British Comedies

In england everybody watches american comedy. i was just wondering if american people watched british comedies? if so, which ones?

there used to be one on Comedy Central that was hillarious about these two drunk British women. i think it was called Absolutely Fabulous. my wife has the 1st series on DVD.

I like Benny Hill and Montey Python. I also like Mr. Bean. Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are hilarious movies if that counts too.

I've been watching "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"; which is very good. Also obviously Blackadder and Jeeves & Wooster. Fawlty Towers. Are You Being Served and Keeping Up Appearances are shown constantly over here too.

I'm Canadian, but yeah, I've always liked British comedy.

Required Fields wrote:

I'm Canadian

Do you watch Trailer Park Boys? That show is fantastic.

Being British, my favourite Britcoms would be The Mighty Boosh and Peep Show. They're both fantastic for completley different reasons.

The Office (both sides of the pond).

Mr. Bean is great.

Benny Hill
The Office
Monty Python
Are You Being Served
The Young Ones

All great shows! And I just watched "Hot Fuzz". Hilarious!! There is also a tv show on HBO called "Extras". I believe it's an English show, but I'm not positive. Can anyone confirm that?

MetalGuy71 wrote:

The Young Ones

Have you heard the comedy "band" CD they released? It was called Bad News, and consisted of 3 of the four guys that were on The Young Ones. FUNNY as hell!

British comedies I like:

My Hero
Waiting For God
Absolutely Fabulous
Are You Being Served?
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
The Vicar Of Dibley

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme was a great comedy. I watched that while I lived in England.

anybody watch red dwarf?

My favorites:

Red Dwarf
Little Britain
Black Adder
Monty Python
The Fast Show

The Young Ones. I was cleaning out a closet a few weeks ago & found a bunch of them I had taped years ago. It was always nice when Lemmy dropped by.

I love British comedies:


THE YOUNG ONES
GOOD NEIGHBORS
LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN
LITTLE BRITAIN
COUPLING
SWINGING
VICAR OF DIBLEY
ABSOLUTLEY FABULOUS
MEN BEHAVING BADLY
CLATTERFORD
FATHER TED
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
MR. BEAN
BLACK ADDER
BOTTOM (a must for YOUNG ONES fans)
STEPTOE & SON (American-ized into SANFORD & SON)

Coupling is actually pretty damn funny. The US version was crap. So I never even tried the UK version. But On Demand has them on BBC America, so I watch them when I can.

All the classics like Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served? (thanks PBS!), Mr. Bean, Black Adder are also great. Anyone else ever heard of Gimmer Gimme Gimme? It has the fat, disgusting redhead chick that thought she was "go' jus" whose roommate was the gay, wannabe actor? There was only two seasons of the show, and I'm not sure how popular it was over in the UK, but when I was living there it was one of my favorite shows.

Also, what's the show with Rowan Atkinson where he's a cop? Has the word "blue" in the title. I catch that every now and again on BBC America and it's pretty funny.

Shiney wrote:

KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

I love that show.Its hilarious.Hyacinth is one crazy lady.
Also I use to love watching Benny Hill back when I was a kid

The Atkinson show of whih Eyesore speas is "Thin Blue Line"...

I've seen "GIMME GIMME GIMME" it' funny....

FAWLTY TOWERS is classi as is PYTHON....

ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE is great too....

I loved Benny Hill back when it was aired. Great show !

Yah, I've seen a few episodes of Gimme Gimme Gimme. Pretty funny stuff.

I also enjoy Keeping Up Appearances! The lady that plays Hyacinth does such an awesome job with facial expressions and such!

Black Adder is also great. All the different versions of it!

I lost interest in Coupling after Jeff was taken off. He made the show for me, as his perverted but uber-dork character was just hilarious!

Black Adder is excellent.

Jeeves and Wooster is pretty good and features that main guy from House (as does later Black Adder) in a totally diffirent kind of role it if you happen to like him

I also really like The Thin Blue Line, which has Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling member of the British Police.

I wonder can I slip this in here ?

Did the Carry On... films make it stateside ? and what was the opinions of them if they did ? you gotta love Sid James.


sitcoms :

Blackadder

Bottom

Faulty Towers

Filty Rich & Catflap

My Family (might be on my own here)

Rab C. Nesbitt

The Young Ones

Locky wrote:

My Family

YES!!!! I can't believe I forgot that one! Freakin' HILARIOUS!!

Yeah, I too am a fan of My Family. Great show. As is Bottom, now that you've reminded me.

I know very few of these shows. And that makes me sad inside. I love British comedy!