British sitcoms

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."

http://thequietus.com/articles/12626-matt-berry-kill-the-wolf-review

Edited by jude111 - June 21 2013 at 16:29

I've always felt like The Mighty Boosh is something I would enjoy. Maybe I should watch it.

Peep Show

Brilliant

Knobby wrote:

I recant:

IT Crowd is very good indeed.

I hated it at first, haha. Now I love it.

Had to go with Peep Show

Father Ted was so good!

"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."

Arnold Schoenberg

JJLehto in June wrote:

Peep Show

Brilliant

JJLehto wrote:

IKR

aint I just the worst kind of person?

The very worst! :p

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.

This night wounds time.

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...

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus

Poll Question: Your favorite:
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
The IT Crowd	4	[9.52%]
Peep Show	6	[14.29%]
The Mighty Boosh	4	[9.52%]
Spaced	2	[4.76%]
Black Books	11	[26.19%]
The Thick of It	2	[4.76%]
The Office (original UK version)	2	[4.76%]
I'm Alan Partridge	3	[7.14%]
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace	1	[2.38%]
Father Ted	7	[16.67%]
Green Wing	0	[0.00%]
Snuff Box	0	[0.00%]
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