Hence why I don't watch his stand-up shows

To be honest when it comes to Stand-up I'll stick with Bill Bailey, Billy Connolly and Michael McIntyre

I was watching Red Dwarf yesterday...... that's funny as well.... I loves Red Dwarf

I used to love Red Dwarf. I think I need to get the DVD's and watch it again because it's been years now.

Yes get the Red Dwarf DVDs.

The amount of extras on them is phenomenal

They are hilarious

Rimmer and Cat never fail to make me laugh

Oh really? What have they put on the extra's?

Lots of extra's will always help twist my arm into buying something I'm in two minds about or that I've already seen.

Red Dwarf WAS something I loved, even if it did get a bit **** towards the end and when I have put it on in recent years it's just seemed a bit stupid to me. BUT the episodes I were watching were later ones and I reckon if i watched it from the beginning I'd realise how good it used to be all over again.

Just get Gareth Marenghi's Darkplace and that is British Humour in a nutshell. Fantastic show.

I love it to death. Basically if you want a good comedy look for this guy:

http://ginadhawa.files.wordpress.com...ard-ayoade.jpg

I'm logging off in a few minutes and watching me some Darkplace. Every time 'Dean Lerner' looks off camera I crack up.

That's Richard Ayoade

I love him in The IT Crowd
He's so cute in that show.....especially in the episode where Aunt Irma comes to visit

Holy ****, it is isnt it? What else has he done?

He is Dean Lerner in the aforementioned 'Darkplace' and who can forget his appearance in the Mighty Boosh Pilot 'Tundra'?

His role is tiny in Nathan Barley but brilliant all the same.

Fun Fact: He also directed Arctic Monkey's video for Flourescent Adolescent!

Oh yeah I forgot about the Boosh. God, I hate that show.

Why havent I heard of Darkplace? Am I the only one?

It was a bit of a flop really. Too genius if you ask me for most people :D

I hated the Boosh for ages and then i just got it! Although there are a few duff episodes. Darkplace only ran for 6 episodes but that's enough for it to qualify as a true great!

Hmm I may have to check it out in that case. Is it on Youtube or available to stream from anywhere do you know?

Ive only seen the first series of the Boosh so whenever I say I hate it I get told to watch the rest because it gets better. I laughed at the wind criticising him and the viking blokes but that was it. The rest for me was surreal for the sake of being surreal and breaking into song and dance for absolutely no reason as far as I could tell.

Is there usually a good reason for breaking into song and dance?

The bush=quali'y...

Try a catch up on sky/cable?

When all's said and done, it's all about Man To Man With Dean Lerner...

I only ever caught one or two episodes of that, the DVD is on my wishlist. That was a flop too wasn't it :D

That wasn't bad, but what the **** does "benders" mean?

benders = gays

This was on of my most favorite digital shorts from SNL this year.

(hoping to throw in some American humor)

Saturday Night Live - Giraffes! - Video - NBC.com

For something different;

Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update: Michael Vick, Really!?!

Does anyone happen to know if there were any similar shows to Curb Your Enthusiasm before it aired? There are plenty of people here who watch it but for those who don't it is an improvisational sitcom. There is a brief outline (6 or 7 pages ish) written for every episode and every scene within that episode. The actors arrive on set and the outlines for the next scene are read to them and the rest is improvised and ablibbed. Several takes are filmed and then the rest is done in the editing room. I have never known a show written, filmed and performed in such a way and although I know it has kick started a few shows since I'm nt sure if there was anything like it before.

To be honest, nothing really comes to mind.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (kind of joking)

Love that show, I use to watch it all the time.

The British version used to play on Comedy Central like 7 years ago.

I hate basic cable.

Did'nt improv comedy come from Radio shows such as The Goons etc? A basic script prepared just before shows? If I'm wrong just call me a stupid limey lol

I dont know to be honest but even then its not television nor sitcom. No sitcom I've known has followed that formula. Whose Line is obviously not sitcom either, but im noting the fact that it was a joke :P

Id love to know but it does look like there actually wasnt anything at all like Curb Your Enthusiasm which is immensely impressive.

American and Comedy are antinomical.

I prefer Michael to David, Jim to Tim and Dwight to Gareth. But I actually really like both shows.. Ricky Gervais executive produces for both and has a hand in writing, so I don't think their needs to be competition between the two shows.

AMERICA WINS!

You have got to be joking...

They are two very different people. David sees himself as this hillarious, artistic, genius and is more arrogant and seems to be nice to people only for the sake of the cameras.

Michael is more geniune and really wants to be friends with everybody because he never had alot of friends growing up.

Both hillarious, but different kind of people entirely.

Yeah i know, but for what the Office is supposed to be Brent's character is absolutely perfect. Micheal is too nice, i dont actually find him that funny.

I noticed that depending on which series people have seen first, Original or American Workplace, they tend to like that one more. I think it's just because both shows do a great job of getting you invested in the characters.

Peep Show - watch it.

No one masters the art of self-deprecating humour like england. The US is just canned laughter and wooping.

wierd, not the version that aired on tv. and yes, i can recite the whole opening rap word for word, and i expect so can everyone else from my generation who grew up with that show.

I find both of them (american and british comedy) to have their good shows and bad shows. All the ones already mentioned, scrubs, curb your enthusiasm, arrested development etc. are the ones I think are the best of american comedy.

My favorite british show hasn't been mentioned as far as i saw, has no one else watched pheonix nights or is it just generally considered as absolute trash? Dont care either way, i find it hilarious :)

oh, and whoever mentioned aussie shows to be bad, you should see canadian tv. neighbours and home and away are oscar worthy compared to laguna beach.