No one is laughing..
I had to get something onto the blog before i forgot it..
I spent the weekend watching Blackadder, and although i have seen it all before, i laughed my ass off all over again.
Lord Blackadder
From Darkhorizons.com
In my mind, UK comedy is the best, all my favourite shows are British and i have to say, they are my influences.
Off the top of my head, in no particular order (ie. I love all of them)
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Fawlty Towers
Flying Circus
Men Behaving Badly
Blackadder (all of the periods)
The Young Ones
The Office
Mr Bean
Father Ted
One Foot In the Grave
Waiting for God
Keeping Up Appearances
Yes, Minister
Vicar of Dibley
Absolutley Fabulous
My Favourite of all time is Fawlty Towers, and lately i have been watching the Office over and over again, i have the DVD’s you see
Fawlty Towers
Courtesy of TV Music
I can attribute this from my folks, they forced me to watch Britsh Comedy, while my friends watched Seinfeld, Roseanne and other shows that were on at around 7:30pm at night. My parents always said it was an education, at that American shows were ’stupid’, although they were partial to the occasional Married….With Children.
So I grew up with the best, and the ‘education’ is something that has stuck with me. I’m afriad that from time to time the scripts i write resemble something from a Ben Elton or a Richard Curtis script.
Tony and Gary: Men Behaving Badly
Courtesy of BBC
This brings me to my point….. Australian Comedy..
I have a vantage point. I am familiar with UK comedy, Aussie Comedy and South African Comedy (mostly Leon Schuster, if you are interested at all, SA Humour is quite violent)
But where is Australian Comedy. Off the top of my head i cant think of any Australian comedy series that are on TV right now, and I’m not talking about re-runs i mean new ones, there are none, i mean scripted Comedy, not this Big Brother crap that is playing in the background as i type, i cant stand this shit anymore!! Nor can i stand the disgusting Gretel Killeen
And i dont mean shows like where 3 grown men act like 3 grown assholes, you know, Theres “the funny one, the hopeless one and the ladies man”…. “A comedy written by Men, for Men by Women”
In any case, i was watching some new comedy sketch show tonight for about 15 minutes and SURPIRSE! SURPRISE! the entire time they were making FUN of someone, First they started with making fun of Super Nanny, then they must’ve run out of jokes, and they moved on to John Howard (an old time special and in my eyes, whenever people are making fun of politicians, they are scraping the barrel for jokes), then they completed another lost quarter of an hour of my life by doing a sketch where they took the piss out of George W. Bush (shooting fish in a barrel anyone?). I’ve never been one for Comedy with a Political motiv, so switched off and started watching my Blackadder DVD again, another 18 to 35 year old male tuning out of the TV ratings.
So…. if you are looking for some good comedy, based with fictional characters, either Rent out Mother and Son or watch some good British Comedy, spose i am biased as i like Satyr (satire) and alot of British Humour is satire (satyr).
THE David Brent, played by co-writer and co - director Ricky Gervais
The most successful English Comedy in History is now Officially the Office. It has cleaned up at the BAFTA’S and at the American Golden Globes, taking the Award for Best Comedy twice in a row. Not bad for a show that only spawned 12 episodes huh?
The show is written by Ricky Gervais (who also acts as David Brent), and Stephen Merchant, they also Co- Direct the show, it is one of the best written TV shows ever.
Picture Courtesy of the BBC
Why dont you start with the Office
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“One foot in the grave” fucking hilarious stuff, actually the book is pretty damn funny too. One of my favourite “Father Ted” episodes is when Doogle convinces Father Ted to go up to the actor who plays Victor from One Foot and say “I don’t believe it” which results in Father Ted recieving a beating, funnily enough I believe with an umbrella. Where’s “The Goodies”? Were they not part of the Brit list, surely.
Comment by rupert — May 30, 2005 @ 12:29 am
I do agree, british comedy is the best. They just to be shown as prime-time Saturday entertainment when I was a kid. I was just wondering if you forgot Cath and Kim as an Australian comedy, even if I don’t find it funny. (and no, it’s not because I’m not Australian, IT JUST ISN’T F*%¤ FUNNY!!) Cath amd Kim is doing well and is shown overseas as well. (Why I do not know)
I also want to add some of my favorite British comedies to your list:
Red Dwarf
Vicar of Dibley
‘Allo ‘Allo!
To the Manor born
My family
and many more…
have a look at this site, Butch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/winner.shtml
it contains the top 100 sitcoms in UK made by the BBC voted by the audience, with clips from them all.
Comment by TheOven — June 2, 2005 @ 2:13 am
i did forget cath and kim, see there again is a comedy that has created its own characters and its funny, even though they are taking the piss out of the average Australian, they arent doing it to anyone in particular.
May i also add the the list
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Comment by Butch — June 2, 2005 @ 12:57 pm