Recommend me some British comedy.

[inmate655321]

Spaced.
Best show ever.

 

[rabidmidget]

Black Books is a great show

also good old Monty Python's Flying Circus

 

[SaunaKalja]

Blackadder. I'm watching it for the first time ever. I didn't even know of its existence a while back.

Jeeves & Wooster
Red Dwarf
The Fast Show (A quick search indicated that this one hasn't been mentioned in this thread before. How come?!).
and of course Monty Python

 

[Pipotchi]

The Day Today and Brasseye

I think you can watch there on youtube now since Channel 4 did a deal with them.

I'm Alan Partridge

Now this man has a serious taste in quality comedy, Also I might add The Thick of It as thats written by the same guy and Nathan Barley as thats written by Chris Morris as well

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Black books
Snuffbox
Monkey Dust

WOW Someone else who saw Monkey Dust!!!!

There are more of us than you might think. Someone else on here has the Paedofinder General as his avatar. I do really miss this show, it was just the right kind of sick.

Monkey Dust was funny but it seriously pushed the boundries of taste. I doubt we'll get anything as sick as that again.

Did it really push the boundaries that much though? I thought that mostly it was a parody of our own society, so getting offended by it seems fairly redundant. Paedo finder general for instance, might seem offensive that he labels people paedophiles and then executes them for it...but we do have a ridiculous paedophile hysteria in the newspapers(which he claims grant him his powers) in England. I just think that if you're offended by Monkey Dust...you haven't really thought things through.

 

[rees263]

Though.
One foot in the grave
Dads Army
On the Buses
My family (The older ones)
'Allo 'Allo ( it think it's english, but it's based in occupied france)
Please Sir

If no-ones noticed I like my old comedy.

Fixed. It is a brilliant show though.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the inbetweeners yet either. I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been said.

I'll reiterate some stand up comedians though:

Jimmy Carr - not for the easily offended, he will make a joke about anything. Really anything!
Michael McIntyre
Peter Kay
Lee Evans
Ed Byrne (okay, he's actually Irish, but one of the world's best)

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Oops, I forgot all about 'Not the Nine o'Clock News'!

 

[pearcinator]

Movies:

Johnny English
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Monty Python movies

TV:

Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Fawlty Towers

 

[Tiny116]

Though.
One foot in the grave
Dads Army
On the Buses
My family (The older ones)
'Allo 'Allo ( it think it's english, but it's based in occupied france)
Please Sir

If no-ones noticed I like my old comedy.

Fixed. It is a brilliant show though.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the inbetweeners yet either. I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been said.

I'll reiterate some stand up comedians though:

Jimmy Carr - not for the easily offended, he will make a joke about anything. Really anything!
Michael McIntyre
Peter Kay
Lee Evans
Ed Byrne (okay, he's actually Irish, but one of the world's best)

You quoted me for that???
...
ok
*shrugs*

 

[Wrann]

What? No love for Monty Pythons Flying Circus? Bah, kids these days.

This Monty Python is Amazing.

 

[sagacious]

Hello fellow Escapist!

Just as the title says. I have seen Only Fools and Horses, The Young Ones, Bottom, Love Thy Neighborhood, Little Britain, Father Ted and 2D TV. But I want to see some others, I'm personally not into The Office (I dislike Ricky) and not really a big fan of Mighty Boosh. So recommend me some comedies

Vicar of Dibley, seriously the best brittish comedy i've seen, and i've seen a few.

 

[ninjaman 420]

i seen some clips of a british tv show called "outnumbered" the other day and it was hilarious. god bless youtube

 

[rees263]

Though.
One foot in the grave
Dads Army
On the Buses
My family (The older ones)
'Allo 'Allo ( it think it's english, but it's based in occupied france)
Please Sir

If no-ones noticed I like my old comedy.

Fixed. It is a brilliant show though.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the inbetweeners yet either. I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been said.

I'll reiterate some stand up comedians though:

Jimmy Carr - not for the easily offended, he will make a joke about anything. Really anything!
Michael McIntyre
Peter Kay
Lee Evans
Ed Byrne (okay, he's actually Irish, but one of the world's best)

You quoted me for that???
...
ok
*shrugs*

Ha, my intention was to agree with your choices, but then I thought that it would be easier to find a show if it's spelt correctly (from personal experience). I didn't mean to come across as a spelling nazi.

Oh, and I thought of more

Harry Hill's TV Burp
Shameless
Also you can't really go wrong with You've Been Framed, but it's hardly a British only phenomenon.

 

[Pegghead]

REEEED DWAAAAARF!

And the Young Ones is pretty funny as well.

 

[molester jester]

Black Books
Spaced
Monkey Dust
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
The Inbetweeners
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Peep Show

only ones i can think of just now, but i would recommend checking them all out

 

[BKtheKITTY]

Sorry if I'm repeating someone, but Spaced, season one, is airing back to back on saturday night, on Dave, from nine.

 

[MercurySteam]

Steptoe and Son.

And definitely Zero Punctuation.

 

[JazzCP]

Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, QI, The IT Crowd, Peep Show. All good comedies