Vic Reeves!... How did that one slip my mind. And good point RC it should be in clubhouse. Oops. In my defince I've been fighting a losing battle with a leak in the bathroom this evening and my heads in bits at the minute.. Although I will be rinsing the toothpaste from my mouth with evian later, how posh am I
Hard because there are shows I found really funny at the time like the first series of the Young Ones that I don't find at all funny watching them now. Same would probably go for NTNON or Kenny Everett.
All of them, from the first episode to 'Over The Top', the specials etc....
Any episode with Miriam Margoyles incites helpless giggling from me, especially when she played the Spanish Princess, the puritanical 'Whiteadder' aunt
'Bob'............. the manservant who was really a girl
Rik Mayall as 'Flasheart', in the WW1 - shooting Ade Edmondson (as Baron von Richtoven)
And as for Miranda Richardson as 'Queenie', what a girl!!!!!!!!, I've just got to hear that squeeky voice & I'm lost!!!!!
'Scrubs'
Hopelessly American, but very intelligently written for the Yanks!
It's almost like been at work - we have our very own Dr Cox!!, nurses as smart/sassy/sexy as Carla, 'ditto' for the Eliott charactor
'Bottom'
Yes, I know it's rude & crude, with lots of 'knob & fart' gags (did someone say that's all it is?), but I think of it as simply 'Slap-Stick' brought up to date.If Chaplin/Laurel & Hardy were around today, that's what they'd be like.
I've seen several of the stage shows, & they're amazing - you know they're carefully choreographed for the hits/thumps/frying pans in faces,etc....., but 'you can't see the joints' (for want of a better expression)
Ritchie, the eternal sad loser, who thinks every 'bird' fancies him
Eddie Hitler, the hopeless drunk, who's still slightly devious
Oh wait!!!
Can I add a 4th to the list............
Any programme that starts with the words....
"This is a Broadcast on behalf of the ........... Political Party"
Parklife - agreed. Most American shows I find juvenile in the extreme and not at all funny, but the Laugh-in always had me in stitches, especially the little German in the hard hat who popped up every now and again with a fake accent.
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My 3 that spring to mind:
1. Bottom
2. Vic Reeves Big night out
3. Staggering stories of Ferdinad de Bargos
But again Im sure theres a quite a few I have missed also
Edit out clubhouse
Vic Reeves!... How did that one slip my mind. And good point RC it should be in clubhouse. Oops. In my defince I've been fighting a losing battle with a leak in the bathroom this evening and my heads in bits at the minute.. Although I will be rinsing the toothpaste from my mouth with evian later, how posh am I
Lol Feet comment about evian..ohh get you .....yuppie
Ahh I dont think it matters where the post goes tbh feet good subject anyway
1.fawlty Towers
2.Bean
3.Only Fools & Horses
Fawlty Towers
Keeping Up Appearances
Only Fools & Horses
Will and Grace
Two and a Half Men
Peep Show
Gavin & Stacey
Father Ted
Porridge
Father Ted
BlackAdder (2, 4, 3, 1 series order)
1. Mind Your Language
2. ITV's coverage of the Premier League
3. Police, Camera, Action
Porridge
Dinnerladies
Steptoe & Son (which often managed to be tragic too!)
Peep Show
Green Wing
Red Dwarf
I'm always amazed that no-one ever mentions Early Doors. Try and catch the repeats on BBC4 and GOLD if you've never seen it,
TO THE REGIMENT!!!! I WISH I WAS THERE!
Blackadder
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office (UK)
Fawlty Towers
Big Night Out
Supernova
Only Fools and Horses
Fawlty Towers
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in
Rising Damp
Porridge
Steptoe and Son or Fawlty Towers
Hard because there are shows I found really funny at the time like the first series of the Young Ones that I don't find at all funny watching them now. Same would probably go for NTNON or Kenny Everett.
I saw a clip of Kenny recently - it still made me laugh lots.
... and the Young Ones. I love the Young Ones. I need to revise my list.
OH OH OH
And South Park
1 Frasier
2 Blackadder
3 I didn't know you cared
In no particular order;
'Blackadder'
All of them, from the first episode to 'Over The Top', the specials etc....
Any episode with Miriam Margoyles incites helpless giggling from me, especially when she played the Spanish Princess, the puritanical 'Whiteadder' aunt
'Bob'............. the manservant who was really a girl
Rik Mayall as 'Flasheart', in the WW1 - shooting Ade Edmondson (as Baron von Richtoven)
And as for Miranda Richardson as 'Queenie', what a girl!!!!!!!!, I've just got to hear that squeeky voice & I'm lost!!!!!
'Scrubs'
Hopelessly American, but very intelligently written for the Yanks!
It's almost like been at work - we have our very own Dr Cox!!, nurses as smart/sassy/sexy as Carla, 'ditto' for the Eliott charactor
'Bottom'
Yes, I know it's rude & crude, with lots of 'knob & fart' gags (did someone say that's all it is?), but I think of it as simply 'Slap-Stick' brought up to date.If Chaplin/Laurel & Hardy were around today, that's what they'd be like.
I've seen several of the stage shows, & they're amazing - you know they're carefully choreographed for the hits/thumps/frying pans in faces,etc....., but 'you can't see the joints' (for want of a better expression)
Ritchie, the eternal sad loser, who thinks every 'bird' fancies him
Eddie Hitler, the hopeless drunk, who's still slightly devious
Oh wait!!!
Can I add a 4th to the list............
Any programme that starts with the words....
"This is a Broadcast on behalf of the ........... Political Party"
Early Doors is very very good as is Frasier - some one-liners are just brillant
But with Porridge, Dinnerladies and S&S it is the fact that they STILL make me laugh, even though I practically know the scripts!
'Surgical Spirit'
The British predecessor!
It also reflects the charactors of a lot of the Surgeons & Doctors that I know
IT Crowd
Scrubs
Blackadder
fawlty towers
the fall and rise of reginald perrin
bean
Father Ted
I'm Alan Partridge
IT Crowd or Peep Show (can't decide!)
Only Fools and Horses
I'm Alan Partridge
Then a toss up between The Simpsons, Peep Show, Little Britain and Family Fortunes.
Black Books
Married .. with children
Red Dwarf
Im going to have another go
The Two Ronnies
Early Spitting Image
Soap (Burt was great in it, the Tates and the Campbells brilliant)