Originally Posted by Yoda
However, I agree; maybe it's just me, but British comedy is just so very...blah, in general.
Why you little...
You're that far from negative rep you heathen you
I'd admit that brit comedy can be very patchy, and at its worst, as bad as the worst US comedy
, but my guess is you haven't seen some of the better stuff.
Some of the sharper stuff of recent years has dealt with contemporary domestic politics, like the weekly 'gameshow'
Have I Got News for You and the sketch/impression show
Bremner, Bird and Fortune. We can't really export them. (other celebrity/stand-up based shows, like
Room 101, are just for us for the same reason
)
The Day Today and
Brass Eye were groundbreaking parodies of news reporting, and deserve to be considered classics.
The Office was painfully accurate (but just like Fawlty Towers, i found it to cringeworthy to sit through whole episodes
). A more surreal take on the daily grind appears in the sublime
15 Storeys High.
I can understand you finding the grimness of Brit comedy 'blah' - but at least it's more realistic than the dreamworld of
Friends (as good as that show has been - and god knows it's spawned enough carbon-copies over here).
But we can do lighthearted too. I just caught an episode of a new hospital one called
The Green Wing, which looks promising. It's exceptionally silly, but i think they may have carved out their own niche with it. Another recent lighthearted one was
Black Books (alright, it centred on a massively misanthropic bookshop owner, but hell, we're Brits, we revel in the unavoidable wrenches of real life
)
Bah, see how much you made me write.
Anyways, seen any of them, you're dismissiveness? You've had two years since that post.
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