# UK Dopers: What Do You Think of These BBC Comedies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923 "2006-01-27T22:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/41 "2006-01-29T23:27:11Z")
> [@pretend my name is witty](#): > > Yeah, it is the same guy, [Robert Webb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916267/). > > **The Mighty Boosh** is one of the best things on TV these days. Absolute genius. Noel Fielding is one of my favourite comedians, and Julian Barrat is really good, too. They both had roles in another excellent Britcom, **Nathan Barley** , which is definately worth a look. Or checkout [trashbat dot cock](http://www.trashbat.co.ck). Are Fielding and Barrat Scottish or English? I find the musical numbers in The Boosh both wonderfully silly and strangely hypnotic . . . especially the “Australian digeridoo” and the “80s band” numbers where Vince was the front man and Howard played keyboards. Thanks for the Robert Webb answer. He plays disaffected late 20s-something guy better than anyone. ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/42 "2006-01-29T23:55:18Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Are Fielding and Barrat Scottish or English? I find the musical numbers in The Boosh both wonderfully silly and strangely hypnotic . . . especially the “Australian digeridoo” and the “80s band” numbers where Vince was the front man and Howard played keyboards. > > Thanks for the Robert Webb answer. He plays disaffected late 20s-something guy better than anyone. Well they’ve both got really English accents so I’m pretty sure they’re from South of the border, but there’s a small chance I’m wrong!They did get their their first big success and critical acclaim, however, from the Edinburgh comedy festival, winning the 1998 Perrier Best Newcomers award. The songs make the show, if anyone has an mp3 of _calm a llama down_, they’ll be my new best friend. Have you seen the episode with the Charlie story (I think the ep. might be called Charlie). The story is wonderfully absurd _‘To celebrate, he set fire to a posh hammer…’_ I think we (me and **everyone loves monkeys** ) should be going to see the finale of their current live show in Edinburgh sometime in March. Should be awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/43 "2006-01-30T11:55:56Z")
> [@pretend my name is witty](#): > > Well they’ve both got really English accents so I’m pretty sure they’re from South of the border, but there’s a small chance I’m wrong!They did get their their first big success and critical acclaim, however, from the Edinburgh comedy festival, winning the 1998 Perrier Best Newcomers award. > > The songs make the show, if anyone has an mp3 of _calm a llama down_, they’ll be my new best friend. > > Have you seen the episode with the Charlie story (I think the ep. might be called Charlie). The story is wonderfully absurd _‘To celebrate, he set fire to a posh hammer…’_ > > I think we (me and **everyone loves monkeys** ) should be going to see the finale of their current live show in Edinburgh sometime in March. Should be awesome! I think they are probably English, my brain had just retained the Edinburgh piece. I have seen the Charlie story, I think it’s part of the Gary Newman flying them to the Arctic to steal the stone that Bainbridge failed to get? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/44 "2006-01-30T19:44:44Z")
Another non-Brit checking in - I miss **Graham Norton** - yeah, I know it was not a sitcom, but he is very funny and then he came to Comedy Channel in the US and the show, well - it just was missing something, though still better than most of the stuff on Comedy Channel, but it was cancelled. Don’t understand the hate for **Keeping Up Appearances** - I have watched every episode, multiple times and find it very funny. And I have met others who, when I mention the show, admit they too have watched every episode. I think Americans find it funny as Hyacinth is exactly the American perceived stereotype of a Grand Dame in British Society…and to see her holding her stiff upper lip as situations crumble around her just plays brilliantly against that stereotype. Surprised they haven’t tried to do an American version with a Boston matriarch. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/45 "2006-01-30T20:08:33Z")
I am an AbFAb fan! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/46 "2006-01-30T23:45:27Z")
> [@pretend my name is witty](#): > > **The Mighty Boosh** is one of the best things on TV these days. I just caught ten minutes of it by accident. Awful. Terrible. Desperately trying for League of Gentlemen-style surrealism, but missing the wonderful character performances, the sharp scriptwriting and the attention to detail. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/47 "2006-01-31T00:00:57Z")
I always enjoyed watching **The Kumars at No. 42**. How did that go over in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923/48 "2006-01-31T00:06:49Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I always enjoyed watching **The Kumars at No. 42**. How did that go over in the UK? Well-received, in a fairly inoffensive watch-it-with-the-family way. Meera Syal is a class act. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-what-do-you-think-of-these-bbc-comedies/341923.md?page=2)