I like British humor. My favorite British show in recent years is Upstart Crow and I keep hoping there will be a fourth season, but it’s not looking good. Upstart Crow is a very irreverent look at the Old Bard who was sometimes a bit of a wankington.
My all-time favorite is probably Father Ted. The premise is that all the really bad Irish priests are exiled to small islands. The two main characters of Fr. Ted are (no surprise) Father Ted and a young priest, Father Dougal. There’s also a drunken, lecherous, insane priest, Father Jack.
Of course, in the dim mists of time, there was Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the subsequent films.
The world recently lost one of the Pythons, Terry Jones. Not only a brilliant comic, but a brilliant medievalist. It wasn’t until I became a medievalist myself that I realized how authentic Monty Python and the Holy Grail is in so many ways — the political philosophy of medieval village life, the injuries caused by hand-held weapons, the absurdity of courtly love, the dramatic notion of male courage, forests fraught with danger, the persistence of magic, the power of the Grail. Now I get it. Reality is makes comedy funny.
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Of course I can only agree. Even Mr. Swiss enjoys English humour. He has to, he married me. I still remember the old British radio shows, The goon show with Spike Milligen and of course Hancock’s Half Hour (which was later televised) with Tony Hancock.
I’m sure there’s a whole treasure trove I have never heard of!
Also hitch hikers guide to the galaxy is good by Douglas Adams
I didn’t like the tv series, but I loved the books and the recordings. I loved Red Dwarf!!!
Yes same here, I got hooked when it was on the radio… Yes Red Dwarf. Have you ever read any Terry Pratchett?
I don’t get into Terry Pratchett. I’ve tried. 😦
To be honest I know what you mean. His earlier books seemed to peter out at the end. But later ones are better. I’m afraid I like them all. They cheer me up x
🙂 I used to read the Hitchhiker’s Guide at the end of ever school term.
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My kids used to love “Jeeves and Wooster”. Once, as we were rewinding the tape, “House” came on TV. The kids were amazed at Hugh Laurie’s amazing American accent. (He played the buffoon Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his much smarter butler.)
Wow. I didn’t make the connection. I watched all of House and didn’t pick that up. I loved Jeeves and Wooster and I loved the books.
Love British humor, the movies (including all of the Monty Python movies) and TV shows, especially the older stuff such as Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Bean, and Fawlty Towers, which of course had Monty Python alum John Cleese. P G Wodehouse has been a fav author forever, including his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster characters.
Terry also caught the mood of the peasantry. They were, by the fourteenth century, REALLY pissed off. When most of humanity got knocked off by the plague, they said “Screw the nobility” and became the middle class. Go, peasants!
Reality certainly does.
Raised By Wolves, Channel 4, is a little more modern.
My parents are from the UK and I love father ted and Monty python!! I haven’t heard of upstart crow so I’ll look into it
Upstart Crow is hilarious. I keep hoping for a fourth season. 🙂
I have been a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan most of my life.
I had never experienced British humor until college when I was introduced to Benny Hill. I was shocked and confused. It took me a while to figure out what was going on… I do enjoy some stuff – I loved Fawlty Towers and never laughed so hard as when watching Coupling. As a parent I made sure to introduce the boys to Monty Python to make sure they had a well rounded education. I think I did a good job.
Thanks for participating in yesterday’s prompt. Sorry I haven’t gotten around to commenting until now. And at that I can’t say much, because Jeeves and Wooster is all I recognize here. I’m old —think, “The Saint.” 😉
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