dana, SG, save me....

monster · 04-22-2009, 07:48 PM

What's new (or even new in the last 8 years) in the Brit comedy on TV world? Series/sitcoms etc (good ones obviously). give me some search terms for youtube please. I need a little pick-me-up....

Sperlock · 04-22-2009, 08:44 PM

The IT Crowd

Sundae · 04-23-2009, 02:37 AM

Immediate thoughts - Benidorm, No Heroics, Green Wing, That Mitchell and Webb Look...

Panel Shows, the evergreen Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. The sometimes wonderful Mock the Week (all comedian show) and the hit & miss 8 out of 10 Cats.

Harry Hill's TV Burp unites my whole family - my parents Sky+ it and we sit down to watch it together when they come back from Mass (Saturday night fulfilling Sunday obligation). I've been watching it for years, so it might not be new, but it's always funny.

DanaC · 04-23-2009, 06:02 AM

Also add Being Human to that. Not actually a 'comedy' more a drama with a comic edge. Very funny but also very good.

limey · 04-23-2009, 12:37 PM

Don''t forget QI - Stephen Fry and Alan Davies with others.

Sundae · 04-23-2009, 12:41 PM

Mum & Dad like that - I think it's gone downhill recently.
It's mostly jokes about Stephen Fry being gay.

monster · 04-23-2009, 03:30 PM

Ohh I like Alan Davies. Already exhausted the Benidorm after you posted that last clip, SG

thanks, will look into the others.

Sundae · 11-12-2009, 05:17 PM

This is not a comedy, although there are some funny lines, but E4 (Channel 4's offshoot) premiered a fantastic series tonight - Misfits (TV channel website). I was all prepared to hate it - a series about teens (more like twenty-somethings) with ASBOs that get super-powers? Hello? No Heroics without the jokes and Being Human with attitude? Get some original material, yeah [sucks teeth].

But it was bloody good. The rest of the series might be pants of course, but the set-up was almost pitch-perfect. And I loved that there is a Midlands girl in there - Kelly. She sounds propp-ah Lest-ah. I give myself a 30 miles radius of inaccuracy of course

Thoroughly recommended if you can get it elsewhere. I've Sky-Plused it, as thankfully Thursday nights are relatively TV free in this house (Monday nights are a nightmare!)

But now I have to go back and watch my fave No Heroics episode. How did that slip under their radar for re-commissioning? It was grand. And yes, I'll be watching the one with Fusebox in again. It's not my fault. I'm reading a biography of Derek Jarman. He's influencing me from beyond the curtain.

Sundae · 11-12-2009, 05:30 PM

WOAH! Just realised where I knew Martin (Benidorm) from!
Of course I am notoriously horrible with faces, but I swore I knoew him from somewhere. The Hotness, of course. Stand up Nivcholas Burns (yes I looked it up).

Learned something new today.

DanaC · 11-12-2009, 05:34 PM

If you like him then it's worth checking out Nathan Barley.

TheDaVinciChode · 11-12-2009, 07:26 PM

"The Armstrong and Miller Show" - Hilarious.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arm...nd_Miller_Show
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...The+Armstrong+

Can't go wrong.

"The Mighty Boosh" is funny, but... not to everyone's taste. More a young-adult kind of humour, I suppose.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mig...28TV_series%29
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f

monster · 11-12-2009, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDaVinciChode

"The Mighty Boosh" is funny, but... not to everyone's taste. More a young-adult kind of humour, I suppose.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mig...28TV_series%29
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f

Um, no, it's not funny. But thanks for playing.....

monster · 11-12-2009, 08:38 PM

Armstrong & Miller... that's great, thanks

DanaC · 11-13-2009, 06:42 AM

Oh Yeah, I forgot A&M. I love them.

There's a one off comedy pilot that aired a few days ago. Called 'The Campus'. It's part of a series of new comedy pilots (same way they got Being Human made). Talking of which: Being Human.

DanaC · 11-16-2009, 04:04 PM

Armstrong and Miller: Not Jane Austen.

04-22-2009, 07:48 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	dana, SG, save me.... What's new (or even new in the last 8 years) in the Brit comedy on TV world? Series/sitcoms etc (good ones obviously). give me some search terms for youtube please. I need a little pick-me-up.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-22-2009, 08:44 PM	#2
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04-23-2009, 02:37 AM	#3
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Immediate thoughts - Benidorm, No Heroics, Green Wing, That Mitchell and Webb Look... Panel Shows, the evergreen Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. The sometimes wonderful Mock the Week (all comedian show) and the hit & miss 8 out of 10 Cats. Harry Hill's TV Burp unites my whole family - my parents Sky+ it and we sit down to watch it together when they come back from Mass (Saturday night fulfilling Sunday obligation). I've been watching it for years, so it might not be new, but it's always funny. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

04-23-2009, 12:37 PM	#5
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Don''t forget QI - Stephen Fry and Alan Davies with others. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

04-23-2009, 12:41 PM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Mum & Dad like that - I think it's gone downhill recently. It's mostly jokes about Stephen Fry being gay. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

04-23-2009, 06:02 AM	#4
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Also add Being Human to that. Not actually a 'comedy' more a drama with a comic edge. Very funny but also very good.

04-23-2009, 03:30 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Ohh I like Alan Davies. Already exhausted the Benidorm after you posted that last clip, SG thanks, will look into the others. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-12-2009, 05:17 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	This is not a comedy, although there are some funny lines, but E4 (Channel 4's offshoot) premiered a fantastic series tonight - Misfits (TV channel website). I was all prepared to hate it - a series about teens (more like twenty-somethings) with ASBOs that get super-powers? Hello? No Heroics without the jokes and Being Human with attitude? Get some original material, yeah [sucks teeth]. But it was bloody good. The rest of the series might be pants of course, but the set-up was almost pitch-perfect. And I loved that there is a Midlands girl in there - Kelly. She sounds propp-ah Lest-ah. I give myself a 30 miles radius of inaccuracy of course Thoroughly recommended if you can get it elsewhere. I've Sky-Plused it, as thankfully Thursday nights are relatively TV free in this house (Monday nights are a nightmare!) But now I have to go back and watch my fave No Heroics episode. How did that slip under their radar for re-commissioning? It was grand. And yes, I'll be watching the one with Fusebox in again. It's not my fault. I'm reading a biography of Derek Jarman. He's influencing me from beyond the curtain. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-12-2009, 05:30 PM	#9
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	WOAH! Just realised where I knew Martin (Benidorm) from! Of course I am notoriously horrible with faces, but I swore I knoew him from somewhere. The Hotness, of course. Stand up Nivcholas Burns (yes I looked it up). Learned something new today. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-12-2009, 07:26 PM	#11
TheDaVinciChode Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 339	"The Armstrong and Miller Show" - Hilarious. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arm...nd_Miller_Show YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...The+Armstrong+ Can't go wrong. "The Mighty Boosh" is funny, but... not to everyone's taste. More a young-adult kind of humour, I suppose. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mig...28TV_series%29 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f __________________ "O' Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;" "The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;" - Walt Whitman / Leaves Of Grass.

11-12-2009, 08:38 PM	#13
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Armstrong & Miller... that's great, thanks __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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