What is Good British Comedy?

[grexly75]

They show this one on our government owned TV station, PBS. It's good.

Shows like Monty Python, Are you Being Served, Benny Hill, Hale & Pace, The Kenny Everett Video Show and the Carry On movies to name but a few more were and are still good because they came at a time when people were not so uptight as they are today and you could get away with things that today would get a show cancelled faster than a Nascar race..

Heck was watching an old TMZ episode and one of the hosts asked the other would a movie like Blazing Saddles be made and the response was no way never not ever, because of political correctness and so on..

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3 pages and no one mentioned Mr. Bean?

Oh yeah Mr Bean he was good for the main reason he did his entire show with him saying very little if anything..

[Kalis]

You're my wife now...

[Poganin]

I noticed that some British sitcoms that are allowed to run for too long tend to become horribly repetitive. Some examples include: Allo Allo, Only Fools and Horses, and Last of the Summer Wine. They start relying on the same jokes and set pieces from episode to episode, which becomes annoying after a while.

There have been many good comedies suggested here:
Blackadder is brilliant and offers smart humour.
Fawlty Towers is timeless.
One Foot in the Grave, I don't believe more people haven't suggested it.
Are You Being Served? is brilliant, but loses some of its quality when Mr Grainger and Mr Lucas are replaced.
The Vicar of Dibley is really good too. Some of the villagers are unforgettable.

I also didn't see anybody suggest Jeeves and Wooster.

On the other hand I didn't enjoy Father Ted or A Bit of Fry and Laurie. These two I just didn't find funny at all.

[Miyagie]

No love for Coupling and IT Crowd ?

[Ghostpanther]

Which is weird when you consider the fans of the show were famous for being intellectual snobs who thought that if you didn't like Frasier you were too dumb to get the references made in the show. Frasier, the show that pretends to be intellectual by name dropping philosophers.

Get the joke now?

I liked Frasier. Still enjoy watching the reruns. Niles char was very funny. But then again, I have not seen any British humor I do like. But humor is something which is like art and music. A lot of different tastes.

[the game]

The IT crowd was pretty good.

[Bae]

So I heard about this old Short-lived animated sitcom called Stressed Eric. The show reminds me of the Bendy episode of Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. Where this bad character ruins the lives of the main character with no repercussion. Only everyone is Bendy, ruining the lives of the main character. Is this what British people find funny? Is the show a good representation of acceptable British Humor? What would you consider a good representation of British humor? Is it really about ruining the innocence? Appartently it has a fair amount of positive reviews on IMDB. Who finds this torture funny? Eric doesn't seem like he deserves it, and it's very mean spirited.

A list of good british comedy

Only Fools and Horses
One Foot in the Grave
As Time Goes By
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
My Family < Written by americans
Absolutely Fabulous
Father Ted
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Men Behaving Badly
Open All Hours
Little Britain
The Office
Porridge
The Two Ronnies
Red Dwarf
The Royle Family
The Vicar Of Dibley
The Catherine Tate Show
Monty Python

I and many others who are British have never even heard of stressed Eric.

All those comedies i mentioned have left its mark of British TV. Stressed Eric did not. Just by watching that clip for 2 minutes i see it was on BBC Choice, which wasn't a very well watched channel until it got replaced by BBC Three.

What you have to remember though is British and American comedy are very different. Lots of Americans do not understand our humour, and lots of British do not like nor understand American humour. Me as an example, i cannot stand any American non animated sitcom other than The Middle, Fraiser and sometimes Cheers and Two and a half men. Everything else i struggle to laugh at. Friends, Big Bang Theory, The American Office, Modern Family (especially), How i met your mother etc. I could sit down and watch 10 episodes of every American sitcom and not raise a single smile whereas with any episode of the British comedies i listed id be laughing within 3 minutes.

[Bae]

So I heard about this old Short-lived animated sitcom called Stressed Eric. The show reminds me of the Bendy episode of Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. Where this bad character ruins the lives of the main character with no repercussion. Only everyone is Bendy, ruining the lives of the main character. Is this what British people find funny? Is the show a good representation of acceptable British Humor? What would you consider a good representation of British humor? Is it really about ruining the innocence? Appartently it has a fair amount of positive reviews on IMDB. Who finds this torture funny? Eric doesn't seem like he deserves it, and it's very mean spirited.

A list of good british comedy

Only Fools and Horses
One Foot in the Grave
As Time Goes By
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
My Family < Written by americans
Absolutely Fabulous
Father Ted
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Men Behaving Badly
Open All Hours
Little Britain
The Office
Porridge
The Two Ronnies
Red Dwarf
The Royle Family
The Vicar Of Dibley
The Catherine Tate Show
Monty Python

I and many others who are British have never even heard of stressed Eric.

All those comedies i mentioned have left its mark of British TV. Stressed Eric did not. Just by watching that clip for 2 minutes i see it was on BBC Choice, which wasn't a very well watched channel until it got replaced by BBC Three.

What you have to remember though is British and American comedy are very different. Lots of Americans do not understand our humour, and lots of British do not like nor understand American humour. Me as an example, i cannot stand any American non animated sitcom other than The Middle, Fraiser and sometimes Cheers and Two and a half men. Everything else i struggle to laugh at. Friends, Big Bang Theory, The American Office, Modern Family (especially), How i met your mother etc. I could sit down and watch 10 episodes of every American sitcom and not raise a single smile whereas with any episode of the British comedies i listed id be laughing within 3 minutes.

[Karadros]

I noticed that some British sitcoms that are allowed to run for too long tend to become horribly repetitive. Some examples include: Allo Allo ...

But that was clearly French!

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IT crowd was discussed. Coupling is shit.

Lies! It tanked when Geoff left, I'll grant you.

[prwraith]

Which is weird when you consider the fans of the show were famous for being intellectual snobs who thought that if you didn't like Frasier you were too dumb to get the references made in the show. Frasier, the show that pretends to be intellectual by name dropping philosophers.

Get the joke now?

Frasier was absolutely hilarious, the fans who felt that it was too high brow for others to understand were even funnier because they absolutely didn't get it.

[Malacrass]

Watch their parliament discuss stuff. Pretty funny.

[draynay]

Let's not forget Father Ted

DRINK! FECK! GIRLS!

I did enjoy Father Ted, and Spaced is another worth mentioning.

[Miyagie]

Lies! It tanked when Geoff left, I'll grant you.

Ofc it tanked, 90% of the good jokes came from him my porn buddy.

[Bae]

So I heard about this old Short-lived animated sitcom called Stressed Eric. The show reminds me of the Bendy episode of Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. Where this bad character ruins the lives of the main character with no repercussion. Only everyone is Bendy, ruining the lives of the main character. Is this what British people find funny? Is the show a good representation of acceptable British Humor? What would you consider a good representation of British humor? Is it really about ruining the innocence? Appartently it has a fair amount of positive reviews on IMDB. Who finds this torture funny? Eric doesn't seem like he deserves it, and it's very mean spirited.

A list of good british comedy

Only Fools and Horses
One Foot in the Grave
As Time Goes By
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
My Family < Written by americans
Absolutely Fabulous
Father Ted
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Men Behaving Badly
Open All Hours
Little Britain
The Office
Porridge
The Two Ronnies
Red Dwarf
The Royle Family
The Vicar Of Dibley
The Catherine Tate Show
Monty Python

I and many others who are British have never even heard of stressed Eric.

All those comedies i mentioned have left its mark of British TV. Stressed Eric did not. Just by watching that clip for 2 minutes i see it was on BBC Choice, which wasn't a very well watched channel until it got replaced by BBC Three.

What you have to remember though is British and American comedy are very different. Lots of Americans do not understand our humour, and lots of British do not like nor understand American humour. Me as an example, i cannot stand any American non animated sitcom other than The Middle, Fraiser and sometimes Cheers and Two and a half men. Everything else i struggle to laugh at. Friends, Big Bang Theory, The American Office, Modern Family (especially), How i met your mother etc. I could sit down and watch 10 episodes of every American sitcom and not raise a single smile whereas with any episode of the British comedies i listed id be laughing within 3 minutes.