Entertainment For Lively Minds
Current British sitcoms
Posted by lisbon on 30 September 2009 - 12:30pm.
Really enjoying 'How Not To Live Your Life' on BBC3, juvenile but makes me laugh out loud.
'Outnumbered' is genius.
Got a soft spot for 'Not Going Out' and 'Lead Balloon' too.
Any you like?
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Can't remember what it was called but
The one with Sharon Horgan and Paul Kaye.
That was good.
'Pulling'
Yes! Very good.
sitcoms
still not sure on the definition of a sitcom. I presume these days it's any half hour comedy show thats not sketch based?
If this is the case then im going to mention something which is not entirely current but I am just catching up on back episodes and that is Inbetweeners, its very crude and also very juvenile but very very funny.
sitcoms
still not sure on the definition of a sitcom. I presume these days it's any half hour comedy show thats not sketch based?
If this is the case then im going to mention something which is not entirely current but I am just catching up on back episodes and that is Inbetweeners, its very crude and also very juvenile but very very funny.
It's finished now
but I did enjoy 'Not Going Out'
Tim Vine was under-used but Lee Mack was excellent throughout.
The Inbetweeners
Utterly puerile, but if you've been a teenage boy - and most of us here have - then you'll love it. They rib each other mercilessly and lie about their (non-existant) sex lives and are outsmarted by the sensible girls throughout. But it's actually really warm and all about friendship. It made me feel quite nostalgic for those days.
I really liked Lead Balloon but I hear it's been canned. I hear Miranda Hart's new self-titled sitcom is patchy to say the least.
lead Balloon
I dont know why they would have canned this, Ok so it was a complete CYE rip off but that didnt make it any less funny, good ensemble cast and some great moments where you could barely watch you were so embarassed for him (particularly the scene at health club and the cancer fib).
Still the BBC have a history of letting the bad run on and on (two pints for example, and I know this has been kicked enough and become short hand for comedy snobbery but it is really dreadful) and the good sink way to soon (early doors)
lead balloon
Happiness was also canned after two and again I thought great cast and a lovely mix of humour and pathos.
Of course the BBC arent the only cuplrits, what ever happened to a third series of Spaced?
I thought
that neither Simon Pegg or Jessica Hines-Stevenson wanted to make another series, not that C4 had canned it. Mind you, given the crap Simon Pegg is making in Hollywood, but no doubt making megabucks for, I'd worry what a third series would be like.
Early Doors always seemed to me to come to a natural conclusion, I'm not sure that there would have been any mileage in another series.
Lead Balloon
If it's true it's been cancelled it really will be a shame. Very funny and I can think of plenty of shows that have run more than 2/3 series that don't come close.
It's a shame if lead balloon
has been cancelled as along with Pulling it was one of the better UK comedies. I personally find it more funny than Curb which I find a bit heartless and contrived.
I liked pulling a great deal as it showed life as it is lived in real life (I've had kebabs from the same shop!) if a little heightned and unlike most BBC3 comedies it wasn't obsessed with the media or celebrities.
Am I alone in not taking to Gavin and Stacey but this might be because I'm the only person who finds Alison Steadman really annoying.
Does 'The Mighty Boosh' count as current?
And does it count as a sitcom? If it does then that's my suggestion. The most inventive and brilliant programme I've seen for a very, very long time.
Awful
I by "inventive" you mean "cringeworthy six-form humour", and by "brilliant" you mean "teeth-pullingly unfunny", then I'm with you 100%.
If not, then I respectfully disagree.
Julian 'Howard Moon' Barratt
was in 'How Not To Live Your Life' this week, playing another pompous musician. Funny, (and a bit weird, like a Hobbit turning up in 'Star Wars'.)
Peep Show
Lost it's charm a it on Series 4, but 5 was a return to form and I've enjoyed the new series so far.
Peep Show
Agree, I think this has been continuously funny (and if you dont like it then stick it up your bollocks).
New series perfect thus far
New series perfect thus far
new
Benidorm makes me laugh as does Peep Show and The Inbetweeners. Watched thatHow not to live your life last night and must admit it passed me by.
Not Going Out
Was great and, of course, co-written by one A. Collins of this parish. Looking at Andrew's blog http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/BLOG/ I see that the series has been shelved, which is a great shame.
I am not Andrew Collins, in case anyone asks..
Home Time
And that's about it at the moment. I'm usually out on a Friday night as it's the only night of the week when my sprogged up mates get shore-leave, and as I rarely remember to catch up on the computer I probably miss a lot of others that I might enjoy (though I must say the 5 minutes of Not Going Out I saw - something about someone hiding behind a door as the characters on the other side argue about whether there might be someone hiding behind the door - were a waste of the energy it took the universe to convey the light from the screen to my eyes.)
Never Better.....
Great comedy about a self possessed recovering alcoholic with zero social skills played by the ever excellent Stephen Mangan.
It had plenty of excrutiating situations that certainly make it a situation comedy.
Not sure if it's still running?
Coupling was also uniformally excellent, especially the character Jeff.
As an aside I bumped into Kate Issett, an actress in the show and found her to be utterly charming and chatty.
Last thing that i really enjoyed was
Garth Marengi's darkplace, and that must be 5 years old? Pulling was ok. Not going out is too obvious for me.
Moving Wallpaper
The Light and I, I think, were two of only 5 people in the land who watched it.
But it was very funny. And Ben Miller's performance as the hapless but ego-crazed TV producer Jonathan Pope was a gem.
This has been canned too.
Still, Last of the Summer Wine will no doubt still be going into the next millenium
Wallpaper
Excellent show, who would have thought that one of the best sitcoms in recent years would be an ITV production. A welcome surprise.
ITV
think the fact that it was on ITV - didn't help. Would have had far more kudos had it been on BBC 4. Or American. It was way funnier than the similarly themed much lauded "30 Rock".
Also its clever-clever premise of being linked to another actual show didn't really help.
It was probably the first thing I've watched on ITV since the demise of "Cold Feet".
two pints of lager....
and whatever
the writer/producer has film footage of the head of the bbc doing something really naughty to someone
thats the explanation i can give why that pile of shite keeps getting re-commishioned rather than quality like 'pulling'
Pulling
really was an underrated gem; it was almost as if it was made and then the channel got embarrassed about it. Like 'How not to live your life' and 'Outnumbered' 'Inbetweeners' I watch with my 15 year old lad but his mam hates it.