British Comedy

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looking at the blurb the red dwarf film seems awfully simlar to the book backwards

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Originally posted by Impossible:
And Father Ted was good too   

"Ted, do the words 'Father Jack', 'sleepwalking' and 'bollock naked' mean anything to you?"

Haha I like the bit where the Bishop got bitten in the end :lol:

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Originally posted by kidofdarkness:
looking at the blurb the red dwarf film seems awfully simlar to the book backwards

Which is extraordinarily odd, as Backwards was Rob Grant's work, the one of the pair not involved with the movie...

Personally, even though I thought it was the weaker of the two 'independent' novels, I think there are quite a few elements from "Last Human" which would translate well to film. Cyberia would be cool to see, and Reketrbn the symbimorph was an interesting concept. Though, truth be told, few of the good bits were very funny and few of the funny bits were very good.

Also: "Agonoids" is a much cooler word than "Homo sapienoids".

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Originally posted by SamuelXDiamond:
Cyberia would be cool to see, and Reketrbn the symbimorph was an interesting concept. Though, truth be told, few of the good bits were very funny and few of the funny bits were very good.

That's true; If the film was pure drama instead of a comedy, parts of Last Human would be great to see (I'd like to add the Rage to the list you've already started).

Hopefully, the film won't be anything like Last Human. No unnecessary sex 10 pages in, no boring characters and it should definitely be funny.

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I Bought the Black Books series 2 DVD today and just so people know the episode writers
go like this

Episode 1: The Entertainer
Episode 5: Hello Sun
Episode 6: A Nice Change

Written by Dylan Moran

Episode 2: Fever
Episode 4: Blood

Written by Kevin Cecil& Andy Riley and Dylan Moran

Episode 3: The Fixer

Written by Artur Matthews and Dylan Moran

All series 1 episodes were written by Graham Linehan and Dylan Moran
and all series 3 episodes were written by
Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley and Dylan Moran

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I must confess I've practically forgotten all of series 2. Must get the DVDs.

 Actually, no, I do remember the one where Fran gets an office job and Bernard and Manny have to teach this gangster bloke how to read. I saw that one again on a plane last year, that was a pretty good ep.

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Hi im pat,
          i am mad about british comedy and these are my fravs:Futurama, blackadder, only fools and horses, etc.

 

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I'm afraid we brits can't take credit for Futurama. 
   But yes Blackadder is good, do you have a favourite series?
My list: II, Goes Fourth, III, I.

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Blackadder is very good indeed. My favourite series pretty much go in Coilette's order. What I find much trickier to write down is my favourite Red Dwarf series in order.

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Blackadder goes forth is the best series.  I love that one. I got the Blackadder movie for £10 the other day. It's brilliant! 

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Blackadder movie?

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Whose Line is it Anyway? It wasn't as funny as it was here in America, but I still laughed.

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Originally posted by QueenOfRobonia:
Blackadder movie?

yep, 'Blackadder back and Forth.' It was more of a longer episode than a movie though

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You're right, it wasn't that long, but on the dvd there is Baldric's video diary (which includes deleted scenes) and a short episode of Blackadder in the civil war.  What a bargain! 

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Ha!
It's on Play.com for £7.99 you silly kitty!!

Meow meow BAM!! 

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Curses! My plan to take over the world by buying cheap sitcom dvds is not working!

Well at least I didn't have to pay for p+p and had it straight away.  You silly Bogger! Stop being jealous!

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Double Ha!
Haha even!!
Play.com has freeee delivery, freeeeeeeee!

Meow meow meow meow BAM BAM!!

They also have prices in euros now so 
*does a little jumpy dance on cats tail*

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:nukes ireland:

Who's burned now?

Well I don't care, because that dvd has give me hours of fun. Hours. You hear me?! Hours! (Everyone should by the dvd, it rocks!  )

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My favs are I'm Alan Partridge, to which I have both seasons on DVD, and Father Ted. Amazing stuff.

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I got the two Black Books DVDs on Saturday, and they are pretty damn fine, although it has confirmed my beliefs that the first series was the best. Series 2 is still pretty formidable, with The Fixer in particular being something of a classic, but at the same time the mixture of different writing combinations throughout the series throws up some weaker episodes too.
 
 Series 3 has yet to make DVD, but unfortunately it does appear to be the worst so far.

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Yeah its kind of worth noting that the best of series 2 was written by Dylan Moran and the  former Father Ted writer that wasn't involved. *Edit* in the first series

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And also that the two episodes written with Cecil and Riley contained some of the more weaker elements that take over in series 3 when they become full time writers.

(yeah, I realise this is stating the obvious a bit after that. I kinda misread your post at first)

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Kool! Riley is my name!

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What, Andy Riley? 

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Yeah Riley's my name. My first name. I have no point for it I just find that amusing.
By the way, I like your new avatar Mouse on Venus.

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It's solely for DavidCohensNo1fan's benefit. 

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Did anyone else watch The All Star Comedy Show, last night on ITV1? It had all the best comedy performers on it. Odd thing was, I didn't find it very funny 

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Was it here where i saw "All Star" + "Comedy" = Disaster?

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It was written by Reeves and Mortimer so it was their style of humour...but I think too many comedians spoil the broth

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I just seen Lenny Henry where he did Beyonce - Crazy in love video:

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Lenny Henry is getting awfully bad now, which is a shame. His sketches were boring, predicatable and lame. His stand-up bit had some interesting parts, but nothing that'd make me laugh out loud.

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The Office

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What about The Office?

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Even better than 'The Office' is the sketch in
'The Day Today' called The Office.
The DVD of it came out a few days ago, its very good anyone else know of it ?

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'Slate:
But Have I Got News for you made it all better.

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The Office was cringe making! It was funny because it was just like real life in an Office, but the episodes were awkward and didn’t flow very well.
However, 'Have I got news for you' is hilarious.  I love Ian Hislop's and Paul Merton's humour!

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Originally posted by User_names_suck:
Even better than 'The Office' is the sketch in
'The Day Today' called The Office.
The DVD of it came out a few days ago, its very good anyone else know of it ?

I know of The Day Today. I've only seen the one ep, but I also have Brasseye on DVD which is fantastic and I'll definitely have a gander at The Day Today too.

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I've seen a few episodes of 'The Day Today' and quite liked it myself. Not my favourite show by far but still quite good.

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Originally posted by aslate:
Lenny Henry is getting awfully bad now, which is a shame. His sketches were boring, predicatable and lame. His stand-up bit had some interesting parts, but nothing that'd make me laugh out loud.

Really? I thought it was brilliant. I haven't laughed that much watching one particular programme in a long time. I will always remember a Lenny Henry sketch on that 'History of the Millenium' thing they had on the BBC in 1999, where he played this old man reflecting on his life and the millenium. It ranked as one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The shopkeeper bit on Friday night's show was a bit reminiscient of that.

Have I Got News For You was pretty solid as usual, although I think they are relying too heavily on Merton's surreal humour to get laughs.

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I haven't seen HIGNFY recently but I noticed that once Angus left Paul became more central to the show. The trouble is he's got a very dominating personality and there needs to be a presenter there to keep him in check. However with the rotating presenters there's no-one brave enough to shut him up.