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Post by Relenoir on Mar 1, 2005 2:49:32 GMT
That's your choice. After all, it's "cerebri" up to you... NS. That's pretty bad NS! But I grinned anyway.
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Post by Zipp on Mar 1, 2005 3:00:49 GMT
Bwa ha! I was thinking of the same joke, but didn't have the balls to post it (knowing how dreadful it would be). Thanks, NS!
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Post by North Star on Mar 1, 2005 15:56:06 GMT
Why thankyou all. *bows to the applause* Bad jokes are my speciality! Unfortunately, they're also usually rude or very British. NS.
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Post by Relenoir on Mar 2, 2005 3:16:14 GMT
Why thankyou all. *bows to the applause* Bad jokes are my speciality! Unfortunately, they're also usually rude or very British. NS. Nothing wrong with British humor, I love a good Python or Faulty Towers episode, and Rowan Atkinson! ;D
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Post by Black Cat on Mar 2, 2005 4:00:24 GMT
MR. BEAN ROCKS! ;D My sister has even a mini Teddy in a case, just like when he goes on a train trip!
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Post by North Star on Mar 2, 2005 9:05:16 GMT
*shudder* I can't STAND Mr Bean, probably because I never found slapstick in the slightest bit funny. That said, Fawlty Towers is six hours of manic brilliance and I just love the Dead Parrot Sketch.
"He resting after a prolonged squawk." "... he's shuffled off this mortal coil, gone to meet the bleeding choir invisible!"
NS.
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Post by outspaced on Mar 2, 2005 10:30:34 GMT
Pet peeve of mine--Why do people usually talk about ancient shows when they mention British comedy? Python and Fawlty Towers are great, sure, and I can quote them as well as the next man. As is Not the Nine o'Clock News and Blackadder (the first season of which was probably the funniest). But since 1990 we've had great comedy such as (in no particular order): Spaced, The League of Gentlemen, Attention Scum (not that it's ever been repeated), Big Train, The Day Today, Alan Partridge, Shooting Stars, Fist of Fun, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, The Friday Night Armistice, Have I Got News For You, Room 101, The Paul Merton Show (I'm a fan of Paul Merton, OK? ), QI, Doctor Terror's House of Horrors (which no one but me watched, but was a very funny show), etc. Even spoof 70s technology show Look Around You which is being broadcast currently. I'd also add Father Ted, but that's Irish, not British. Still a blindingly funny show, though. Maybe someone should start a new thread about this, though, because I'm not sure it's possible to be more off-topic than this.
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Post by Doomy on Mar 2, 2005 10:49:29 GMT
Did you forget the British show to have attracted the biggest Stateside following of all in recent times - The Office? BTW, I prefer the fourth series of Blackadder, maybe because I was reading about WW1 in school at the time it was first shown. It did a tremendous job of summing up the tragic absurdity of a conflict which claimed millions of lives FOR NO GOOD REASON, with General Melchett in particular ringing true as a parody of the murderously incompetent British commanders, who would order men to march in tight formation towards enemy machine guns and have them shot if they disobeyed (talk about a rock and a hard place!). And that final episode... one of my favourite moments in British TV history.
PS: I agree that we have gone somewhere WAY off topic - a definite trend on these boards - and will shut up now.
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Post by Relenoir on Mar 2, 2005 13:18:22 GMT
Probably because that's the only stuff they show over here, I'm afraid I've never even heard of the newer stuff. I don't know how new Mr. Bean is, but he's funny, and I've also enjoyed "Who's Line is it Anyway", which was so good that the U.S. came up with its own version with Drew Carey as the host. That said, I'll leave this "off topic" conversation alone now. I just had to console Outspaced.
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Post by North Star on Mar 2, 2005 13:26:37 GMT
Well, *I* think that HIGNFY is extremely funny and, when it's at its best, My Family is screamingly funny. But, like rats off a sinking ship and dirt off Lone Wolf's unwashed back (see, we're still... vaguely... on topic!), I'll be departing this conversation too, before Thomas gets REALLY irate!
North Star.
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Post by outspaced on Mar 2, 2005 13:46:44 GMT
Where has this bizarre idea about Thomas come from, you guys? He's not some kind of Swedish Ogre, y'know! (And anyway, I'd guess he's a bit busy re-re-editing the WoLW series to bother about any minor off-topicness )
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Post by outspaced on Mar 2, 2005 13:55:34 GMT
BTW, I prefer the fourth series of Blackadder, maybe because I was reading about WW1 in school at the time it was first shown. It did a tremendous job of summing up the tragic absurdity of a conflict Oh, quite. It's neither the setting nor the characters that makes it less funny, it's co-writer Ben Elton's continual addition of 'knob jokes' every 1-2 minutes per episode that lets it down. I remember watching it the first time around and thinking it was really funny, but when I watched repeats a couple of years ago, I was distinctly underwhelmed. It just got too crude without being particularly funny with it, IMO. There's some extremely funny stuff in there too, and some scathing commentary on the class system and the depredations of trench warfare and war in general, and the conclusion is an absolute classic and very thought-provoking. It's just that the first series had no Elton-input, and is therefore the funniest, IMO. Meh. Waddayagonnado?
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Post by Doomy on Mar 2, 2005 15:44:06 GMT
Have you noticed that recent threads on these forums almost invariably end up having nothing to do with the topic of their original post? Could it be that -GASP! - we have said all there is to say about Lone Wolf?
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Post by Zipp on Mar 2, 2005 17:17:49 GMT
Ummm... no. No one has yet asked what Lone Wolf's favorite food is, or prefered brand of ale, or wether he prefers pink over green...
Hey! I got it! Which British sitcom/comedy would be Lone Wolf's favorite!
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Post by Peregrine on Mar 2, 2005 20:12:23 GMT
Send for me? ;D Watch and learn, puppies... You're quite right, Outspaced -- most people do think of the older ones. But on behalf of the population of Australia I can say that's because we don't get the newer ones. I have never seen, and have probably never heard, of any of the shows you listed -- except Father Ted. It's like all the best British exports sort of petered out somewhere back in the 90s... everything from comedies to Lone Wolf books... ...and that, gentlemen, is how you swing a thread back in the direction of being on topic.
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