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Kayvan Novak did some amazing real life trolling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgSFBSAxuGw He also worked with Chris Morris on Four Lions.
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I liked Tommy Cooper, but he died one too many times on stage.
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Julia Davis’ Nighty Night is a stone cold cult classic
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DamnCanadian posted:I was going to say Dara O’Briain but I just remembered he’s Irish. He was (usually) brilliant on Taskmaster, though.
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It's Paul Foot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_1sqLZetQ
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valko is pretty funny in an unintentional way sometimes
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Nooner posted:valko is pretty funny in an unintentional way sometimes You've never been funny.
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I think it's already been mentioned by Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is excellent, and also all up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE
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Darkplace is my favourite comedy from that era. If you watch it on youtube don't forget to check out the extended interviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZlA6Qeseo
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Shiney McShine posted:I liked Tommy Cooper, but he died one too many times on stage. 
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hey wizard master on one of the evenings with kevin smith, kevin smith asked the audience what lines they used on their gfs/bfs or whatever and this british guy said "would you like a portion?" and kevin smith and the audience laughed and jason mewes was spaced out and didn't react and kevin smith was like hey jason that was really funny pay attention and got the guy to say the line again and he was like "would you like a portion?" and then jason mewes laughed, for me it's pretty much a toss up between that guy and stewart lee
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One of the best: Peter Sellers
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Just search channel 4 on youtube and watch all the ten minute supercuts of the funny bits from 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Rip Sean Lock.
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love how rhod gilbert spends the first minute of every task with his eyes closed and hands over his ears "trying to shut out the worst voices" in his own words, and the end result is still usually pure psychopathy
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the funniest bit sean lock did was where jimmy carr asked him "do you have a mascot this week" and he started musing on the passing of time and what it means for the human condition and then just said "anyway, I've made a funny calendar".
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almost1337 posted:The first season is great; the second I did not enjoy nearly as much. Serafinowicz and Popper have admitted its a lot rougher. There's some gold in there, but the BBC pushed for 22min episodes and you can tell it's stretched a bit. Also, that CGI door looks awful and breaks the concept that you're watching something from 1982ish. dr_rat posted:I think it's already been mentioned by Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is excellent, and also all up on youtube: I'm glad Holness is using the character again, you get the impression he knows the character inside out. The book he released last year was pretty funny and the attendant promo interviews were great. I think there's another book due this year too. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Hammerite posted:its not the same without sean lock I haven't seen an episode without him and I'd managed to forget he passed until just now, jerk 
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It should have been spelled favourite, op.
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idk, maybe it's my changing TV watching habits but British comedy seems pretty stale nowadays. 15 - 20 years ago there was a solid sitcom scene in British TV but the only decent one I've seen in years is Ghosts. And all the panel shows from back then are still going with mostly the same guests.
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David Mitchel has something where he plays Shakespeare that is possibly current. I couldn't make it past 5 minutes though because it was terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG14YKyyb7A It's even worse than I remembered. David Mitchell sucks. Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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No one has mentioned Marty yet? For shame...
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Funky See Funky Do posted:David Mitchel has something where he plays Shakespeare that is possibly current. actually, it has Mark Heap in it, and consequently, it is good.
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to be more serious, upstart crow is mostly mediocre, but Mark Heap is in it and is good (as he is in everything) and also the character who is just a piss take of Ricky Gervais is incredibly funny imo
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aunty donna
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bitterandtwisted posted:idk, maybe it's my changing TV watching habits but British comedy seems pretty stale nowadays. I think panel shows are part of it, tbh. They're cheap to make and a pretty good and consistent payday for comedians, so there's no real incentive to develop expensive sitcoms that might sink you along with it. The other side of this is that the kind of writing you need to do for a panel show doesn't lend itself to much more than cheeky banter, which, okay, can be fine, but it doesn't really allow for anything longer form or more high-concept. You can tell who's gunning for that kind of job when you're at the Edinburgh fringe (which is loving awesome, if you don't have to live in Edinburgh during it) because their poster will be a perplexed looking man hiding his dick with a banana in a show which is about Tinder but *really* about grief.
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Maybe I'm just a dumb provincial but most British comedy is too inscrutable, with too many local references for a Yank like me to get any pleasure out of it. Matt Berry, Mitchell and Webb are all great tho.
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Stephen K Amos and Ardal o'Hanlon both did competent, funny but fairly conventional sets when I saw them. Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk is also very good.
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Maybe I'm just a dumb provincial but most British comedy is too inscrutable, with too many local references for a Yank like me to get any pleasure out of it. Friday night dinner is/was pretty good, imo. But Paul Ritter died.
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I agree that the UK sitcom scene isn't as good as it was a while back, although I wonder if it's more a case of reversion to the mean than things being particularly bad now. Some more recent stuff that I've liked: People Just Do Nothing, Stath Lets Flats, Derry Girls, Murder in Successville.
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Not really my favorite, but I find it interesting that British comedy has one of the more recently documented cases of someone dying from laughter. Back in 1975 some British guy died after laughing for more than 20 minutes. This was the sketch that did him in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5UZgELC57g It's not bad, but I can't see this as 'laugh to death' material.
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Busters posted:Not really my favorite, but I find it interesting that British comedy has one of the more recently documented cases of someone dying from laughter. Back in 1975 some British guy died after laughing for more than 20 minutes. 
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<references Britishly> That's numberwang!
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Thatcher and that other old bat were pretty funny
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I Lol'd pretty hard when Queen Liz died does that count?Szyznyk posted:Rik Mayall. Young Ones, Bottom, New Statesman. Lord Flasheart. Goddamned content. WOOF!
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Frankie Boyle is pretty funny.
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Tim Curry definitely. He isn't funny but he's funny adjacent which is enough.
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lmao I forgot all Matt Berry's musical bits from snuff box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxB4_uZyWAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwzAd4S2E8
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bitterandtwisted posted:idk, maybe it's my changing TV watching habits but British comedy seems pretty stale nowadays. You had BBC 3 which was set up to be for new comedy talent, and it was a starting place for a lot of comedians and had some good show. But the comedy has gotten stale these days as its turned from 'no limit ridicule' to 'woah now thats a bit too strong I won't get that panel spot or BBC one off if I'm too controversial'. Imagine Jerry Sadowitz or Stewart Lee on Task Master for example.
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covidstomper58 posted:Tim Curry definitely. He isn't funny but he's funny adjacent which is enough. I could have sworn he was American.
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