Whats your fave tv comedy show?

[Splatterdragon73]

You can't beat a bit of Norman Stanley Fletcher where Ronnie Barker is concerned.

[VicDakin]

Porridge (TV Series 1974–1977).
Ronnie Barker could do no wrong in the 70s,but also Fulton Mackay and Brian Wilde and of course Richard Beckinsale are all superb in this series,plus loads of familiar 70s faces of the time are in this series thru out.
Fletch is caught up in the inmates' mania for gambling and,working on the farm,has lots of eggs to use as stakes. After a falling out with fellow con Ives, Fletch plants the eggs on him for which Ives is punished and gets revenge by tipping MacKay off about an illegal Snakes and Ladders game taking place in the coal-hole. Cue coal being emptied onto the players. However Fletch has the last laugh when he is moved to a single cell ...having bet everybody else that he would be.

[VicDakin]

Nov. 17, 1997
Watership Alan
After making negative comments about them Alan becomes a hate figure with local farmers. Matters are made worse when he interviews Peter Baxendale-Thomas,the local farmers' union leader and makes ignorant,insulting remarks. The farmers,however,get their revenge when Alan is shooting a commercial on a boat and they throw a dead cow off a bridge,which hits and injures him. Leaving hospital in a neck brace and with broken fingers he needs help to restore the satellite channel to the television in his hotel room,thereby exposing his fondness for the Porn Channel.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Nov. 17, 1997
Watership Alan
After making negative comments about them Alan becomes a hate figure with local farmers. Matters are made worse when he interviews Peter Baxendale-Thomas,the local farmers' union leader and makes ignorant,insulting remarks. The farmers,however,get their revenge when Alan is shooting a commercial on a boat and they throw a dead cow off a bridge,which hits and injures him. Leaving hospital in a neck brace and with broken fingers he needs help to restore the satellite channel to the television in his hotel room,thereby exposing his fondness for the Porn Channel.

I love Chris Morris in this episode! That whole scene is brilliant. "You make pigs smoke!"

[VicDakin]

Originally Posted by PaulD

I love Chris Morris in this episode! That whole scene is brilliant. "You make pigs smoke!"

You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes.

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Fletch is caught up in the inmates' mania for gambling and,working on the farm,has lots of eggs to use as stakes. After a falling out with fellow con Ives, Fletch plants the eggs on him for which Ives is punished and gets revenge by tipping MacKay off about an illegal Snakes and Ladders game taking place in the coal-hole. Cue coal being emptied onto the players. However Fletch has the last laugh when he is moved to a single cell ...having bet everybody else that he would be.

A classic episode the above make no mistake with typically fine performances from all involved.

"Poor old Ives, eh? What a loser. Y' know if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets and he was one of 'em, he'd be the one in the middle on the bottle!"

[VicDakin]

War of the Wasps, featuring most the cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

[VicDakin]

Eddie comes home from a very bad day at work and Richie finds Eddie is not paying the rent and has only got £11.80 which he has spent on a adult magazine. But Richie finds Eddie has put on a bet on the Miss World contest on TV

[VicDakin]

Holy Flying Circus.
Great re-imagining of what happened when Palin and Cleese went head to head with the Church of England,totally barmy but very funny with a great ensemble cast,great performance from Charles Edwards as Michael Palin,Darren Boyd is excellent as Cleese and Jason Thorpe as both Alan Dick / Desmond Lovely,both characters are quite mad,i even thoughts parts were quite touching,in a Python way of course.

[Demoncrat]

must plug the rather funny spoof Cricklewood Greats which is repeated tonight on BBC4. especially if youve read Matthew Sweet's Shepperton Babylon!!

also the rather low key, but imo GREAT, Roger And Val Have Just Got In has a new time and slot, tonight AGAIN BBC2 22.00 GMT.
Not to everyone's taste, but the first series was a hidden gem, stuck away on BBC4 along with Getting On, whilst that squirrel faced **** Mcintyre is on non stop! Ahem.
Shame on the beeb for not repeating the first series to herald this return!!!