British Vs American Comedy

[Fantasy Haircut]

I just wondered which English/British comedy all our American and Canadian posters enjoyed. If any?
I'm just interested to see what sort of thing goes down well with you.

[Fantasy Haircut]

British Vs American Comedy

And I've no idea why I called it British Vs American...it's not even about that.

[IAD]

British Vs American Comedy

Fantasy......As an American I truely enjoy British Comedy ! It often seems to be on the dry side and dark....witch I love. It's also on the celebral side. Loved Benny Hill, Monty Python, Faulty Towers, Black Adder, Are You being Served, Rampole of the Bailiy's? etc. IAD

[dancelot]

British Vs American Comedy

I like Keeping up Appearances, The Kumars At # 42, and Red Dwarf. Red Dwarf is one of my favorites - I like the one where they go back in time and end up back on Earth, and disrupt the Kennedy assassination by accidentally pushing Lee Harvey Oswald out the window of the Texas School Book Depository (I'm from Dallas and can joke about that if anyone's offended. Plus they did a great job on the look of it). I like the Cat character, I identify with him in a weird way, but also Lister. Depends if I'm on or off I guess! :H

[Fantasy Haircut]

British Vs American Comedy

IAD - Fawlty Towers is still one of the funniest things there is. I think it adds to it that there is so few episodes...left wanting more.

Dancelot - Red Dwarf is brilliant, I watched something a while back about Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (the writers), the show was done for absolute peanuts.

Quality stuff!

[peacenik]

British Vs American Comedy

AB FAB!!!!!!!!

my favorite show ever...love patsy.

[Guitarista]

British Vs American Comedy

Hi FH,
Minder, of course, and Rumpole of the bailey. I also used to enjoy Terry Wogan's commentary of the Eurovision song contest.

[Guitarista]

British Vs American Comedy

And Ricky Gervais in 'The office'.

[startingover]

British Vs American Comedy

Mr G, love the office!
Recently have gotten into Gavin and Stacey. Belly laughs each time for me

[startingover]

British Vs American Comedy

My old boss wasnt unlike David Brent either

[Gold]

British Vs American Comedy

"Dinner Ladies".

I think a lot of bosses are like David Brent starting, I worked for two years on the Slough Trading Estate, they couldn't have chosen a better location!

[cyclefan]

British Vs American Comedy

the Fast Show, brilliant!

That Mitchell and Webb Look

Little Britian

[Boss.man]

British Vs American Comedy

On our US Cable network, we have a single channel BBC America, which I think combines some shows from UK networks.

In our house, Graham Norton is our Saturday Night "Must See". Some of the humor comes from topics and words that are not normal in US television. US prime time centers around showing murder, blood, torture and gore, but cannot mention torso body parts by name, or talk about sexual acts even through slang. So when Graham takes a photo of a famous star, discretely naked, and points out the distinctive shadow that wasn't airbrushed out, he can use a lot of colorful language that we find quite funny.

Some of my favorite episodes include Joan Rivers discussing plastic surgery (a topic she knows well), puffy lips, and then which US female stars puffed their labia with silicon. I also enjoyed Robin Williams who, just out of rehab, called out Graham for opening drinking wine in front of him, and then openly discussing rehab and his addiction issues. Thank you Robin for putting a "normal" face on rehab. We can't all follow Wino, you know.

[Fantasy Haircut]

British Vs American Comedy

Cycle fan, if you like That Mitchell and Webb Look, look at for 'Peep Show'.
It's by the same two and it's very funny.

Peacenik - Patsy is just about Royalty now. Again seriously funny show.

[JackieClaire]

British Vs American Comedy

Great thread FH,

Morecambe and Wise :H

and the Peep Show, and anything with Victoria Wood.