British comedies?

[ardchoille50]

Another one I just found: My Hero - starring Emily Joyce and Ardal O'Hanlon

 

[kryten2]

Loved My Hero and Ardal O'Hanlon. He also played in Father Ted. I'm not sure but wasn't George and Mildred also British? The one about the leisure center with Chris Barrie in it: The Brittas Empire is also good fun. Alexei Sayle, Omid Djalili, Kenny Everett, they all had/have some great shows but my personal favourite was Dave Allen. Chef with Lenny Henry.

 

[sartrekid]

My favourites are:

Blackadder
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Jeeves & Wooster

 

[Benjamin Frost]

My favourites are:

Blackadder
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Jeeves & Wooster

Good choices.

Only thing I'd say is that Stephen Fry isn't quite right for Jeeves. He's too sneering. Still very funny, though.

 

[kryten2]

Yes, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Alas Smith and Jones. Great stuff.
Mary Whitehouse Experience, Spitting Image, The Comic Strip Presents, French and Saunders.
Bottom with the great Rik Mayall - down boy - and Adrian Edmondson.The list is endless...

 

[Gjwilly]

• Inside No. 9

Inside No. 9 was really good. Part comedy, part horror, part psychological thriller.
One of the episodes made my wife cry it was so powerful. She still won't trust me when I suggest new "comedies".

 

[kryten2]

Inside No. 9 was really good. Part comedy, part horror, part psychological thriller.
One of the episodes made my wife cry it was so powerful. She still won't trust me when I suggest new "comedies".

True. Those guys are absolutely brilliant. When The League of Gentlemen first came out everybody was going like wtf did you see that. Don't know what they're working on now but one thing's for sure, it won't be a disappointment.

 

[mrex]

fawlty towers
gimme, gimme, gimme
keeping up appearances
little britain
absolutely fabulous

 

[Plutonius]

I think British comedies are great, much better than the comedies on TV here in the US.

My favorites are:

• Thin Blue Line
• Father Ted
• Vicar of Dibley
• Fawlty Towers
• As Time Goes By
• IT Crowd
• Red Dwarf
• Mr. Bean
• Are You Being Served?

What are some current British comedies? I'd like to watch more but they're rare here in the US, though I could likely find them on Netflix or iTunes.

"Keeping Up Appearances" is on Netflix. It is pretty good.

 

[kazmac]

Monty Python
Young Ones (I love Vyvyan and Rik, still extremely silly and great 30+ years after I saw first it.)
Allo' Allo'
The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin (loved whenever he thought of his mother-in-law, you'd see the giant hippo)
Black Adder
Vicar of Dibbley

I can take or leave Are You Being Served? and Fawlty Towers.

 

[ardchoille50]

"Keeping Up Appearances" is on Netflix. It is pretty good.

Yeah, I found IT Crowd and Black Books there too.