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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Online Points: 10236 |
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Well.....I haven't had the chance to see any of those listed above....but I really enjoyed League Of Gentlemen (though someone chimed in earlier and said it ws technically not a 'sitcom'.). ....weird and funny. And of course the old classic Fawlty Towers.
But then what do we uneducated Americans know anyway? Just ask Obi Wan Knobby.
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jude111 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: October 20 2009 Location: Not Here Status: Offline Points: 1565 |
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Matt Berry releases a prog-folk album!!!! Funnily enough, I was just looking at The Quietus website and see that Matt Berry has an album out that's being reviewed (quite favorably, I might add). Matt Berry's featured prominently on shows like Snuff Box, The It Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, etc. The reviewer calls it prog-folk, and writes, "Album centrepiece, 'Solstice', evokes the shortening of the days through wheezing harmonium, choral chant and dueling Moogs, before finishing off with a guitar solo that can only be described as 'bitchin'', bringing to mind Amon Duul II jamming with John Barleycorn-era Traffic in a stone circle illuminated by the light from bonfires." An excerpt from the review: "If you were to show someone a greatest hits compilation of Matt Berry's performances in the various comic TV series he has appeared in over the last ten years, and then asked them what kind of album he would make if given the chance, there's a good chance they would nominate prog. His performances are rich in bellowed portentous announcements ("SPEAK, PRIEST!"), eyebrow raised whimsy, and pompous bombast, three characteristics that they share with the best and most enjoyably ridiculous prog rock. Such an assessment would be partly right, too. Kill The Wolf has all of these things, but what it would fail to convey is how daffily enjoyable, beautifully arranged and oddly moving the finished result is." Edited by jude111 - June 21 2013 at 16:29 |
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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Online Points: 7330 |
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I've been out of the country too long, I don't really know any of these
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 17915 |
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I've always felt like The Mighty Boosh is something I would enjoy. Maybe I should watch it.
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Earthmover ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 03 2012 Status: Offline Points: 1509 |
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Black Books for sure.
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JJLehto ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34536 |
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Peep Show
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Knobby ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 31 2013 Location: Ontario Status: Offline Points: 490 |
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I recant:
IT Crowd is very good indeed.
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jude111 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: October 20 2009 Location: Not Here Status: Offline Points: 1565 |
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FusionKing ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 28 2009 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 520 |
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From those... number one is...The Mighty Boosh
Runners up...
Black Books
Father Ted (Though in theory Southern Ireland isn't really classed as Britain, just Ireland)
Still though many of my favourites aren't on here... Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Hippies etc.
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"Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre
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Mr Greeen Genes ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 28 2010 Location: NY Status: Offline Points: 298 |
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Had to go with Peep Show
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manofmystery ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 26 2008 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 4334 |
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From this list:
1)Father Ted 2)Peep Show 3)The IT Crowd 4)The Mighty Boosh 5)Snuff Box 6)Garth Marenghi's Darkplace I haven't seen enough of Spaced to fairly judge it, though I am a big fan of Pegg & Frost's movies. I'm also a Gervais fan but no in The Office, for whatever reason. The rest of them I've never seen. |
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Father Ted was so good!
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Peep Show, one of the greatest TV shows I've seen!
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JJLehto ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34536 |
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IKR
aint I just the worst kind of person?
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Padraic ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31135 |
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The very worst! :p
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proggman ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 14 2013 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 1458 |
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I like Black Books.
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ole-the-first ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 03 2012 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 1530 |
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Spaced. Edgar Wright + Simon Pegg + Nick Frost = fun.
Black Books is quite amusing as well. The IT Crowd started off excellent, but after the first five episodes it decreased a lot. |
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Black Books, Father Ted, Green Wing, Alan Partridge...?
How's a guy to decide? Very nearly plumped for the brilliantly written & performed Green Wing ![]() ...but by a very narrow margin I had to go with the master: ![]() |
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ClemofNazareth ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4651 |
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British humor is sometimes mystifying to me, as the biggest laughs often seem to come from pratfalls, slapstick and cheese. That said, Monty Python's Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life are classics that can only be referred to in hushed, reverent tones.
IT Crowd was hilarious IMHO, about the only British comedy I've been able to watch since The Young Ones. Anyone make it through the entire The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret? The only example of British+American+Canadian sitcom I can think of. "My name is Todd" gave me a spit-take that took five minutes to wipe off the TV screen... ![]() ![]() |
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