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Favourite Recent Comedy Series

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Unabomber

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can the likes of The Office, Red Dwarf. Alan Partridge and so on really be classed as recent? I mean the first series of I'm Alan Partridge was in like 1997 11 years ago, Red Dwarf started in 1988 20 years ago, The Office 2001 7 years ago

surely recent means 2-3 years?

Yeah :ph34r:

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There aren't any good recent sitcoms around at the moment, apart from old favourites like Family Guy or the Simpsons. Comedy is at a low ebb at the moment.

Finchy

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There aren't any good recent sitcoms around at the moment, apart from old favourites like Family Guy or the Simpsons. Comedy is at a low ebb at the moment.

Pfft i n your opinion maybe, but IMO that's wrong. I think there are loads of great sit coms around.

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I watch so little TV i'd be a bad person to assess the difference between programmes, but one thing i watch almost religiously is Scrubs

I've probably seen every episode 2 to 3 times and still laugh when i know what's going to happen

It even has its sad moments like where Laverne dies and I really got into the characters, very sad i know

Top top show

Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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There aren't any good recent sitcoms around at the moment, apart from old favourites like Family Guy or the Simpsons. Comedy is at a low ebb at the moment.

Agree with that, though My Name is Earl, though that's getting long in the tooth, as are the Simpsons (who are now extremely long in the tooth :( )

Highlights have been The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi's Dark Place and they were a few years back now. I now get most of my comedy fixes from the panel game style shows. QI, Have I Got News, 8 out of 10 Cats, etc. Buzzcocks was good, but Amstell (who I thought would be really good) has ruined it. Going back a few years I really enjoyed "If I Ruled the World", but it never got a 2nd series.

Oh, I forgot TV Burp! And You've Been Framed has improved a 100 times over for Harry Hill's "actually funny" comments.

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I really don't get American sitcoms. :dunno:

For me, the funniest things in recent years have been Peep Show, Spaced and The Mighty Boosh.

David Guiza

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I really don't get American sitcoms. :dunno:

For me, the funniest things in recent years have been Peep Show, Spaced and The Mighty Boosh.

Never really watched spaced but Peep Show and The Mighty Boosh are quality :cool:

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I thought the first series of Nighty Night was brilliant, the second nowhere near as good.

People Like Us was superb, and why the second series never came out on DVD I've no idea, but as it stars now disgraced occasional kiddy porn viewer Chris Langham, it probably won't see the light of day any time soon.

Neither are quite as good as Human Remains, which is probably the bleakest but funniest thing I've ever seen.

My contribution to the argument about what constitutes recent is that I think anything THIS CENTURY is recent. It's certainly recent compared to Not Only But Also and Monty Python's Flying Circus, innit?

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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Early Doors, criminally underated.

Early Doors was one of the funniest programmes I think has ever been aired.

And why no one has mentioned Arrested Development is beyond me.

Also like Black Books, Spaced, The IT Crowd, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Partridge, Brass Eye, Peep Show, The Fast Show, Not Going Out, The Inbetweeners...

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Alan Partridge by a contry mile, but as was said, its not that recent now.

Top Gear's turned into a comedy in my opinion, when it returned in '02 it was purely about the cars but as its progressed through the series May, Clarkson and Hammond have realised they have the ability to make people laugh, and now 6 years on its for me the funniest thing currently on TV. Mock the week makes me laugh too.

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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Alan Partridge by a contry mile, but as was said, its not that recent now.

Top Gear's turned into a comedy in my opinion, when it returned in '02 it was purely about the cars but as its progressed through the series May, Clarkson and Hammond have realised they have the ability to make people laugh, and now 6 years on its for me the funniest thing currently on TV. Mock the week makes me laugh too.

Top Gear is quality at the minute.

As is Mock The Week, never fails to produce something special.

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Some good shouts with the likes of Partridge, Brass Eye, Spaced etc. but they're all going back a few years. Recently, I've just been watching a bit of The Mighty Boosh, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Peep Show and rather a lot of My Name Is Earl.

In the random last-few-years reccomendations rather than current (2003? 2004? something like that), Monkey Dust was awesomely surreal and dark.

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The Office (English one), Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Peep Show, Alan partridge, Game on, Men behaving badly, Phoenix nights, Red dwarf, Ellen, Just shoot me, King of queens, Black books.

Add Green Wing and Father Ted and we're there.

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