British Humor

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  • fatty_to_fitty
    fatty_to_fitty Posts: 544 Member
    The Royal Family!

    The episode where they go on holiday in a caravan and watch the one show. 'One...dodododo..One...dodododo'

    Also Keeping Up Appearances wit Mrs. Bucket.
  • Izzy62
    Izzy62 Posts: 62 Member
    How about The Fast Show, Men Behaving Badly and definately Fawlty Towers xx
  • SilverStrychnine
    SilverStrychnine Posts: 413 Member
    AbFab is the effing bomb!! I LOVE it!
  • AtticusFinch
    AtticusFinch Posts: 1,262 Member
    IT Crowd

    the-it-crowd-2.jpg

    Jen: If you type "google" into Google you can break the internet - so please... no one try it, even for a joke.
    Roy: You remember the woman from last night?
    Moss: She was a delight.
    Roy: Yeah. We get outside. There's a group of tramps, two of whom she knows by name. She starts screaming at them, "You owe me money. You owe me money". She thinks that the tramps owe her money. Next thing I know, it all kicks off and I'm running for my life. It was a horrible evening, Moss, a real horrible evening. She's a really horrible woman.
    Moss: Right. But you slept with her?
    Roy: Yeah.
    Douglas: You've got spunk and balls. I like that in a woman
  • lizard053
    lizard053 Posts: 2,344 Member
    <3
    Love it! I used to really enjoy sitting and watching with my dad growing up. Miss those nights.
  • NettyIOM
    NettyIOM Posts: 44 Member
    IT Crowd

    the-it-crowd-2.jpg

    Jen: If you type "google" into Google you can break the internet - so please... no one try it, even for a joke.
    Roy: You remember the woman from last night?
    Moss: She was a delight.
    Roy: Yeah. We get outside. There's a group of tramps, two of whom she knows by name. She starts screaming at them, "You owe me money. You owe me money". She thinks that the tramps owe her money. Next thing I know, it all kicks off and I'm running for my life. It was a horrible evening, Moss, a real horrible evening. She's a really horrible woman.
    Moss: Right. But you slept with her?
    Roy: Yeah.
    Douglas: You've got spunk and balls. I like that in a woman


    The IT Crowd is excellent! True British humour! :laugh:
  • JanetLM73
    JanetLM73 Posts: 1,226 Member
    My hubby is Welsh, he introduced me to so many, I love Father Ted and jeeves and wooster.
  • glypta
    glypta Posts: 440 Member
    STILL GAME! Wonderful Scottish humour, though it can be hard for non-Scots to understand...(dialect/accent, not just coz we're super intellingent :tongue: )
  • frosty73
    frosty73 Posts: 424 Member
    Loved the IT crowd!
    And nobody mentioned Mr. Bean?
  • Ro0kins_Wedding
    Ro0kins_Wedding Posts: 295
    Wibble!
  • jenniebean1680
    jenniebean1680 Posts: 350 Member
    Monty Python? Beyond the Fringe?


    Yes, please!!!
  • stewartcarden
    stewartcarden Posts: 126
    I'd seriously like to recommend " Still Game" , 6 or 7 series released , stopped making it now . Its about " pensioners " living in glasgow , absoloutely hilarious!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-roTQfrhNTc
  • MomsTooBig
    MomsTooBig Posts: 201 Member
    Oooh, this is good stuff! I've added everyone's contributions!
  • dzilobommo
    dzilobommo Posts: 73 Member
    Some good British comedies, if anyone is interested. Although You certainly can't go wrong with Fry and Laurie and Blackadder.

    Peep Show, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, The Mighty Boosh, Father Ted (Irish), Red Dwarf, The Office (UK Version!), The Young Ones, Bottom, I'm Alan Partridge, The League of Gentlemen...I could go on but I'll stick with those for now. I imagine British humour is a bit odd to anyone who is new to it, as it is traditionally, dry, severe, sarcastic and also often surreal.

    You COULD go on, but that list is pretty much perfect (except it's missing out on Shaun Locks criminally underrated 15 Stories High, if you haven't watched it before by all means DO!)

    I second pretty much all of the above :smile:

    15 Storeys High is a classic - I just love Sean Lock, he does the funniest "grumpy guy" character ever, but in a way that you still suspect he's a really nice bloke underneath. And his appearances on QI are simply hilarious! (which is the best quiz show on TV bar none, and presented by Stephen Fry!) Example:

    Stephen Fry: If you could only take one thing with you to a desert island, what would it be?
    Sean Lock: David Attenborough! (pause) So that he can tell me what kind of animals I've been shagging - I draw the line at mammals! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    (paraphrasing slightly but I can't find it on Youtube - if anyone can, please post the link!)

    Also, let's not forget Lead Balloon with Jack Dee, the wonderfully surreal Eddie Izzard for standup, and Harry Hill's TV burp which is the best thing on ITV by a mile :happy: As for the ladies, I'm sure Jo Brand and Sarah Millican would be a hoot to have around for a dinner party :smile:

    There's probably loads more I've forgotten to mention, but that just shows how many brilliant comedians we have in Britain! (and this comes from someone who didn't even speak English twenty years ago...) :happy:
  • cgrout78
    cgrout78 Posts: 1,628 Member
    I have the super duper deluxe box set of AbFab...never fails to make me laugh until I cry. Also Eddie Izzard is my favourite comedian!!
  • smiverz
    smiverz Posts: 40 Member
    Men behaving badly, only fools and horses, game on, and fawlty towers were my fave's as i was growing up.! royal family and blackadder aint bad either
  • L00py_T0ucan
    L00py_T0ucan Posts: 1,378 Member
    *clear throat* Are You Being Served?

    (^ it's an old one!)
  • AtticusFinch
    AtticusFinch Posts: 1,262 Member
    *clear throat* Are You Being Served?

    (^ it's an old one!)

    Oh please ! We're looking for quality here, not Mrs Slocombe's p*ssy ad nauseum

    :tongue:
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    *clear throat* Are You Being Served?

    (^ it's an old one!)

    Oh please ! We're looking for quality here, not Mrs Slocombe's p*ssy ad nauseum

    :tongue:

    Your tongue is showing...not sure how to take that after such a statement, hehehe...:bigsmile:
  • AtticusFinch
    AtticusFinch Posts: 1,262 Member
    Your tongue is showing...not sure how to take that after such a statement, hehehe...:bigsmile:

    No - I can only come back with less subtle innuendo on that one so I'm putting the joke down and backing away slowly


    :blushing:
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Your tongue is showing...not sure how to take that after such a statement, hehehe...:bigsmile:

    No - I can only come back with less subtle innuendo on that one so I'm putting the joke down and backing away slowly


    :blushing:

    LOL...I love your posts! :laugh:
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    *clear throat* Are You Being Served?

    (^ it's an old one!)

    I was going to bring that up if no one else did. Great show. Saw one last year, totally by accident, called 'The Book Club'. It was so funny. Have to agree with most of these. 'Good Neighbors' anybody? 'The Two Ronnies'? 'Dad's Army'? My dad loved those. I used to watch them with him.
  • psiren28
    psiren28 Posts: 530 Member
    Some good British comedies, if anyone is interested. Although You certainly can't go wrong with Fry and Laurie and Blackadder.

    Peep Show, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, The Mighty Boosh, Father Ted (Irish), Red Dwarf, The Office (UK Version!), The Young Ones, Bottom, I'm Alan Partridge, The League of Gentlemen...I could go on but I'll stick with those for now. I imagine British humour is a bit odd to anyone who is new to it, as it is traditionally, dry, severe, sarcastic and also often surreal.

    You COULD go on, but that list is pretty much perfect (except it's missing out on Shaun Locks criminally underrated 15 Stories High, if you haven't watched it before by all means DO!)

    Agreed, love that show. It's a shame it got buried in some random time slot and people missed it.
  • AtticusFinch
    AtticusFinch Posts: 1,262 Member
    '15 Stories High' I never realised that was a TV show. It is good but I've only ever heard the audio version on Radio 4. Lots of good comedy starts there, particularly panel shows such as 'Have I Got News'.

    This is ancient, but I think 'Dad's Army' was a great comedy in it's day. The writing wasn't that excellent, but it was blessed with some brilliant comedy actors who made it a national treasure - Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and John Laurie, all long dead of course now, but stalwarts of British comedy films from the 50-70's.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062552/

    More latterly 'Not Going Out' , written by my favourite standup Lee Mack
  • micklespiffy
    micklespiffy Posts: 38
    Thanks all for the leads. Goodbye spare time.
  • patcp1
    patcp1 Posts: 9
    If you like Peep Show you would like "That Mitchell and Web Look" too!
  • ingot81
    ingot81 Posts: 600 Member
    Some good British comedies, if anyone is interested. Although You certainly can't go wrong with Fry and Laurie and Blackadder.

    Peep Show, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, The Mighty Boosh, Father Ted (Irish), Red Dwarf, The Office (UK Version!), The Young Ones, Bottom, I'm Alan Partridge, The League of Gentlemen...I could go on but I'll stick with those for now. I imagine British humour is a bit odd to anyone who is new to it, as it is traditionally, dry, severe, sarcastic and also often surreal.

    I was waiting for someone to mention League of Gentlemen. "YOU'RE MY WIFE NOW, DAVE!"

    "Dave, you're toilet was broken"
  • ingot81
    ingot81 Posts: 600 Member
    If you like Peep Show you would like "That Mitchell and Web Look" too!

    Numberwang is a classic!
  • marykeblom
    marykeblom Posts: 56
    LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • ReneeOfTheFae
    ReneeOfTheFae Posts: 117
    YES! Just saw this thread, so if I am repeating any suggestions, sorry!!
    Love Black Adder so much that I went out and bought a couple of the series on dvd a few years back.
    Red Dwarf and, as long as we're mentioning Ab Fab, I would be remiss if I didn't recommend French and Saunders!!! Their comedy spans many countries and generations of pop culture. Love them!!! (They were even characters in an episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller when I was a child. Didn't know it then, though. But, I can tell you that when I watched it again as an adult, the episode soared to great heights of laughter for me.)
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