As a born and raised British, I spent my life watching British television, so I know first hand how good our comedy is. And it exceeds the clichés of Johnon Class Race his car with a tree branch In Fawlty Towers or securing a jumping point for the US version of the office: British comedy has caught the hearts of generations of TV viewers and fills the nation's homes-especially with laughter.
Of course, I wanted a lot of comedy from outside the UK. I have an encyclopedic knowledge of friends, I adored Scrubs (except Series 6, who sucked) and I still enjoy the frequent redirects of girls Gilmore, the modern family and the flight of the Conhords. That's not to say anything about recent shows like what we do in shadows, parks and recreation and screaming, all that I love.
But the British television comedy will always be where my heart really lies and if one of my above elections is on your own list of TV fans, then I invite you to try any or all my top selection of British TV comedy.
Father Ted
The play follows the dysfunctional lives of three Irish Catholic priests and their housewife obsessed with tea, living in the parish on the remote island of Kregi. Since trying to protest against a blasphemous film, to cheer up the sheep with anxiety or have to shoot a troubled bishop of “Up to ass”, the show's plot across all her 25 episodes fall somewhere between surreal and funny.
It is a show that is not taken seriously and should not. His charm lies in his entertainment, in his wealth of expert roles and subliminally written characters (both repetitive and incidental) and with the knowledge that no matter what Madcap schemes play, Ted will end up humiliated and Father Dagal will have no idea what is happening.
Look at: Pipes, Plex, Pluto TV, The Roko channel (all free). Peacock (Paid subscription).
Good life
On his 40th birthday, Tom Good is leaving his job in a plastic company and, with the help of his longtime wife Barbara, traded office life for one of his self-sufficiency. They grow their own vegetables and keep pigs, chickens and goat from the rear garden in the rich London suburb of Serdon.
Through the garden fence are the leaves, margo and jerryers. In many ways, the antithesis of Tom and Barbara, leadbetters live in relative luxury, their friendship often tested by the literal pig created by the neighborhood.
It is a job from home, a sustainable life story that is relevant today as it was when the series aired in the 1970s. Despite its age, most of the plots and jokes still set the test of time. Well, perhaps not so much of the huge laugh of the audience of the joke of the phone engineer for “getting so many calls that I have to carry the phone with me” that feels more like footage of the museum these days.
But it's a show that offers a magical combination of endless laughter, pleasant vibration and huge heart help, as Tom and Barbara deal with everything from bad backs and fleas to painful piglets and rusty cast iron stoves. He aired on the BBC in the 1970s – and a remarkable favorite of the late Queen Elizabeth II – so it's no surprise that you won't find a bad language here or really something that can be described as “Bawdy”. I grew up watching the show as a young child (my mother was a fan), so it's definitely the one you can see with the kids.
Look at: Britbox.
Peep Show
Leaving in their small apartment in a tower block in South London, it is not always clear why office drones and work shiny DJ Wannabe Jez are friends. And most of the time it seems not, especially when all Mark wants is a quiet night with his office Lovebodian interest, while Jezеz would bring his friends more to a night of magic mushrooms.
However, this unexpected pairing works perfectly in the series, as the duo moves everything from unexpected pregnancies and horny jam-sacred to what to do when your boss asks you to “give a hand”.
Despite often adult themes, the show somehow has no real discomfort and you always end up taking root for Mark and Jaz, even though they are both real terrible people in their own unique ways. It is constantly funny, infinitely quoted (“Is it normal to manage?”) And with nine seasons, there is a lot of it to enter your teeth.
Look at: Pipes, Pluto TV, The Roko channel (all free); Hulu, Disney Plus (Paid subscriptions).
Taskmaster
“Oh, God, you were So Right! “is the phrase I have heard from some of my friends after finally managing to make them watch the Taskmaster season after they claim that it doesn't” sound like their work. “Certainly I was right. Taskmaster is one of the best things on British television. And it has the BAFTA to prove it.
For the uninitiated, it's a celebrity games show in her heart. Each series sees five comedians competing in a variety of bizarre execution tasks in the “Task House”. The footage is then seen back in the studio and condemns the comedian himself and Taskmaster himself, Greg Davis, along with his assistant (and creator of the series), “Little” Alex Horn.
Some series have one or two big comedy names in the UK (such as Noel Fielding, Bob Mortimer or Sarah Milican), while for others, who appear on Taskmaster may be the biggest thing ever in their career. The show is unique in that the same five competitors appear in all episodes of each series, allowing you to get to know the episodes. Until the end, even those you would never hear before you feel like old friends.
Tasks range from simple demands like “Eat the Most Watermelon” to more non -nebulous things like “Watch this waterfall in traffic” or “Find the shoes that Alex is thinking”. The brilliance of the show comes from looking at funny people who handle the tasks of bonkers in different ways of confusing – or sometimes by looking at the ingenious way of encouraging the rules. It's also a great show to watch with someone so you can have “How would you do this task?” chat.
It remains one of my absolute favorite TV shows and while some of my friends originally spent it “just another show on celebrity panels”, I am happy to report that those same people are now solid fans and are just as interested in talking to me about which their competitor is like. Although it is easy. It's Bob Mortimer, obviously.
Oh, and please, don't mix it with an attempt to adapt the show. He ran for a season and was widely accepted as an ultimate night. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Look at: Pluto TVNumerous complete episodes of the clerk YouTube channel
Red dwarf
Exported by suspended animation 3 million years in the future, the work-freelance schedule Dave Lister finds itself on the red dwarf mining ship, only now all the crew are dead, and the ship is lost somewhere in deep space. His companions are the ship's computer, Holly, a cat (a man who has evolved from the Lister's pet cat), a Duel named Kritan and Arnold Rimmer, the former Lister's colleague's hologram.
Hardly any scientific-fino is so good with comedy. The show handles important themes, as you do, if you turn into a chicken, why a bar in the world is a good thing and what happens if you lead a loveice with an alternative version of the universe for yourself.
The show manages to be funny on the one hand, while interfering with deeper scientific topics on the other, such as in the episode of Inquisitor, in which the time road traveling with time deletes those he thinks are not worthy of existence-with the crew of the dwarf in his views. Or in Legion, in which the crew encounters a being made up of their collective consciousness that effectively holds prisoners so that it can continue to exist.
As a Taskmaster, attempts to make a US version of the show (terribly), but fortunately they never passed the cockpit. Actually, Ditho Pies HooBut I'm sure Johnoni Galecki would rather forget it, which I am more than happy to do.