Favorite UK Sketch Comedy Show

I did a UK sitcom poll already; here's the sketch comedy poll I threatened to do. A few caveats: First, I drew the line at 1990. (I know Monty Python was a great show, but it's not the Sixties anymore.) Second, I then moved back the line to include a couple of shows that began in the late 80s, because, well, I wanted to. Third, fate or just rotten luck consigned me the ignominy of being born and raised in the USA, far from my Italian/English roots, so therefore learning about quality British tv shows and then finding them and watching them is no easy task. Which is to say, there's probably other good sketch shows from the UK that I'm not aware of. Please recommend them. Fourth, no Rowan Atkinson. I don't think that needs an explanation. (Okay, just joking. Blackadder's great. It should've been in the sitcom poll, but I didn't think of it. And I quite like Mr. Bean as well.)

My favorite's a toss-up between Mitchell & Webb, and League of Gentlemen. Going to go with League of Gentlemen.

 

Of these I will go for The League of Gentlemen although I have never quite seen it as a sketch show.

It was a damn fine programme and full of inovation amid a dearth of tv comedy at that time, the number of different well-crafted characters and gags they produced in the first series was staggering, but later series became 100 ways to replay those same gags with the only redeeming segment being the ongoing story of Ralph and Ted, which highlighted how pivotal Charlie Higson was to that ensemble (more so than Paul Whitehouse IMO).

 

 

...superlatives are often misapplied to the arts, but that putting that in a sketch show was a piece of total genius.