>PhoneShop and Green Wing
Not sure I'll be watching it then as I found them both dire.

>>23696
Green Wing started class but went off the rails in the second series imo.

>>23696

A OWL? A OWL!

>>23698

Large

In what world is either Phoneshop and Green Wing an example of classic British comedy? Set the bar a little higher.

>>23700
Green Wing's on the tail end of the Morris/Heap/Ianucci etc era, plus the Smack the Pony lass. It's got enough clout.

It's not Blackadder or Friends, but it's solid British comedy.

>>23701
I spent a not insignificant amount of time looking for a clip of Green Wing I actually laughed at, and lo and behold, it turned out to be the punchline of this scene which may as well have been a sketch plucked wholesale from Smack the Pony. Whereas any bit with Mangan, Rhind-Tutt, or Heap in it is just shite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBM1x5DPBXA

>>23700
Classic recent comedy, the stuff that people tend to have seen.
>Set the bar a little higher.
No because it's not that good a show. It's decent and familiar.

>>23702
You know it was written by Victoria something of STP? If you already knew that then it won't change your opinion, otherwise this might endear you a bit more.

You might also like this clip, with a similarly imaginative punchline.

>>23703
Green Wing and The Armando Ianucci Shows both rank top for me, same with Garth Marenghi. But without defining why then that is useless info. Where does classic British comedy begin and end? Phone Shop is more 'old' than 'classic'.

>>23704

Old then, I don't care. It has Julian Barratt and Adrian Scarborough in as regular characters and Matthew Holness does an episode.

>>23704
Nah that was shite. The 'punchline' was the least funny bit of the scene. I don't understand why he did that. If they weren't alone it would at least make sense.

>>23706
Well, they do eventually go on a 'date' and potentially sleep together which perhaps contextualises this a bit better. I think Boyce is the irreverent troll we should all aspire to be. I thought the homo tongue was quite good.

So what kind of stuff would you rank?

>>23707
Favourites are Spaced, Thick of It, all the Linehan-penned stuff (regrettably), Peep Show, revisited Inbetweeners over the past week and that's still good. If I had to rate a recent BBC Three sitcom, People Just Do Nothing is alright.

>>23708
>a recent BBC Three sitcom, People Just Do Nothing

>The first series was released on BBC Three in July 2014

>>23709
As you can tell I don't watch a lot of television these days.

>>23708
I have seen stuff about Lineham being a controversial figure but never looked into it, what's shameful about liking his stuff?

All of that stuff is on my comedy playlist lol, good lad.

>>23711

Didn't someone say this exact thing last week?

>>23711

You know how we have cuntoffs on here? Something best kept anonymous and generally brief, on a number of topics. Imagine someone having a cuntoff on twitter, under their professional name, relentlessly, for twelve years straight, purely on one really specific contentious topic. Until his wife has left him over it and twitter bans him for it. Even if you're in a position to look past his transphobia, the way he's endlessly gone on about it is enough to make anyone want to distance themselves.

>>23713

Who gives a fuck, I care about the quality of his sitcoms, not his political beliefs. If it wasn't for the Internet I would have never known about it or even what he looked like, it would just be a name I recognise from the credits.

Do understand however that quitea few of my favourite musical artists have served jail time for homicide, so I might be on a different level to you in terms of separating creator from creation.

>>23714

>I might be on a different level to you in terms of separating creator from creation.
You might be more of a tosser, aye.

>>23713
Reading up on it, it seems like him getting absolutely slated for the original joke in the IT crowd 'radicalised' him.

It wouldn't be the first time we've seen this kind of polarisation. Honestly just a sad read all round, people are fucked.

>>23715
Separating content from the creator doesn't make you a tosser. If anyone can still enjoy lostprophets and derive joy from it, more power to them.

>>23717

>Separating content from the creator doesn't make you a tosser.
No, but phrasing things like
>Do understand however
and
>so I might be on a different level to you in terms of separating creator from creation.
is the result of being one.

>>23718
Sounds like you're inferring that them being on a different level is a dig at you somehow. You're just different.

Honestly if your threshold for being a tosser is the phrase "Do understand however", then you might be a touch overly-sensitive.

That said, no reason you can't both be tossers.

>>23719

So long as I'm not so sensitive as to go on about it for a decade.

>>23720
As far as I'm concerned, all of this happened between the hours of 10am and 12pm this morning.

I really like Green Wing.

>>23722
Me too. It probably won't age well, but at the time I found it very amusing.

>>23709

2014 is still pretty recent. People still watch TV from 30 - 40 years ago, 6 is nothing.

>>23724

If it was a human child it would be at primary school and sentient enough to start to at least pretend to get some of the jokes in it.
I assume, I don't have children.

>>23714
>Who gives a fuck, I care about the quality of his sitcoms, not his political beliefs

Er... >>23711 gives a fuck? He evidently wouldn't have asked otherwise. But don't let that stop you from butting in to loudly tell everyone how little you care.

>>23726

You understand other people are allowed to have opinions, right lad?

In the meantime we will have to wait for otherlad to come back and tell us if he considers the evidence presented sufficient to be ashamed of liking the IT Crowd, though.

>>23728

>You understand other people are allowed to have opinions, right lad?
You understand this is a complete non-sequitor in context, right lad?