British and American Television Comedy

[Furunculus]

Brit comedies:
Blackadder is awesome.

Yank comedies:
quite fond of Scrubs.

Gavin and Stacey had some funny characters (ness and bryn), but the domesticity of it was depressing.

[Beskar]

Gavin and Stacey had some funny characters (ness and bryn), but the domesticity of it was depressing.

It was depressing. To imagine people are even like that. I guess the show would be boring if they were simply normal.

[Secura]

It was depressing. To imagine people are even like that. I guess the show would be boring if they were simply normal.

"You've got to hold and give
But do it at the right time
You can be slow or fast
But you must get to the line!"

The thing is, that show is like Little Britain in a way; you know that it's stereotyping and taking the mickey out of us, but we watch it anyway because it's good, compulsive viewing.

[Beskar]

The thing is, that show is like Little Britain in a way; you know that it's stereotyping and taking the mickey out of us, but we watch it anyway because it's good, compulsive viewing.

Actually, Little Britain is pretty true. Such as Andy (the character in the wheelchair), if you worked with people with learning disabilities, it is unfortunately very close to the real thing, except they are legitimately disabled.

[tibilicus]

True fact, any comedy shown on BBC 3 isn't funny. two pints of lager and a packet of crisps needs to be burned and eradicated from the BBC archives.

Only real comedy I like these days is peep show. I watch quite a few American comedy's like two and a half men but not to many actually make me laugh out loud. A lot of them have a trend of deteriorating rapidly as they go on as well. Scrubs started going down hill after season 6, season 8 was shocking and I prefer to blank the current season from my memory.

[Beskar]

True fact, any comedy shown on BBC 3 isn't funny. two pints of lager and a packet of crisps needs to be burned and eradicated from the BBC archives.

Only real comedy I like these days is peep show. I watch quite a few American comedy's like two and a half men but not to many actually make me laugh out loud. A lot of them have a trend of deteriorating rapidly as they go on as well. Scrubs started going down hill after season 6, season 8 was shocking and I prefer to blank the current season from my memory.

So Doctor Who isn't good? That is pretty much a BBC3 comedy.

[Secura]

So Doctor Who isn't good? That is pretty much a BBC3 comedy.

Doctor Who is a BBC1 show that is repeated on BBC Three. :P

[Secura]

Actually, Little Britain is pretty true. Such as Andy (the character in the wheelchair), if you worked with people with learning disabilities, it is unfortunately very close to the real thing, except they are legitimately disabled.

So they're all balding, pot-bellied men with bad hygiene and mono-syllabic responses?

[Justiciar]

So they're all balding, pot-bellied men with bad hygiene and mono-syllabic responses?

Thanks to the wonders of genes, a terrible diet, a dodgy lifestyle and a state-school education, I resemble that remark. But I think he means they're unintentionally manipulative, selfish, and have a tendacy to play up their disability for petty benefit. I've met a few such people, though they're hardly indictive of the whole.

I like BBC4.

I think I'm the only person in Britain who watches it.

I watch it from time to time. Despite m'self being a commited philistine, the Andrew Graham-Dixon art documentaries were grand.

[Centurion1]

So they're all balding, pot-bellied men with bad hygiene and mono-syllabic responses?

Depends on the disability of course. People who are dyslexic come in all shapes and sizes and that is a learning disability. Very broad term that.

[Beskar]

So they're all balding, pot-bellied men with bad hygiene and mono-syllabic responses?

No, but the behaviour is quite similar, such as suddenly changing their mind, etc.