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British Comedy. Quite frankly most of the TV shows I like (or liked) are Brit Coms.
Anybody else?
I first saw them on WQED in Pittsburgh in the early 80's. That was a PBS station. Throughout the years I would see them on other channels and platforms. I truly love most of those shows much better than what we in the U.S. put out overall.
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British Comedy. Quite frankly most of the TV shows I like (or liked) are Brit Coms.
Anybody else?
I first saw them on WQED in Pittsburgh in the early 80's. That was a PBS station. Throughout the years I would see them on other channels and platforms. I truly love most of those shows much better than what we in the U.S. put out overall.
You're not alone. My favorites are:
Fawlty Towers
The IT Crowd
Red Dwarf
As Time Goes By
Are You Being Served
Monty Python
Father Ted
Miranda
Black Adder
Steptoe and Son
The Office
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You're not alone. My favorites are:
Fawlty Towers
The IT Crowd
Red Dwarf
As Time Goes By
Are You Being Served
Monty Python
Father Ted
Miranda
I've never seen Miranda or the IT Crowd. I like everything you listed. 8)
I'll add:
One Foot In The Grave
Waiting For God
'Allo 'Allo
Vicious
Vicar of Dibley
Upstart Crow
Goode Neighbors
2 point 4 Children
My Family
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Oh! It's not a comedy. However, it has it's moments.
Lovejoy
:)
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I've never seen Miranda or the IT Crowd. I like everything you listed. 8)
I'll add:
One Foot In The Grave
Waiting For God
'Allo 'Allo
Vicious
Vicar of Dibley
Upstart Crow
Goode Neighbors
2 point 4 Children
My Family
You HAVE to watch both. They are laugh out loud hysterical. I forgot to add One Foot In The Grave. I loved Richard Wilson in it. I hated 'Allo 'Allo. Vicar of Dibley was OK. I was sad to hear about the passing of Emma Chambers. Was 2.4 children the one with the crazy neighbor Beryl?
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Oh! It's not a comedy. However, it has it's moments.
Lovejoy
:)
A Touch of Frost and Cracker
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You HAVE to watch both. They are laugh out loud hysterical. I forgot to add One Foot In The Grave. I loved Richard Wilson in it. I hated 'Allo 'Allo. Vicar of Dibley was OK. I was sad to hear about the passing of Emma Chambers.
I will watch. I've heard The IT Crowd is hilarious. For some reason I never caught on. My ex-wife said that I would be Victor Meldrew. Probably the only thing she was right about. LOL!
Alice Tinker was a great character. Emma Chambers did that character justice. So fun!
There was also a comedy series that had Dawn French and a bunch of others in it. The name escapes me. I remember watching a skit called "Fistful of Travelers Cheques." It was so dumb I couldn't stop laughing.
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A Touch of Frost and Cracker
I've seen an ad for Touch of Frost, and saw a few episodes of Cracker. I enjoyed it. My schedule at the time inhibited me from enjoying certain things, and over time I forgot or simply couldn't watch.
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I will watch. I've heard The IT Crowd is hilarious. For some reason I never caught on. My ex-wife said that I would be Victor Meldrew. Probably the only thing she was right about. LOL!
Alice Tinker was a great character. Emma Chambers did that character justice. So fun!
There was also a comedy series that had Dawn French and a bunch of others in it. The name escapes me. I remember watching a skit called "Fistful of Travelers Cheques." It was so dumb I couldn't stop laughing.
French and Saunders? Which reminds me of Absolutely Fabulous with Saunders. I used to LOVE that show. Especially Patsy (shout out to Pyewacket).
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I've seen an ad for Touch of Frost, and saw a few episodes of Cracker. I enjoyed it. My schedule at the time inhibited me from enjoying certain things, and over time I forgot or simply couldn't watch.
Miranda is very quirky and fun. I've watched the series a few times.
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French and Saunders? Which reminds me of Absolutely Fabulous with Saunders. I used to LOVE that show. Especially Patsy (shout out to Pyewacket).
Yes! Ab Fab. I used to have a thing for the daughter, Saffron. Not creepy...just, ya know. ;) ;D
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The Comic Strip. That's where I saw a Fistful of Traveler's Cheques.
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Let's not forget "The Britas Empire"!
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Let's not forget "The Britas Empire"!
Good one. I did forget. ;)
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i go a lil more old school..but some good ones
Keeping Up Appearances
Black Books
Mighty Boosh
The Good Life
Yes Minister
Open All Hours
also a slight deviation..Mysteries i just got into lately
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Father Brown
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Red Dwarf
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i go a lil more old school..but some good ones
Keeping Up Appearances
Black Books
Mighty Boosh
The Good Life
Yes Minister
Open All Hours
also a slight deviation..Mysteries i just got into lately
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Father Brown
Forgot about Mighty Boosh! 8)
I'm familiar with Black Books but never seen more than one.
I think the Good Life and Goode Neighbors are the same thing. Not sure, but there was a name change at one point.
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Forgot about Mighty Boosh! 8)
I'm familiar with Black Books but never seen more than one.
I think the Good Life and Goode Neighbors are the same thing. Not sure, but there was a name change at one point.
"Yes, Minister" is the best, because true and not just there in some different variety. "Fawlty Towers," Benny n Monty Python. But more recent these guys, who covered C2C
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2CQqMaU1I#
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Big "Allo Allo" fan here. Benny Hill is my idol. It's not a comedy, but I always liked Granada's Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett.
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Outnumbered was good, particularly when the kids were still young.
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Let's not forget "The Britas Empire"!
I forgot! That's a good one too.
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i go a lil more old school..but some good ones
Keeping Up Appearances
Black Books
Mighty Boosh
The Good Life
Yes Minister
Open All Hours
also a slight deviation..Mysteries i just got into lately
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Father Brown
Keeping Up Appearances was kind of boring, but I watched it because it was a Britcom. Loved the accents. I saw the actor who played Onslow being interviewed once. It was like day and night. Off camera, he was well dressed and articulate. He came across as educated. It's interesting to see actors as they are in real life as opposed to the roles they play.
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Red Dwarf
Yes!
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Big "Allo Allo" fan here. Benny Hill is my idol. It's not a comedy, but I always liked Granada's Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett.
To me, Jeremy was always the best Sherlock Holmes. Like Tom Baker will always be the best Dr Who. I haven't wanted to watch the new Dr Who because I am afraid of being disappointed. :-\
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Outnumbered was good, particularly when the kids were still young.
Not familiar with that one. Mostly I saw whatever was on the 2 PBS stations we had.
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"Yes, Minister" is the best, because true and not just there in some different variety. "Fawlty Towers," Benny n Monty Python. But more recent these guys, who covered C2C
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2CQqMaU1I#
I forgot about them! I love That Look. SV introduced me to Alan Partridge and Carry On movies. Both very funny.
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Gary: Tank Commander Pretty darn funny at times
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I forgot about them! I love That Look. SV introduced me to Alan Partridge and Carry On movies. Both very funny.
Yes, those are good. "The Look" are hilarious. The C2C show (as I call it,) "The Baddies" with the Nazis, the Strong Lager, Heroin for Christmas.
One must mentioned maybe the best British comedian Peter Cook. This one is hard to explain but he used to call in to a late night radio show when drunk as a persona of a Norwegian missing his wife. So random and bizarre and brilliant.
And this will reduce one to tears laughing:
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Not familiar with that one. Mostly I saw whatever was on the 2 PBS stations we had.
Here is a sample
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To me, Jeremy was always the best Sherlock Holmes. Like Tom Baker will always be the best Dr Who. I haven't wanted to watch the new Dr Who because I am afraid of being disappointed. :-\
I chafe at the constant churn as to who's the next season's Doctor and yes Baker was the best.
That said, the season with Chris Eccleston was quite watchable, imo.
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I chafe at the constant churn as to who's the next season's Doctor and yes Baker was the best.
That said, the season with Chris Eccleston was quite watchable, imo.
That looked pretty good, actually.
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I think I first ran into him in that zombie vampire apocalypse film "28 Days Later".
Guy has some chops.
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I chafe at the constant churn as to who's the next season's Doctor and yes Baker was the best.
That said, the season with Chris Eccleston was quite watchable, imo.
I loved Eccleston as The Doctor. One season was not enough.
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I loved Eccleston as The Doctor. One season was not enough.
Bernie played Dr.Who? Well zillionaires have their hobbies and that is certainly more safe for work to discuss than the old F-1 boss's antics.
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Bernie played Dr.Who? Well zillionaires have their hobbies and that is certainly more safe for work to discuss than the old F-1 boss's antics.
Huh? LOL!
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Not really a comedy but had it's moments...
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I loved that show. 8)
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Bernie played Dr.Who? Well zillionaires have their hobbies and that is certainly more safe for work to discuss than the old F-1 boss's antics.
ROFLOLOL!!!
Classic! :D
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I chafe at the constant churn as to who's the next season's Doctor and yes Baker was the best.
That said, the season with Chris Eccleston was quite watchable, imo.
He was my first doctor and introduction to Doctor Who.
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The Detectoeists. The first two seasons are on Netflix.
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He was my first doctor and introduction to Doctor Who.
Full disclosure, he was excellent, but I may have had a slight crush on Rose Tyler... :P
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I loved Eccleston as The Doctor. One season was not enough.
Totally, and really Dr. Who bridges 2 genres, BritCom and Sci Fi.
Ever watch Torchwood?
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Full disclosure, he was excellent, but I may have had a slight crush on Rose Tyler... :P
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I had a crush too. Billie Piper is hot.
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Totally, and really Dr. Who bridges 2 genres, BritCom and Sci Fi.
Ever watch Torchwood?
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I loved Torchwood. 8)
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I had a crush too. Billie Piper is hot.
Sure is!
And for that matter way back in the day so was "Leela"!
(Louise Jamieson)
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I think you guys would enjoy some of the sketches on The Fast Show.
Also the Catherine Tate Show - specially grandma - she was also a companion on Doctor Who. As a taster my favourite comedy sketch of all time:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1sSkbdt1k
Also for general trivia, my sister used to live in a tithed cottage on The Highclere Estate which was the setting for Downton Abbey, so I spent a few summers wandering around the beautiful grounds there (her hubby at the time was the son of the head groom at the stud farm there - the queens stud farm).
I live slap bang in the middle of where they film Midsomer Murders - the fictional town of Causton is Wallingford, the closest town to me. They actually filmed part of an episode in the building where I live - I live in a converted Victorian asylum and they used the building before it was converted as it was rather creepy back then.
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I will also throw in my recommendation to ShayP for IT Crowed. Loved that show
Surprised nobody mentioned Extras yet. My favorite Gervais project.
I also did watch My Family on PBS and I enjoyed it and during around the same time there was this show called My Hero, which thinking back it was pretty awful but I watched in anyways lol
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I will also throw in my recommendation to ShayP for IT Crowed. Loved that show
Surprised nobody mentioned Extras yet. My favorite Gervais project.
I also did watch My Family on PBS and I enjoyed it and during around the same time there was this show called My Hero, which thinking back it was pretty awful but I watched in anyways lol
I need to watch the IT Crowd. Heard so many good things about it yet never indulged. LOL! @ My Hero. Wasn't that the guy that played Doogle in Father Ted?
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I need to watch the IT Crowd. Heard so many good things about it yet never indulged. LOL! @ My Hero. Wasn't that the guy that played Doogle in Father Ted?
You should watch the IT Crowd. The first episode is a bit slow, but it sets up the premise of the show. That is, Jen the new IT manager knows nothing about IT and does not even know what IT stands for (Information Technology). Her 2 new underlings are slobs but know their stuff. They have a little of the autist in them, are awkward and don't get along with other people. Jen is a BS artist and helps them get accepted into the corporate culture. I just made it sound boring, but it's one of the funniest shows that I have seen.
Ardon is in Father Ted where he is grand and also in My Hero where he sucks. The whole show sucks, IMO.
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My 2¢ worth (or should I say "2 p worth") while I literally wait for paint to dry.
Murder Most Horrid - Dawn French dies every week in a really creative way.
The Royle Family - I love how the actors who've appeared on other shows always talk about those shows as being a favorite of theirs.
Mr. Bean - a great show for English as a second language students too.
Chef - the Asian cook was one of the Teletubbies and I constantly sought out nude photos of her because she was a hottie.. She did some "scenes" on The L Word..
The Office - obviously...
Manchild - Though it got tiresome quickly, the Asian friend of Saffy from Ab Fab did an interesting semi-erotic scene.
As Time Goes By - Not comedy but hey...
AbFab, Python and Benny Hill...
I watched Waiting for God and keeping up appearances, I enjoyed both and I always Google various actors names to see who's died from them. Poor Onslow...
Miranda didn't do it for me. Other than one of her sets being what Ab Fab used for their kitchen/dining area, it just didn't hold my interest.
Red Dwarf's early series were OK but lost me later.
There was a time traveler show with a rather common bloke that I really enjoyed. It must have been done in the early to mid 90s. He did things like go back and buy stocks in companies and try to cash out in modern times...
Back to my insufferable rebuild from the studs up and even some subfloor... if I didn't think my insurance would say that it was a pre-existing condition when I bought the damn place, I would have just let them pay for it...
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Good god, what a bunch of retards. You really don't deserve this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jux-Zi-IucU (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jux-Zi-IucU)
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Father Ted, and anything with Karl Pilkington
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Miranda is very quirky and fun. I've watched the series a few times.
Ever watch Call the Midwife? Midwife "Chummy" was played by Miranda.
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Fawlty Towers might be my all time fave Britcom, due to Cleese, and the writing. Every episode was brilliantly written.
Equally my fave would be Are You Being Served. There is no way, on 1973 American TV, that a character like Mrs. Slocombe could say, (regarding the trophies on her mantle), "There for my pussy, it gets an award every time I show it".
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Can't remember the title, but it's the one about the moronic pest exterminator who drives the American muscle car. Also like comedic cop show, "Death in Paradise," especially the Kris Marshall episodes.
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One BBC show our local PBS station would run was The Two Ronnies comedy series. Very funny show :D