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British Comedy

ZPowers

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OK. Saved the best for last. The Thick of It is the best British Comedy in the history of ever.
Warning: VERY strong language.

The Thick of It is spectacular. I'm happy to see someone else posted it here already. There's no character on any show I can think of quite like Malcolm Tucker. (also, Salome, are you British? The Thick of It fans are few and far between in America. I bought the series on amazon.uk, since it isn't available in the States, and watch it on my region-free DVD player. I think it's getting a release here soon.)

Robin: Malcolm, do you know... how to fix a paper jam?
Malcolm: I don't know, kill a kid an hour until it sorts itself out?

Apparently Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson used to be in a punk band together. I saw him on Ferguson, and he told a story about a night he and Craig met up after both taking LSD, and neither one knew the other one was on acid.

Darkplace is exceptionally funny as well. The Mitchell and Webb Look and Peep Show are both pretty funny and on Netflix instant.
 
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I was discussing British comedy with another member on vent and we came to notice (I believe I did with my superior sensing skills) that British comedy is based mostly on metaphors. They make metaphorical jokes.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I love it.
 

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I watch Have I Got News For You and was glad to see William Shatner hosting it the other week/month.

QI too
and other shows.
 

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I watch Have I Got News For You and was glad to see William Shatner hosting it the other week/month.

QI too
and other shows.

How the hell did I miss that? Do they know what it means that they have Shatnered their discussions?
 

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The Graham Norton Show is definitely my guilty pleasure. I don't really care for celebrity talk, but I just find him hilarious.

 

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Benny Hill is good if non-politically-correct double-entendre sexual innuendo and skimpily clad young women are your thing. Dead now, but DVDs available from Amazon.
 

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How the hell did I miss that? Do they know what it means that they have Shatnered their discussions?

I don't even know what that means so I doubt they do; I'm kidding! :D
 

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I like British Sitcoms.

I think they're kind of silly, plus I know that sitcoms in the UK are made/written slightly different to sitcoms in the US, in general.
In the UK, the writer writes a script, it gets edited with various drafts and filmed.
In the US, the writer writes a script, it gets edited with various drafts and filmed, and during filming, rewrites can happen on set, for better gags... That doesn't really happen in the UK.

I think British sitcoms 'like the two I'm going to mention' define to me, that sense of humour that's typically British, like, doing something stupid and taking the P***/Mick out of something.

I'm going to mention two favourites of mine.

Red Dwarf, and this other one that, as a child, I didn't watch much, but as I got older, found myself liking it; Blackadder.


 

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Benny Hill is good if non-politically-correct double-entendre sexual innuendo and skimpily clad young women are your thing. Dead now, but DVDs available from Amazon.

Please stop reminding people he's British. There's so little dialogue in his shite we've managed to convince the rest of the world he's really German.

Here's one you won't have seen/probably won't understand.

 

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Miranda is an occaisional guilty pleasure purely for the silliness.


 

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Whatever happened to Campus?
I loved that show.
 

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The High Life, from the time before Cumming went to Holywood.
Fabulously camp.
 

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I enjoyed Little Britain immensely an liked Fawlty Towers too.
 
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