UK Comedy?

[toekramp]

I've watched The Office about a thousand times, just finished Peep Show, and am about to start on Spaced. Any other recommendations on some british humor?

 

[DaTT]

Monty Python's Flying circus?

 

[toekramp]

well monty python is a given

 

[KarenMarie]

see if you can get any of Harry Enfield's stuff. Or Spitting Image. They are not new... but man oh man funny as hell!

 

[Czar]

Black Adder
Coupling (the original version
Father Ted
Fawlty Tower

 

[dug777]

Coupling
BlackAdder
League of Gentlemen
Monty Python
Black Books

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: Czar
1-Black Adder
2-Coupling (the original version
3-Father Ted
4-Fawlty Tower

1-1485-1917 Black addeer, black adder II, black adder the third and black adder goes forth. (Ha!)
2- never saw it.
3- absolutely brilliant show. shame he did of a heart attack and there will be no more.
4- classic standard

good choices.
I had totally forgotten those shows.

<------------- lived in the UK for 8yrs.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Czar
1-Black Adder
2-Coupling (the original version
3-Father Ted
4-Fawlty Tower

1-1485-1917 Black addeer, black adder II, black adder the third and black adder goes forth. (Ha!)
2- never saw it.
3- absolutely brilliant show. shame he did of a heart attack and there will be no more.
4- classic standard

good choices.
I had totally forgotten those shows.

<------------- lived in the UK for 8yrs.

ya like it over there?

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Czar
1-Black Adder
2-Coupling (the original version
3-Father Ted
4-Fawlty Tower

1-1485-1917 Black addeer, black adder II, black adder the third and black adder goes forth. (Ha!)
2- never saw it.
3- absolutely brilliant show. shame he did of a heart attack and there will be no more.
4- classic standard

good choices.
I had totally forgotten those shows.

<------------- lived in the UK for 8yrs.

ya like it over there?

Loved it... with the exception of the money/shopping things.
I was just there for three weeks, this past Oct/Nov. I had such a great time. Old stomping grounds and seeing VeggieFrog's place.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: dug777
Coupling
BlackAdder
League of Gentlemen
Monty Python
Black Books

League of Gentlemen and Black Books are amazing shows. Red Dwarf is good (although a bit of an acquired taste).

I would thoroughly recommend Alan Partridge (Knowing Me, Knowing You, I'm Alan Partridge etc...), The Day Today and Brass Eye

 

[spherrod]

Also, Eddie Izzard's videos are very funny

 

[chuckywang]

Extras (the new Ricky Gervais series) is awesome.
I also heard good things about the original UK version of Coupling.

 

[NiteWulf]

Red Dwarf
Are You Being Served?

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: NiteWulf
Red Dwarf
Are You Being Served?

Agree with you on Red Dwarf but Are You Being Served is not that funny - repeats the same jokes over and over again IMO

 

[memories2002]

Coupling (UK) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JLGatsby]

What about "Are You Being Served?"

It's stereotypical British.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
What about "Are You Being Served?"

It's stereotypical British.

and it's awful

 

[Xyclone]

Shawn of the Dead!

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Czar
1-Black Adder
2-Coupling (the original version
3-Father Ted
4-Fawlty Tower

1-1485-1917 Black addeer, black adder II, black adder the third and black adder goes forth. (Ha!)
2- never saw it.
3- absolutely brilliant show. shame he did of a heart attack and there will be no more.
4- classic standard

good choices.
I had totally forgotten those shows.

<------------- lived in the UK for 8yrs.

ya like it over there?

Loved it... with the exception of the money/shopping things.
I was just there for three weeks, this past Oct/Nov. I had such a great time. Old stomping grounds and seeing VeggieFrog's place.

money shopping things?
I was in london just before christmas... damn things were cheap there

 

[royaldank]

Peep show rocks.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Loved it... with the exception of the money/shopping things.
I was just there for three weeks, this past Oct/Nov. I had such a great time. Old stomping grounds and seeing VeggieFrog's place.

money shopping things?
I was in london just before christmas... damn things were cheap there

Your profile says that you are in Iceland. I dont know what things cost there, so do not know if London shopping is a bargain for you. For me... most things cost at least 1.5x to 2x there what I would pay for it here.

plus money is a lot easier to come by here than it is there.

But VeggieFrog is there... she grew up there, is in college there and will be there for at least another year. So, I will go there every chance I get, no matter the cost.

Plus, where i lived... the North East is gorgeous.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Loved it... with the exception of the money/shopping things.
I was just there for three weeks, this past Oct/Nov. I had such a great time. Old stomping grounds and seeing VeggieFrog's place.

money shopping things?
I was in london just before christmas... damn things were cheap there

Your profile says that you are in Iceland. I dont know what things cost there, so do not know if London shopping is a bargain for you. For me... most things cost at least 1.5x to 2x there what I would pay for it here.

plus money is a lot easier to come by here than it is there.

But VeggieFrog is there... she grew up there, is in college there and will be there for at least another year. So, I will go there every chance I get, no matter the cost.

Plus, where i lived... the North East is gorgeous.

whereabouts in the North East did you live?

 

[0roo0roo]

little britain
first two seasons of coupling


not comedies but still good, hustle(slick fun show about conmen),spooks(mi-5 in us), and bodies(gyno ward brit version of ER, cept with no censorship, gets grisly)

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
little britain
first two seasons of coupling


not comedies but still good, hustle(slick fun show about conmen),spooks(mi-5 in us), and bodies(gyno ward brit version of ER, cept with no censorship, gets grisly)

Nighty Night is very good as well - very dark comedy

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: spherrod

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
Loved it... with the exception of the money/shopping things.
I was just there for three weeks, this past Oct/Nov. I had such a great time. Old stomping grounds and seeing VeggieFrog's place.

money shopping things?
I was in london just before christmas... damn things were cheap there

Your profile says that you are in Iceland. I dont know what things cost there, so do not know if London shopping is a bargain for you. For me... most things cost at least 1.5x to 2x there what I would pay for it here.

plus money is a lot easier to come by here than it is there.

But VeggieFrog is there... she grew up there, is in college there and will be there for at least another year. So, I will go there every chance I get, no matter the cost.

Plus, where i lived... the North East is gorgeous.

whereabouts in the North East did you live?

I lived in a town Called Guisborough, Cleveland. post code TS14
VeggieFrog goes to York Uni.
She is currently taking a year out to do an internship with a company in Rotherham.

While I lived in the UK I took day trips all over the UK quite often, but not down as far as the London area. I had enough of the London area when I had VeggieFrog's custody battle in the strand.

But The North Yorkshire Moors, the Cleveland Hills are places I went to hundreds of times.

Lancaster/Wakefield up thru Northumberland, and parts of Scotland... been around most of it for day trips.

One of my favorite places on the planet is Ravenscar.