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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2011, 01:57:04 PM »
Scrubs doesnt really fit in with the rest...some of their earlier episodes are near flawless, especially the ones the have comedy and drama in the same episode. For example My Screw Up and My Lunch are easily two of the best sit com episodes ever recorded.
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2011, 09:05:54 PM »
Quote from: pawnshop-guitars on November 14, 2011, 07:05:08 PM
Well, I can agree on The Wire and Breaking Bad, hence the part in my last post about HBO giving us quality shows. They also gave us Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

Wait... you watch Breaking Bad? :O

I agree with JP, I grew up with this shit and they've shaped my comedic sensibilities. Fawlty Towers is possibly the most perfect comedy ever created (helps it was so short)
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2011, 10:41:51 PM »
Quote from: Kusksu on November 15, 2011, 01:57:04 PM
Scrubs doesnt really fit in with the rest...some of their earlier episodes are near flawless, especially the ones the have comedy and drama in the same episode. For example My Screw Up and My Lunch are easily two of the best sit com episodes ever recorded.

Well to each their own, but personally I find Scrubs a massive bag of wank
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Re: BBC comedy.
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 03:23:41 PM »
Quote from: pawnshop-guitars on November 14, 2011, 12:40:31 PM
The BBC =  :bow:

This is why I am glad to pay for a television license. We don't get that (apologies for this comment) crap 'comedy' that Americans get, and better still, we get it without all the sponsors.

Yeah, fuck American culture.  :fpalm: :shy:
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2011, 05:04:09 PM »
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Good spot. Can't think why I would have put that - got a bit carried away I think. Bloody yanks, impinging on my culture with their nonsense. AND I CAN'T HELP BUT USE IT! ARGHHHHHH :'(
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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2011, 05:47:38 PM »
I couldn't let the irony pass without comment.
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2011, 03:49:51 AM »
Quote from: The Second Coming on November 15, 2011, 12:37:33 PM
I'd give Americans their more serious shows like The Wire, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos etc, but aside from very very few exceptions their comedy is horrendous.

Two and a Half Men? How I Met Your Mother? The Big Bang Theory? Scrubs? These shows are not just all terrible but they are crimes against humanity.

I am an American, and I do not watch any of the sitcom crap! Please do not judge all of us as mindless idiots : ) I do like Family Guy, as well as the old Simpsons and Seinfeld re runs. House is a great drama with some comedy. The Soprano's was a tremdous series!  I like The Tudors as well. I wish they would come out with a new season of Being Human. I was able to get it on BBC America. I watch mostly BBC America, The History Channel, Sundance Channel,  Independent Film Channel, Biography, VHI Classic, etc. MTV has become a rerun of jackasses called Jersey Shore, which I am sure you already know.
I noticed no one mentioned Monty Python and the Flying Circus, the HOLY GRAIL of British comedy imo!
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2011, 01:38:36 PM »
Quote from: The Second Coming on November 15, 2011, 12:37:33 PM
I'd give Americans their more serious shows like The Wire, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos etc, but aside from very very few exceptions their comedy is horrendous.

Two and a Half Men? How I Met Your Mother? The Big Bang Theory? Scrubs? These shows are not just all terrible but they are crimes against humanity.

Don't judge all American comedy on the dross you see on Comedy Central and E4. There are some genuinely great ones, like Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Community, Party Down, Curb Your Enthusiasm to name a few.

some of my favourite british comedies:

The Office
Father Ted
Only Fools & Horses
Blackadder
I'm Alan Partridge
Bottom
The Inbetweeners
Brass Eye

still need to get around to watching Spaced and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2011, 03:05:22 PM »
You haven't seen Spaced or Darkplace? :O Get on it! Spaced is genuinely one of my all time favourite shows, and Darkplace is just genius.
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #24 on: November 19, 2011, 03:42:37 PM »
So what do you guys think of League Of Gentleman? Only saw a couple of episodes, cant say if i enjoyed it though, laughed quite a bit but was disgusted quite often too
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #25 on: November 29, 2011, 03:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Kusksu on November 19, 2011, 03:42:37 PM
So what do you guys think of League Of Gentleman? Only saw a couple of episodes, cant say if i enjoyed it though, laughed quite a bit but was disgusted quite often too

Not the best show ever but it is worth a watch
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2011, 05:17:51 AM »
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2011, 05:38:29 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2011, 07:35:04 PM »
Let us not forget Mock The Week
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Re: British comedy.
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2011, 11:43:24 AM »
Quote from: seely on December 16, 2011, 07:35:04 PM
Let us not forget Mock The Week

Indeed  :thumbsup:. Even without Franky Boyle  :D.
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