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She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series. It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
by Insanity 9mo ago
She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series.
It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
- HPsquared 9mo agoAnd that's a show about people who are bad at relationships.
- Insanity 9mo agoTrue! Two “losers” as protagonists
- timthorn 9mo agoAnd the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience. Thants.
- vizzier 9mo agoFor season 1 it very much satirises the early morning open university tv educational media format from the 70s through the early 2000s [1]. I'm not sure it'd land quite the same way for other countries or even for gen-z onwards. [1] https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/open-university https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/op...
- timthorn 9mo agoI wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.
- techterrier 9mo agoi think the skibidi toilet crew would love spiders on drugs
- Aeolun 9mo agoThat’s actually pretty cool. I can think of worse things to watch in the mornings.
- CommieBobDole 9mo agoWhat are birds? We just don't know.
- benjijay 9mo agoWhile we're on an Olivia Colman thread, I can't leave 'Green Wing' unmentioned
- teknolog 9mo agoCorrect!
- awesome_dude 9mo agoFor real humour starting Olivia, I STRONGLY recommend get appearances on Graham Norton - she's a great sport
- petepete 9mo agoI love that 15 years before winning an Oscar she played the mother of a boy with an arse for a face, too. NSFW, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvH86wfrzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvH86wfrzk And she was terrific in Fleabag.
- gertrunde 9mo agoSimiliarly vintage classic Coleman... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAssh20BF-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAssh20BF-k (Circa 2004-ish?) (Not really sure if it counts as SFW/NSFW tbh?)
- FrostViper8 9mo agoI personally never liked it. All the characters were deeply unlikable and a lot of the jokes are just disgusting shock humour. When I used to live in a shared house, I always skipped it if it was on the television.
- dumb1224 9mo agoWell depending on your taste of TV shows and the general culture. When I moved to the UK early 2000s I could understand but can't appreciate that type of humour. I think its rooted in culture. Luckily that was the golden era of British comedies and there were great diversities so you can pick and choose what flavour you like.
- FrostViper8 9mo agoI actually didn't see that era as a Golden era and actually much prefer the sketch shows in the 80s and 90s such has the Fast Show. I don't like any Mitchell and Webb stuff and don't particularly find either of them very funny. David Mitchell's (at least on panel shows) brand of comedy is just doing a stupid face and making sardonic/cynical remark which is often some thinly veiled political jab, that the target audience often already agrees with. That isn't comedy. It is activism. Once you can see it, you can't un-see it and I find nauseating.
- iso1631 9mo ago> Luckily that was the golden era of British comedies You'll find people saying that about every era.
- dumb1224 9mo agoTrue that. So it's down to our preferences : )
- FrostViper8 9mo agoTBH there is a few standout really good British shows and the rest is forgotten about. A lot of humour in some of shows was really tied to the time of making and a lot of audiences won't get the joke. If you watch Today Today or Brass Eye, unless you grew up at the time, it isn't funny. Most people under 30 won't know who any of celebrities are in the show.