Fave 'Modern' Comedy Show

[MK Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Sep. 26 2006,12:09)]re: Curb Your Enthusiasm - I'm a newcomer to the show but fell in love with it instantly. I want to show a friend the episode where Larry has a pubic hair stuck in his throat and he hires the real life nativity to come to his house (the showdown with 'Joseph' at the end of the episode kept me laughing for about a week). Can anyone tell me what season that episode was in?

Season 3, episode 9.

I've got all 5 series, and it does wane a bit towards the end. Still quality.

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (MK Shrimper @ Sep. 26 2006,12:32)]Season 3, episode 9.

Top boy - thank you.

 

[MK Shrimper]

No probs. www.tv.com is a good site for tv saddo's like me

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

Probably wandering off-topic here, but my own guilty pleasure in the 'funny stuff on TV' stakes is the fantastic Takeshi's Castle. I really couldn't tell you why I find this so funny, but it's either my out of control Schadenfreude*, or the vast quantities of alcohol that normally trigger my "Ohh, I wonder if Takeshi's Castle is on?" switch...

*Or as the Japanese so eloquently put it themselves:
"tanin no fukou wa mitsu no aji" - "others' misfortunes taste of honey"...

 

[sufcintheprem]

Got to be Alan Partridge for me. That said, it worries me how, after repeated use of it with uni mates, I swear I'm becoming more like Partridge!

Second place is a toss up between The Office and League of Gentlemen.

League of Gentlemen

 

[MK Shrimper]

3rd series of League Of Gentlemen was pretty dire...the live show was ok in parts and the film was just a step to far. Enough already!

 

[ldnfatso]

Phoenix Nights
Frasier
The Office
Dead Ringers
Max and Paddy

 

[The 4th man]

Spaced , for me as well . Mighty Boosh again genius . Monkey dust and LOG very close 3rd's

(I kind of had a thing for Jessica Simpson oh well ) .

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (MK Shrimper @ Sep. 26 2006,14:36)]3rd series of League Of Gentlemen was pretty dire...the live show was ok in parts and the film was just a step to far. Enough already!

I thought it was phenomenal. They had to move away from the format of the previous 2 series and I thought they did it admirably. Still unsure about the film - the first half an hour is great but it does go off the rails a bit after that.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Fast Show and Frasier for me.

I can't decide about the Office - sometimes I think it's brilliant, sometimes I think it's comedy through making you feel embarrassed (and I'm not sure that that's comedy...)

But Fast Show, above all others. I went to see it live and I had to stop laughing because I thought I was going to faint. Totally brilliant.

Matt

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Alan Partridge for me.

Ricky Gervais' 'The Office' was just as good, but I agree that there were plenty of nods towards Steve Coogan's creation. 'Extras' is funny; I love the concept of the crap agent, so obviously derived from the agent in 'The Office' Christmas Specials.

Little Britain was funny ... at first. But I found the sketches somewhat laboured after the second episode and it became boring.

I've not seen any of the other nominations so I can't comment.

 

[Ulysses]

Whatabout Phoniex Nights?

 

[palexander]

Quote[/b] (The 4th man @ Sep. 26 2006,14:40)]Spaced , for me as well . Mighty Boosh again genius . Monkey dust and LOG very close 3rd's

(I kind of had a thing for Jessica Simpson oh well ) .

Do you mean Jessica Stephenson from Spaced? If so, yes please!

 

[Sebastian Weetabix]

None of the Above but a special mention for Cathrine Tate. All her sketches were done by Dave Allen, Jasper Carrot, Monty Python, Not the 9 o'clock News, Alias Smith & Jones. In other words, come up with your own stuff yer worthless, unfunny old tart.

The 'Farting in the car' joke is 20 years old for f%&ks sake, Pamula Stevenson was doing it way back then. When it was funny.

 

[Mr Wooly]

Out of the poll, then I'd go for The Office. Almost had that on loop during my first year at Uni.

But my favouite modern comedy, has to be Green Wing. Almost got to the stage where I was happy staying in on a Friday night just so not to miss it. Funny as ****!

 

[adwebb16]

Arrested Development is hillarious. One of the more genuinly funny comedies to come out of America that dosnt rely on canned laughter!

 

[Beefy]

Quote[/b] (MK Shrimper @ Sep. 26 2006,12:32)]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ Sep. 26 2006,12:09)]re: Curb Your Enthusiasm - I'm a newcomer to the show but fell in love with it instantly. I want to show a friend the episode where Larry has a pubic hair stuck in his throat and he hires the real life nativity to come to his house (the showdown with 'Joseph' at the end of the episode kept me laughing for about a week). Can anyone tell me what season that episode was in?

Season 3, episode 9.

I've got all 5 series, and it does wane a bit towards the end. Still quality.

Don't know if i agree with that. I'm watching Season Five for the first time at the moment and almost died laughing during the Ski Lift episode just now.

I never thought that I'd love a comedy show as much as I love Partridge, but in Curb I've now found one.

I'm keen to watch Arrested Development next. Never seen it but I've been told that if I like Curb, I'll love that.

 

[Kenny]

see Ant, I told you about the ski lift episode, Those big vagina women have been getting away with murder

Current Modern faves:

The Office
Extras
Phoenix Nights
Nathan Barley
Brass Eye
Family Guy
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Bo Selecta (series 1+2 but not 3 or The Bears Tail)
Peep Show

 

[Beefy]

You were definately right about the Ski Lift episode, Ken. Crikey. Every bit of that episode was golden, from the big vagina women, to Larry pretending he can speak Hebrew, to the timely re-emergeance of the edible panties and the discovery of who stole Larry's phone and how at the end. Truely brilliant comedy.

I used to be a big fan of The Office, but I don't think its got the replay value of some other things out there. I can still stick on the Christmas Specials and enjoy them though.

I love Brass Eye, Family Guy, South Park, Peep Show and Shameless (if that counts) too. I'm sure I'm forgetting quite a few shows as well.

I've only seen Spaced once and liked it. Really got to get around to picking it up on DVD.

 

[Groyne Strain]

"I feel your pain, I feel your shame, but you're not to blame. Child abuse? Rubbish! You were only tickling him with a fork. And anyway, it was tears of laughter he was crying."

"Who in here likes a drink? I get the feeling you like a drink, sir. Well, you won't when you wake up in the bath one morning with 2 black eyes and sh!t in your pants. You know what I'm saying sir? Love and light."

"And remember, keep believing or you'll have a slow, messy and agonising death. Goodnight."

Just 3 of the throwaway quotes from "High Spriits", the spoof psychic show forced off the BBC after threats of litigation from Derek Acorah. The audience and participants had no idea the medium was a fake, although if they'd bothered watching "My New Best Friend" or "Cyderdelic" they might have sussed it.

Suggesting to a phone-in caller that they commit suicide on their birthday and stating that "Chicken ain't soul food, it's white food, it's my food, it's my chicken." whilst trance channelling Colonel Sanders were amongst the high points in British comedy these past couple of years