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Poll Question: What's your Favourite show in recent years?
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    Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:55
I wanted to do a poll on recent British Comedy after seeing the Mel Brooks/Python poll,before i did though i thought the list was going to suck as i think everything good seemed to be in the seventies (comedy ie python,music ie everything)but theres actually a great list of comedy there,
 
So whats Your Favourite and why?



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From the list, definitly Black Books. Some of my favorites are missing, though: The Fast Show, Big Train, Spaced, Coupling, My Family, The Vicar of Dibley, Smith & Jones, Is it Bill Bailey, to name a few...
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Was going to vote The Mighty Boosh, but once everyone starts voting I'm sure this will do well without my help. If you get the chance to see them live do so.
 
I cannot abide Little Brian Britain, Peep Show, Brass Eye & The Day Today (eh? it's not funny that's why) & Bo Selecta. I got all the jokes the first time, in the first episode/show - repeating them ad infinitum does not make them funnier.
 
So my vote goes to...
 
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - absolutely brilliant, original and very clever, a parody of a parody of a show within a show, simultaneously poking fun at 80's TV action series and King's Kingdom Hostpital.
 
Not on the list but worth watching...
 
The Green Wing - Surreal & Hilarious. Tamsin Greig is our greatest female comedic actor.(Heart)
 
The IT Crowd - an 'overlooked' classic that received critcal acclaim yet got buried in the scheduling.
 
Spaced - it took me a while to get into it, but it's modern British comedy at its best.
 
Supernova - Rob Brydon is actually funny (shock) - better than the dire Hyperdrive anyway. Wink
 
 
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Red Dwarf.Me and my wife are obssessed with that show. It has a great cast(love Chris Barrie,the man is extremely talented),I love the writing and the premise of the show is pretty cool.


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From this list, Garth Merneghi's Darkplace is the only one I havnt heard of and the rest are Dead. 
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Very tough poll! I went for 'Brass Eye' I'm a big Chris Morris fan. I like The Day Today, Jam and Nathan Barley too, which were all projects he was involved in.

Alan Partridge, The Office and The League of Gentlemen are all brilliant too. I've just bought the first three series of Peep Show on DVD, and they are hilarious, and very original too.

Spaced was also mentioned here. That is one one my favourite sit coms of all time, next to Fawlty Towers, Ab Fab and BlackAdder.
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The Office - it had to be. Too real to be anything else.
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Jam is a seriously great show. Not always hilarious, but pretty damn genius. However, The Office is simply the greatest comedy show on earth.

Another one i recently discovered was "Nighty Night", pretty screwed up comedy, sometimes bears a slight resemblance to the office.

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I choose Extras!
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I choose Extras!


Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are a brilliant writing duo.
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There are certainly more clever ones about, but none made me laugh as much as Phoenix Nights

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Is the show with the aging rock and roller who is a pest control technician who drives a Charger (or is it a Cougar?) and shares his deep ethics in rock and roll metaphors with his teenage son one of the ones on the list?
 
I vote for that one.

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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Is the show with the aging rock and roller who is a pest control technician who drives a Charger (or is it a Cougar?) and shares his deep ethics in rock and roll metaphors with his teenage son one of the ones on the list?
 
I vote for that one.
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did we even get any of these in the U.S. other than the Office? I don't recognize them, ah well.. my favorites; Wooster and Jeeves, the Office, and Fawlty Towers for classic stuff... and some strange cooking show parody that was funny.





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^ Posh Nosh with Richard E Grant and Arabella Wier?
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that's it.. wonderfully weird, and very funny



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I must admit I don't know any of them, but then a) I don't live in the UK and b) I hardly ever watch tv. you could show me a list of German comedy shows of today; I wouldn't know them either, except for "Die Camper" ("The Campers"), and that one only because a friend of us plays one of the female leads in it


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Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Is the show with the aging rock and roller who is a pest control technician who drives a Charger (or is it a Cougar?) and shares his deep ethics in rock and roll metaphors with his teenage son one of the ones on the list?
 
I vote for that one.
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Yes yes yes...thats the one.  It's shown...or was, on BBC America.

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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Very tough poll! I went for 'Brass Eye' I'm a big Chris Morris fan. I like The Day Today, Jam and Nathan Barley too, which were all projects he was involved in.

Alan Partridge, The Office and The League of Gentlemen are all brilliant too. I've just bought the first three series of Peep Show on DVD, and they are hilarious, and very original too.

Spaced was also mentioned here. That is one one my favourite sit coms of all time, next to Fawlty Towers, Ab Fab and BlackAdder.
 
yeah chris morris is a genius but was quite dissapointed when he didnt affend me in the i.t crowd



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Originally posted by mrcozdude mrcozdude wrote:

yeah chris morris is a genius but was quite dissapointed when he didnt affend me in the i.t crowd
 
 
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