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Wow some seriously strange/funny/interesting stuff... Laughed my ass off at "Thick People as a Service" American here. Reminds me heavily of Monty Python. I di

Wow some seriously strange/funny/interesting stuff... Laughed my ass off at "Thick People as a Service" American here. Reminds me heavily of Monty Python. I didn't realize there were other shows in such a similar vein. Will def checkout Jam / Blue Jam. Can you recommend any other shows I might not be aware of?

mattkevan 3y ago
I’d recommend anything by Julia Davis, who was in the ‘thick people’ sketch. Her comedies are pitch black and very good, including Nighty Night and Hunderby. For a sketch show I’d recommend Big Train - it went slightly under the radar, but has an absolutely incredible lineup of talent.
- Joeboy 3y ago
  I love her Dear Joan and Jericha podcast, where she and Vicki Pepperdine play wildly inappropriate agony aunts.
mdp2021 3y ago
> Can you recommend any other shows I might not be aware of? Really, too many. Other genius-level of strangeness? The Mighty Boosh, by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (radio, TV, theater). - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZN1zyS7gY&list=PLflSnz9gSh-rXLnJt4HOjdeX-hq9swYC9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZN1zyS7gY&list=PLflSnz9gSh... ; also live shows are on YT. The core are the TV series though. Logical genius to the extreme, madness revealing? People Like Us, by John Morton (arguably the best thing ever made for the radio). - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ4mBz5Qcc&list=PLJPeS4Ugqqnb0_xdrNE0B4WQx2uup5tNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ4mBz5Qcc&list=PLJPeS4Ugqq...
frereubu 3y ago
One that I absolutely loved, but which rarely comes up, is Mr Don & Mr George by two Scottish comedians Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty. I think there was only one series, but it has a beautifully gentle, slightly surreal, slightly slapstick humour. Edit: And for a much more brutal sense of humour, I don't think any political comedy has bettered The Thick Of It.
- olddustytrail 3y ago
  I recommended Still Game to an American colleague and he found it hilarious even though I thought it would be a bit crude at times for an older gentleman. I guess the fact they're pensioners themselves softens the humour a bit.
  - frereubu 3y ago
    Maybe you should him on try Rab C Nesbitt next :)
- amiga386 3y ago
  > Mr Don & Mr George It was very funny, but also a spin-off to Absolutely!, which itself was a great series - 4 series! - with lots of funny characters: * Calum Gilhooley, the most boring man in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebG3ZE4Ugqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebG3ZE4Ugqs * McGlashan, the Scottish nationalist and anglophobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-SVKrvCxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-SVKrvCxs * Denzil and Gwenned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7tQOyfwyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7tQOyfwyk * Stoneybridge Town Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiH4i4Kkf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiH4i4Kkf0 * The Little Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc9VOipw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc9VOipw0 They were Edinburgh's answer to Glasgow's Naked Video (Gregor Fisher, Elaine C. Smith, Andy Gray, Helen Lederer, etc.) although the welsh John Sparkes was in both, and had is own spin-off series, Barry Welsh is Coming
Joeboy 3y ago
It's a fair bit less dark, but you could give Big Train a go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEBtpWQ7x8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEBtpWQ7x8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ofz1OnlNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ofz1OnlNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtllWIiOTuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtllWIiOTuA Edit: The League of Gentlemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wB0OkcCps8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wB0OkcCps8
- rwmj 3y ago
  You missed the classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH9ECC_Qa4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH9ECC_Qa4 (apparently not intended as an analogy for smoking, although it does work for that).
- louthy 3y ago
  Love Big Train, some seriously good sketches. Here's some more of my favourites (outside of the ones you've already mentioned). Unfortunately my favourite sketch, 'Cake Factory', isn't on Youtube any more. That was where I first realised how brilliant Simon Pegg was as a comedy actor. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II - Join the Army [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM - Do You Speak English? [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA - Eagle Line Super Train [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiOfepOxe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiOfepOxe8 - Evil Hypnotist [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg - Jockeys in the Wild [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmmAUbfhMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmmAUbfhMU - Champion sprinter [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y - On Call Surgeon [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh9CDNQhBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh9CDNQhBg - Office Politics: Jesus vs Devil
  - Joeboy 3y ago
    Cake Factory was indeed a great sketch!
- mdp2021 3y ago
cal85 3y ago
Look Around You [0] is little known even in the UK, but I think a lot of HN readers might love it. It's a surreal but perfectly observed parody of the 80s/90s educational videos we used to watch in school science classes. [0] Episode 1: Calcium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU
- louthy 3y ago
  The series of 'Look Around You' that is a pastiche of 'Tomorrows World' is amazing. The 'Music 2000' episode is my favourite [1]. This is an example of the original 80s TV show it was doing the pastiche of [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2myFLUDB74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2myFLUDB74 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dn0lcvWkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dn0lcvWkY
  - quietbritishjim 3y ago
    It's more based on Open University programs made for showing in schools. But Tomorrow's World is a similar ilk.
    - louthy 3y ago
      That's the first series, the second series [1] is a parody of TW. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You#Series_two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You#Series_two
      - quietbritishjim 3y ago
        Oh wow, I didn't know there was a second series!
        louthy 3y ago
        Then you're in for a treat!
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tudorw 3y ago
https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/ https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/ might be a good place to start rummaging...
taylorius 3y ago
Slightly different, but Charlie Brooker (of Black Mirror fame) had a series called Screenwipe, which lampooned the tropes of television in the mid 2000s. It was pretty funny, and quite dark in places.

mattkevan 3y ago

I’d recommend anything by Julia Davis, who was in the ‘thick people’ sketch. Her comedies are pitch black and very good, including Nighty Night and Hunderby. For a sketch show I’d recommend Big Train - it went slightly under the radar, but has an absolutely incredible lineup of talent.

Joeboy 3y ago
I love her Dear Joan and Jericha podcast, where she and Vicki Pepperdine play wildly inappropriate agony aunts.

mdp2021 3y ago

> Can you recommend any other shows I might not be aware of? Really, too many. Other genius-level of strangeness? The Mighty Boosh, by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (radio, TV, theater). - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZN1zyS7gY&list=PLflSnz9gSh-rXLnJt4HOjdeX-hq9swYC9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OZN1zyS7gY&list=PLflSnz9gSh... ; also live shows are on YT. The core are the TV series though. Logical genius to the extreme, madness revealing? People Like Us, by John Morton (arguably the best thing ever made for the radio). - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ4mBz5Qcc&list=PLJPeS4Ugqqnb0_xdrNE0B4WQx2uup5tNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZ4mBz5Qcc&list=PLJPeS4Ugqq...

frereubu 3y ago

One that I absolutely loved, but which rarely comes up, is Mr Don & Mr George by two Scottish comedians Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty. I think there was only one series, but it has a beautifully gentle, slightly surreal, slightly slapstick humour. Edit: And for a much more brutal sense of humour, I don't think any political comedy has bettered The Thick Of It.

olddustytrail 3y ago
I recommended Still Game to an American colleague and he found it hilarious even though I thought it would be a bit crude at times for an older gentleman. I guess the fact they're pensioners themselves softens the humour a bit.
- frereubu 3y ago
  Maybe you should him on try Rab C Nesbitt next :)
amiga386 3y ago
> Mr Don & Mr George It was very funny, but also a spin-off to Absolutely!, which itself was a great series - 4 series! - with lots of funny characters: * Calum Gilhooley, the most boring man in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebG3ZE4Ugqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebG3ZE4Ugqs * McGlashan, the Scottish nationalist and anglophobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-SVKrvCxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-SVKrvCxs * Denzil and Gwenned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7tQOyfwyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7tQOyfwyk * Stoneybridge Town Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiH4i4Kkf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiH4i4Kkf0 * The Little Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc9VOipw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNc9VOipw0 They were Edinburgh's answer to Glasgow's Naked Video (Gregor Fisher, Elaine C. Smith, Andy Gray, Helen Lederer, etc.) although the welsh John Sparkes was in both, and had is own spin-off series, Barry Welsh is Coming

Joeboy 3y ago

It's a fair bit less dark, but you could give Big Train a go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEBtpWQ7x8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEBtpWQ7x8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ofz1OnlNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ofz1OnlNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtllWIiOTuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtllWIiOTuA Edit: The League of Gentlemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wB0OkcCps8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wB0OkcCps8

rwmj 3y ago
You missed the classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH9ECC_Qa4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH9ECC_Qa4 (apparently not intended as an analogy for smoking, although it does work for that).
louthy 3y ago
Love Big Train, some seriously good sketches. Here's some more of my favourites (outside of the ones you've already mentioned). Unfortunately my favourite sketch, 'Cake Factory', isn't on Youtube any more. That was where I first realised how brilliant Simon Pegg was as a comedy actor. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II - Join the Army [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM - Do You Speak English? [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA - Eagle Line Super Train [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiOfepOxe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiOfepOxe8 - Evil Hypnotist [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg - Jockeys in the Wild [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmmAUbfhMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmmAUbfhMU - Champion sprinter [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y - On Call Surgeon [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh9CDNQhBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh9CDNQhBg - Office Politics: Jesus vs Devil
- Joeboy 3y ago
  Cake Factory was indeed a great sketch!
mdp2021 3y ago

cal85 3y ago

Look Around You [0] is little known even in the UK, but I think a lot of HN readers might love it. It's a surreal but perfectly observed parody of the 80s/90s educational videos we used to watch in school science classes. [0] Episode 1: Calcium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU

louthy 3y ago
The series of 'Look Around You' that is a pastiche of 'Tomorrows World' is amazing. The 'Music 2000' episode is my favourite [1]. This is an example of the original 80s TV show it was doing the pastiche of [2] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2myFLUDB74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2myFLUDB74 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dn0lcvWkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0dn0lcvWkY
- quietbritishjim 3y ago
  It's more based on Open University programs made for showing in schools. But Tomorrow's World is a similar ilk.
  - louthy 3y ago
    That's the first series, the second series [1] is a parody of TW. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You#Series_two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You#Series_two
    - quietbritishjim 3y ago
      Oh wow, I didn't know there was a second series!
      - louthy 3y ago
        Then you're in for a treat!
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tudorw 3y ago

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/ https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/ might be a good place to start rummaging...

taylorius 3y ago

Slightly different, but Charlie Brooker (of Black Mirror fame) had a series called Screenwipe, which lampooned the tropes of television in the mid 2000s. It was pretty funny, and quite dark in places.