dainthomas
Lifer
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DivideBYZero
Lifer
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it's terrible.
I can't stand his
fat face. His humour
was terrible even
back in the day.
Now it just
makes me cringe
each time
I see it.
Yeah, some of the british comedy doesn't have canned laughter whcih makes it really difficult for me to figure out what's a joke or not. Sometimes, the jokes aren't even really predicable and contrived and actually require me to throw some thought into it... I mean, WTF LOL? what's that about? Some of the chanells don't even have adverts... how am I supposed to watch an entire program for 30 minutes without a 5 minute ad break every 6 minutes?! How are we supposed to concentrate for more that 5 minutes straight? Finally, the actors don't all have bright white teeth, and some (Bill Bailey) are actually ugly bastards! How dare they pollute my eyes! Yeah, stick to good old american TV where the characters learn a little moral at the end of every episode, and the jokes are nice and easy to understand. (easy to make assumptions, isn't it?)
For those with slightly less closed minds and who are up for some decent comedy, try the odd youtube vid of the following to see if you'd like it, then pick up the DVD or something:
Spaced
Big Train
Jam (This is very, very dark humour)
Green wing
Black books
This morning with richard, not judy
The IT crowd
The office
Extras
Fawlty Towers
Brass Eye
I'm Alan Partridge
Bottom (toilet humour, but awesome)
Blackadder
Phoenix Nights
Max and Paddy
Men behaving badly
The League of Gentlemen
just off the top of my head.... there's a load more.
glenn beck
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- Oct 6, 2004
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They've already been mentioned:
Are You Being Served?
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Dwarf
Monty Python
Black Adder
Mr. Bean
Young Ones
I just finished watching both seasons of Spaced - good stuff.
Are You Being Served?
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Dwarf
Monty Python
Black Adder
Mr. Bean
Young Ones
I just finished watching both seasons of Spaced - good stuff.
Spydermag68
Platinum Member
- Apr 5, 2002
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red dwarf - I have only seen the first 4 or five seasons and they were great...What happened is the show when on hiatus for like a year or two and then they came back with most of the same cast, but it seemed that it was either before the accident or an alternate universe. I have not seen much of these shows.
Another one that is good is Blake's 7...It is sci-if with a lot of comedy.
Another one that is good is Blake's 7...It is sci-if with a lot of comedy.
SoulAssassin
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dainthomas
Lifer
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Glad I'm not the only one who watches "Extras". Great show. The quality cameos they get every week tell you how well respected he is.
DivideBYZero
Lifer
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sdifox
No Lifer
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[Andree Melly talks to Mervyn Cruddy at the N.F.T]
Andree Melly: I think for me, the most memorable moment in films was when you played the doctor to that sick family.
Mervyn Cruddy: "Inherit the Wind." Yes, I remember.
Andree Melly: Opposite Margaret Lockwood's nurse . . .
Mervyn Cruddy: That's right. Yes, I know what you're going to say, the scene in the operating theatre.
Andree Melly: That's the scene. You kissed her when she least expected it.
Mervyn Cruddy: I beg your pardon?
Andree Melly: You kissed her when she least expected it.
Mervyn Cruddy: Oh, I thought you said 'where'.
Mervyn Cruddy: I don't care what anybody says, you know, about these common-market Romeos, for my money the greatest lover in the world is the Englishman.
Andree Melly: Well, surely it's the Frenchman who has that reputation, the way he'll kiss a girls hand, and then her cheek, her neck, and then here ears...
Mervyn Cruddy: By that time, the Englishman's coming home from his honeymoon, I'd say!
Housewife: No, I'm wearing black for my poor, departed husband.
Milkman: Oh... how long's he been gone?
Housewife: Ten minutes. He won't be back till 1.
Blanche: Drink and sex. That's what killed your uncle - drink and sex!
Harry: Yeah. He couldn't get either, so he shot himself.
Sheriff Bill Jardine: Hey, do we know Ace Dickey?
Deputy Leroy: Yeah. Did five years for statutory rape.
Sheriff Bill Jardine: Why now, anybody who rapes a statue deserves what he gets!
Henry McGee: [referring to Scuttle's fellow astronaut] How old is he?
Captain Fred Scuttle: Fifty-eight. He's a late developer.
Henry McGee: He looks older.
Captain Fred Scuttle: Well, he worries a lot.
Nicholas Parsons: Are Thames executives against attractive nude women?
Fred Scuttle: Not as often as they'd like to be!
Fanny Craddock: But first of all, we must put in just a little tiny spot of absinthe.
Johnny Craddock: 'Cause absinthe makes the heart grow fonder!
Director Sam Speiler: [reminiscing about an actress who was in one of his films] Oh God, she couldn't sing, she couldn't dance, she couldn't act . . .
Lesley Goldie: Well, what could she do?
Director Sam Speiler: With difficulty, stand up!
Traveller: I say, is this Platt's Bottom?
Toddy: No, it's not, it's mine!
Traveller: Well, where do I find Platt's Bottom?
Toddy: Well, you don't start from there!
Traveller: Well, which direction is it?
Toddy: I don't know.
Paddy: Me neither.
Traveller: You're not very bright, are you?
Chirpy Chuckles: No, but we ain't lost!
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