Great to see this being covered. Only the UK Office, Arrested Development and Peep Show are in TTOI's league in terms of post-millenial sitcoms. This, however, is easily the most quotable.
Great to see this being covered. Only the UK Office, Arrested Development and Peep Show are in TTOI's league in terms of post-millenial sitcoms. This, however, is easily the most quotable.
The 6 episodes of KMKY and the Xmas Special are possibly the funniest 3 and a half hours of TV ever made. When they were first shown I was 15 and they completely redefined my own sense of humour immeadately. The interviews with the lesibians, the East End gangster and the whole French episode are the highlights: 'Pete…
First sensible thing you've said all day…
I wish they'd shown this on British TV when I was growing up, I would have got a lot more references on American movies and TV down the years…and Gilligan's bloody Island; seemingly every screenwriter in the US was obsessed with that show. Never seen it but from what I can gather it was a bunch of oddballs stuck on a…
Well obviously this is the greatest season any TV comedy ever had, ever!
It's not my country GhaleonQ, you'll have to talk to Liz Windsor about it, though I think she usually lets Prince Eddie deal with booking continental comedians.
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Oh, that's the criteria is it? Unknown entities…
'One of the few things that makes me proud to be British'
Yes I agree, alongside The Beatles, Shakespeare, William Wilberforce, The NHS, LONDON, Peter Cook, Cary Grant, Stilton, Peterborough Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, English Common Law, David Hume, Arsenal…
Anyway, whilst the AVClub continues to review such dross as this and Episodes but continues to neglect Peep Show, the only sitcom from the last decade that can sit comfortably alongside the original Office and Arrested Development, any claim it may have toward building anything like a televisual canon is tenuous at…
'Gone' is the episode of Spaced you're referring to.
'Since roughly the time of his first time hosting the Golden Globes…'
What a turd!
Sorry to have to tell you this but the first episode is by some distance (light years) the best of the series. I don't know if you grade shows with letters as far into the alphabet as Q, R or S but you might find that stopping at F leaves you under-resourced.