British Humor

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I more or less gave up watching TV and movies but two of my favorite British shows from years ago were Fawlty Towers and Benny Hill. Movies such as The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness and a young Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas in the "Carry On" series. Not sure any of you are old enough to remember that stuff.

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What? No Two Ronnies, Dave Allen Show, or Dad's Army in there? If you're gonna show your age Jimmy, show it well! :p

James.

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I more or less gave up watching TV and movies but two of my favorite British shows from years ago were Fawlty Towers and Benny Hill. Movies such as The Ladykillers with Alec Guinness and a young Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas in the "Carry On" series. Not sure any of you are old enough to remember that stuff.

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The Fawlty Towers episode, "The Germans", still ranks as my favorite episode of any tv show ever.:)

An example of my personal favourite sketch series from The Harry and Paul Show: I saw you coming.

Harry and Paul - I Saw You Coming - YouTube

James.

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Originally Posted by Jimbo

What? No Two Ronnies, Dave Allen Show, or Dad's Army in there? If you're gonna show your age Jimmy, show it well! :p

James.

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All unknown to me James, you real old guys know the real old shows. :rofl2:

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

All unknown to me James, you real old guys know the real old shows. :rofl2:

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Not know the Two Ronnies? O-M-G!!!! Here, let me educate you on some of the cleverest comedy of the 20th Century:

The Two Ronnies - The News At Ton - YouTube

James.

And my personal favourite: It is 5 minutes, but there is not a wasted second in this sketch, not one. Awesome.

The Two Ronnies - The Ministry Of Communications - YouTube

James.

My favorite Two Ronnies sketch, 'Fork Handles':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

Ronnie Barker also has the starring role in 'Porridge', a great 70s sitcom.

American humor ain't to bad either, I love that show Bored to Death extremely funny very well written great characters. I'm a little surprised at our American friends liking so many of our shows, I didn't really think you understood our eccentric mad cap humor, i would like to reiterate what Tom had to say about Mrs Browns Boys that's one side splitting show, I can't believe they actually film it live brilliant.

Jamie.

I'm not much into TV these days, but here's few British series i've used to watch. Well, some of them were so long ago that even Jimmy has to remember :D

Fitz, Poirot, Lovejoy, Men behaving badly, Saint, Robin of Sherwood, Sapphire & Steel (damn that was long ago), Jeeves, Benny Hill, Royle family, Auf Wiedersen pet, Holmes and of course not the 9 o'clock news and Monty Python.

Of course they make great series outside UK also. Horst Schimanski (Germany) was probably the greatest crime serie ever. He made Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone look like crying little lambs :p
Other good European crime series i've enjoyed are Bella Bloch (Germany), Wallander (Sweden), Il Marsigliesi and Montalbano (Italy) and Raid (Finland).
Not to talk about US series. Too many to mention here. Twin Peaks was the best, imho.

Thanks everyone who posted a video or a suggestion I need a laugh!