Hot news from the UK is that the USA has banned the show Are You Being Served because the use of "pussy" is too rude.

Are you kidding? We used to broadcast that show at 10am in the morning on UK Gold.

LOL.

LB.

I doubt this is true, it probably has run it's course over here. It was ok as a comedy show but it ran over here for a very long time. I much prefer Father Ted anyway. "Drink"

They still play it on BBCA all the time. Father Ted is fucking hilarious as well.

The Brits have a fantastic sense of humor which takes no prisoners.

I AM HAPPY TO BE BRITISH.

Butt, also like American comedy, like the Marx Brothers. Total genius.

LB.

I like quite a few britcoms:
Black adder
Father Ted
Red Dwarf
Keeping up appearances
Mr.Bean
The young ones

But there are also a great number of very bland and boring ones at that.

Jesus Christ, this was one of the worst shows in television history. Given the state of TV today, that's saying a lot.

At least Benny Hill had partial nudity. This one just has that bucked-tooth chick.

Cleet, I don't like any of those you mention. Have you tried Porridge or Rising Damp

LB.

I never heard of them, but if you don't like the ones I mentioned- I would have to say our tastes are far too different in comedies at least.........How can you not like Father Ted- Just looking at Father Jack on the show makes me laugh. Hilarious.

Monty Python. Now that was a show!

Cleet, British comedy can be classified in three ways:

Working Class comedy - "Are You Being Served?"

Middle Class comedy - "Absolutely Fabulous"

And "For All" comedy which includes Monty Python, written and performed by middle class graduates but enjoyed by everyone.

The Keeping Up With Appearances was a middle class comedy, meaning it appealed to people in the UK with good jobs, homes, ect.

Father Ted had more broad appeal but it was shown in the Uk on a minority channel and I because of that, I didn't watch it much.

I am sure you would have enjoyed Rising Damp and Porridge. Rising Damp was about a pervy man who owned a "guest house". He was forever chasing after Miss Jones who was this
sexually frustrated 36 year old woman who couldn't get a boyfriend. There were two students sharing the house and one was black. Lots of racist humor at the start of the series but it would never be repeated in this country again.

Porridge was about a man Norman Stanley Fletcher who was serving five years in jail. It was a classic series, I am sorry you have never seen it, but it's still being repeated in the UK, almost 30 years after it was made.

LB.

Actually now that you described them they do sound pretty good, but I don't think the pulic tv stations over here have picked either of them up as i have not seen them in the listings at all, my cable company doesn't offer BBCA so I don't know if they are on there. We seem to get your shows about 10 years after they air in the UK. It's too bad because like I said I like quite a few of them. Oh and I forgot FAwlty Towers in my list above- i love that show, Basil is my her0- what a total and complete bastard he was.

Father Ted is the greatest 'British' Comedy the world has ever seen.

Irish scriptwriters, Irish cast, Irish crew, by the way.

It shits on Fawlty Towers from a great height.

The yanks are catching up lately though. Larry David is a comedy genius who comes somewhere close to Dermot.

Nothing can touch Ted though.

Big and Cleet, If you think Father Ted was funny, you are missing out on some great UK comedies that I am sorry to say will never be screened in the USA.

For reasons akin to Mrs Slocombe's pussy.

LB.

That's too bad LB because I love Ted, and always love to try new UK shows, maybe eventually my cable will get that BBCA channel and my options will increase.
Big, I agree with you in that Father Ted is my favorite too, I have never been let down by any episode of that series and I now own them all on DVD- it is too bad that the main actor died as the show would probably have still done well today.

Yeah, the main actor was only 48 when he died. Something like that. He was doing some gardening work and he just dropped dead.

Very sad. Like you say, he had much comedy potential.

LB.

That show is hillarious, they show it on PBS all the time, in fact. I think its on now. Late...
Also like Monty Python (of course), Red Dwarf, Young Ones