I'm glad Yes Minister finally got a mention on this thread - it's right up there in the top 4 British sitcoms for me, along with Blackadder 2-4, Porridge and the No 1, Fawlty Towers. All four were fantastically acted. I'd have Only Fools and Horses and The Office in the next Division, along with Phoenix Nights and I'm Alan Partridge. And Father Ted if you count it as British. And maybe Spaced and Black Books. The Young Ones was a key part of my adolescence and had brilliant moments - but it was really, really inconsistent. Some scenes just didn't work.
What's an IN between friends? Those two shows were brilliant! "Oiy think the aaanswer loys in the soil". " 'ere, stop muckin' abooouuut! " Wish I could do Kenneth Williams' accent on 'ere. (NOT!)
I loved Soap; one of my favourite comedies, ever, with great characters and brilliant acting. Amazing such a zany show could be made in the USA!
I don't think anyone's mentioned Dad's Army -- right up there at or near the very top for writing, characters, and acting. Then when that finished, the same writers followed up with Are You Being Served? Some of the characters were excellent, but overall it was "as common as muck". I've never heard that phrase over here.
I bought a small ranch last summer and summarily went to the local John Deere dealership to buy my first tractor. What was on the TV in the waiting room? The Goon Show. I still don't believe it.
Perhaps it's a generational thing, but I always found Dad's Army to be overrated. Still better than AYBS, though. On a brighter note, Soap was great. Arrested Development reminded me of it in many ways 20-odd years later.
Joe, he was a young cordwangler, Munging greebles he did go, And he loved a bogler's daughter By the name of Chiswick Flo. Vain she was and like a grusset Though her gander parts were fine, But she sneered at his cordwangle As it hung upon the line. So he stole a woggler's mooly For to make a wedding ring, But the Bow Street Runners caught him And the judge said "He will swing." Oh, they hung him by the postern, Nailed his mooly to the fence For to warn all young cordwanglers That it was a grave offence. There's a moral to this story, Though your cordwangle be poor, Keep your hands off other's moolies, For it is against the law.
yeah i thought Sayle was a bit **** , n anything to do with them two off the carling Ads , other than that alls i remember was reciting every part of it in the school playground after just one viewing it out Booched the mighty booch which i think was heavily influenced by Young ones
The whole show was innuendo. Surprised Mary Whitehouse didn't get it banned, but she probably tried to.
Mary Whitehouse once asked Sid James for a single reason why such innuendo should be allowed on our screens. So he gave her one.
Both are oookaaay, but neither is anywhere as good as Little Britain. Etched in my brain forever is the sketch where David Walliams demands "Bitty! Bitty!", whereupon Vanessa Redgrave whips one out and breast-feeds him. I'd heard they were planning to do a Little USA, but I've heard nothing about it for a while.
About 7 or 8 years ago someone in the States set up a web-site that contained most, if not all, of the episodes from many of the old Brit radio comedy shows (late 50's to early 70's) . I managed to download 'em all , but for the life of me I can't remember the name of the site.
