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

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(Semi) joke. Pixie Geldof claimed they was an item or something and then it turned out not to be true but maybe it was a bit true and the Daily Mail got all Daily Mail over it.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

just been watching the brittas empire. now that's comrdy.

― acrobat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The one sketch I've seen of 15 Storeys High (drill sergeant training four kids to become a million-selling boyband) was classic. I've always liked the idea of it but to be fair never bothered to watch any further.

The Mighty Boosh is rubbish and I find Phoenix Nights kind of overrated as well to be fair. I might be alone in find Knowing Me Knowing You far, far funnier than I'm Alan Partridge as well.

The Man City of this this poll (AKA no one knows how the fuck they're going to do at the start of this season) is The Royle Family.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear The Royle Family outstayed its welcome and kinda blew what good-will it had garnered.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I might be alone in find Knowing Me Knowing You far, far funnier than I'm Alan Partridge as well.

http://chilled.cream.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=4

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

LoG - bit i would have voted for Still Game had it been on the list.

― jed_, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

One day left.

― chap, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Mighty Boosh! I think Momus has identified an expat tendency to look at all British comedy through rose-tinted spectacles, so I find it hard to hate much of it. It's all like finding a message in a bottle, although maybe I would hate Little Britain if I still lived in the UK.

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Of the ones I've seen, I'm going to have to go with Mighty Boosh overall and am surprised that not that many people seem to like it here! Black Books, Brass Eye, and Spaced are all close. Regarding what someone upthread said about Spaced being very of the time, I saw it for the first time last week (watched both seasons in about 4 days) and LOVED it.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Wot, no "Roman's Empire".... just joking!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

No Footballer's Wives?

― admrl, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

No...whatever that Jasper Carrot/Nina Wadia thing was called.

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

What about that thing with Johnny Vegas, "Ideal"? It's not funny mind you

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

15 Storeys High is really really underrated.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How many people have ever seen it?

― Tom D., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer Ideal to 15 Storeys High, but I do appreciate that makes me wrong.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I only saw a few episodes of 15 S H but it was v good, laid back suburban surrealism. Also Spaced, Black Books, Big Train (best sketch show of last 10 years?) yes yes yes, LoG and Little Britain no no no no no.

― ledge, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

15 Storeys was often very funny, but was more like a sketch show than a sitcom. I like my sitcoms to be fairly tight narratively, it tends to make the payoffs funnier (and you can have a strong story and still be surreal and whimsical, just look at Black Books or Father Ted).

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Blimey, The Office won.

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

lol americans

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i was going to say...and I like the office, too.

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the office as well, but I was thinking the Gervais backlash would've put it out of the running. I suppose 'lol americans' as Dom says.

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Do people really hate Ricky Gervais now or is just Dom and NRQ?

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The fairly shoddy second series of Extras didn't help his cred, certainly. But evidently people don't hate him.

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I thought that second series was a VAST improvement on the first, you see.

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

who is my royle family brohirrim

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Who voted for Help? I'm curious.

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck the office, there was so much better on that list than the office.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

What did/would you vote for, Ed?

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I assumed Chris Morris bores would carry the day, I must say.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not boring! Or, I try!

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I didn't mean that liking Chris Morris makes you boring. I just have a type in mind.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I dislike Gervais' comedic style, although I appreciate that he has a good ear for a line. I'm trying to work out which is the bigger travesty, The Office with 13 or Little Britain with 2. I do believe it might be LB.

"Chris Morris bores", what are you on about, we're practically the enemies of boredom! Heh, but seriously, what sort of 'type' did you mean?

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan Partridge. Putting the chat amongst the pigeons.

― Drooone, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Do people really hate Ricky Gervais now or is just Dom and NRQ?

I think that lots of people having always hated Ricky Gervais, even when they know he's producing good work. He's kind of a dislikable character. And before The Office, nothing he did was any good, as far as I know, so it was even more straightforward not to like him.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh, but seriously, what sort of 'type' did you mean?

Oh, I guess the kind of stereotype of the frustrated, keyboard-bashing comedy geek who thinks most people are stupid and use the word "genius" in relation to Chris Morris more often than not. I thought this was a well-recognised type!

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

A difficult toss up between spaced, brass eye, boosh, phoenix nights and monkey dust (possibly black books as well)

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone not like Black Books? It may not be innovative to top this poll but I have yet to see anyone say anything bad about it!

― admrl, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I find Spaced and Boosh have high peaks of hilarity every now and then (the paintball scene in Spaced being massively hilarious for example), but over all they're a bit eh.

xp black books is great, i agree.

― Drooone, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

SRSLY tho, WHO VOTED LITTLE BRITAIN, this is important information.

Why wasn't there more love for Monkey Dust? I can answer this, actually: it's a bit heavy-handed, a bit self-important, and it's animated (therefore very stylised). It isn't meek and unassuming, it isn't particularly subtle. This is going to turn a lot of people off. The reason I love it, however, is precisely because of this flashiness. I can't help but fall for its desperation, its eagerness to astonish me.

A more interesting thing would be to see how people RANK the ones they've seen.

p.s. Black Books is candyfloss, but, I agree, very funny candyfloss. Not quite on the same level as the king of candyfloss, Father Ted, however. Same writer, same spirit, not quite the same magic.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I probably do not like black books

― RJG, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Spaced would have been joint first if I'd read this thread before the poll closed.

― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

definitive ranking:

adore:
Brass Eye
Monkey Dust
Peep Show

like a lot:
Nathan Barley
Phoenix Nights
The Thick of It
Black Books
Green Wing

like with reservations:
Spaced
Jam

like with very strong reservations:
The Mighty Boosh
The League of Gentlemen
The Office

no thanks:
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Extras

i thought i told you to fuck off:
Little Britain

i really, really need to see 'i'm alan partridge'.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll admit to having quite enjoyed the first series of Little Britain, mainly due to Lucas' performances, but my esteem for it just fucking nosedived with each subsequent outing, and it by no strecth of the imagination is the best britcom of the last ten years. So yes, Offed's question needs to be answered.

― chap, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Brass Eye.

Oh yeah, and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

Shockingly.

― kingfish, Thursday, 10 May 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone not like Black Books?

I've never seen it because I can't stand Dylan Moran.

"I'm Alan Partridge" (1st series) should have won.

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The first series of Black Books, as written by (either Linehan or Matthews I forget) is really good. The latter ones written by Dylan Moran, where the plots are "lol asylum seekers have different customs to me", are fucking awful.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

That's 'cos he's rubbish

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I probably do not like black books

-- RJG, Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:57 AM (9 hours ago)

otm

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

even though i don't like it, am surprised at jam's poor showing. i voted 'thick of it' -- the xmas spesh of which the bbc should totally broadcast today -- but it could easily have been morris/partridge.

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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