My top three comedy, excluding various dramedies (and ones like Black Mirror that I don't consider to be comedy even if a British comedy guide includes it), picks would be League of Gentlemen, Darkplace and Snuff Box.





Liked the Inside No. 9 Christmas special considerably, which was kind of Darkplaceish.

Davesax1965 wrote: Is there an option for none of the above ? ;-)

Why do you ask? Please expatiate.

You can always mention such a thing in post, but I'd be interested to get to understand your thinking better cause I could interpret the reasoning behind your comment in various ways.

1. You've seen all of these for some reason, but hate them all for some reason..
2. You haven't watched any of them so you have no favourites.
3. You've watched a few of them that you don't like, and so assume that you wouldn't like any of them etc.
4. You're not a fan of comedy period
5. You're not a fan of British shows (not all of these are really comedy)
6. The darkness of many of these scares or disturbs you.
7. You hate TV shows period.
8. There were no good British comedies post 1999.
9. You are a fan of Friends.
10. Something else entirely.

Be more descriptive. There could be an interesting story here, or maybe just an entertaining rant. I would like to know more, since I'm interested in people's tastes even if I don't share them, what television shows, if any, you do like.

I would also be interested to hear from more people who have a general dislike of said shows. I tend to dislike soap operas, and there's no shame in expressing one's dislike of something.
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Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dull.

Some of these, the less interesting of them, are pretty tame.

^ Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is also in the first episode of Inside No. 9. I think my favourite IT Crowd episode overall was the first series of series 2 when they went to see "Gay! – A Gay Musical" "I'm disabled".

It's a rare British comedy that my wife also loved and isn't so risque (though it contains adult humour and situations) that I felt I could usually watch it with the kids around. Sure she loved Mr. Bean... I think it helped open her up to watching more British fare. I mean, there are only so many Korean dramas you can watch.

Edited by Logan - January 24 2017 at 12:51

What,no This Is Jinsy?! A work of sheer genius in my opinion.

Speaking of rather surreal comedies, not a TV show, but rather a webseries which my daughter and her friends were very into and forced me to start watching, but I loved, is the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared series. The first one was a youtube hit, but the third is a particular favourite of mine:

And let's not forget Hyperdrive,a sci-fi comedy that outdoes Red Dwarf in my,and quite a few others,opinion.

I'm living proof of the concept of familiarity breeds contempt,because I can't stand Norwegian comedy,I haven't seen more than about five minutes of any of it since the late 90's,so less of an authority in this field you couldn't hope to find! As for your list,my favourites are The League Of Gentlemen and Psychoville. I tend to go for the weird and surreal, but that doesn't mean that the criteria is that if it's off the wall, I will automatically like it. I don't like Snuff Box or Little Britain for instance,it has to be the kind of weird that appeals to me,This Is Jinsey is a perfect example.

Being a big fan of Pemberton and Shearsmith,I loved the first two of Inside No. 9,so I'm looking forward to the third. And while we're on the subject of weird comedy,I would also like to recommend one that slipped under many people's radar,Wild West,with Catherine Tate and Dawn French. Some didn't like this since they felt it tried too hard to be weird and unusual,and that may possibly be true, but it's nevertheless one of my favourites. It was witten by the very talented Steve Nye of Men Behaving Badly fame after all, one of my favourite comedy writers. Another really good one of his is Beast.

AlanB wrote: The only one I've watched in the list is Little Britain. Over half of them I've never heard of. Outnumbered would be my favourite British comedy of the last 20 years, but it's not on the list.