Rolling UK Comedy Thread - "Ricky Don't Lose Larry David's Number

name one 00s BBC comedy series that DIDN'T get a second series.

According to Bex

BBC hates women

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/800/bex_1.jpg

"jokes, bruv"

According to Bex fun fact: Jessica "Hynes" Stevenson fired her agent after that series was transmitted for letting her make such bad decisions.

i think i want a (british) sitcoms cast pictures thread

Set it up, we run it.

so, Learners then - Jessica "Hynes" Hynes and Doctor Who back together again but this time FUNNY. oooooOOoo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/04_april/03/learners.shtml

see also http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/l/lforlester_1299001825.shtml

zomg Jessica Hynes husband in that is Rose Tyler's dad!!!!

I LIKED GAVIN AND STACEY.

ban pj miller

There is no-one, NO-ONE that is improving British Comedy on TV right now. No-one. Everything is middling to dreadful. How the hell did we arrive at this state of affairs?

My doomy outlook may be informed by spending too much time at Cookdandbombd. The most positive thing you're likely to read on there is 'Everything is fucking awful apart from X. And even he's a cunt.'

THE THICK OF IT

'The Thick of it' is alright. That's depressing though, given that it is actually the best comedy thing on TV at the moment. it's clever, well made and acted, witty.....and i've never once laughed out loud at it.

the first part of 2-part special had me laughing out loud around 20 times, and that's a conservative estimate

Well, i can't really argue with your experience of it, Louis. i feel that it's a very smart show, but isn't that funny. Without the Malcolm character (the most trad element)would it be anything more than slightly amusing?
i like it fine enough, but i don't think it's a GREAT comedy show.

I thought the programme's strength came from its excellent and universally funny ensemble cast (the 'tory' faction being especially amusing). The Malcolm character may be the funniest (and, oddly, most complex) character, but it succeeds whether its set-pieces contain him or not.

'Universally funny' is quite a stretch.

Perhaps, but I didn't detect any clear weaknesses.

My doomy outlook may be informed by spending too much time at Cookdandbombd. The most positive thing you're likely to read on there is 'Everything is fucking awful apart from X. And even he's a cunt.'

Emergency Lalla Ward 10 and Josie Long share a Facebook friend. Should we be told?

The secret of great comedy is, never visit Cookdandbombd.

Lalla and Long's facebook friend : Kofi Annan.

lol @ me going to same summer camp as josie long when i was 12/13

Lalla and Long's facebook friend :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/content/images/2006/04/11/wrestlemania_22_11_470x360.jpg

Must dash - Mock The Week's on. i never tire of Frankie Boyle call someone 'a paeeeeeeeeeeeeeedoh'.

are you an american or an american't?

can i be a canadiboth?

Josie Long latest name in Phil Astin steroid prescription controversy - you gotta go out there on the road every night and be whimsical thirty, forty minutes a night, somethin's gotta give and etc

Robin Ince expects a specific LOOK for his performers, he's made his name putting on comedians with comic book bodies and it's hard for him to get out of that mindset.

Oh christ, that was terrible @ Andy Parsons on Mock the Week just now.

Actually, Oh christ, that was terrible @ Andy Parsons.

You've gotta bear in mind that Ince was the product of a rape and his sister was kidnapped and murdered though

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just got offed OTM re The Thick Of It 1:2 funniness

i'm surprised how much i'm laughing at fonejacker. does that make me a bad man?

no just brainless

^^^ this

Still Game was rubbish :-/

i caught a bit of trevor mcdonalds news knight on sunday. it was hilarious. incredibly satirical and genuinely funny. especially marcus brigstock, that guy can crack a gag!

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oooh mustn't forget the sterling work of sue perkins, so good to see a female lesbian trading jokes with a knight of the realm. the footlights really have been working overtime in the last few years producing comedy giant after comedy giant. it really was like all the funny bits of have i got news for you without the all the other stuff round it. marvellous!

i saw it once. they gave reg hunter a script. this is by no means a good idea.

sue perkins is gay?

well we've lost a lot of uk comedy MVPs this week but for whoever's left, a video beef from ricky responding to the haters...

http://www.rickygervais.com/

it's well trainwreck.

i watched that expecting something about live aid. nada. i hate you.

i actually watched that.

i hate you.

live earth.

MOST INFLUENTIAL COMEDIES
1 Monty Python's Flying Circus
2 Only Fools and Horses
3 Blackadder
4 Little Britain
5 The Royle Family
6 The Morecambe and Wise Show
7 Spitting Image
8 The Young Ones
9 The Office
10 The Vicar of Dibley
Source: UKTV Gold

i'd like to make it clear i was sort of trolling when i was saying news-knight is "good" upthread. it isn't.

UKTV Gold viewers seem to have some new definition of "influential" that none of the rest of us do.

Little Britian in the short term is pretty OTM though, look at the BBC 3 comedy roster. And it is definetely represntative of a clutural moment that encompasses the likes of The Friday Night Project and Blunder whether it actually influenced these thing is debatable but y know as a certain ilx dude likes to point out the whole concept of influence in these contexts is kinda silly.