.

However, most other British comedies are excellent... Such as Blackadder.
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The Office? Fuck that shite.

Final episode of Blackadder always brings an oul' tear to the eye. Great show!
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Oh, and my recommendation would be Father Ted.

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One of my friends seems to quite like The Mighty Boosh, but I haven't seen anything from it to really personally recommend it.
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Nothing touches Fawlty Towers, British or otherwise. Pure fucking genius that I doubt will ever be equalled.

But you can't go wrong with Blackadder, although I thought goes Forth was the weakest of the 4, it's still pure class. Let's face it how can you go wrong with Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
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Blackadder is brilliant, as is The Young Ones, for older comedy shows. Peep Show and Father Ted are up there with Fawlty Towers for me in more recent times, though Father Ted is definitely Irish humour rather than British but give it a go anyway.

I love The Office but for me Peep Show is both more innovative a lot funnier. You probably won't have seen anything else quite like it. New series on Friday for all the Brits. The thing I love about it is how morally bankrupt they can make their characters through the use of the inner monologues for personal justification while showing them at least attempting to behave normally on the face of it.

As for The Mighty Boosh, I like it but it's a bit hit and miss. I think you have to take it in a certain way and a lot of people dismiss it quickly as wacky student humour when I think it's a bit more subtle than that.

As for sketch shows, Reeves and Mortimer's various incarnations are the greatest.
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You should try some british sketch shows, like Big Train, Man Stroke Woman and going with ECG, Reeves and Mortimer, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
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That Mitchell and Webb Look if we're talking sketch shows

That Mitchell and Webb Look is nothing compared to Peep Show.

Could also try Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps, bit hit and miss though.

Oh, and if anyone mentions The Catherine Tate Show or Little Miss Jocelyn for sketch shows, they have no taste.
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Oh, and if anyone mentions The Catherine Tate Show or Little Miss Jocelyn for sketch shows, they have no taste.
When I didn't think anything could out-shite latter day Little Britain, Catherine Tate came along, and when I didn't think anything could out-shite that, Little Miss Jocelyn came along. How do sketch shows keep getting worse?
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The Fast Show is also a good one for Sketch Shows. Blackadder is sheer brilliance.
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I also love Red Dwarf.

Interesting thing about Fawlty Towers. Only 13 episodes were ever aired, however they made another 7 episodes which have NEVER been seen.

After completing the 3rd unaired season John Cleese and Connie Booth (Polly in FT) separated (eventually divorcing) and she would not give her permission to release the series. John Cleese was apparently quite happy for the 3rd season to air but Connie Booth was adamant that it would never be shown.
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After completing the 3rd unaired season John Cleese and Connie Booth (Polly in FT) separated (eventually divorcing) and she would not give her permission to release the series. John Cleese was apparently quite happy for the 3rd season to air but Connie Booth was adamant that it would never be shown.
Yes, interesting... but completely untrue, I'm afraid.

Hell, Cleese and Booth were already divorced by the time the second series was made.

There was allegedly ONE episode filmed but unaired, due to production issues rather than creative disputes. However, even this is unfounded.
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I'm watching the first season of Black Adder. The first Episode didn't do much for me, but it got a lot better fast.
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I'm watching the first season of Black Adder.
I often wonder what 2, 3, and 4 would've been like if they'd used real locations like the first one.

I think it makes the first series seem a lot more epic than the others, so it has a very different feel.
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The old Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister series were good in their day as well.
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:20 PM   #32
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Mr Bean
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Bottom / The Young Ones
Only Fools and Horses
Red Dwarf
One Foot in the Grave
Porridge / Open all hours
Rising Damp
Goodnight Sweetheart
Harry Enfield
I liked Rab C Nesbitt, but dammit, was so hard to understand him.

The guy who plays Rab C [Gregor Fisher] also did some episodes of a guy who didnt talk much. He did a advert for hamlett - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc friggin hilarious first time i saw it.

Some of my favorites right there which i have viewed through my life.

Mr Bean= Awesome
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:28 PM   #33
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KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)KYR got the bus to Rep Town and repped it up real bad at the rep shop (100,000+)
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Old 05-11-2008, 06:57 AM   #34
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The new episodes of Peep Show have been great so far. So many great characters with Johnson, Super Hans ( "which one of us would you suck off?" ) etc.

Would recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to pick it up on DVD.
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Old 05-11-2008, 02:06 PM   #35
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Yeah Peep Show is awesome, missed the first couple of episodes of the latest series, but I love it. But Blackadder is an absolute must see.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:13 PM   #36
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NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)NeanderCarl puts the "bang" in Bangladesh (30,000+)
Plus, you really think Booth would have the ability to turn to the BBC and say "you know that critically acclaimed and high rated TV series I wrote you that you just spent a couple of million filming a new series of? well, I don't want you to show it". They would have laughed her out of the room.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:20 PM   #37
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By the way, if you want some good British comedy, check out Only Fools and Horses, the greatest British sitcom ever made. The only problem is, I really don't know how well it would translate across the pond, especially considering the age of it now. The comedy comes from the strength of its leading characters and this may be lost on an unfamiliar audience... if you do give it a chance, watch it from the beginning, forgive it for its weaknesses in the first couple of seasons because it gets very good from series 3 and REALLY fucking good from about series 6.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:23 PM   #38
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Other than that, the best comedy shows Britain is producing right now are Peep Show and Gavin & Stacey.
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Old 05-12-2008, 08:17 PM   #39
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Can't be that good if I've never heard of it.
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Old 05-12-2008, 08:58 PM   #40
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That's what I thought until about two weeks ago when I finally gave in to several recommendations and trust me... fucking good. I may be biased, as it's partly set in Wales and very familiar humour to me, but it seems even the English like it... it won a Bafta award as voted by the audience a few weeks back.

Rob Brydon is fucking gold.
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