Bottom

[SplEEb]

I remember watching The Young Ones on mtv in the early 80s and recently just watched them all on utube.
Then in suggested videos and comments kept seeing Bottom, so I started watching them. I love that kind of humor.
Then watched all the bottom live shows.
Then found out ade edmondson was married to jennifer saunders and started watching ab fab.
I'm so bummed that I wasn't in the moment and had to watch them years later.
Anybody else a fan of these guys and this kind of humor?
Any other good show like this I may enjoy??

[SplEEb]

nice, Thanks for the list.

[SoM]

i'm not a brit, thank god

benny hill ftw

[losCHUNK]

Filthy rich and catflap was made before Bottom, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson with Neil (Nigel Planer) from the young ones, it's where their egos were developed.

They also done a few 'the comedy show presents' which includes them through all the series, with each episode including casts from other BBC comedies like French + Saunders, the Ab Fab duo, that can be a bit hit and miss for me though.

Prolly think of some more later, Black Adder is an obvious choice though

[losCHUNK]

Was actually Comic Strip Presents, got it confused with a current series :]

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_ ... saAGZEm1s4

I only mention it because Ade and Rik are the main characters, it's just each episode is different from the next, kinda like a season long sketch show and if you don't like 1 sketch, you're not gonna like the entire episode :/

Brittas Empire I thought was essential too, thought it was well worth Rimmer taking a season out, Carol having bunk beds in the draws for her babies still cracks me up when I think about some of the scenes

The Bottom film 'Guest House Paradiso' n all

[losCHUNK]

Dangerous Brothers too, that was before The Young Ones, was used as a test bed for their characters :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWuf1yr ... ure=relmfu

Both would of been very young, could'nt of long turned 20.

[MKJ]

Allo Allo

[DTS]

Sitcom nerds

Try Blacks Books, I liked a few episodes of that (just didn't get round to watching more, and they didn't repeat it much). That was pretty good, had some originality and had Bill Bailey in it. It's more recent than those old shows.

There was another sitcom about a science lab but can't remember what it was called. That was good and pretty recent comparitively speaking, the most recent sitcom that was any good, apart from Red Dwarf X.

The bottom line (no pun intended) is that you just need to say you like British comedy and go from there...

[seremtan]

IT Crowd was gold

Black Books was kinda meh. Dylan Moran looked like a young Kyle MacLachlan, only Irish

[SplEEb]

Was actually Comic Strip Presents, got it confused with a current series :]

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_ ... saAGZEm1s4

I only mention it because Ade and Rik are the main characters, it's just each episode is different from the next, kinda like a season long sketch show and if you don't like 1 sketch, you're not gonna like the entire episode :/

Brittas Empire I thought was essential too, thought it was well worth Rimmer taking a season out, Carol having bunk beds in the draws for her babies still cracks me up when I think about some of the scenes

The Bottom film 'Guest House Paradiso' n all

That link is not available in the us.
I watched the guest house paradiso and didn't think it was up to par with the rest of the bottom shows. twas ok tho.
Thanks for all the info fellas, I have alot to watch now.

[4days]

guest house paradiso was a bit of a balls up - something to do with rik having an accident on a quad bike and ade having to do most of the direction/production work - ending up with a really disjointed and creepy movie.

if you can figure out how to get the link to work in the states, 'mr jolly lives next door' uses similar characters and is from around the same era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGi6BBGHT5Q

[Ryoki]

the green wing
Not from the same era, still really funny stuff.

[Eraser]

The Vicar of Dibley was funny too.

[Plan B]

the green wing
Not from the same era, still really funny stuff.

Really?
The quirky character shit was mildly amusing the first two episodes.
Then it got old fast for me, though.

Anyway, check out anything Steve Coogan.
The master of awkward humour, long before Ricky Gervais tried to claim that.

[Ryoki]

I quite liked it, yeah

It's not something that should be in the same list as Bottom, Young Ones, etc, but i was thinking 'british comedy that is actually funny and noone ever seems to have heard of' and this popped in my mind.

[Plan B]

It's just that I lost interest after the first two episodes, because it then was more of the same quirky characters being quirky.
The whole premise is a one off bit. Nothing to base an entire series on.
Adding another season. Why? Just...no. Was mildly amusing for half an hour, but then just...stop.

[seremtan]

is there no amusing dutch comedy? or do you have to speak english to be funny these days?

[seremtan]

Anyway, check out anything Steve Coogan.
The master of awkward humour, long before Ricky Gervais tried to claim that.

now the master of self-appointed butthurt spokespersonry-for-the-people at the Leveson Enquiry because a newspaper printed his marital infidelities and hacked his phone

[MKJ]

is there no amusing dutch comedy? or do you have to speak english to be funny these days?

not much, the dutch language lacks the nuance of the english. so comedy is usually whittled down to physical comedy.. sans the needed timing.

dutchees are more suited for either improv or stand-up. not the 'have you ever noticed'-kind, but more like an hour and a half coherent story with amusing anecdotes and incidentals.

and then there's hans teeuwen who does the whole andy kaufman bit. lolboats until youve seen it twice before.

[DRuM]

Alexie Sayle was another brilliant comic of the young ones era, and appeared in their shows. Check out clips on youtube from his own show that he used to have on bbc in the 90s, not so much the sketches but in particular for his monologues.

[Eraser]

is there no amusing dutch comedy? or do you have to speak english to be funny these days?

There's actually Dutch remakes of American and British programs like Everybody Loves Raymond, Golden Girls, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and even an attempt at The Daily Show. All of those (except perhaps the Have I Got News For You one) are utter failures without any sense of humor at all. Dutchees generally do have a sense humor, but not the American or British kind. At least, many people do enjoy it but are poor at creating that type of funny.

[MKJ]

Alexie Sayle was another brilliant comic of the young ones era, and appeared in their shows. Check out clips on youtube from his own show that he used to have on bbc in the 90s, not so much the sketches but in particular for his monologues.

Dr Martin's Boots!

[SplEEb]

Alexie Sayle was another brilliant comic of the young ones era, and appeared in their shows. Check out clips on youtube from his own show that he used to have on bbc in the 90s, not so much the sketches but in particular for his monologues.

I don't know, the little bit of him in the young ones doesn't do much for me, his style is kind of weird.
Watched some death adder and a couple comic strip presents and some dangerous brothers and liking them all.
I woulda liked to party with ade edmondson back in the early 80's 90's, he was a lunatic.

[Doombrain]

Spaced is a must see.
The Alan Partridge Show.
Game on was OK, the early stuff.
Big Train.
Phoenix Nights, also a must see (Northern humor).
Shooting Stars.

[SplEEb]

Thanks DB, I'm saving this thread cause there is too much to remember now.