Thank God For America

[Old Greg]

I thought they were quite old now.

Peep show was also quality.

Infact ignore my previous post agreeing about no good Brit comedy. I was wrong.

They are old (last series of IT Crowd was recent), but more recent than Father Ted. I like Peep Show as well but can't often bring myself to watch it as it's rather painful, like Shameless and Inbetweeners.

[pacharan]

Spaced

Never heard of it

Mighty Boosh?

Never liked Noel Redding. He was on that Buzzcocks "show" going on about a website called rate my poo. How pathetic. Wouldn't even laugh at that if I were still in the schoolyard.

IT Crowd?

Not funny. Exactly the type of prog. I was referring to. Also, the last thing I need in my leisure time is any reminder of computer geeks. I'm get enough of them at work!

[PAH]

Misfits is another good and sometimes great british comedy (on E4).

I think the problem with the UK is that the population are getting dumber. Life's too easy for them so they are just vegetating. You only have to see the desire for news that isn't (who with an average IQ gives a toss what Jordan is doing, yet she's regularly front page news in the red tops), kids TV on at primetime (Dr Who, Merlin, ...), and the general level of braindead scum wandering the streets from kids right up to OAPs.

Most of my favourite TV shows are now from the USA. Shame they cancel so many promising shows after a season if they don't become instant hits.

[Old Greg]

Never heard of it



Never liked Noel Redding. He was on that Buzzcocks "show" going on about a website called rate my poo. How pathetic. Wouldn't even laugh at that if I were still in the schoolyard.



Not funny. Exactly the type of prog. I was referring to. Also, the last thing I need in my leisure time is any reminder of computer geeks. I'm get enough of them at work!

Spaced is at Spaced - 4oD - Channel 4 , but perhaps won't be to your tastes. Never watched 'that Buzzcocks"show"' so can't help with that. Might Boosh is very enjoyable, but perhaps again, not to your tastes.

[amcdonald]

I don't think there's been a decent British comedy since Father Ted (and that was kind of Irish). I can't agree with Everybody Loves Raymond, that's deadly dull, but certainly The Big Bang Theory is the funniest show in years.

League of Gentlemen
Black Books
Green Wing
Alan Partridge
The Fast Show
The IT Crowd

British Comedy can be good

[Old Greg]

League of Gentlemen
Black Books
Green Wing
Alan Partridge
The Fast Show
The IT Crowd

British Comedy can be good

Of course, I'd forgotten Black Books.

[pacharan]

Spaced is at Spaced - 4oD - Channel 4 , but perhaps won't be to your tastes. Never watched 'that Buzzcocks"show"' so can't help with that. Might Boosh is very enjoyable, but perhaps again, not to your tastes.

I'll have a look. I do like some British stuff. Just turned off by childish references to bodily functions. I guess some of it is also down to taste too. Never got Reeves and Mortimer. Really like that Alexander Armstrong double act show though. And HIGNFY is and has been the best thing on TV for years.

My tastes would be summed up by the shows in my OP, Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Lemmon/Matthau and the big constant in my life the great Lucille Ball.

[Cliphead]

Of course, I'd forgotten Black Books.

+1 for Black Books.

[lilelvis2000]

I really like the IT Crowd - probably the funniest sitcom on TV at present. Everything else is topical "what's my line" kinda ripoffs.

Where I get annoyed is that a series is only 6 episodes! Coming from Canada I'm used to having about 25.

[darmstadt]

The American comedy I watch is in German so its not funny. The problem with all American comedy is that is has to have a 'feelgood' ending, a moral if you like. Why can't it just end funny (personally I think most of its bollocks, you only have to watch Friends to work that one out.)