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FAvorite British Comedy

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TWO RONNIES!!! Dad's Army!! YES!!

I just HAD to vote fer Black Adder... Baldric needed re-enforcement.


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TRDejaVu said:
I have a cunning plan...
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I too have a cunning plan,so cunning I've forgotten what it is. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

All of the shows listed are ones I like. One not mentioned so far is "Open all Hours" with Ronnie Barker.

Stuart.
 
So cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a fox?
 
I voted Mr. Bean. He cracks me up. Monty Python is a very close second. I've not seen most of these though. Red dwarf is pretty good, and benny hill is right up there in the slapstick stuff, but a little too raunchy to watch with the little kids sometimes. My 11 year old daughter knows the Spam skit and the lumberjack song by heart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif No doubt my influence there.
 
Red Dwarf would have been my second choice, if it were listed. "Dad's Army" always cracked me up, as did "To the Manor Born".
But "Black Adder", in all it's permutations, is my all time favorite of <u>any</u> TV comedy.
Sausages?........... <u>Sausages</u>!!!!!!!???
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With talk of Dad's Army and what not, I remembered the first ever comedy I was exposed to, only remember it because I wasn't allowed to watch it....
"It Aint Half Hot, Mum."
 
I also voted for Black Adder. So now the question is which series of Black Adder? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
kennypinkerton said:
My 11 year old daughter knows the Spam skit and the lumberjack song by heart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif No doubt my influence there.
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I read somewhere that the slang tem "Spam", as used to describe unwanted e-mail, comes from the Spam Skit. I had no idea that the Dot-commers were old enough to remember this skit! Must be due to parents' influence.
 
Blackadder - 2nd and 3rd series are my favorite ones. Always liked the dictionary episode - "it's a dream, it's a bloody dream".

Interesting comments about Benny Hill. It was considered a little risque in the UK when it was first shown decades ago, but is now so tame and dated to UK sensibilities that when we have visitors from the olde country they can't believe that it is still shown over here.
 
Where is Yes Minister and arthur daley / minder ?
 
also some mothers do 'ave 'em with Michael Crawford(the phantom of the opera fame)
 
Baz said:
Young Ones?
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Forgot about that one. It was shown on MTV over here back when MTV was videos during the day and odd TV shows at night. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif
 
Two Ronnies, Dad's Army, Black Adder.....Marvellous! How about Porridge, and Open All Hours?

I remember "It Ain't 'alf Hot Mum"........"Fine pair of shoulders lovely boy, show 'em off, show 'em off!"

Sing Lofty.
 
beaulieu said:
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Yes Minister was hilarious! Maggie Thatcher often said that was her favourite TV show.

Mind you, anyone seen the latest series on BBC America? "Hardware?" It is well up to the standard set by the classics, and in due course will be revered in its own right.
 
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