#and then the British comedy scene

[imperatorrrrr]

ooh you like taskmaster? what's your favourite season 👀

oh my god! I absolutely love Taskmaster.

I’ve watched every season of the UK version and the first season of the Australian version and just started making my way through the NZ version.

My favorite UK seasons were:

Series 4 - Noel Fielding, Mel Giedroyc, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, and Hugh Dennis

Series 7 - James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Phil Wang, Kerry Godliman, and Rhod Gilbert

Series 9 - Rose Matafeo, Ed Gamble, Katy Wix, David Baddiel, and Jo Brand

Series 11 - Jamali Maddix, Mike Wozniak, Charlotte Richtie, Sarah Kendall, and Lee Mack

Series 12 - Guz Khan, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Morgana Robinson, Desiree Burch, and Alan Davies.

Series 13 - Sophie Duker, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love and, Ardal O'Hanlon.

Series 15 - Frankie Boyle, Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Mae Martin.

So like...all of them?

Gotta shout out Fern Brady in Series 14, Katherine Parkinson in Series 10, Joe Thomas in Series 8, everyone in Series 5, actually Series 5 should be up there in the favorites as well, and Paul Chowdry in Series 3.

My dream would be to see Richard Ayoade on it at some point?

It’s practically my comfort show now. I put it on when I need something to watch and my brain doesn’t have the capacity for anything new. It’s one of the only shows that makes me die laughing.

I discovered it randomly in like late 2020/early 2021 and have been hooked since.

#Text #Question #Anonymous #Taskmaster #I tell anyone and everyone about this show #but it’s hard to like describe and also not everyone I know has an innate knowledge of British Panel Show culture #and then the British comedy scene #but I am obsessed which is one of the worst things about me

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

Blackadder - Behind the Scenes

#Miranda Richardson #Blackadder #Blackadder Behind the Scenes #Queen Elizabeth I #Queenie #stephen fry #Patsy Byrne #Lord Melchett #Nursie #my gifs #tv : British #tv : Comedy #mredits #Behind the Scenes

[loremori]

Martin Freeman (140/366)

The World's End (2013)

Directed Edgar Wright

Written Simon Pegg Edgar Wright

*Third installment of The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (or the Cornetto trilogy or the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy).

#martin freeman #the Cornetto trilogy #British comedy #The World's End #I was thinking about this scene the other day #Simon Pegg #Edgar Wright #Youtube

[tragicotps]

Young Masriel AU: When all Asriel's attempts at seducing Marisa seem to fail, he starts dating other girls just to get a rise out of her.

#very torn between just giffing scenes from these two stupid shows or making silly masriel aus out of them #i always choose the second option lol #two weird british sf shows with the same energy and the same outdated special effects PERFECT #I know it's Dune but i cant watch this without laughing #his dark materials #hdm #hdm au #masriel #asriel x marisa #asriel belacqua #marisa coulter #young masriel #masriel au #this is a silly pointless gifset #i just miss them on my screen #and i enjoy making this for no on e lol #AND LOOK AT THEIR pretty BABY FACES #theyd be perfect romantic comedy material #my edit

[parttimesarah]

To know of the giggle loop is to become part of the giggle loop!

#my sister and I watched Coupling SO MUCH #and this scene is iconic #at least for us #coupling #richard coyle #jack davenport #ben miles #british comedy #i made these

[a-a-a-anon]

if i had a nickel for every time a male british comedian i like said that on a childhood birthday a patriarch in their family said they were too old to hug and kiss them bc it's girly/gay i would have two nickels???? which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice....

(ade edmondson:)

(jon richardson:)

I went to kiss my granddad once-I would have only been about 7 or 8, but I'd had clearly what my grandad viewed as a landmark birthday. I went to say goodbye, and I kissed my Nana Gwen and went to kiss my Grandad Ron, and Grandad Ron said, "You're a man now. You don't kiss other men anymore." (- meet the richardsons 2.08)

#i think (popular) british comedys relationship with masculinity is sooo interesting bc there will be like you know #kind of old schoolish jokes said on panel shows about like oh that person isnt manly or something #but at the same time many british male comedians seem comfortable with material involving doing things that arent very traditionally #masculine like physical intimacy with men or dressing up traditionally feminine etc #(which isnt them trying to do a Statement or anything just like them doing it) #thats kind of like a staple of british comedy i feel like #more so than american comedy #i feel like its #an interesting interplay between (obviously trying to be subversive like all comedy but also) echos from the alt comedy scene #(which was expressly trying to NOT depend on sexism for humor (like the traditional comedy of working mens clubs)) #and the inescapable sexism of general culture still affecting comedy and also men's lives today (repressed as hell) #and like the jokes about masculinity are obviously a reaction (unconscious or not) TO being so repressed #britcom #nina.rambles #adrian edmondson #jon richardson #tw abuse #does this make sense? no<3 #ALSOOOO that interview with ade is everything to me. hes the cutest man in the world actually. he cried when his grandson #said “good job everyone!” as he got 2nd place in a race (out of happiness). and then cried while talking about it. and he grew up in such a #repressed era #WE LOVE TO SEE GROWTH!!

[captainfreelance1]

Dad's Army S6 E1 The Deadly Attachment

One of the most iconic scenes in the show's history.

#Dad's Army #David Croft #Jimmy Perry #BBC #British Sitcom #Britcom #Historcal Comedy #Captain Mainwaring #George Mainwaring #Arthur Lowe #Sergeant Wilson #Arthur Wilson #John Le Mesurier #Private Pike #Frank Pike #Ian Lavender #Philip Madoc #Home Guard #Warmington on Sea #Classic Scenes #Iconic Moments #Funny #The Deadly Attachment #Don't Tell Him Pike

[yamnbananas]

Pigeon vs Magpie 14/04/2023

#trillnoir #yamnbananas #london #england #art #london life #black and white #peace and love #life is art #southwark #angry birds #magpie #pigeon #bird watching #fight scene #fight club #no animals were harmed #benny hill #british comedy #tiktok #april 2023 #birds #bless up

[michaelwatt]

i got to thinking about it crowd at work and now im adding a roy and moss doodle to my list of doodle ideas

#i used to watch it a lot with my mom #the disabled bathroom scene used to be her faves #and slams fist on table #that one scene where they!!! kiss! #GOSH #im in a british tv series mood lately #yall can thank spaced #specifically y2k type shows #they itch my brain with their comedy #i end up going down a hyperfixation rabbit hole bc of one thing #bc jonathan strange and mr norrell sent me down a spiral of regency era media #and dandy fashion #my brain is simon and nick media and british tv #brrrrr #beau/lyn speaks

[duchessofostergotlands]

Are you enjoying ghosts?! I love everyone but the caveman (he is just too cheesy for me)

Oh I like the cave man! Robin. I like them all, there's enough characters that when I get bored of one another one can slot in. So if Robin is getting too much, someone else will come up. My favourite is Mary though. She's the one who is still most stuck in her time so she comes out with the most surreal nonsense, and Katy Wix is so brilliant. I honestly can't tell you what it is but the way she talks as Mary makes me laugh no matter what she's saying.

So yeah, I'm enjoying it. I just finished season 3 I think so I decided to take a break. I liked the first season, it worked surprisingly well. It's essentially the same joke - Alison can see ghosts, no one else can, so she does crazy things - and I wasn't sure if it would work for a second season. Alison would get used to the ghosts, she'd have learned how to manage all that, it wouldn't have made sense. But obviously they're very good writers, they understood that. So in season 2, with things being calmer, they were able to shift away from Alison and you had more room to explore the idiosyncracies of the ghosts themselves and their back stories. And then again Season 3 built on that further, by this point they were like a family so they were able to have a bit more of Mike's relationship with the ghosts and a bit more focus on the how the ghosts and Alison help each other grow (basically it felt like the focus was Alison, then the ghosts, then Alison, Mike and the ghosts together so it felt fresh each season). So yeah, I think it's a good, family kind of comedy without being overly broad (BBC channels have a tendency of having comedies that are very popular but use a lot of Carry On type, 80s "I hate my mother in law" humour like Mrs Brown's Boys and Not Going Out and I'm not a huge fan of them; this has more intelligence while still being fun).

#one of these days I need to do my map of the british comedy scene #it's so incestuous lol #ask #anon #non royal #ghosts

[georgefairbrother]

The opening sequence to the 1971 cinema adaptation of the top-rating London Weekend sitcom, Please Sir. There are a few familiar faces, and some fascinating street scenes.

The music, with the exception of the brief use of the TV theme, is by muti-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Mike Vickers (Manfred Mann), who was also a pioneer of the Moog synthesiser.

There was a running joke that Fenn Street Secondary Modern was the only school in Britain with a leaving age of around 25 to 30 years old.

In his memoir, David Barry (Frankie Abbott) recalled that the film was a massive success, in particular with teenagers, with saturation publicity in the press and lines around the block at the cinemas. It's generally seen as one of the higher quality sitcom-movie adaptations.

There were many memorable one-liners, including this exchange between Mr Hedges (John Alderton) and Mr Price (Richard Davies)...

"I regard the first day of term as one of the peaks of my career"

"Then you've got your graph upside down."

#street scene #urban landscape #cityscape #please sir #british comedy #british cinema #london #vintage london #john alderton #social history #london weekend television #Youtube

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke briefly pops up to offer Michael Redgrave some sage advice, as a poacher in Law and Disorder (1958)

#fave spotting #alfred burke #public eye #law and disorder #frank marker #1958 #british cinema #michael redgrave #I'll be honest‚ i picked this up (secondhand for about £2) almost entirely bc i saw Alfie's name in the cast list online #i figured he wouldn't have much of a part and sure enough he's onscreen for about 30 seconds; but he gets dialogue and he is credited! #as Poacher‚ tho the character is named in dialogue: imdb says he's called Willis Pugh‚ but it sounded like Willy to me... #yes a very minor entry in the Alfie files but i wasn't too disappointed; this is actually quite a fun little comedy #also he has a fairly athletic exit from his scene‚ vaulting over a low wall onto a beach below #assuming it isn't a double (that particular shot is fairly long)

[1001framesofmind]

He that dies this year is quit of the next!

In the summer of 1403, Harry Hotspur gathered an army against the King of England, Henry IV. Orson Welles used this historical background, reflected in Shakespeare's plays, to develop his favorite character, Sir John Falstaff. In this comic scene, he is trying to choose some competent men to join the king's armed force. To make it more authorized, Justice Shallow and Master Silence, as Sir John's unknowing assistants, are here to help him conduct the swindling business.

🎞film: Chimes at Midnight (1965) 🎬director: Orson Welles 🟣🟣⚪️⚪️⚪️

#orson welles #british comedy #shakespeare #movie scenes #Youtube

[forgottenbones]

Cheese is a Kind of Meat | The Mighty Boosh | Baby Cow

#the mighty boosh #one of the first scenes that I saw #and I went: #''I didn't take any acid I don't think...'' #''what is this lunacy?'' #and the rest is history #''he's a mod! I'm a rocker! we are mortal enemies!'' #british comedy

[cleaningbones]

note to self to make a web weave outta that one scene from mum

#shoutout to my mom for finding the most random british comedies for me to cry over #by 'that one scene' i mean the one where jason starts talking abt being a man means fighting grief #and fighting the fact that his dad is gone and refusing to believe it but he is gone and he's not coming back and it's ok to cry abd #and the feeling's never going to go away #YEAH THAT SCENE #ughf .... #anywags #i've literally only seen that one full episode i should probably watch the rest #random

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil, I hope you're feeling better!

Given the number of Doctor Who references in Good Omens season 2, I'm very curious about the fez in the magic shop. Was that just a coincidence or was it there on purpose specifically for David to mess about with?

A fez in a British magic shop is a reference, not to the Matt Smith years of Doctor Who, but to Comedy Magician Tommy Cooper, for decades the most beloved British Magic icon (even if, or perhaps because, all his tricks went proudly wrong).

David Tennant found the fez on the table and decided to play with it as Crowley during the magic shop scene.

#tommy cooper #fez