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

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i made a post but nu-ilx eated it.

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

dude you were bigging up Adam & Joe

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

and what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since Fielding's been outed as a kiddy fiddler it may've taken a dive.

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

waht

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Did you just make that up?

― chap, Saturday, 5 May 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link

(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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

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

One day left.

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

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

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

No Footballer's Wives?

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

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

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

15 Storeys High is really really underrated.

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

How many people have ever seen it?

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

Blimey, The Office won.

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

lol americans

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

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

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

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

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

who is my royle family brohirrim

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

Who voted for Help? I'm curious.

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

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

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

What did/would you vote for, Ed?

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

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

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

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