Any other "BritCom" fans?

[TommyC]

My wife and I are absolutely addicted to the Brittish Comedies that show on our local PBS station on Friday and Saturay nights. Especially anything featuring Rowan Atkinson! Mr. Bean, Thin Blue Line, Blackadder... My addiction started Way back in the good old days of Monty Python's Flying Circus, her's started as soon as she met me! :yes: Anyone else here a BritCom fan?

[Celt]

Have watched them to the point of having memorized all the lines. Fawlty Towers, Ab-Fab, Are You Being Served?, Waiting For God...

[Filmboydoug]

Good grief, The Black Adder, the very definition of so dumb its hilarious. My fav scene was when he accidently beheaded the king!

My all time favorite tho is Keeping Up Appearances. Mrs. Bucket (Bouquet) just slays me.

[theodoric]

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin, Python, The Office, Coupling, Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, and of course Benny Hill are what I'm into.

[Celt]

My all time favorite tho is Keeping Up Appearances. Mrs. Bucket (Bouquet) just slays me.
Yep...one that I forgot to mention. Easily one of the best of the bunch.
I always felt sorry for Onslow and Richard for having to put up with those nutty sisters!

[TommyC]

My wife's favorites are "The Vicar of Dibley" and "As Time Goes By." I forgot about Fawlty Towers. That is another one that is so bad it is hillarious!

[Filmboydoug]

Yep...one that I forgot to mention. Easily one of the best of the bunch.
I always felt sorry for Onslow and Richard for having to put up with those nutty sisters!

If there isn't a St. Richard, there should be. And I would pay real money to get a baseball cap with the logo Onslow wears. Anybody know what that logo is?

[Filmboydoug]

and of course Benny Hill are what I'm into.

Jeez, even that stupid song they played during his silent skits breaks me up.

[Celt]

Jeez, even that stupid song they played during his silent skits breaks me up.
It's "Yakety-Sax" by Boots Randolph isn't it?

[Filmboydoug]

By cracky you are correct. I am laughing right now.

For those not in the know..

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000026LJ/qid=1129959187/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7007745-8243164?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

Scroll down and click on Yackety Sax. Damnit, now I have that song in my head!

[Celt]

I would pay real money to get a baseball cap with the logo Onslow wears. Anybody know what that logo is?
It's an "FH" I think. I always thought it was a trucking company.

[TommyC]

And I would pay real money to get a baseball cap with the logo Onslow wears. Anybody know what that logo is?

From the official "Keeping Up Appearances" websight:

"The FH on Onslow's hat stands for Fulton Hogan Ltd., a New Zealand asphalt and roadbuilding company. When Geoffrey Hughes was there promoting a show, he was given that hat by one of the company's lorry drivers."

[TommyC]

Coupling


This show was SO funny as a brittish comedy and SO Bad as an american one!

[Sandy G]

Benny also used that strange 1968 song "Manamana" a lot, & one that started "I see you everyday, walking down the avenue/ I'd like to get to know you, but all I do is smile at you..." I sure do miss Benny...Sure, he was "dirty", but it was "10-year-old-boy" dirty, never really bad. Unlike today...-Sandy G.

[bolly]

da, da, danana,
da, dana, da,
da, da, dananana, nanana, da, da, dana da!

or something like that :D

[OvenMaster]

Celt, that thumbnail would make a perfect avatar for someone who's like-minded:lmao:
And as far as BritComs go, I have to put in a vote here for Red Dwarf.
Tom

[bolly]

what about The Prisoner

[botrytis]

what about The Prisoner

That is not a comedy!

Anybody remember a show called 'The Goodies'? That one was really funny!!

Dave

[bolly]

The Goodies, yep :D

[Ol' Ken]

Up Pompei with Franky Howerd. While the Prisoner was not a comedy it is IMHO the finest TV series ever produced

[jimmymagick]

One more: "Brilliant." Love the indeterminate Eastern European newscast: tomorrow's weather "scorchio!"

And Black Adder's Christmas Carol has become a holiday tradition at my house.

Unrelated BBCAmerica story: at work, I shared cigarettes with Trinny and Susannah from "What Not To Wear." Good for a peck on the cheek from Trinny and a rather buxom hug from Susannah.

Someday, ask me my Hallie Berry anecdote. Oh, never mind: I'm saving that for the personality segment when I finally get on Jeopardy. ("That's right, Alex. I do have a rather amusing Hallie Berry story.")

[RussinOhio]

Anything Monty Python is the funniest stuff ever!

I laughed so hard at "Life Of Brian" I actually hurt a stomach muscle! No lie!

Russ

[mhardy6647]

Always a fan of British humor, especially the absurdist kind like "Monty Python", but also the dumbest sitcoms ("Are You Being Served", etc.). When I was a kid, I loved "Doctor in the House" (anyone remember that one?).

My favorite, though, is "Red Dwarf". And my favorite episode, bar none, is "White Hole". Brilliant and funny.

[grumpy]

Huge fan of Are you being served here.

It all started with Phython which still has me in stitches ( The Larch......... )

Mr Bean had its moments but it was too Charlie Chaplin for me.

How can anyone not be a Benny Hill fan ?

The young ones was hilarious but the one that always had me in stitches was Absolutely Fabulous.

[Holst]

I picked up the complete "Fawlty Towers" DVD set. I'm pushing 50, a generation that quotes shows like this. But now my 14 year old daughter can quote the show too. Her fellow class mates don't get it. I had a parent teacher meeting this week where three teachers complimented me on exposing the kid to lot's of different influences.

AbFab... too funny "damn asmatic cab drivers".

Are you being served, waiting for God, To the manor born, the good life, they seem tame now, but were pretty cutting edge for their time

[Mike Gibson]

Are you being served is my favorite but I liked them all with the exception of Mr. Bean. Rumpole of the old Bailey is pretty good also. Monty Python sort of set the standard and the rest have been trying to match up to it.

[bOUddha]

This show was SO funny as a brittish comedy and SO Bad as an american one!

Same story with Ricky Gervais' The Office...

BBC America is one of my favorite channels. Murder in Suburbia, Jonathan Creek, etc. Plus all the comedies mentioned.

To the Manor Born :banana:

[Sandy G]

My sister (44) & my 1st cousin (25) went to the Big Apple recently & saw "Spamalot". My sister has been a big Python fan for years, & howled at it, Julia-the clueless cousin-really didn't get much of it. But in all fairness, I doubt if she'd ever seen any of the classic Python sketches.-Sandy G.

[WhiskeyRebel]

Mostly a fan. Got into English shows watching "No Honestly" and "Father Dear Father" on the PBS station up north when I was a kid. You know, when there was nothing on the one other channel we could get.

I wish Red Dwarf were still broadcast around here.

Young Ones rules. Up Scumbag!

Rowan Atkinson just has to stand there and exist, and I'll laugh. Hell, I even liked Johnny English.

One thing you notice in contrast between English shows and US shows is that English TV doesn't feel compelled to make the characters sympathetic and the actors desirable. English TV casts look roughly like the collection of people you'd actually see in the situation presented. Let's face it, after a few episodes you could recognize Wendy Richard as somebody you might ask out if you were working in a store with her, but she's not the sort you would fantasize about at a glance. Not exactly aspirational tail.

US TV casts look like a bunch of people who moved to Hollywood because people told them they look good enough to be on TV. It is as though the people producing shows here are terrified that the viewers here will change channels if they don't decide in 250 milliseconds that they would either want to be or want to boff the people they see onscreen.

How oh how can I convert my wife to a Python fan? She will watch Benny Hill and the Three Stooges with me but she draws the line at Monty Python.

I can't agree on The Office. After all the hoopla I tried watching it on BBC America. I recognize what I'm expected to laugh at but it just makes me wince.

[Dynacophil]

Hi
How oh how can I convert my wife to a Python fan?

a nice christmas eve, a bottle of wine, a couch, a wife an "Life of Brian" in the player
or start with something easy like Brazil (does she like Robert deNiro..?) - not the Pythons, but Terry Gilliam


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Helge

[koseltri]

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
To the Manor Born
Are you Being Served
MPFC
Blackadder II, III, Forth
Keeping Up Appearances
As Time Goes By
Good Neighbours
May to December
Mr. Bean (I'm hot & cold on this one, I *love* the 'Horror Movie' segment)

I never got into Benny Hill (my mum is nuts for him), or The Young Ones, or Red Dwarf, and My Hero leaves me cold. As for BBC America, it doesn't interest me much, as I want to see shows that we never got to see back in the day: The Persuaders, Morecambe & Wise, The Sweeney, The Professionals, etc. with those last two, being a British car owner, I'd love to see 70's cop shows with Triumphs and MGs in chase sequences... :D

[holmesuser01]

Worked for a PBS station back in the 70's-80's. Got to see Are You Being Served? direct off the satellite from PBS everyday. Laughed my head off on them, and got to know and love the charactors.

I love all the shows mentioned.

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My Hero.

Its a strange odd show. Its starting to grow on me.

I just bought the AB FAB disc set. Wonderful.

[Chad Hauris]

I also used to work for a public radio/TV station and remember "Are You Being Served" and "As Time Goes By" well...I enjoyed them but haven't got around to seeing them recently. I think they are on BBC america, will have to program the satellite receiver to record them.