Favourite Modern British Comedy?
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Topic: Favourite Modern British Comedy?
Posted By: mrcozdude
Subject: Favourite Modern British Comedy?
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 09:55
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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? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 16:14
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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... ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 20:11
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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
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.(
 )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.
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 21:55
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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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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:26
From this list, Garth Merneghi's Darkplace is the only one I havnt heard of and the rest are  .
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:34
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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. |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 14:31
| The Office - it had to be. Too real to be anything else. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 14:39
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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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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 14:52
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I choose Extras!
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 14:56
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are a brilliant writing duo. 
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thellama73 wrote:Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: August 11 2007 at 14:29
There are certainly more clever ones about, but none made me laugh as much as Phoenix Nights  ------------- 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 02:30
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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. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 06:15
Saxondale ------------- What? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 06:20
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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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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 06:34
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^ Posh Nosh with Richard E Grant and Arabella Wier? ------------- What? |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 06:38
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that's it.. wonderfully weird, and very funny
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 10:42
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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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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 15 2007 at 14:25
Yes yes yes...thats the one. It's shown...or was, on BBC America. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 19 2007 at 23:16
yeah chris morris is a genius but was quite dissapointed when he didnt affend me in the i.t crowd ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 05:48
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_crowd - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_crowd ------------- What? |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 07:37
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God what a choice -
I was torn between League Of gentlemen & Alan Partridge, but went for Partridge in the end, as Steve Coogan maintained the quality throughout the series, whereas LoG (in my opinion) lost the plot in the third series (and don't even mention the execrable film...)
I'm definitely with you on that one: 
Splendidly surreal comedy  ------------- 
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 22 2007 at 00:45
I couldn't find his name listed their ,was that the point of the link?lol
Also i really like the 3rd season but it couldnt of been as good as the other due to only keep certain charcters focused without it,and the film well..... it was a good idea im suprised about the characters they chose though ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 23 2007 at 05:28
If you want to be offended by a Chris Morris product, then check out 'Nathan Barley' I couldn't believe how bizarre and completly obnoxious that sit com was. I loved it! 
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Posted By: Jimsey
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 04:36
Coupling for me. Brilliant show.
[the american version is just sh*t]
Off the list I think I've only seen "The League Of Gentlemen", "The Office", "Little Britain" and "I'm Alan Partridge". They're all good but nothing I've really followed. ------------- 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 05:09
sorry - none of the above really 
British comedy is in something of a low at the moment - My Family is typical traditional sit-com and isn't bad, i really liked 2 Pints of Lager but the new one Grownups is disappointing in comparison.
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 05:31
| The list lacks Gordon Brown. Hm, I feel a bit odd having seen none of these. I don't think they run in finland. I've heard red Dwarf is good though :P |
Posted By: daSilva
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 07:42
red dwarf was very good. I'd vote for that.
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Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 08:21
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Mighty Booch is hilarious, and the actors are progheads apparently. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 26 2007 at 08:54
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Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Phoenix Nights and The Royle Family are obvious omissions. Of the comedy sketch shows my two favourites are The Fast Show and Big Train.Both maintained a high standard whereas the likes of Bo Selecta and Little Britain just rehashed the same ideas which soon became very tired. I think the first series of League Of Gentlemen and episode one of series two were sublime but got progressively dire after that. My Personal Top 10 including older shows would be: 1. Blackadder 2. Phoenix Nights 3. Fawlty Towers 4. Red Dwarf 5. The League Of Gentlemen Series 1 6. The Royle Family 7. I'm Alan Partridge 8. The Office 9. The Young Ones 10.Bottom Bubblng under: Porridge,Father Ted, Only Fools and Horses, Rising Damp.Steptoe & Son and Dad's Army. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 27 2007 at 01:58
yeah their big zappa and beefheart fans.......it shows lol  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: August 27 2007 at 03:34
| Anyone come across "The IT crowd"? I just started watching it recently, and found it very good. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 28 2007 at 07:52
Sorry - never got it - I've tried many times but on the few occasions I've got all the way through an episode, I've done so completely straight faced; I just find them totally unfunny... ditto Tittybangbang & Katherine Tate. -------------
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