British Comedy Best In The World

http://youtu.be/tWCxfl33C5A

 

How many dead babies does it take to make a nice cuppa tea for Johnny Vegas when he's got hangover?

 

Not a clue why that would be funny. Has to be in reference to something! But i cant imagine why it would be remotely funny!
Don't like that guy! No wonder he does a lot of charity work!

 

Me neither. But who knows without knowing the actual joke and the context.

I like Gervais, but he's not the comedy genius people make him out to be.

Everyone knows his style of comedy is edgy, so you can't really go to one of his shows and be surprised if he says something that's offensive.

If he says something you don't like, provided it's not aimed at you or intended to cause you offence or hurt you then it's quite easy, don't go and see one of his shows again. The perpetually offended really need to just fuck off and stop whining.

 

I agree totally!

I went through a phase of going to the comedy club! Good to see new comedy, you have no expectations of them, which is kind of good!
Biggest disappointment to me is the Brown character! Why do i not find him/her funny? I try, but hey just grates on me!

 

Mrs Brown?

I can't stand the **** either. My mum loves him, but maybe not so much now.

I think a lot of the comedy in Mrs Brown's Boys lends itself to the fact it's all recorded live so they constantly fluff their lines and stuff, or make impromptu jokes, and the fact it's quite 70's/80's sitcom retro.

Other than it's just dire.

 

http://youtu.be/BO8EpfyCG2Y

 

I've been informed that the dead baby joke was about Gervais not wanting to have children, and the hassle of having to call his wife if their baby died, or something like that.

Not really very funny, but without seeing the routine you can't say it might not work in the context of the whole.

He was taking the piss out of himself and his dislike of children, in the same way Sacha Baren Cohen took the piss out of anti-semites with his Throw The Jew Down The Well song

 

Right! Amazing how some people like crap! Thanks WD..


See this is simple, take away the canned laughter put in from time to time from the compilator! And it's funny!

https://youtu.be/W2Y3pWgzOxI

 

It's what Gervais does, he takes the piss out of the mundane and the mediocre, pokes fun at lacklustre.

It's the same variation British comedy has edged on for as long as I can remember Alexi Sayle's rendition of "mustn't grumble"

My life's falling apart, but isn't it funny anyway.

We'd be outsourced long ago if it weren't for the fact we could find humour and solace in humour.

That's all Ricky Gervais was doing here, he doesn't deserved to be judged on this. Maybe it fed into his routine and without it things wouldn't be the same?

I've not watched all of the office but I think he created a style of referential comedy television that deserves enough credit. Extras was good too, although the same. And Derek, didn't pull it off as well as I'd like but the other characters were real.

He does new things that noone else has and maybe never will.

 

http://youtu.be/D67W7PmjQqM

 

MY ARSE

 

controversially, i vote peep show

 

100% true. I began with the Clitheroe Kid and the Goon Show, with Peter Sellers and Harry Seacombe (inter alia) - moved to Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and Fool Britannia, not to mention Round the Horne (which I've now gone and mentioned) and on and on from there

 

marvellous innit marvellous

 

RIP Peter Sallis.

Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine and the voice of Wallace (&Grommit)

96!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYuoWyk8iU

 

That was a uniformly brilliant sitcom a nd there's plenty of scope for it to be brought up to date. BREXIT would give it new vim

 

as of a few days ago... doctor who became the best of british comedy

ha ha ha

 

Classic clowning about =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn4kH9c0JdA