Fav Comedy Show

[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:Me]

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

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:Me]

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

now Im far more high brow:
Southpark and Family Guy

Yes...C.J.

[Kornholio]

Yes...C.J.

...dont forget Mrs C.J

[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/ar..._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" , 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

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