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The Brittas Empire answers the question of "what is the most batshit insane thing that can happen in a small town leisure centre", and somehow topping that answer each week
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Green Wing is absolute god-tier stuff.
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Rev is a nice bittersweet comedy about a vicar who believes in the message, but is in inner city London with an apathetic parish and an economically driven diocese. It's very understated, akin to the Detectorists (although far more brutal)
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Dec 14, 2023 11:04
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sebzilla posted:Green Wing is absolute god-tier stuff. Absolutely. Campus, their university show, was also pretty loving good. With the obvious caveat that they're both British sex comedies from the 00's so they both feature pronounced transphobia.
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Dec 14, 2023 11:08
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sebzilla posted:Green Wing is absolute god-tier stuff. Indeed. Particularly Mark Heap's top notch physical comedy skills (obviously) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wCO35irQoI
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Dec 14, 2023 11:16
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Dell_Zincht posted:Indeed. Particularly Mark Heap's top notch physical comedy skills (obviously) I'm convinced Patterson Joseph dropped out of character at the end there. Lovely stuff.
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Dec 14, 2023 11:33
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Heavy Metal posted:Absolutely! Lord he rules. Don’t look up what he’s been saying lately then. 
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Dec 14, 2023 12:08
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I haven't seen Friday Night Dinners or Garth Marenghi's Darkplace mentioned yet so I'll nominate those ones too. Definitely very different tones – one is more of a standard family sitcom and the other one is a parody of poo poo 80s horror but is absolutely hysterical. Also it's got Matt Berry in it if you like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamgprCpEGw
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Dec 14, 2023 12:41
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Do not under any circumstances take that one goon’s recommendation to Gavin and Stacey. Every time I watch it I involuntarily try to hang myself out of annoyance at how poo poo it is. Brass Eye is essential viewing. You’ll piss yourself laughing multiple times every episode. ‘It’s the one thing we didn’t want to happen’
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Dec 14, 2023 12:57
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Ignore that, Gavin and Stacey is a charming, low-stakes rom-com with some fantastic performances. But yes, Brass Eye is essential. Everything Chris Morris related is essential.
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Dec 14, 2023 13:05
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I'll +1 coupling It's not AMAZING but it's really interesting to see and has some bits that I still think of years down the line
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Dec 14, 2023 13:11
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The_Doctor posted:Don’t look up what he’s been saying lately then. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but didn't he have a dodgy section on his website? I just looked and it's not there now. I guess he had a call from his agent about it...
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Dec 14, 2023 13:12
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Gorn Myson posted:Ignore that, Gavin and Stacey is a charming, low-stakes rom-com with some fantastic performances. Counterpoint: it has Matthew Horne and his dead, dead eyes in, and corden and his unfortunately alive ones
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Dec 14, 2023 13:14
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Mickolution posted:Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but didn't he have a dodgy section on his website? I just looked and it's not there now. I guess he had a call from his agent about it... He posted about the Great Replacement theory pretty recently
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Dec 14, 2023 13:15
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I'm fond of Rev too though like a lot of examples on the list, you have to excuse a couple of things that haven't aged well. One episode's plot is resolved by the wacky comedy character doing a bit of sexual harassment. That said it's otherwise fantastic, genuinely thoughtful and compassionate.
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Dec 14, 2023 13:17
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I will always maintain that Catterick is the best thing Vic & Bob have ever done, and is essential viewing.
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Dec 14, 2023 13:36
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Taear posted:He posted about the Great Replacement theory pretty recently Yeah, I thought there was a section of his website that was basically "immigrants are scum" but maybe it was a post somewhere.
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Mickolution posted:Yeah, I thought there was a section of his website that was basically "immigrants are scum" but maybe it was a post somewhere. I think it was just a regular post on his site. I seem to remember reading one that was like "I'll be appearing at Sci-Con in Nottingham this weekend, also have you noticed how white people are being replaced in this country?"
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Dec 14, 2023 13:43
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Everytime we do sitcom recomendations i feel the need to highlight 2 particular shows First We Are Klang is fabulous facetious nonsense from Greg Davies and his mates. 6 eps, easily found on youtube. Its an adaptation of a live stage thing, theres a lot of memorable stuff in there like greg davies UNFATHOMABLE magician character to the whole juggling episode seemingly being the setup to a realy bad pun. Second The High life! A lil gem of a sitcom from the 90s with alan cummings. Its kinda wild seeing so many recs for the Britas Empire which i find the second dullest most predictable and unfunny sitcom the 90s produced (after the thin blue line). The high life by contrast is a breezy 6 episodes of camp fun including a eurovision episode.
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DrVenkman posted:I think it was just a regular post on his site. I seem to remember reading one that was like "I'll be appearing at Sci-Con in Nottingham this weekend, also have you noticed how white people are being replaced in this country?" Yeah, I vaguely remember something like that.
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Mr Phillby posted:Its kinda wild seeing so many recs for the Britas Empire which i find the second dullest most predictable and unfunny sitcom the 90s produced (after the thin blue line) Bit unfair in a decade with birds of a feather and keeping up appearances (though the only bit I can remember is the receptionist saying his name funny)
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Him & Her is much better than Gavin and Stacy if you ask me. Also, I strongly suggest Ideal.
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Upstart Crow, Mrs Brown's Boys, 2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and my personal favourite, Coming of Age
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I guess arguably more of a drama than a sitcom, but Catastrophe is one of the best shows of the last decade. It's dramatic and, occasionally, dark as gently caress, but has a lot of laughs in every episode as well.
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Dec 14, 2023 14:13
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Nighty Night, if you fancy watching a sitcom with quite possibly the most deprived, evil character ever written.
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Saxondale is another suggestion for me for a lesser known Steve Coogan vehicle too. The Day Today which still is fantastic, All but a few episodes the IT Crowd, Father Ted and Black Books are another bunch of suggestions from me also.
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I don't think anyone's mentioned Toast of London or Snuffbox - both are great Matt Berry projects. I've not revisited them, but League of Gentlemen, Psychoville, and Inside Number 9 are all funny thing made by horror geeks.sebzilla posted:Green Wing is absolute god-tier stuff. GW has caused me to memorize Julian Rhind Tutt's name. SeanBeansShako posted:Also, I strongly suggest Ideal. Ideal is great, Johnny Vegas gives it a lot of heart. Sean Locke's sitcom 15 Stories High is often mentioned with it, but I've never watched it. Lemon posted:I will always maintain that Catterick is the best thing Vic & Bob have ever done, and is essential viewing. Catterick rules.
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Catterik is a must watch. Nice to see matt lucas before he went a bit poo poo too.Betjeman posted:Bit unfair in a decade with birds of a feather and keeping up appearances (though the only bit I can remember is the receptionist saying his name funny) Maybe i have a harsher view on brittas for both being boring poo poo and for ruining red dwarf. Will not take back my comment on the thin blue line that show is dogshit.
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Chris Barrie is an old man with old man problems. I don't think he was young when he did radio (some of his best stuff imo) in the mid 80s.
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Has anyone said Bottom yet?
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Also, both Look Around You and the Armando Iannucci Shows are solid choices though the former is a pisstake on the very dry educational films/videos we saw in school as kids so not sure how well that would work for anyone in the US.
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Gavin & Stacey and Him & Her are two sides of the same "a cast of a weirdos revolves around a fairly boring couple" coin. Gavin & Stacey is incredibly light and fluffy, and as others have said Horne and Corden are a pair of cunts. But it's a nice bit of easy comedy and some of the observational humour is great. I find Him & Her to be genuinely bleak and often uncomfortable. Watching an abusive psychopath have a breakdown for 20 minutes isn't very funny. But overall it has a lot going for it. I like both. 
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I always used to recommend Monkey Dust, especially for Americans or other people from outside the U.K. as a comedy that captures how Britain actually *feels* like to live in. But I haven’t seen it for a while and could well imagine large chunks of it have aged rather poorly.
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stev posted:Gavin & Stacey and Him & Her are two sides of the same "a cast of a weirdos revolves around a fairly boring couple" coin. Gavin and Stacey is worth it just for Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones, who just steal every scene their in. Him and Her is genuinely nasty just because Laura and Paul are such irredeemably awful people - but it's also really, really well written and funny, in a way which Mum couldn't match (at least in part because the characters are all nicer, even to an extent, the sister in law).
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I think I have a natural aversion to BBC three shows. I think the only one in the last 15 years that I've actually enjoyed is This Country. That one is so so good, but every other BBC three show I've seen has been so bland.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Nighty Night, if you fancy watching a sitcom with quite possibly the most deprived, evil character ever written. Every single show by Julia Davis fits the description and they are all fantastic.
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People Just Do Nothing is an Office-like mockumentary about folks running a pirate radio station from a council flat. Starts strong and pretty much stays there.
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Matinee posted:I always used to recommend Monkey Dust, especially for Americans or other people from outside the U.K. as a comedy that captures how Britain actually *feels* like to live in. I haven't watched it in ages but I feel like if anything the atmosphere of the show will only have got _more_ true to real life
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fischtick posted:People Just Do Nothing is an Office-like mockumentary about folks running a pirate radio station from a council flat. Starts strong and pretty much stays there. The problem I have with people just do nothing is, while it's watchable and the situations are entertaining, the format is all wrong, the big reason the office was a big hit was that it could have been any office across the country, and had lots of characters that had enough similarity to someone everyone worked with at some point or another. People just do nothing was a bunch of caricatures having wacky japes, and would have been far stronger being a standard sitcom.
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Seconding Toast of London. It’s infected my vocabulary to the point I can’t hear a list of names without jumping in with ‘and even HEATHCOTE PURSUIT’
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