SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows a
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emuboy — 12 years ago(June 29, 2013 07:06 PM)
In Australia, very few people have heard of The Worst Week of My Life, which centered around the misadventures of the bumbling Howard Steel, his long-suffering wife Mel, her humorless parents Dick and Angela and other characters, such as Mel's drama queen younger sister, strange uncle and Howard's loopy PA. A comedy where everything possible goes wrong for the well-intentioned Howard, this is possibly the funniest show I have ever seen, but so obscure.
While not strictly a sitcom, as it was more comedy-drama, one of the best British shows was The Hello Girls, which was made in the mid 1990s and centered around a group of girls working at a telephone exchange in the late 1950s. So obscure and forgotten is The Hello Girls that I was beginning to think I had imagined the whole thing, until I found evidence that it actually existed on the internet. -
brucecorneil1960 — 12 years ago(June 30, 2013 03:54 AM)
Loved the early Dave Allen shows (Dave Allen at Large) in the 1970s. Unfortunately, he became very crude and foul - mouthed when he came back on to TV years later. Not sure what he was trying to achieve. Possibly trying to keep up with younger comics. Still, he was great in his prime.
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zoso_uk — 12 years ago(September 10, 2013 01:11 PM)
Rab C Nesbitt. It's based in Glasgow though, so it's unlikely people outside of the UK (even sometimes outside of Scotland lol) will understand the speech. But if you're lucky enough to 'get it', it's genius. The early years were absolutely hilarious. Gregor Fisher is without doubt the best drunk actor I have ever seen.
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gorbals406 — 12 years ago(September 22, 2013 04:28 PM)
Rab C Nesbitt. It's based in Glasgow though, so it's unlikely people outside of the UK (even sometimes outside of Scotland lol) will understand the speech
I agree that it's genius, but no one outside of Glaswegians will understand it, not even a lot of other Scots.
I posted on another board that the episode called
Semmitry
, S06E04 should have won an award for being the best show I've ever watched dealing with cancer.
"Faith is the substitution of emotion for evidence."
Rab C. Nesbitt
"To a religious mind, atheism is the most conventional way of being unconventional."
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RebelBette — 11 years ago(February 25, 2015 11:38 PM)
Green Wing
Coupling
Black Adder
Vicar of Dilby
Waiting for God
Doc Martin
Kingdom
Monday Monday
Gavin and Stacy
Spaced
Whites
Those are all of my favorite Britcoms (at the moment) that I can recall currently.. However, there are very many more