Best British comedy series to have debuted in the last ten years.

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Spaced is a very 'of the time' thing so if you come to it for first time you probably won't dig it half as much.

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I only saw it like 3 years ago! I still LOVVVED it.

― Will M., Friday, 4 May 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to go with Black Books.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm.... I don't really think of I'm Alan Partridge as being the debut as there had already been the Knowing Me, Knowing You chat show thing before it, so I'm tempted to go for The Office (which was brilliant, even if Ricky Gervais is getting a bit rubbish now) or Peep Show (which used to be brilliant, and is now merely quite funny) instead, but, fuck it, even if I quibble with the debutness I think that series of Alan Partridge is comedy perfection. Anyone who says Little Britain is a cunt.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

the faux tarantino-isms of spaced have worn reeeeally badly

i voted for the royle family!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to say, I don't understand "faux-tarantino-isms". I don't think Spaced has aged that badly, either.

― admrl, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

If Spaced owes a debt to anything, it's The Simpsons.

― admrl, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

And video games! Not only game references, but a lot of game-isms. If I remember correctly. That was one of my favourite bits.

― Will M., Friday, 4 May 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

If Spaced owes a debt to anything, it's The Simpsons.

in being the first(?) British comedy to plough the field of 'of it's time' popcult references in such a Simpsons-like way yes (Young Ones did this too but in a different way kinda).

― blueski, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, but also in terms of pace and style.

― admrl, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Just finished watching the first episode, may have to change my mind. Funn-eee.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I know "funn-eee" is the universally accepted shorthand for "not funny", but what I really meant was "actually funny".

Irrelevantly, Timothy Dalton in Hot Fuzz is one of my favourite British comic performances in recent memory.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(Although the film itself -- patchy.)

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm Alan Partridge is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, period, so that wins.

― John Justen, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss my little boy. I know this is incommunicable. Calling all pearants. Or somefimk.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Adam, I think we have similar comedy tastes.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Nighty Night was GREAT.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember when we saw Peter Baynham at Amoeba?? WTF??!

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

C'mon Spencer. Anglophilia or Misanthropy or Anythink; Shit was Wretched. Retch. Ed.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Does everyone hate Alan Partridge now?

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Please remember my being American disability!

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Just from reading this thread Alan Partridge has grown wings he was denied four months ago.

But [i]Nighty Night[/i[.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, I missed the IAP acronym.

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Spencer, let's meet Lohan and Peter Baynham at Skybar and do all the Fast Show routines.

― admrl, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan Partridge is great. Nighty Night was funny.

― admrl, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mgnet.karoo.net/lapdance.jpg

― admrl, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for Alan Partridge, but I'm lame like that.

― Nicole, Saturday, 5 May 2007 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"Unh unh, I want a second series"

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

garth merenghi's darkplace was better than a lot of these.

having said that, i vote big train.

― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 May 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no idea what's going to win here! I'd guess it'd be a straight fight between The Office and Brass Eye but in an ideal world the League of Gentlemen would sweep all before before it. That third series is still the apex of TV comedy for me (bad Joke Shop Guy episode notwithstanding).

― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

If you disagree with me about the third series, I should point out that I think the second series was the apex of TV comedy before the third series was.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(Actually Alan Partridge might easily win)

― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted for IAP, but if I though it'd have any chance of winning I'd have gone with The Armando Ianucci Shows. The Powerpoint stand-up comedian, the Italian barber, "You see it wasn't called drum n bass in those days, that came after"... man, I need to go and buy the DVD this afternoon.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i made a post but nu-ilx eated it.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link

where is Harry Hill's first tv series from 1997 or TV Burp? When did The Adam and Joe Show start? 15 Storeys High is very deserving, that the nation di not love it very sad. Poor Shaun Locke now relegated to panel game hell.

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never seen 15SH but locke is so unfunny everywhere else i've seen him it's hard to believe it's much cop.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I posted a boring post yesterday that got ate. Agreeing with LoG being the greatest TV show evah made.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Combining attention to detail with straight lulz and proper filmicness being such a rare thing and all.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

there were funny bits in LoG? must have missed them. too heartless for my liking.

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

dude you were bigging up Adam & Joe

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

and what?

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

League of Gentlemen never did Quizzlestick or The Bob Hoskins Song ergo less funny.

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://swankola.com/hiart/clown1.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Adam & Joe 3rd series was great - holds up reasonably well today (watched the torrents recently) but it's more the cuteness of things ala Spaced - BaaadDad in Ibeefa, Mark E Smith on Vinyl Justice etc.

― blueski, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't dislike A&J - I just don't think they sit well alongside the line "too heartless for my liking".

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i've always found them really warm. maybe their shows had more dros, i watched the, 3rd and 4th series' at the time but only have seen the best off dvd recently.

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i never got LoG, just didn't persevere with it.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 5 May 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I never really watched LoG - rather like the Duchovny-less X-Filesseason, I taped 'em but never got round to watching 'em.

I voted for IAP, as S1 is almost perfect. It remains a pinnacle for me despite the twin buzz-harshers of (1) SOTCAA's "ah, no, actually - you see - this is why it's rubbish" site-defining polemic and (2) re-watching the farmers episode with a friend (a fan of Partridge's radio incarnation) who sat stony-faced and dismissed it as "goofy high farce". Oh, and the weak second series.

The Armando Iannucci Shows is right up there too. Black Books, Spaced, Brass Eye, The Thick Of It and Phoenix Nights are chasing the UEFA Cup spots. Jam, Marion & Geoff, 15 Storeys High, The Office, Nathan Barley capable of being anyone on their day but inconsistent and a bit weak at the back. Little Britain = Leeds Utd.

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 May 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly if you've only seen IAP series 2 once, watch it again - obv. it won't beat the first but i laughed at it much more with much lower expectations!

― blueski, Saturday, 5 May 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought ILX had a very vocal Boosh-loving constituent, or maybe it was just Dog Latin.

― chap, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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hahahahaha. go to my 'generation' thread.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish they'd repeat Dear John.

YES!

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Is anyone other than Dom going to give a detailed analysis of Monkey Dust's cultural value, or have we been through all this already?

― Just got offed, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You're letting the mask slip, dude.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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