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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:36 am

Snorri1234 wrote:Noone mentioned "A bit of Fry and Laurie"?


Whoo! Excellence.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Balsiefen on Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:09 am

Neoteny wrote:
Snorri1234 wrote:Noone mentioned "A bit of Fry and Laurie"?


Whoo! Excellence.


One i would have loved to have watched more of, barely seen any of it.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:09 am

Balsiefen wrote:
Neoteny wrote:
Snorri1234 wrote:Noone mentioned "A bit of Fry and Laurie"?


Whoo! Excellence.


One i would have loved to have watched more of, barely seen any of it.


There are some goodies on youtube. Definitely check it out.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Snorri1234 on Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:42 am

Balsiefen wrote:
Neoteny wrote:
Snorri1234 wrote:Noone mentioned "A bit of Fry and Laurie"?


Whoo! Excellence.


One i would have loved to have watched more of, barely seen any of it.


I have all the 4 seasons on DVD.

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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby btownmeggy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:07 pm

I watched an episode of the Kumars at No. 42 yesterday. It was okay, pretty cute. I liked the mom.

I will watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie today during lunch and report back.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:16 pm

Sex talk in class, and tricky linguistics are good youtube offerings. Also slightly mad.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby jonesthecurl on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:57 pm

And how could I have forgotten "the High Life"
the first time I saw Alan Cumming
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby btownmeggy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:58 pm

btownmeggy wrote:I will watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie today during lunch and report back.


I watched the first two episodes of the first series. I never laughed out loud, but it was entirely amusing, very smart, and enjoyable. I'll continue with it for my lunchtime entertainment.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby jonesthecurl on Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:00 pm

btownmeggy wrote:I watched an episode of the Kumars at No. 42 yesterday. It was okay, pretty cute. I liked the mom.

In the first series she had a wonderful technique...
"SO, Mr/Mrs (insert name of celeb here), I understand you (insert snippet of bio here). Talk about that for a bit."
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby btownmeggy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:12 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:I watched an episode of the Kumars at No. 42 yesterday. It was okay, pretty cute. I liked the mom.

In the first series she had a wonderful technique...
"SO, Mr/Mrs (insert name of celeb here), I understand you (insert snippet of bio here). Talk about that for a bit."


She's so sweet and accommodating and a nice contrast to the father and grandmother.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:00 pm

btownmeggy wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:I will watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie today during lunch and report back.


I watched the first two episodes of the first series. I never laughed out loud, but it was entirely amusing, very smart, and enjoyable. I'll continue with it for my lunchtime entertainment.


I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby btownmeggy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:02 pm

Neoteny wrote:I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.


Is he in an American show?
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:07 pm

btownmeggy wrote:
Neoteny wrote:I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.


Is he in an American show?


He's Dr. House.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby btownmeggy on Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:35 pm

Neoteny wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:
Neoteny wrote:I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.


Is he in an American show?


He's Dr. House.


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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby steve monkey on Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:34 pm

Pretty much all of the best ones have been mentioned, but here's my list in no particular order

Alan Partridge
Porridge
League of Gentlemen
Peep Show
Spaced
Gimme Gimme Gimme
The Young Ones
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
The Office
Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
Hancocks Half Hour
Red Dwarf
Worst Week of My Life
One Foot In The Grave
The Fast Show
The Mighty Boosh
Steptoe And Son
Blackadder
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Fist Of Fun
Monty Python
Extras

I may be biased, but I think the British do TV comedy better than anyone else.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:20 pm

btownmeggy wrote: :o


That's exactly the expression I was expecting.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby kingprawn on Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:04 pm

I've just watched an episode of Saxondale starring Steve Coogan. It's quality, you should check it out. :D
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Snorri1234 on Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:30 pm

Neoteny wrote:I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.


I saw an interview with Stephen Fry that, in order to retain his accent properly, Laurie doesn't drop the accent whenever he's not shooting and therefore it's pretty weird talking to him.

He's pretty dedicated, I didn't even notice it was him untill seeing an announcement of the show, I had watched a bunch of the episodes already but just didn't notice it was him.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby Neoteny on Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:31 pm

Snorri1234 wrote:
Neoteny wrote:I'm an even bigger Hugh Laurie fan after watching the show. He pulls off such a damn good American accent, that I didn't know he was British.


I saw an interview with Stephen Fry that, in order to retain his accent properly, Laurie doesn't drop the accent whenever he's not shooting and therefore it's pretty weird talking to him.

He's pretty dedicated, I didn't even notice it was him untill seeing an announcement of the show, I had watched a bunch of the episodes already but just didn't notice it was him.


He's aged really well. I'd do him. And I'd heard that about the accent. Whatever he's doing works.
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Re: ITT we discuss British television comedies.

Postby steve monkey on Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:55 pm

The new series of Peep Show starts next Friday on Channel 4 =D> =D>
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