# Help me find movies/TV shows to match my sense of humor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821 "2006-03-17T22:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Silj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/1 "2006-03-17T22:43:42Z")
I have a rather unique sense of humor, and it is hard for me to find movies or TV shows that I find funny. Could anyone please offer some suggestions for viewing based on my list of what I find funny- thanks! Movies: This is Spinal Tap Holy Grail/Life of Brian Hudsucker Proxy (“44 floors, including the mezzanine”) Bad Santa The first Austin Powers Sexy Beast (specifically Don Logan’s profane rants) TV The Office (British version) Early Simpons/Family Guy, natch ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/2 "2006-03-17T23:08:13Z")
Have you seen a lot of British comedies? Try Spaced or Black Books. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/3 "2006-03-18T02:32:03Z")
If you like _This Is Spinal Tap_, I recommend you check out [_Bad News Tour_](http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=60582), which is similar, but (heresy! heresy!) actually _better_. Everyone involved is actually British, so the bad accents don’t get in the way so much – it’s not so improvisational, so the jokes are a bit more solid, and… they did it first. Rik Mayall is a God. Likewise Ade Edmondson. Nigel Planer is similarly a diety. Featuring a lot of the same people, you should also check out [_The Young Ones_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/y/youngonesthe_1299003473.shtml), which is some of the most brilliant (and surreal) television ever produced. Also recommended: [_Harry Enfield’s Television Programme_](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/harryenfieldstel_66601350.shtml). (Messed up sketch comedy.) And don’t miss [_A Bit of Fry and Laurie_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101049/), which is… indescribable, really. Stephen Fry is the funniest man on the planet, and perfectly matched with Hugh Laurie, who is very nearly the funniest man on the planet. (And after you’ve seen Hugh Laurie in the comic roles that he’s been polishing for over twenty years, you will never see Dr. Gregory House the same way again. Ever.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/4 "2006-03-18T02:43:43Z")
Blackadder. Rowan Atkinson, and later on, Hugh Laurie. Season one isn’t even close to 2,3,4. The interim Cavalier episode is good too. The re-hash millenium episode shows clear signs of not having the same writing team. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/5 "2006-03-18T02:58:08Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > The re-hash millenium episode shows clear signs of not having the same writing team. [Look into my eyes.](http://www.rts.org.uk/imglib/little_britain.jpg) Look into my eyes… look directly at the eyes, not around the eyes, but _directly_ at the eyes, and you’re under… Now listen: There never _was_ a re-hash millenium episode of Blackadder, _it never happened_, no such project was _ever_ conceived, and three, two, one – you’re _back in the room._ ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/6 "2006-03-18T03:46:07Z")
Two words: [Mr. Show](http://www.bobanddavid.com/mrshow.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/7 "2006-03-18T05:12:52Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/8 "2006-03-18T05:19:51Z")
Also, if you like Spinal Tap and the Office, be sure to check out the other Christopher Guest mockumentaries - Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind. Incidentally, Ricky Gervais is going to be in the next Christopher Guest movie. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/9 "2006-03-18T14:07:01Z")
I’m not sure, but just maybe these: Movies: Barbarella Casino Royale (The 1967 movie, not the made-for-TV movie in 1950-something or the upcoming new one) Pulp Fiction Last of the Secret Agents Death Race 2000 TV: Dang it, I can not remember the title of the show. I am so ashamed because I loved it. It was on the Sci Fi Channel about the same years as Farscape. Involved an incompetent given charge of this insect-like ship that could project a world-destroying beam. Pursued by the evil government agents who were even more incompetent than our hero. My Google-fu fails me, I’ll have to resort to a question in CS here for the answer. :o ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-movies-tv-shows-to-match-my-sense-of-humor/348821/10 "2006-03-18T14:40:58Z")
Got the name of the TV show, thanks to **ExTank**. It is LEXX.