Hi, just wondering if anyone else like british tv shows.
I always enjoyed the shows and most notable are for me shows like
Hithhikers guide to the galaxy
Doctor Who (just recently watched i always ignored it before)
Faulty Towers
The Vicar of Dibley
and there were two comedians in the 80’s i can’t remember the name. But one was slim the other more bigger. They made also a movie once about a school. To long ago and i can’t remember really.
Anyway, i just want to share my love for those shows and i regard them somewhat higher than most of the american or german shows. There are of course exceptions.
There are lots of them. Here’s a few more that have been much liked (and hated) over the years:
**The Young Ones
**BlackAdder
Not the Nine O’Clock News
Spitting Image
Father Ted
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:36:02 +0000, yester64 wrote:
> Hi, just wondering if anyone else like british tv shows.
>
> I always enjoyed the shows and most notable are for me shows like -
> Hithhikers guide to the galaxy
> - Doctor Who (just recently watched i always ignored it before) - Faulty
> Towers
> - The Vicar of Dibley
Yep to all of the above (though for Hitchhiker’s, I prefer the radio
version over all of them).
Also Coupling, Torchwood, Sherlock (which was on just recently), Monty
Python (of course), Spooks, Kingdom, occasionally Last of the Summer
Wine, Red Dwarf, and I’m sure others that don’t come to mind at the
moment.
My favourite british TV-show these days is → The IT Crowd. It’s flippin’ good, really. And of course Monty Pythons Flying Circus remains to be one of the major reasons to be alive.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:06:02 +0000, gropiuskalle wrote:
> My favourite british TV-show these days is → ‘The IT Crowd’
> (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd). It’s flippin’ good,
> really. And of course Monty Pythons Flying Circus remains to be one of
> the major reasons to be alive.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:06:02 +0000, caf4926 wrote:
>> - Faulty TowersJust to be pedantic -It’s Fawlty Towers.
>
> IIRC some of the sleepier channels in the US will play: To The Manor
> Born, Last of The Summer Wine,
>
> Others:
> Yes Minister, Dad’s Army, Morecambe and Wise, Absolutely Fabulous,
> Porridge, Only Fools and Horses
The Goode Life (in the US called “Good Neighbors”, but I prefer the UK
title)
Man, I miss the British TV. I even miss being in England. It was in England, back in the early 80’s that while we were at a bed and breakfast, our host and hostess often had the TV on for Dr Who. I fell in love with that show. The Psychic Carnival was a good episode, and perhaps one of my favorite Doctors. I didn’t re-discover Dr Who until I stumbled across it one evening on PBS. This was probably five or so years ago. PBS did not continue it. Then I discovered BBC America. Thank goodness. Funny thing is, and my wife has noticed it, when I leave it on BBC America for a bit, I start sounding British with out trying to. I did live in England for two years.
Can I come home now? Sorry about the tea party. It wasn’t my doing. I didn’t knock all that tea in the harbor.
Well, you’ve missed so much.
King of all British comedy shows : The Benny Hill Show
NO OTHER BRITISH COMEDY BEATS BENNY HILL!!!
Current shows on BBC America
"Being Human "
“Dr. Who” repeat episodes from modern series which are good.
“Torchwood” was good for 2 seasons haven’t seen repeats.
PBS has quite a few programs on late night and weekends.
“MI-5” was good for seasons 1-5, 6-? haven’t been as good for me.
“Mr. Bean”
My wife likes Benny Hill. I think he is to crass. It’s just not my style or sense of humor.
I have noticed Being human and Torchwood. I have never cared for Mr. Bean, again, not my type of humor.
Slapstick and silliness is not what I call funny. I also do not call being stupid funny. I remember watching Dumb and Dumber and just regretting having watched the movie. I like whitey humor, and often dry humor. Most Americans don’t get my humor. But then, I don’t often enjoy humor. Humor for me, is low man on the totem pole. I don’t use it in life, I see little practicality for it, and I rarely watch it, unless my wife or daughter are “forcing” me to. Sci-fi, action and adventure, mystery, and almost anything on the Discovery channels, things like that is what I like to watch.
Dr Who, Monty Python, Benny Hill, Only fools and horses to name a few. Pity I didn’t buy some DVDs while in the UK.
Does anyone remember a comedy called ‘Allo Allo’? It was about a french restaurant owner during WWII France.
I never understood the phrase “no accounting for taste” until now, slapstick and apparently humor is not for everyone.
IMHO, “Dumb and Dumber” may be slapstick but it’s not the same league as Benny Hill, “The Keystone Kops”, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, “I Love Lucy”, “The Carol Burnett Show” w/ Vickie Lawrence, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway, to name a few classics.
For historical record, “The Benny Hill Show” premiered British TV broadcasts in the USA, eventually PBS picked up the British broadcasts. Other shows like “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” followed but the Hill Show was the #1 show and to me is one of the timeless comedy shows on TV.
Remember it well – a well made spoof on a very popular WWII drama series called “Secret Army”, about the French resistance. The spoof German military characters were hilarious.
British tv shows seem to not be in the same class like american tv shows in that they are not featuring highly cgi effects or the like, but do have more substance in the story telling.
I wonder why that is.
If i wouldn’t gone to the us of a i would have gone to the uk.
Currently i am in love with Doctor Who, that is the new shows.
Let’s not be unfair - →The Big Bang Theory is a good example of an excellent u.s. sitcom and there are several others which are definitely worth watching. I don’t really think there is such a thing as “British Humour” at all.
