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....
I loved HH doing Dickens in the style of Morrissey and Smiths.
Matthew Baynton wandering about 1860’s London swinging a gladioli.
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.
Anyone for Toast (of London) ?
Great current series about a pompous, aging OTT actor.
“Twee”??
Like “treacle”?
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.
The Good Neighbors is my favorite.
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.
Is Butterflies the show that had the continual problem of sorting out the cars in the driveway?
Cloying, sentimental.
Actually, yes. I speak only for myself. I wouldn’t have the faintest idea what the Brits like.
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.
The Thick Of It, and the spin-off movie In The Loop. Lots of swearing, though!
Thought my picks would be a bit out there for FR. I’ve never met anyone who saw the genius in Dark Place.
No, Honestly with a young Pauline Collins.
I love it, not a programme for your auntie though.
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.
I am always happy to recommend classic UK films and TV.
I would have to pull the discs and see but that sounds familiar.
How on earth could I miss Steptoe and Son?
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