*BONG* Britain In "No ******* Clue What’s Funny" Shocker. The Office? Funnier than Fawlty Towers? Than Only Fools and Horses? Than Blackadder? **** – Little Britain funnier than Blackadder? All you who voted for TO and LB, kindly get on a boat to America. There’s a country full of people who don’t understand humour just waiting for you to join them.
*BONG* Tommy Vance Bites The Big One. RIP ya mad ******. Daft, growly voice; warped sense of humour; class taste in music. John Peel may have appealed to a lot of people, but this guy’s taste in music was nearer mine. Go raise some hell!
*BONG* Maradona Has Stomach Stapled. Anyone else agree that they should have stapled the cheating, drug-addled, fraudulent, perverted ****’s hands to his side as well?
*BONG* SF conference shadowed by murder. Another headline I kind of misunderstood. I thought there’d been a really bad fight about whether Deep Space 9 was better than Farscape. It turns out it’s Sinn Fein. Whoops.
*BONG* Janetyjanet losing marbles due to lack of sleep shock horror
*BONG* neighbours are away but we were woken by their fire alarms going off at 1:30am last night
*BONG* had to wake up neighbours the other side so we could use their key to check it all out
*BONG* no fire, they’re the sort that are powered directly from the mains & it was some sort of electrical thing so removed from ceiling & left with note on kitchen table
*BONG* bastard back-up batteries kick in 10 minutes later so have to get back up, go get key go back in & wrestle the crappy things open to rip out the battery
*BONG* finally got back to bed at 02:30
* BOnnnngggggggggzzzzzzzz*
And Bar-person – nice to know the happiest memory your nation has of a world cup is when your nearest neighbours got knocked out. And that one year you made it there when we didn’t (and got knocked out *very* quickly!).
Shame you have no memories of *getting* as far as we have! 😛
Anni – Blackadder isn’t cutting edge today, but when it came out it was. And Fawlty Towers often had me on the floor in tears.
I guess we’ll agree to disagree 🙂
Anni,
I live in the U.S.A. (Florida to be precise) and I have never heard of “Fawlty Towers”. Is it a TV show or movie? I don’t have much time for TV myself. None of my friends/relatives have heard of it either. If I do watch TV it’s usually the news, cooking or gardening shows. By the way, I happened upon this website while looking up my family tree. The Mosher family. Greetings Iain.
BarMan – Ah, yes. Archie. So good it appeared in Trainspotting!
Oh, Diana – Fawlty Towers lasted 2 series in the mid-70’s and starred John Cleese (from Monty Python) and Prunella Scales. Check the link in the above comment for more information.
Diana – welcome! You may have guessed from the page that “Mosher” is a nickname. However, you’re not the first person with that surname to get in touch. Good luck finding the rest of them 🙂
Echo – there are many classic British comedies worth looking at, but what to recommend depends a lot on your taste. Only Fools And Horses is superb, but gets a bit “drama” in the last couple of series (very long running). Blackadder cannot be recommended highly enough. Red Dwarf series 2-4 are good. Fawlty Towers is still a favourite. Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is worth digging out on PBS before the film arrives (though it’s a bit weird)…
Check this out: BBC COmedy Guide
Echo – apologies. I tend to base my opinions on experience and as pidgeonlynne points out, there’s *very* little that the US comedy market has produced that comes close to classic British fodder. Also, the number of Americans I’ve spoken to who think that BritCom begins and ends with Monty Python is amazing – they tend to be the same ones who re-enact wars from 500 years ago involving a country they declared independence from more recently…
Don’t mean to tar everyone with the same brush. Some of you aren’t that bad 😉
Can someone explain to me why Seinfeld was funny? And how he got so much per episode? And why Friends ran for more than 3 series?
Excuse me ?! Send the humor challenged to America ? I don’t think so. I’d rather have more episodes of Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Are You Being Served, and Blackadder, please.
friends and seinfeld were two of the worst programmes ever, i really have no idea why they were kept so long. we only have a tv to watch csi and movies on, other than that, its all crap.
Hmmm, I hate The Office with a passion, it just isn’t funny, same for Fawlty Towers and Only Fools and Horses. Little Britain and Blackadder (and Red Dwarf) however are absolutely hilarious and will have me practically wetting my pants laughing, even if I’ve seen the episode before
I love The Office. I hate Fawlty Towers – I can watch episode after episode and it will not even raise the corners of my mouth. The very fact it is so popular in the US is enough to tell you how crap it is. Not watched Little Britain, but Blackadder, while mildly amusing, is hardly cutting edge comedy, and is certainly not capable if bringing on the good old belly laff!
Mosh – that wasn’t our happiest World Cup memory…that was Archie Gemmil V Holland ’78.
We Scots revel in our mediocrity, and take perverse pleasure in laughing at those who don’t do the same!
Mosh – totally agree that American comedies and tv in general are awful. Don’t think there’s been an original idea in years. And when they do claim something is “new” ? Turns out it’s based on some British show. Just give me the original British show instead of copying it (and bad copying at that).
Any movies or shows that you’d suggest are worth watching ?
RE: Diego Armando Maradona.
He may well be a “cheating, drug-addled, fraudulent, perverted ****”, but just the sight of good old “nodding dog” Peter Reid trying gamely to catch up with him during *that* goal (not *THAT* goal!) brings tears of joy and laughter to all normal Scots. Ha ha! And Terry Butcher just failing to poke the ball into the net himself!! Unlucky there, Captain Courageous!
Maradona truly was a masterful footballer, a giant among men and a true footballing superstar. OK, he lived like a superstar too, but what do you expect of a kid brought up in the slums of Buenos Aires?
Nowadays, we’d classify him a “Chav” or a “Ned”.
(Any resemblance to the jug-eared granny-shagger is purely incidental. The boy-Shrek can only dream of having a quarter of Diego’s skill.)
Surely we can embrace all these programmes without contradiction?
I grew up watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Not the Nine O’clock News but I also enjoy The Office, Little Britain, The Fast Show – they are almost tributes to these earlier shows and pay homage to them regularly.
And what about shows like Red Dwarf? The Yanks liked that too. Does that mean it’s crap? Or that we shouldn’t like it?
I for one am standing proud when I say
SMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGHEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
😉
The office? it was a fix!
“Baldrik! You wouldn’t know a cunning plan if it punched you in the face, pushed you over and started to dance on you head singing ‘Cunning plans are here again!'”
(or something like that)
Classic
you have to forgive us americans for not knowing whats funny, have you seen american tv?? it ******* sucks.
so we like the office and buy it on dvd and sit around watching every episode in one day. just think then how much worse we’ve seen.
and i just thought you should know that farscape was better than deep space 9, even if that’s not in discussion.