English Humor??

Ripping Yarns with Micheal Palin was class
Extras with Ricky Gervais
Blackadder as previously mentioned.
we have a show here called QI essentially its a quiz but the humouir is quality:)
 
For surreal British humour, look at Green Wing, very random hospital based series. For stand up you cant beat Ross Noble. Not very "linear" though, seems to go off on tangents a lot
 
cabey said:
Ripping Yarns with Micheal Palin was class :)
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Ripping Yarns...good call! All the episodes were gems, but my faves were:
'Tomkinson's Schooldays'
The Curse Of The Claw'
'Golden Gordon'

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:D

Has Spike Milligan's weird "Q" series got a mention, btw?

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jdb67 said:
I got a good laugh out of "the Office"... It was shown on the ABC here. Of course some clown in the U.S. thought they would try and imitate the show using Yank actors... It is quite bad!!!

Noone can do British humour like the Poms!!!:thumbsup:
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I Don't Believe it! A lot of endlessly running US shows are directly from Brit TV. Three's Company, Changing Spaces. I can't make a list right now, seems like most everything.

Brit comedies are very good, almost all. Red Dwarf, Chef, The Good Life, ****** Ted, Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave, and yes, Keeping up Appearances, Allo' Allo', can't be imitated. I like most all of them, except maybe May to December, As Time Goes By, and Are You Being Served, those three are just too slow for me.

On the question of whether or not Englishmen are funnier then American's, the Oxford Union Debates once asked this question debated between Jasper Carrot and Alan King. The English won. :thumbsup:
 
Sometimes, I like my humour like I like my gin - dry with a bit of twist.

Must be why I like English humour :)

By the by: I won't comment much on the "motion pictures" of English humour, but few in the written form can compare to the irrepresible P G Wodehouse

cheers,
 
I have vague recollection of watching a Beatles movie and laughing my ass off. The comedy was really great in it but I'm too lazy to go look for the titles right now.
 
Dro50 said:
I have vague recollection of watching a Beatles movie and laughing my ass off. The comedy was really great in it but I'm too lazy to go look for the titles right now.
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maybe a hard days night or help ?
 
i like a hard days night the most out of the two

especially lennon who slips sly references in

like when he starts sniffing a coca cola bottle in reference to doing ****!
 
A fav of mine- Up Pompeii.

Frankie Howerd was just hilarious.

"Titter ye not, Missus"
 
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om3ga said:
Ripping Yarns...good call! All the episodes were gems, but my faves were:
'Tomkinson's Schooldays'
The Curse Of The Claw'
'Golden Gordon'

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:D
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:rofl: the pics in your link certainly brought back the memories quality stuff om3ga
 
some stirling examples of classic moments in English comedy
Black Adder goes Forth
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(links to vid clips near the bottom)
The Catherine Tate Show
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Little Britain
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The Office
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enjoy
 
Dro50 said:
I have vague recollection of watching a Beatles movie and laughing my ass off. The comedy was really great in it but I'm too lazy to go look for the titles right now.
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The Magic Christian?
 
I found one of the best scenes from the british tv show "Coupling" on youtube.com, it's split up into four parts. If you have a sense of humour and don't know the show, you should definitely check it out. As I said before, there's a "Jeff" in every male of us.

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:hatsoff: Jackson
 
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