#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.

[russell-crowe]

rhod gilbert and greg davies in world's most dangerous roads S01E02

[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.

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

Blackadder - 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).

[lunozapp]

ignore the soggy screenshot but this seemed fun so

may as well make this a tag game, u dont have to give an actual answer in reblogs if u dont want to lol: @sokacoke @r3ddusk @mossathenium-time @hybridcrows @gregyey @omittheanomalie @willoworyx

[brinnanza]

god I'm so obsessed with ify nwadiwe he's so goddamn funny and he's jacked to hell and back he is unapologetically horny he's SO quick put him in everything 2k24 he is SO fucking good on make some noise the clip of him absolutely throwin it back on siobhan lives in my mind rent free that ass do not quit

[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)

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

i love how the first 2 series of the league of gentlemen has a lot of ~flirtations~ but by series 3 they're like 'fuck it let's all just make out and fuck' and honestly despite all the flaws i respect them committing to that lol

[parttimesarah]

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

[captainfreelance1]

Dad's Army S6 E1 The Deadly Attachment

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

[yamnbananas]

Pigeon vs Magpie 14/04/2023

[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

[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).

[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."

[fuunsaiki]

definition of audacity - me acting like guy williams instagramming from trafalgar square counts as a jump scare, like i don't already have a ticket to see him in london this week