Any new British comedies...

pickarooney · 01-07-2006 7:45am #1

... in the last six months or so. I've been away, so am behind with the funniness.

Rollo Tamasi · 01-07-2006 11:53am

The IT Crowd is alright. I have seen 3 episodes from Channel 4. It's about a small IT department in a UK office. It wouldn't be the greatest comedy and is a bit obvious with it's humour but it's the only thing i can think of at the moment.

mike65 · 01-07-2006 11:58am

Saxondale on BBC2 episode 3 is next Monday 10 pm. Extras is back soon.

Mike.

monkeyfudge · 01-07-2006 11:59am

Steve Coogan's new series Saxondale has just started. Episode 3 is on Monday.

First episode was good, but not laugh out funny, but the second episode was very good.

The main character used to be a roadie, and is now a pest controller with anger management issues.

mike65 · 01-07-2006 12:05pm

Some can't stand it but I always watch QI saturday 9.50 pm.

Mike.

zAbbo · 01-07-2006 12:09pm

The IT crowd is utter crap, avoid at all costs.

monkeyfudge · 01-07-2006 12:11pm

Yep. QI is brilliant. Especially if Bill Bailey is on it.

There is a new panel show called Never Mind the Full Stops, which is all about mistakes in the English Language... If the Spellczechs forum had a TV show, this would be it. You need BBC 4 to see it though.

Rob Brydon has a new panel show coming to BBC 3 soon too.

mike65 · 01-07-2006 12:11pm

The IT crowd is utter crap, avoid at all costs.

No its not!

Mike.

monkeyfudge · 01-07-2006 12:15pm

The IT Crowd had it's moments. Some of the really silly stuff in it will remind you of Father Ted.

It just wasn't as great as it could have been.

If you've never seen The Mighty Boosh, that's really great too.

J.R.HARTLEY · 01-07-2006 12:53pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

The IT Crowd had it's moments. Some of the really silly stuff in it will remind you of Father Ted.

It just wasn't as great as it could have been.

If you've never seen The Mighty Boosh, that's really great too.

thoroughly agree on IT crowds mediocreness, never really delivered, and heavily agree on QI. don't understand half of it, but nearly wet myself laughing at it. loved the one where stephen fry and alan davies switched chairs for the last round once.

John R · 01-07-2006 3:01pm

I agree with that, Didn't find IT crowd funny at all. QI is excellent though, I thought the BBC had wrung dry the panel quiz format with increasingly poor copies of HIGNFY until QI came along.

IT crowd is being repeated on e4 later this month:

SITCOM: The IT Crowd
Channel: E4
Date: Thursday 13th July 2006
Time: 22:00 to 22:30 (starting in 12 days)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Yesterday's Jam. Series 1, episode 1.
The unloved, ignored, socially-awkward Roy and Moss make up the I.T. department of Reynholm Industries. Their world is shattered by the arrival of a new "relationship manager", Jen, a young woman who knows as much about computers as your average 17th-century farmer.
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade
(Subtitles, 3 Star)

Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=629
Copyright GipsyMedia Ltd.

pickarooney · 01-07-2006 11:42pm

QI ad Saxondale look like a good bet. Cheers

Basq · 02-07-2006 12:01pm

QI is fantastic.. caught 'Saxondale' last week and wasn't too impressed!

Steve Coogan hasn't been funny in a long long time!

monkeyfudge · 02-07-2006 12:04pm

basquille wrote:

QI is fantastic.. caught 'Saxondale' last week and wasn't too impressed!

Steve Coogan hasn't been funny in a long long time!

Did you not see 'A Cock and Bull Story'? It was very funny.. although Rob Brydon got most of the laughs.

Basq · 02-07-2006 12:09pm

monkeyfudge wrote:

Did you not see 'A Cock and Bull Story'? It was very funny.. although Bob Brydon got most of the laughs.

Prefer Rob Brydon anyways.. very funny man!

He's a new show starting on BBC3 i think too. Something like Annually Retentive or something like that!

monkeyfudge · 02-07-2006 12:18pm

basquille wrote:

Prefer Rob Brydon anyways.. very funny man!

He's a new show starting on BBC3 i think too. Something like Annually Retentive or something like that!

D'oh!

The promo doesn't give very much away though, does it?

Coogan and Brydon did a TV movie for BBC once that was very funny as well called Cruise of the Gods. In it the two of them were stars in a childrens science fiction series in the 70's with Brydon as the lead... and now in modern times Coogan is a big star in the US and Brydon works in a hotel, and to try and raise his profile he goes to a fan convetion for the show on a cruise ship.

lostexpectation · 02-07-2006 11:08pm

watch the first ep of the new sitcom from the makers of frasier

out of practice, it was ****....

frasier was bit tepid also but this is terrible

I like how I met your mother though...

J.R.HARTLEY · 02-07-2006 11:28pm

lostexpectation wrote:

I like how I met your mother though...

steady now.

Basq · 02-07-2006 11:29pm

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

steady now.

Seconded... HIMYM is ghastly stuff!

Only good new comedy this year in the States worth it's salt is 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' (just started Season 2 last week) and of course 'My Name Is Earl'

lostexpectation · 02-07-2006 11:48pm

I dunno the brunette is nice to look at,
there a very low threshold for sitcomes so HIMYM is ok

I really liking watching will and grace, it is very sharp although I can't stand the woman who's chest ribs you can see

Basq · 02-07-2006 11:55pm

lostexpectation wrote:

I really liking watching will and grace, it is very sharp although I can't stand the woman who's chest ribs you can see

Oh dear God.. you cannot mention *THAT* show in a thread with "comedies" in the title - now you've thrown off the space-time continium for good!

mike65 · 03-07-2006 10:18pm

Just watched the first two Saxondales back-to-back, good! Great character portrait from Steve Coogan and plenty of silly humour. I hope Jeremy Clarkson saw the joke in episdoe two.

Mike.

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