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Bip Roberts posted:Has anyone said those clowns in Westminster?!? Fun fact, this was remade in the US as ‘Those Clowns in Washington’. It has been running for 247 seasons now.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Fun fact, this was remade in the US as ‘Those Clowns in Washington’. It has been running for 247 seasons now. That show loving sucks
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EL BROMANCE posted:Fun fact, this was remade in the US as ‘Those Clowns in Washington’. It has been running for 247 seasons now. DC Follies did to Spitting Image what the Japanese did to Nanking.
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The Thick of It was pretty funny. Want to see your Doctor Who curse up a loving storm at people?
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happyhippy posted:Animation was usually a kids thing upto the Simpsons in the UK, probably in most countries. The Flintstones was made for an adult audience. You might have to be a dork who watches documentaries about cartoons to be aware of that, though. Was “Dangermouse” not for adults? It was on Nick at Night, iirc.
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Bored posted:The Flintstones was made for an adult audience. You might have to be a dork who watches documentaries about cartoons to be aware of that, though. In Australia dangermouse aired when we got home from school fwiw
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Dangermouse and Count Duckula were the first places I heard the Thames jingle.
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Bored posted:The Flintstones was made for an adult audience. You might have to be a dork who watches documentaries about cartoons to be aware of that, though. I knew the Flintstones sold cigarettes in ads. Dangermouse was always shown during the kids hours of 3pm-5pm in the UK when there was just 4 channels.
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Bored posted:The Flintstones was made for an adult audience. You might have to be a dork who watches historical documentaries about
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Makes sense, it's the honeymooners with pretend dinosaurs
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happyhippy posted:Watch the show he did back in the early 2000s called Ideal. Snowy posted:It seems hard to find in the US but the first series [of Ideal] is on archive.org, thanks for the heads up! Thanks for the recommendation. I'm partway through episode 1 and like it (even though I don't use drugs any more). I'll watch all of those. The British seem to be far better than Americans at making sitcoms about trash people, see also, for instance, The Young Ones, Bottom and the seminal Steptoe and Son.
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happyhippy posted:Watch the show he did back in the early 2000s called Ideal. 2nded, that show ruled
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Yea both the Flintstones and the Jetsons were intended to be more like primerime sitcoms, hence the laugh tracks. Which are kind of jarring in a cartoon.BigBadSteve posted:Thanks for the recommendation. I'm partway through episode 1 and like it (even though I don't use drugs any more). I'll watch all of those. These are all great shows but 'murica made seinfeld which is imo as good a show about lovely people as any of those
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I like Andy Zaltzman. He is silly, has stupid hair, and likes Test Cricket.
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I guess he's not really a comedian technically and also Irish but I fuckin love Graham Norton, dude is witty as hell.
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free hubcaps posted:I mean, Wallace and Gromit is pretty great I did consider that, and although its funny, it's family entertainment first and foremost - I guess kind of like Toy Story has jokes, but I wouldn't categorise it with Bojack Horseman or The Simpsons or whatever.
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Bromwell High was funny and animated. In 2005.
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free hubcaps posted:I guess he's not really a comedian technically and also Irish but I fuckin love Graham Norton, dude is witty as hell. I don't see much British TV but his show is good and I watch clips of it all the time. He has absolute top notch guests all sitting on the same couch. He's pretty funny and intelligent too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kyK6_UT8Y
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Love Ab Fab
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and then I got off the bus, ah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZNnjz-ZNrE
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Pour one out for Rik Mayall
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I used to think Jimmy Carr was funny. I still do, but I used to, too.
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I, Butthole posted:Pour one out for Rik Mayall When I was as a kid my parents would rent a VCR for the school holidays and we would always rent the Grim Tales videos and watch them over and over, they are pure Mayall with cool lo fi animation. Moved on to Young Ones and Bottom as I got older. Rik was a legend
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free hubcaps posted:I guess he's not really a comedian technically and also Irish but I fuckin love Graham Norton, dude is witty as hell. Graham Norton started out doing stand up comedy, actually. It's not comedy in the strictest sense but one of my favourite shows was Creature Comforts, from Aardman. Take real life vox-pops from the British public about a variety of mundane topics, and have them spoken by various claymation animals in everyday settings. Great fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps9ujUwty1E
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I don't see much British TV but his show is good and I watch clips of it all the time. He has absolute top notch guests all sitting on the same couch. He's pretty funny and intelligent too. I'm outing myself as a bougie old, but the vibe I get from his show is extremely good dinner party -the guest get relaxed, and just start doing stuff to entertain each other and have fun doing so. Hiddleston's Norton impression is just perfect too, I love when you get to see actors do really skillful stuff so offhandedly.
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I, Butthole posted:Pour one out for Rik Mayall He did this show called Believe Nothing that aired like once late at night. Tiny budget, very Mayall, some killer one liners. Took me like 5 years to find a DVD of it.
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