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British Comedy
me | 2/25/16 | Me

Posted on 02/25/2016 5:15:42 PM PST by chasio649

I have watched many older British comedies..."Are You Being Served", "Good Neighbors", "Red Dwarf" and "Vicar of Dibley"...But is there something great i am missing? Let's talk about it....


TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: british; britishcomedy; comedy; deadparrot; montypython; sillywalks; tvprograms; uk; vanity
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To: Vanders9

I loved HH doing Dickens in the style of Morrissey and Smiths.

Matthew Baynton wandering about 1860’s London swinging a gladioli.


241 posted on 02/26/2016 10:06:40 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

If by “twee” you mean American TV comedy is/was cloying,
terrified of sex, politically correct, poorly written, and (with few exceptions) derivative and unfunny, then, yep.


242 posted on 02/26/2016 10:08:41 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: chasio649

Anyone for Toast (of London) ?

Great current series about a pompous, aging OTT actor.


243 posted on 02/26/2016 10:08:54 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

“Twee”??

Like “treacle”?


244 posted on 02/26/2016 10:09:40 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sparklite2

It was that horrible idea that there had to be a message. Griffith, Father Knows Best etc.

Give me Bilko trying to get a monkey enlisted in the army anyday.


245 posted on 02/26/2016 10:10:56 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: niteowl77

The Good Neighbors is my favorite.


246 posted on 02/26/2016 10:13:46 AM PST by kalee
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To: the scotsman

That’s pretty much American-everything. There has to be a moral to the story. I’m surprised to learn other cultures do it differently, though.


247 posted on 02/26/2016 10:14:08 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: wally_bert

Is Butterflies the show that had the continual problem of sorting out the cars in the driveway?


248 posted on 02/26/2016 10:22:29 AM PST by kalee
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Cloying, sentimental.


249 posted on 02/26/2016 10:26:35 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Actually, yes. I speak only for myself. I wouldn’t have the faintest idea what the Brits like.


250 posted on 02/26/2016 10:28:08 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: LachlanMinnesota

That’s fine, there is an idea in the US that Hill is the best of British comedy when in fact he isn’t by far. In fact his best known comedy isn’t even HIS best: his early BBC shows and radio shows were brilliant and different from his later TV stuff, with the girls. Some of his ITV work is brilliant (the pretentious film critic sketch for example). But its not as clever and funny as his 50’s/60’s BBC work. He did pander to a baser humour for the international audience.

I’d be happy to recommend some British comedy. Sitcom and sketch/variety show or stand-up comedy.


251 posted on 02/26/2016 10:36:52 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: chasio649

The Thick Of It, and the spin-off movie In The Loop. Lots of swearing, though!


252 posted on 02/26/2016 10:37:57 AM PST by Moltke
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To: the scotsman

Thought my picks would be a bit out there for FR. I’ve never met anyone who saw the genius in Dark Place.


253 posted on 02/26/2016 10:44:53 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: the scotsman
I watch British TV almost exclusively. My two current favorite comedies are Still Game and New Tricks. I have a media server full of them.
Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses, Open All Hours are among my favorites.

Don't get me started on detective dramas ;-)
254 posted on 02/26/2016 10:52:47 AM PST by haywoodwebb (Telling people the truth about Jesus is all that really matters now...)
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To: chasio649

No, Honestly with a young Pauline Collins.


255 posted on 02/26/2016 11:00:51 AM PST by kalee
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To: Moltke

I love it, not a programme for your auntie though.


256 posted on 02/26/2016 11:03:38 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Andy Griffith turned out to be a tin-plated phony. Though he grew up and was raised in that area of NW North Carolina, he ultimately disdained their values and went Hollyweird. He rarely came back to the state except to campaign for hard-left Democrat nutters antithetical to the values of North Carolina. He was exactly the nasty person he played in “A Face in the Crowd”, Lonesome Rhodes.

His kid on the show, Opie, the director Ron Howard, is equally as disdainful of those Mayberry country values.


257 posted on 02/26/2016 11:04:05 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: haywoodwebb

I am always happy to recommend classic UK films and TV.


258 posted on 02/26/2016 11:04:06 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: kalee

I would have to pull the discs and see but that sounds familiar.


259 posted on 02/26/2016 11:38:32 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: chasio649

How on earth could I miss Steptoe and Son?


260 posted on 02/26/2016 11:46:43 AM PST by the scotsman
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