While I wouldn't call it rubbish and I didn't hate it, while I have seen a few episodes and didn't dislike them, it wasn't a show I was particularly into.
Utterly forgotten: Kelly Monteith show. American comedian Kelly Monteith had a half hour show which was on BBC2 at 8pm on a monday night. Turns out to have run longer than I thought, six seasons from 1979 onwards. Some of it was sketch. Some monologue. Just sticks in the mind because of one monologue he did where he demonstrated the eye movements men do to avoid crying at sad films in the cinema. It was funny because it was true.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was amazing! What are you on about? Punt and Dennis had a good show after on bbc2, which turned shit when it went to bbc1 before the watershed, and Baddiel and Numan's follow up was brilliant too.
I liked the character that Hugh Dennis played, who said "milky, milky". I say the phrase sometimes under my breath at the supermarket when I spy the milk chiller ;-))
Monkey Dust. Just Brilliant. A marvellously dark and meloncholic, without being depressing, animated take on British society and media. One thing which was unique was the fact that each sketch had a different animation style. Fans will remember the Peodo Finder General.
And The meatsafe murderer who never done it. And the bloke who's girlfriend was getting her hair done just as various unbelievable things happen. (second coming and alien invasion, for example), First time cottager, the bloke late home from work...
My suggestions are: In Bed With My Dinner with Bob Mills - ITV Long before Harry Hill was Burping all over our tv screens, Bob Mills commanded the late night air waves on ITV for 6 series between '92 and '99. Bob was funny, charismatic and had great delivery, and despite a few appearances on other shows and healthy run with Win, Lose or Draw it's always been a mystery to me why he's not on tv more. Great Show. Small Potatoes - Channel 4. No, not the children's programme but the a comedy series charting the adventures of Tommy Tiernan's Ed Hewitt as he get's into the usual comedic scrape while being ably assist by Omid Djalili, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Morgan Jones (what happened to him?). I had real trouble finding many clips for this, it's as if it's been purged. Under rated and for the love of Ada someone release it on dvd.
Peep Show is one of the best comedies ever made. The writing is brilliant. Whoever would call it rubbish should never pass judgment on comedy again. Absolutely clueless. Go back to your Benny Hill.
One show that is largely forgotten but was a major pioneer in television was the variety and skit show called “cavalcade of stars” hosted by Jackie Gleason and aired on the now long defunct dumont network. The loss of the show to cbs is what doomed the whole network. Jackie ontroduced most of his great characters on cavalcade of stars, especially Ralph kramden and the honeymooners. That version had pert Kelton as Alice and briefly, Elaine stritch as trixie. Television then was not an extension of radio but of vaudeville
Amazed that Peep Show goes under "rubbish" - though I should probably add a smiley so I don't get taken too seriously and called out again. 😉 You did a great job of selecting clips to help the viewer's argument as they didn't show off Peep Show at its best. Mary Whitehouse Experience very much of its time, and probably age group. It seemed really edgy to 17-year-old me, but those clips looked dreadful. My Family - I give the two stars credit for a print interview where ISTR they said the hit rate was so low they'd make a whole series and know that they'd get just two decent episodes out of it. Made me admire them after that.
I loved My Family until the last series they adopted a kid and it destroyed the show. 2.4 Children destroyed itself the same way. I loved the Big Bang Theory and watched every single episode. Peep Show was crap. I loved the Mary Whitehouse Experience. Bonjur La Classe is also crap. Still waiting for Labrats.
The new statesman The greatest line in comedic History from Rick Mayhall Piers you stink worst than the cast of Brookside. Can't believe he is dead 10 years
There was a scene in that which scared the shit out of me. It was a dream sequence where piers is at Alan’s grave and he comes out of his coffin with maggots coming out of his mouth then, piers wakes up in bed but a zombie Alan rips his face off but that’s a dream too. It was how his skin stretched before it came off that freaked me out. I was about 11 and was walking past the living room door so it was one of those ones where I wasn’t supposed to see that. 😱
This is the first episode of this show I’ve watched where I thought everyone had gone mental….. Mary whitehouse….. peep show….. brilliant programmes! Each to their own though I suppose
I thought I recognised Shaun Micallef, another under-rated series he starred in was Mr & Mrs Murder. A married couple who are crime scene cleaners also do some amatuer detective work, watched it a while ago & enjoyed it.
My Family definitely outstayed its welcome, but the early stuff was pretty decent. Now for a nomination. Underrated - Chewin’ The Fat. Precursor to Still Game by much the same team, initially only shown on BBC Scotland but one of the funniest sketch shows of its era. Excellent - Horrible Histories. A bit of a phenomena which cemented if not launched the careers if its performers. There was an adultified version which replaced the links done by Rattus Rattus with Stephen Fry. I feel it lost a little something in that translation, but it was still the same solid gold bit of programming. Terrible - Hollyoaks. Oh Phil Redmond, what went wrong? You brought us Grange Hill. Then Brookside. After that? Hollyoaks. Who did what to you, Sir Phil? You tell me, and I’ll bash them for you! And on a happy note. Excellent - Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Yes I’m going to keep recommending it until it’s included. Like Horrible Histories, a kid’s show which would’ve graced prime time, such is its silly supremacy, Excellent - Knightmare. VR and Immersive Gaming from before those were a thing. Whilst following a team to the end of the story was a rare treat, excellent value was always found in watching others fail the quest. Typically by not knowing their left from their right.
Great/Underrated Roger and Val have just got in’ starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina this gave us a funny but engaging story told by just showing us the first 25 minutes after one or both of the titular characters return home. Really recommend this one.
Here's something forgotten, The Neverending Story TV series! Actually there were two, The Neverending Story (animated) and Tales from the Neverending Story. (live action) I watched one episode (the animated one) and didn't like it because it was nothing like the movie. I'd like to watch both and give them more of a chance as an adult, but I can't imagine anything comparing to the film. (Those sequel films though...yikes.)
I thought The Mary Whitehouse Experience was great, especially the "History Today" segments with the two eminent professors insulting each other like small children in the school playground !
Rubbish - Call the midwife - boring tedious depressing cockney w@nkers ( a la Eastenders) and soppy nuns , not a good mixture. There’s something about this show that makes me want to be sick. Underrated- 500 bus stops - John Shuttleworth and manager Ken on a rock and roll tour of the Peak District , although the gig in Bakewell library was cancelled.
My Family for the first... 2? 3? seasons was actually quite funny, and worth rewatching. After Kris Marshall and Daniela Denby-Ashe left (the first time) it was horrific, can't argue.
Agree with Peep Show .. tried to get into it but just couldn't. Likewise My Family for me is up there with Keeping Up Appearances as complete shite. Loved back in the day a show with Peter Davison as a new doctor "Very Peculiar Practice" think it was called. A great modern show is Loudermilk starring Ron Livingston and Will Sasso - don't know if you have done that one but it is very good 👍
I'm not sure if this should be listed as Underrated or Forgotten, but I propose 'Nowhere Man' which only had a single season on UPN, 1995-1996. It was about a guy whose entire identity is erased, and his attempts to figure out what happened and try to get his life back.
Peep Show was genius, and calling it rubbish is the worst take I've ever seen on this channel. You don't get 9 seasons for being trash, unless you're on the BBC and call it My Family. Mary Whitehouse experience was rubbish? Another clueless take. Stick to Allo Allo and it's repetitive one joke per character interaction, or Mrs. Brown's Boys if you find observational humour that was understood and well loved, turgid, and cry into your collection of Carry on Racist, and Sorry DVDs.
Couple of good ones: Please Sir, comedy set in a school with Jon Alderton as the teacher dealing with the usual rogues gallery of pupils; Get Some In: comedy about National Service in the RAF. Robert Lindsey. Tony Selby as the horrible Corporal Marsh.
Maey whitehouse experience? overrated? I'd've classed it as Excellent! some people have no sense of humour. Bet he's class Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy as crap, too. Frankly, he's wrong.
Its fine if people disagree with this, it may be heresy to say it but: Overrated: The Office. Am I the only person who found this show underwhelming? Some people have it up alongside Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and Father Ted as one the greatest sitcoms ever made but did it ever hit the comedic highs of those shows? I don't think so. Instead it gave very real and rather depressing take on office life. A work of art? Maybe. Cringeworthy? Definately. But it kept forgetting to be funny.
Could never get on with my family either but everyone raves about it. I wanted to like it but felt very forced humour at times. Great if others enjoyed it though.
I thought I was the only one who never liked Peep Show- glad to hear it's not just me. Mind you, I reckon- and this is heresy- Fawlty Towers was hideously overrated. It had it's moments of genius, but 90% of the jokes were so long in the set-up, you'd got the punchline and made a cup of tea long before Cleese got round to delivering it. Anyone remember WKRP in Cinncinnatti? I have a vague recollection that it was rather funny, but it might just be nostalgia for my youth....
Still game is a scottish comedy about two pensioner's jack and victor and all the capers they in the fictional town of craiglang originally jack and victor we're two characters in the sketch show chewin the fat they we're very popular and that's why they got their own show
My family was never great to be fair but I found it just about tolerable and would watch it if nothing else was on but oh dear it went awful after Chris Marshall left, he was the only funny person in it. Sorry but I thought Peep show was very good
Can't take anyone seriously who thinks friends is funnier than big bang 😅 they are both pretty awful however at least big bang hasn't aged like yoghurt... friends is unwatchable now a very shallow lazily written tv show. At Least big bang has moments rock paper scissors lizard spock for example.. and replying to another suggestion, yes I agree peep show is drivel!
My Family - Started OK, Used to enjoy it for about the first three seasons... But then it just DRAGGED ON AND ON AND ON.... The Micaluff Show - That has me interested! Never heard of it, but it looks my kind of thing! Peep Show - Would you believe I have NEVER SEEN IT!!!! The Mary Whitehouse Experience - God this show is LEGENDARY, Yet I have NEVER SEEN IT! I used to watch a lot of its predecessors, and Yeah... I may as well list them for: EXCELLENT: NAKED VIDEO (BBC) Sketch Comedy Show featuring the likes of Helen Lederer, Mel Smith and Gryff Ryhs Jones... NOT THE NINE O' CLOCK NEWS (BBC) - Do I need to say anymore? ALAS SMITH AND JONES (BBC) - The Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys Jones sketch show! Bloody fun! THE NEW STATEMAN (ITV) - Yeah, I second that vote! SPITTING IMAGE (ITV) - The original 1980's run of the show!!! God It spawned a Number One Hit Single here in the UK! (OK! We bought it for the B-Side... Not the Chicken Song!!! And for those who have never heard it - Here's a link! And NO its not Racist - It was a satirical Anti-Apartheid Song... ua-cam.com/video/l9dmoT9AfoI/v-deo.html - But UA-cam thinks its racist!) FORGOTTEN - WHO DARES WINS (Channel 4) Another Sketch Comedy Show that had some seriously surreal Humour and starred teh talents of among others Rory McGrath and Tony "Baldrick" Robinson - God it was that good I can still recall TWO of my favourite Sketches, Both featuring Baldrick... One had Rory McGrath and a Co Star holding a Live Charity Auction only for Tony to come on Stark Naked after being "Mugged" and having all his clothes stolen... (The clothes Rory and his pal were selling!!!!) and the other was a Cats Point of view of a Visit to the Vet's - Robinson being his owner! (The final lines should sell it to you... ROBINSON: "Hello Cedric" CAT "PISS OFF JUDAS!" ROBINSON: "wont be much of a ladies man now will you?" CAT "No I wont will I!" ROBINSON: "You will have to stay home with me wont you" CAT "Yes, And claw your curtains and crap in your sock drawer" - JESUS! I know that sketch so well I can more or less recite the entire script... Apart form a few lines where the laughter drowned out the speech...) OVER RATED - This hurts as I LOVED IT... But I have to admit, HALE AND PACE (ITV) was and remains overrated! It certainly had it moments... The Finale of one episode catching loads of complaints when they Emulated "Blue Peter" and the "Here's one I made Earlier"... For those who have never seen it - Hale and Pace are seen holding cat and bemoaning how TV has become more violent, and how they woudl never for instance... Put a cat in a Microwave to get a cheap laugh... "So here's one we made earlier" You wont find it on UA-cam... Trust me I have tried!!! That was 100% a high point for the series... Funny and controversial... But sadly, They just could not keep it going! I loved them both... They were a great comedy pairing, but teh show just wasn't as good as I remembered it! (Funnily, They also got their start as Characters on NAKED VIDEO... Namely THE MANAGMENT!) And is it me or have we lost something... While I have never seen Peep Show so cannot comment if it is good or bad... It seems all the comedy show most of us LOVE all come from the 1980's - 1990's... Very FEW ever suggest a show from the 2000's!
Let The Blood Run Free was another Australian comedy from the 1990s, at the time I thought it was a patchy Young Ones rip-off but was apparently quite highly acclaimed. I wonder what I'd think of it these days.
Don't know if you know this (you only would if you were in Australia when it was in), but, originally the show had a unique concept. Each episode originally had three cliffhangers and viewers would call up and choose which one they wanted, and the one chosen was then shown the next week, and whichever ending was chosen, sent the show in that direction. The show was written week to week because the writers had to find out which ending to go off for the next week's episode. Thankfully, they had sound of the greatest ad lib comedians in the country who could pull off the show with little turnaround or rehearsal time. At the time, the show was popular and a lot of people would ring in to choose the cliffhanger they wanted, and the TV station made a mint off it. It was like a comedy TV version of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels.
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Peep show rubbish? Wow, okay.........I thought it was great, Mitchell and Webb were brilliant in it. The POV idea made it unique.
Yep. I hated it.
@@FromaTwistedMind Same. I'm not it's target audience though to be fair.
One of the best TV series from the last 20 years, if you don't like it I guess that Mrs Brown's Boys is probably more your level.
While I wouldn't call it rubbish and I didn't hate it, while I have seen a few episodes and didn't dislike them, it wasn't a show I was particularly into.
@@ClearLight1967Definitely one of my favourite series of the last 20 years.
Used to love Scottish comedy show ' Naked Video ' especially Shadwell and his poems
Didn’t he have a pen ‘puppet’ too, or was that a different character?
I don't think so.
Utterly forgotten: Kelly Monteith show. American comedian Kelly Monteith had a half hour show which was on BBC2 at 8pm on a monday night. Turns out to have run longer than I thought, six seasons from 1979 onwards. Some of it was sketch. Some monologue. Just sticks in the mind because of one monologue he did where he demonstrated the eye movements men do to avoid crying at sad films in the cinema. It was funny because it was true.
I remember Kelly Monteith.....I thought it was funny at the time, not sure how I'd feel now
I remember it, watched it recently... stands up quite well.
Not utterly forgotten.
I was an avid Kelly Monteith watcher when it was on. Can even still remember the theme tune.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was amazing! What are you on about? Punt and Dennis had a good show after on bbc2, which turned shit when it went to bbc1 before the watershed, and Baddiel and Numan's follow up was brilliant too.
Newman and baddiel in pieces was genius!
Peep Show rubbish? It's one of the best sitcoms ever made!
I used to enjoy the 'that's you that is, characters from Mary Whitehouse
That bit was great! Funny enough, the Edward collendarhands sketch that he showed was one that stuck in my head too. 😂
I liked the character that Hugh Dennis played, who said "milky, milky". I say the phrase sometimes under my breath at the supermarket when I spy the milk chiller ;-))
@@katewolfspirit6722 pervert!!
TV Offal on C4 was a work of genius, as was Ads Infinitum later on BBC2.
Monkey Dust. Just Brilliant. A marvellously dark and meloncholic, without being depressing, animated take on British society and media. One thing which was unique was the fact that each sketch had a different animation style. Fans will remember the Peodo Finder General.
And The meatsafe murderer who never done it. And the bloke who's girlfriend was getting her hair done just as various unbelievable things happen. (second coming and alien invasion, for example), First time cottager, the bloke late home from work...
Yeah, Monkey Dust was awesome. Shame they chickened-out of releasing the 2nd and 3rd series on DVD.
Ok this is mental. Peep show was incredible.
My suggestions are:
In Bed With My Dinner with Bob Mills - ITV
Long before Harry Hill was Burping all over our tv screens, Bob Mills commanded the late night air waves on ITV for 6 series between '92 and '99.
Bob was funny, charismatic and had great delivery, and despite a few appearances on other shows and healthy run with Win, Lose or Draw it's always been a mystery to me why he's not on tv more.
Great Show.
Small Potatoes - Channel 4.
No, not the children's programme but the a comedy series charting the adventures of Tommy Tiernan's Ed Hewitt as he get's into the usual comedic scrape while being ably assist by Omid Djalili, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Morgan Jones (what happened to him?). I had real trouble finding many clips for this, it's as if it's been purged.
Under rated and for the love of Ada someone release it on dvd.
Peep Show is one of the best comedies ever made. The writing is brilliant. Whoever would call it rubbish should never pass judgment on comedy again. Absolutely clueless. Go back to your Benny Hill.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was like any sketch based, topical show....hit and miss......but the hits were great
Loved it back in the day.😊
You had to be the right age and background, I think. Watching it now its just not as funny, I find.
God, I hated My Family.........not clever, poor script
One show that is largely forgotten but was a major pioneer in television was the variety and skit show called “cavalcade of stars” hosted by Jackie Gleason and aired on the now long defunct dumont network. The loss of the show to cbs is what doomed the whole network. Jackie ontroduced most of his great characters on cavalcade of stars, especially Ralph kramden and the honeymooners. That version had pert Kelton as Alice and briefly, Elaine stritch as trixie. Television then was not an extension of radio but of vaudeville
Amazed that Peep Show goes under "rubbish" - though I should probably add a smiley so I don't get taken too seriously and called out again. 😉 You did a great job of selecting clips to help the viewer's argument as they didn't show off Peep Show at its best. Mary Whitehouse Experience very much of its time, and probably age group. It seemed really edgy to 17-year-old me, but those clips looked dreadful.
My Family - I give the two stars credit for a print interview where ISTR they said the hit rate was so low they'd make a whole series and know that they'd get just two decent episodes out of it. Made me admire them after that.
Peep Show is absolutely brilliant!
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was brilliant, as was Newman and Baddiel in pieces. IMO
Did you deliberately choose people who were wrong about everything this time or was it just coincidence?
The Mary Whitehouse experience. I loved this. I still do the "See that..." set up line.
I loved My Family until the last series they adopted a kid and it destroyed the show. 2.4 Children destroyed itself the same way. I loved the Big Bang Theory and watched every single episode. Peep Show was crap. I loved the Mary Whitehouse Experience. Bonjur La Classe is also crap. Still waiting for Labrats.
The new statesman
The greatest line in comedic
History from Rick Mayhall
Piers you stink worst than the cast of Brookside.
Can't believe he is dead 10 years
Totally agree with you there 👍
There was a scene in that which scared the shit out of me. It was a dream sequence where piers is at Alan’s grave and he comes out of his coffin with maggots coming out of his mouth then, piers wakes up in bed but a zombie Alan rips his face off but that’s a dream too. It was how his skin stretched before it came off that freaked me out. I was about 11 and was walking past the living room door so it was one of those ones where I wasn’t supposed to see that. 😱
I watched Micaleff when I lived in Australia. I was a big fan. Nice to see it here.
A few more suggestions: Turn on to T-bag, Generation Kill, Battle in the box, I'm with stupid, and, Wheeler Dealers.
"Utah Saints: Unplugged" is the funniest thing Newman & Baddiel have ever done.
"Now, please welcome to the stage. THE ORB!"
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was hilarious and appointment TV in the early 90's.
This is the first episode of this show I’ve watched where I thought everyone had gone mental….. Mary whitehouse….. peep show….. brilliant programmes! Each to their own though I suppose
I thought I recognised Shaun Micallef, another under-rated series he starred in was Mr & Mrs Murder. A married couple who are crime scene cleaners also do some amatuer detective work, watched it a while ago & enjoyed it.
My Family definitely outstayed its welcome, but the early stuff was pretty decent.
Now for a nomination.
Underrated - Chewin’ The Fat. Precursor to Still Game by much the same team, initially only shown on BBC Scotland but one of the funniest sketch shows of its era.
Excellent - Horrible Histories. A bit of a phenomena which cemented if not launched the careers if its performers. There was an adultified version which replaced the links done by Rattus Rattus with Stephen Fry. I feel it lost a little something in that translation, but it was still the same solid gold bit of programming.
Terrible - Hollyoaks. Oh Phil Redmond, what went wrong? You brought us Grange Hill. Then Brookside. After that? Hollyoaks. Who did what to you, Sir Phil? You tell me, and I’ll bash them for you!
And on a happy note.
Excellent - Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Yes I’m going to keep recommending it until it’s included. Like Horrible Histories, a kid’s show which would’ve graced prime time, such is its silly supremacy,
Excellent - Knightmare. VR and Immersive Gaming from before those were a thing. Whilst following a team to the end of the story was a rare treat, excellent value was always found in watching others fail the quest. Typically by not knowing their left from their right.
I'm not familiar with most of these, but I definitely agree with you on Horrible Histories.
Knightmare was brilliant for sure. I mean that was the 80s, really pioneering
How the smeg does he have such good taste in liking the boys from the dwarf but hates Peep Show? Baffling.
Great/Underrated Roger and Val have just got in’ starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina this gave us a funny but engaging story told by just showing us the first 25 minutes after one or both of the titular characters return home.
Really recommend this one.
Here's something forgotten, The Neverending Story TV series! Actually there were two, The Neverending Story (animated) and Tales from the Neverending Story. (live action) I watched one episode (the animated one) and didn't like it because it was nothing like the movie. I'd like to watch both and give them more of a chance as an adult, but I can't imagine anything comparing to the film. (Those sequel films though...yikes.)
I thought The Mary Whitehouse Experience was great, especially the "History Today" segments with the two eminent professors insulting each other like small children in the school playground !
Rubbish - Call the midwife - boring tedious depressing cockney w@nkers ( a la Eastenders) and soppy nuns , not a good mixture. There’s something about this show that makes me want to be sick.
Underrated- 500 bus stops - John Shuttleworth and manager Ken on a rock and roll tour of the Peak District , although the gig in Bakewell library was cancelled.
My Family for the first... 2? 3? seasons was actually quite funny, and worth rewatching. After Kris Marshall and Daniela Denby-Ashe left (the first time) it was horrific, can't argue.
Agree with Peep Show .. tried to get into it but just couldn't. Likewise My Family for me is up there with Keeping Up Appearances as complete shite. Loved back in the day a show with Peter Davison as a new doctor "Very Peculiar Practice" think it was called. A great modern show is Loudermilk starring Ron Livingston and Will Sasso - don't know if you have done that one but it is very good 👍
I'm not sure if this should be listed as Underrated or Forgotten, but I propose 'Nowhere Man' which only had a single season on UPN, 1995-1996. It was about a guy whose entire identity is erased, and his attempts to figure out what happened and try to get his life back.
My family was mostly rubbish but I want to like it just because of Robert Lindsay
I finally made it onto the channel!
I wouldn’t say Peep Show was rubbish, but I would definitely say it was overrated.
Peep Show was genius, and calling it rubbish is the worst take I've ever seen on this channel.
You don't get 9 seasons for being trash, unless you're on the BBC and call it My Family.
Mary Whitehouse experience was rubbish? Another clueless take.
Stick to Allo Allo and it's repetitive one joke per character interaction, or Mrs. Brown's Boys if you find observational humour that was understood and well loved, turgid, and cry into your collection of Carry on Racist, and Sorry DVDs.
5:55 Is that him from the Inbetweeners?
I watched the New Statesman on UA-cam recently and have to say, only the first season was any good tbf.
Couple of good ones: Please Sir, comedy set in a school with Jon Alderton as the teacher dealing with the usual rogues gallery of pupils;
Get Some In: comedy about National Service in the RAF. Robert Lindsey. Tony Selby as the horrible Corporal Marsh.
Maey whitehouse experience? overrated? I'd've classed it as Excellent! some people have no sense of humour.
Bet he's class Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy as crap, too.
Frankly, he's wrong.
Its fine if people disagree with this, it may be heresy to say it but: Overrated: The Office. Am I the only person who found this show underwhelming? Some people have it up alongside Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and Father Ted as one the greatest sitcoms ever made but did it ever hit the comedic highs of those shows? I don't think so. Instead it gave very real and rather depressing take on office life. A work of art? Maybe. Cringeworthy? Definately. But it kept forgetting to be funny.
People responded to The Office because everyone at some point had had a completely clueless manager. It was relatable.
Could never get on with my family either but everyone raves about it. I wanted to like it but felt very forced humour at times. Great if others enjoyed it though.
I thought I was the only one who never liked Peep Show- glad to hear it's not just me.
Mind you, I reckon- and this is heresy- Fawlty Towers was hideously overrated. It had it's moments of genius, but 90% of the jokes were so long in the set-up, you'd got the punchline and made a cup of tea long before Cleese got round to delivering it.
Anyone remember WKRP in Cinncinnatti?
I have a vague recollection that it was rather funny, but it might just be nostalgia for my youth....
I agree that Fawlty Towers is overrated, but I still like Peep Show.
Still game is a scottish comedy about two pensioner's jack and victor and all the capers they in the fictional town of craiglang originally jack and victor we're two characters in the sketch show chewin the fat they we're very popular and that's why they got their own show
That featured a few videos back, excellent show.
Loved Robert Lindsey in Citizen Smith & Get some in... didnt like my family.
I was a massive fan of 'Bonjour La Classe' when it first aired (I was seven).
Peep show rubbish?! You having a laugh? New statesman was brilliant
I really really love the goes wrong show it’s totally hilarious
Peep Show was awesome. Super Hans has definitely given this video a thumbs down👎
Never seen Bonjour La Classe we couldnae get BBBC1 😂
My family was never great to be fair but I found it just about tolerable and would watch it if nothing else was on but oh dear it went awful after Chris Marshall left, he was the only funny person in it. Sorry but I thought Peep show was very good
Can't take anyone seriously who thinks friends is funnier than big bang 😅 they are both pretty awful however at least big bang hasn't aged like yoghurt... friends is unwatchable now a very shallow lazily written tv show. At Least big bang has moments rock paper scissors lizard spock for example.. and replying to another suggestion, yes I agree peep show is drivel!
My Family - Started OK, Used to enjoy it for about the first three seasons... But then it just DRAGGED ON AND ON AND ON....
The Micaluff Show - That has me interested! Never heard of it, but it looks my kind of thing!
Peep Show - Would you believe I have NEVER SEEN IT!!!!
The Mary Whitehouse Experience - God this show is LEGENDARY, Yet I have NEVER SEEN IT! I used to watch a lot of its predecessors, and Yeah... I may as well list them for:
EXCELLENT: NAKED VIDEO (BBC) Sketch Comedy Show featuring the likes of Helen Lederer, Mel Smith and Gryff Ryhs Jones...
NOT THE NINE O' CLOCK NEWS (BBC) - Do I need to say anymore?
ALAS SMITH AND JONES (BBC) - The Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys Jones sketch show! Bloody fun!
THE NEW STATEMAN (ITV) - Yeah, I second that vote!
SPITTING IMAGE (ITV) - The original 1980's run of the show!!! God It spawned a Number One Hit Single here in the UK! (OK! We bought it for the B-Side... Not the Chicken Song!!! And for those who have never heard it - Here's a link! And NO its not Racist - It was a satirical Anti-Apartheid Song... ua-cam.com/video/l9dmoT9AfoI/v-deo.html - But UA-cam thinks its racist!)
FORGOTTEN - WHO DARES WINS (Channel 4) Another Sketch Comedy Show that had some seriously surreal Humour and starred teh talents of among others Rory McGrath and Tony "Baldrick" Robinson - God it was that good I can still recall TWO of my favourite Sketches, Both featuring Baldrick...
One had Rory McGrath and a Co Star holding a Live Charity Auction only for Tony to come on Stark Naked after being "Mugged" and having all his clothes stolen... (The clothes Rory and his pal were selling!!!!) and the other was a Cats Point of view of a Visit to the Vet's - Robinson being his owner! (The final lines should sell it to you... ROBINSON: "Hello Cedric" CAT "PISS OFF JUDAS!" ROBINSON: "wont be much of a ladies man now will you?" CAT "No I wont will I!" ROBINSON: "You will have to stay home with me wont you" CAT "Yes, And claw your curtains and crap in your sock drawer" - JESUS! I know that sketch so well I can more or less recite the entire script... Apart form a few lines where the laughter drowned out the speech...)
OVER RATED - This hurts as I LOVED IT... But I have to admit, HALE AND PACE (ITV) was and remains overrated! It certainly had it moments... The Finale of one episode catching loads of complaints when they Emulated "Blue Peter" and the "Here's one I made Earlier"...
For those who have never seen it - Hale and Pace are seen holding cat and bemoaning how TV has become more violent, and how they woudl never for instance... Put a cat in a Microwave to get a cheap laugh... "So here's one we made earlier"
You wont find it on UA-cam... Trust me I have tried!!! That was 100% a high point for the series... Funny and controversial... But sadly, They just could not keep it going! I loved them both... They were a great comedy pairing, but teh show just wasn't as good as I remembered it! (Funnily, They also got their start as Characters on NAKED VIDEO... Namely THE MANAGMENT!)
And is it me or have we lost something... While I have never seen Peep Show so cannot comment if it is good or bad... It seems all the comedy show most of us LOVE all come from the 1980's - 1990's... Very FEW ever suggest a show from the 2000's!
Let The Blood Run Free was another Australian comedy from the 1990s, at the time I thought it was a patchy Young Ones rip-off but was apparently quite highly acclaimed. I wonder what I'd think of it these days.
He has reviewed it, lives it and has even raved about it OK other videos.
Don't know if you know this (you only would if you were in Australia when it was in), but, originally the show had a unique concept.
Each episode originally had three cliffhangers and viewers would call up and choose which one they wanted, and the one chosen was then shown the next week, and whichever ending was chosen, sent the show in that direction.
The show was written week to week because the writers had to find out which ending to go off for the next week's episode. Thankfully, they had sound of the greatest ad lib comedians in the country who could pull off the show with little turnaround or rehearsal time. At the time, the show was popular and a lot of people would ring in to choose the cliffhanger they wanted, and the TV station made a mint off it.
It was like a comedy TV version of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels.