Fav Comedy Show

[Skyryder]

Looks like more shity weather coming on so what's your take on your favourite comedy on TV? Past or present.

Sill like Blackadder. The first series. Anyone remember the
The Rag Trade?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/r/ragtradethe_7775315.shtml

Currently As Time goes By. Very dry and droll

Skyryder

[98tls]

The Office was great,Steptoe and Son,Only fools and Horses.....Te Karere :innocent:

[bladez]

some mothers do have em or the wombles opps now thats showen my age :gob:

[terbang]

monty python

[MSTRS]

Porridge, Crimewatch

[cowpoos]

jeves and wooster....would have to be my favorite...but there are planty that I love to watch...Scrubs would have to be right up there!!!

[Badcat]

it's a drama - but i laugh out loud more than watching most comedies.

[Indiana_Jones]

Blackadder, Fawlty towers, steptoe, fools and horses, python.

Married with children?

-Indy

[Goblin]

Hehe...comedy! I used to enjoy Gimme Gimme Gimme, Game On, One Foot in the Grave, The Last of the Summer Wine...hehe, Harry Enfeild, Hale & Pace. Going way back I loved The Young Ones & Blackadda. Even further back was Benny Hill, The Two Ronnies, Open all Hours, Are you being served? Laughing is good for ya!:yes:

[yungatart]

Anything done by the Brits, Monty Python, Blackadder, The Young Ones and fawlty Towers would have to rate right up there... oh, and Bottom, of course!
Americans can't do comedy.

[Winston001]

Blackadder, Fawlty towers, steptoe, fools and horses, python.

Married with children?

-Indy

Yes yes yes to all of the above.

Introduced my children to Dad's Army lately. Well acted and useful for explaining things like rationing, blitz, fuzzie-wuzzies etc.

"Allo Allo" is very clever too although a bit of a curate's egg. The English gendarme has to be one of the funniest characters ever. Right up there with Basil Fawlty.

[James Deuce]

jeves and wooster....would have to be my favorite
Indubitably sir.

Mine too.

Closely followed by Black Books.

[James Deuce]

The English gendarme has to be one of the funniest characters ever.

"Good Ovening. I was just pissing by the door and I thought I would drip in."

[marty]

just found the flowery twots collection on video and are ripping it to dvd. farkin funny.

uktv has a lot of classics on during the day

[Indiana_Jones]

oh yea, forget dad's army! that is wicked, oh and 'Bottom' & Red dwarf :D

-Indy

[Pussy]

Alan B'Stard, The New Statesman, good for a laugh

[Indiana_Jones]

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less,
Let me fly, far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose,
Drinking fresh mango juice,
Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...
Fun, fun, fun, in the sun, sun, sun...


-Indy

[kiwifruit]

Anything done by the Brits, Monty Python, Blackadder, The Young Ones and fawlty Towers would have to rate right up there... oh, and Bottom, of course!
Americans can't do comedy.


BOTTOM!! ROFL, what a show :lol:

[Karma]

Hmmm...

The Fast Show was funny.
Anything with Eddie Izzard in it rocks
The late great Richard Pryor was a fairly funny guy

End of the day... nobody is funnier than this guy;

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[Winston001]

I was pissing by the door when I heard two shats. You are holding in your hind a smoking goon. You are clearly the guilty potty!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Allo_'Allo!

[Krayy]

Anybody remember "Filthy, Rich & Catflap" and "The New Statesman"?

First was Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planers follow up to The Young Ones, and latter was Rik Mayalls hilarimouse take on A New Labour MPs (lack of) morals and Maciavellian politics.

[avgas]

MASH, 2 guys and a Pizza Place

[madboy]

I'm with MSTRS, any police reality show NZ or otherwise. And Boston Legal.

[Maha]

Beverly Hillbilly's.....Hogan's Hero's....the Office...It Aint Half Hot Mum
Those Clampets were too funny....

[Buster]

Trailor park boys is really funny. White trash at its best.

Cops was always good for a laugh :weird:

[Skyryder]

Anybody remember "Filthy, Rich & Catflap" and "The New Statesman"?

First was Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planers follow up to The Young Ones, and latter was Rik Mayalls hilarimouse take on A New Labour MPs (lack of) morals and Maciavellian politics.

The New Statesman was the first Rick Mayal comedy I saw with him in it.

Absolutely Fablouse.............I don't think has been mentioned.

Anyone remember Hary Worth? Show use to start with him kicking his leg up in a shop window. It looked like he was doing the splits standing up.
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/adults/other/harryworth.htm

There was another Spring and Autumn............on years ago about this old guy and this young kid who became friends. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/springandautumn_1299002937.shtml

The only decent comedy the American ever did was Laugh In. Never shown in NZ but those that saw it...............shit you crackin up from start to finish.

Comedians.........................Still have a soft spot for Bob Hope. Impeccable timing. Kenny Everett...........a genius gone too soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Everett.

Marty Feldman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Feldman



Les Dawson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Dawson


Skyryder

[Krayy]

How about local content:

Rabbiters Rest
A Week of It
Hudson and Halls (funny as in their bitch-fight years)
7 Periods with Mr Gormsby
...that sketch comedy show that kick started Willy de Wits career (you know, where he played Norman the Mormon)...
Bro Town

any more....?

[Krayy]

And more currently...

The I.T. Crowd

Made by the same bloke who did Father Ted and Black Books (I like those 2 too), and focussing on the trials and tribulations of an IT support team modelled along the lines of The Bastard and his PFY. Moss (the PFY) is particularly amusing.

Some classic quotes:

"Hello, IT. Is it plugged in?"

"He's stuck under a ladies desk and he's been there too long for a reasonable explanation and people will start to think he's a desk-rabbit!"

[Beemer]

I loved Red Dwarf, Steptoe and Son, Two pints of lager, Seven periods with Mr Gormsby - but my favourite would probably be Green Wing. Saw most of the first series and have been waiting anxiously for more. Haven't even seen it on DVD yet, despite it being released in the UK last August.

I've watched two episodes of The I.T. Crowd but it doesn't grab me. There are some funny parts in it but it's not consistently funny enough to make me want to watch it again.

[Marknz]

anything with Billy Connelly in it...

[Goblin]

How about local content:

Rabbiters Rest
A Week of It
Hudson and Halls (funny as in their bitch-fight years)
7 Periods with Mr Gormsby
...that sketch comedy show that kick started Willy de Wits career (you know, where he played Norman the Mormon)...
Bro Town

any more....?
Loved 7 Periods with Mr Gormsby!! Farkin FUNNY!!

Norman the Mormon was a crack up too.

Face lift was good for sticking it to the polititions.

I never got into Bro town as I have young boys and was pissed off how they advertised it during after school programs. Boys dont need anymore toilet humour & I got sick of hearing them saying "poos & wees" all the farking time! That Oscar Kieghtly & Jon Bridges are not even funny! How they got so high up in TVNZ I'll never know. Here's a thread about comedy & I'm ranting about these two fukwits....Grrrrr!! I need to go for a ride...

[Swoop]

but my favourite would probably be Green Wing. Saw most of the first series and have been waiting anxiously for more. Haven't even seen it on DVD yet, despite it being released in the UK last August.
I had Green Wing DVD series 1, here 2 weeks ago, but it is now in England.
Amazon.com..............

Skitz? is that the Willi De Witt show?

Kenny Everett!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And "Whoops Apocalypse"... definately off the wall...

[MSTRS]

English comedy always the best...
The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin (and The Fall and Rise....)
Morecombe and Wise
Not the 9 O'clock News
Anything with Ronnie Barker
ditto with John Cleese

[bane]

The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin (and The Fall and Rise....)

now that was brilliant! Work with an english guy in his late 30's who looks exactly like Reginald, but doesnt get why people call him that :doh:

now Im far more high brow:
Southpark and Family Guy

[Kornholio]

The Young Ones, Bottom and Seinfeld was awesome....pretty much all of the above too.

[blacksheep]

black books with biil bailey-the mans a genius

[Hawkeye]

Need I say more...

[MSTRS]

now that was brilliant! Work with an english guy in his late 30's who looks exactly like Reginald, but doesnt get why people call him that :doh:

now Im far more high brow:
Southpark and Family Guy
Yes...C.J.

[Kornholio]

Yes...C.J.

...dont forget Mrs C.J :nono:

[Skyryder]

How about local content:

Rabbiters Rest
A Week of It
Hudson and Halls (funny as in their bitch-fight years)
7 Periods with Mr Gormsby
...that sketch comedy show that kick started Willy de Wits career (you know, where he played Norman the Mormon)...
Bro Town

any more....?

Glide Time. NZ classic.....................bit deadpan for some. It's humour was fairly dry.

The first series of God dammit can't remember his name. The Maori guy.....died some time ago. Billy T James that's it . Only comdian this country ever produced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_humour

Skyryder

[bane]

Yes...C.J.

dont forget the hippo!

[Winston001]

In the mid-80s there was a BBC comedy show - Spitting Image. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/spittingimage_7775945.shtml I enjoyed it immensely and have a few snippets on VHS. Possibly dated now because it focused on 80s polititians but we did have a local version for a while too.

For some reason the Americans took a long time to do good comedy - tended to be obvious and smaltzy. But Married With Children was a classic and I can't find much Brit humour these days. Black Books and the New Statesman, Blackadder and Mr Bean stand out.

[Swoop]

For some reason the Americans took a long time to do good comedy - tended to be obvious and smaltzy. But Married With Children was a classic and I can't find much Brit humour these days. Black Books and the New Statesman, Blackadder and Mr Bean stand out.
Unfortunately America produces vast amounts of "sit-com"... where crap actors have to have the canned laughter machine played for them...

Stand up comedy in America is fantastic! The likes of Robin Williams and a huge amount of others gives me hope...

[Winston001]

Incidentally there is one type of comedy which I just don't get - Ali G. He's lame with basically one joke - a South London pseudo West Indian gangsta wannabe. Admittedly the actor has done some funny interviews and stuff with bewildered Americans a la Norman Gunston.

[Squeak the Rat]

Ali G was very funny when he first started and interviewed politicians. They thought he was "for real" and there were some very funny moments "why don't we carpet bomb northern ireland" :rofl:, and when he asked a panel of literary types if they'd all seen animal farm.....

Once every one clicked to the joke it went downhill somewhat....

Benny Hill used to be funny, but having watched it recently I change my mind on that. This is ok though George "Benny Hill" Bush (http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/bennyhill.htm)

American comedies? Scrubs is probably the only one I'd rate...

[Blackadda]

Anything from the UK

Sienfeld
M*A*S*H
Only decent american stuff's (excepting Danny Crane)

Billy Connelly Live
(except that lame american shite he got into???)

Eddie Izzard Live

Funniest movie - Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrells!


oh........... and BlackAdda