http://www.metafilter.com/tags/videos+funny Posts tagged with 'videos' and 'funny' at MetaFilter. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:58:30 -0800 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:58:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69619/YouTube%2DWar <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZd3CIzr65Y">"I am a master impressionest and I will not dignify that with a response..."</a> Continuing in the vein of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69603/Its-college-things-happen">posting links</a> to <a href="http://www.ucbtheatre.com/">UCB</a> Performers <a href="http://www.ucbcomedy.com/">videos</a>. YouTube War is produced and stars <a href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/performers/450">Chris Gethard</a> along with <a href="http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/performers/314">Zach Woods</a>. Also created a whole bunch of other shorts, "The Worlds Most Akward Boy": <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwv0-d7MKw4">Rides an Elevator</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl0nFec1ygE">Goes to the Deli</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S0RwDmM7kk">Enjoys a Hot Tub</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cutmanfilms">many more</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69619 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:58:30 -0800 chrisgethard Comedy funny Humor Improv Sketch UCB UprightCitizensBrigade Videos Youtube zachwoods Del Far http://www.metafilter.com/68452/Video%2DChronology%2Dof%2DThe%2DHistory%2Dof%2DBritish%2DTV%2DComedy For the past 50 years, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_humour">The</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_sitcom">British</a> have made some of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/winner.shtml">the</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/top11to100.shtml">funniest</a> Comedy TV Shows. Come inside for A Video Chronology of The History of British TV Comedy. <small>[Hover over the Wikipedia links for show descriptions. Noteworthy shows highlighted with star (*). All links are double-checked but BBC seems to be on the war path, resulting in removed clips.]</small> <strong>1950s</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock's_Half_Hour" title="Hancock’s Half Hour was a ground-breaking and influential BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s, starring Tony Hancock, with Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. From 1956 it also became a television comedy series.">Hancock's Half Hour</a> (1954-1961): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEuM0uLyUd8">Crown</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3buijsRyx4">Vs</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjtCgqCdLI">Sid James</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmFW8Taog6M">Assorted sketches</a> <strong>1960s</strong> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son" title="Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were aired on the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, “Old Ned”, was composed by Ron Grainer. In a 2004, BBC, poll to find “Britain’s Best Sitcom”, Steptoe and Son was voted 15th best British sitcom of all time.">Steptoe and Son</a> (1962-1974): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6x7SeDXMZ8">Upstairs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgjWyPNhnao">Downstairs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naytW2LZI_4">Upstairs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRASeEyRO8">Downstairs</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Z3p_mrNyc">And</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgxGPNbWs8">So</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naytW2LZI_4">To</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRASeEyRO8">Bed</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_The_Week_That_Was">That Was The Week That Was</a> (1962-1963): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTdxa2y7c8">Intro</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EelRI_oRPY">Desmond Leslie Punches Bernard Levin</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Only..._But_Also" title="Not Only... But Also was a popular 1960s BBC British television series starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.">Not Only But Also</a> (1965-1971): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIp4fOwplgE">John</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMryLZmKfo">Lennon</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5h0Zrs9J30">Best</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjlSG5N-cB4">of</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XoAokj1_5I">compilation</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60YGnonFgo">Father and Roger (better version)</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2oqZQpY9c">North Circular</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMbDbpXBJg">Superthunderstingcar</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Death_Us_Do_Part" title="Till Death Us Do Part (also known as Til Death Us Do Part) was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1966 until 1975. The programme starred Warren Mitchell as the racist East End misogynist (and Rudyard Kipling lookalike) Alf Garnett. Also appearing in the series were Dandy Nichols as Alf's long-suffering wife, Else Garnett, Una Stubbs as Rita, his daughter, and Anthony Booth as Mike, his layabout son-in-law, whose socialist leanings were the cue for many of Alf's more offensive outbursts.">Till Death Us Do Part</a> (1965-1975): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOLj-ZJsvVM">1972 Christmas special</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa7S9fseAcQ">Else & Rita are very drunk</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36UigPqHqs">Christmas Dinner</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SroQ3mUu0t4">Alf gets in a pub fight</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Likely_Lads" title="The Likely Lads was a hit British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Twenty episodes were made and broadcast in all, over three seasons, by the BBC between December 1964 and July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived intact.">The Likely Lads</a> (1964-1966): [no clips found] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army" title="Dad’s Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977.">Dad's Army</a> (1968-1977): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX6xU5vsbNU">If</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_UAQXM4lU">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXViczVzrFw">Cap Fits</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mENyIZNAabY">Menace</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbjSy_Vt0U">From</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdy_3R3oPBU">The Deep</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwldGmw4yDo">Don't tell him Pike (and other sketches)</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_and_Wise" title="Morecambe and Wise were a famous British comic double act comprising Eric Morecambe OBE and Ernie Wise OBE. The act lasted four decades until Morecambe's death in 1984. They are widely considered to be the most successful double act in Britain for generations. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, The Morecambe and Wise Show was placed 14th. In September 2006, they were voted by the general public as number 2 in a poll of TV's Greatest Stars.">Morecambe and Wise</a> (1968-1983): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da45knClNA8">The Original Morecambe and Wise</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VHrrfRj3oQ">The Breakfast</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1bJHr8t1xA">Sketch</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgWonKx3U8">In bed</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfJ2fFJiQM">Several</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cANXj1sYHc">sketches</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EztaBXod2no">Eric and the Bee</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Buses" title="On The Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney. The pair had already had successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife for the BBC. The BBC rejected this offering and so the pair turned to ITV station London Weekend Television. The show was accepted and although the critics disliked it, the show was a huge hit with the viewers.">On the Buses</a> (1969-1973): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2_5I7WqCE">An</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UMUw0u5YvU">episode</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNORAfw0lI">from</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1RS6ISXdo">1969</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9e1M_X8qsk">Christmas</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfcmYNMnMjY">Duty</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va8lzuxALnQ">episode</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or, during the final series, just Monty Python) is a BBC sketch comedy program from the Monty Python comedy team, and the group's initial claim to fame. The show was noted for its surreal plots, risqu&#0233; or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags, and sketches without punchlines. It also featured the animations of Terry Gilliam which were often sequenced or merged with live action.">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a> (1969-1974): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rutX0I6NxU">Season Two Intro</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GipFyAsYK1M">Dead Parrot Sketch</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4">Spam</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmx0jml1jk">Frontiers in Medicine</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUt7ypEI5Uk">Argument Clinic</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY09bFYwcEk">Silly walk</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRgEM9WiQi0">Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-8mYi1NwBc">How Not To Be Seen</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjbYNgIi5ss">The Funniest Joke In The World</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(TV_series)" title="Spike Milligan's Q was a surreal television comedy sketch show which ran from 1969 to 1983 on BBC2. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, with the remainder running for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long. Each series was numbered, starting with Q5 - possibly because the project to construct the Cunard liner QE2, launched in September 1967, was dubbed Q4 - and continuing in ascending order, through to Q9. The final series was renamed There's a Lot of It About, after, according to Milligan's autobiography, the BBC felt the public might find Q10 too confusing.">(Spike Milligan's) Q</a> (1969-1982): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7i01GPs-hQ">The Lord's Prayer Epilogue</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-IU-NQ8c14">The Fresh Fruit Song</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskVFchQp-4">Kilt Chimes</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMVXVwi3iI">Sandwich</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Benny_Hill_Show" title="The Benny Hill Show featured Benny Hill in mostly short sketches (often portraying a protagonist), along with Thames Television show regulars Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Jackie Wright, Nicholas Parsons (in the early years), Jenny Lee-Wright, Rita Webb and others. Hill often demonstrated his versatility as an actor by appearing in vastly different costumes as well as in female character. Slapstick and double entendre were his hallmark. Some critics accused the show of sexism, but Hill often pointed out that the female characters were all intelligent and kept their dignity, while the men chasing them were all buffoons.">The Benny Hill Show</a> (1969-1989): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=810TQyT2KXI">Hospital</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIoZM1OQGzs">The Life of Maurice Dribble</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvRPI4D5tIM">1978 episode</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqhxiTc9-E">The Lover</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBtBlfMg-s">Casanova</a> <strong>1970s</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Ronnies" title="The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show that aired on BBC One from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the “two Ronnies” of the title. [...] The show revolved around comic sketches in which Barker and Corbett appeared together and separately, with various other additions giving the programme the feeling of a variety show.">The Two Ronnies</a> (1971-1987): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ">Fork handles</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIOMECj0iQ0">Squash match</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBz0_1aa8Y">Crossed Lines</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIFx_GQIfSk">Opticians</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWMcRlE1mQ">Swedish Made Simple/FUNEX</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_Being_Served%3F" title="Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's department of a large fictional London store called Grace Brothers. It was mainly written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman. The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief stint working at Simpsons of Piccadilly in the early 1950s, a classy clothing store which traded for over 60 years until 1999.">Are You Being Served?</a> (1972-1985): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlCr6KsDYbw">No</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyija8HRngQ">Sale</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgheP0Rf5k">episode</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCZec2zFStI">A Change</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AilDpRoZbRk">is as</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVux0kcwcZg">Good as a Rest</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65z9A7MyiTg">By</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktechY9abQ">Appointment</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nvtaiBHZA">episode</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour" title="Love Thy Neighbour was a British sitcom which ran from 13 April 1972 to 22 January 1976, made by Thames Television for ITV. It starred Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper and Kate Williams. There was also a movie spin-off and a brief sequel set in Australia. The series (and movie) was created and largely written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, and was based on a suburban white working class couple who unwittingly found themselves living next door to a black couple, and the white couple's attempts to come to terms with this.">Love Thy Neighbour</a> (1972-1976): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWKbbnCp-Rc">Getting</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkpZQ54DnI">the</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch1sB4NueQo">bedroom</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_8qQQnkBA">suite</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_of_the_Summer_Wine" title="Last of the Summer Wine is a British National Television Award winning sitcom which airs on BBC One and is written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell. [...] Set and filmed in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England, the plot centres around a trio of older men, the lineup of whom has changed over the years, but originally consisted of the scruffy and child-like Compo, deep-thinking and meek Clegg, and authoritarian and snobbish Blamire, who was replaced by the quirky war veteran Foggy after two series in 1976. ">Last of the Summer Wine</a> (1973-): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1i_URVuhCw">First Contact</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCJMuKDnX8">30</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpd13ieW0s">years</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bcg69wHhLc">of</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_C7YiM8hXU">Last</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Rfrwdy_TQ">of the</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZJfrCYMf5o">summer wine</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge_(TV_series)" title="Porridge is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC1 from 1973 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials, as well as a feature film. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two criminals in the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland.">Porridge</a> (1973-1977): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapTCmjSvg0">Illegal Game Night</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dO-itjWtI">What's a Rilk?</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jczBYsOv0">Gentleman Prisoner</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44CiUH1KPr4">Stealing Pineapple Chunks</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Damp" title="Rising Damp was a UK television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play, The Banana Box (retained as the working title early in the series). The series was the highest-ranking ITV sitcom on the 100 Best Sitcoms poll run in 2004 by the BBC.">Rising Damp</a> (1974-1978): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9M2Kvlx7Xo">Things that</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwsPziTKjg">Go Bump</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjYyLdkaBNc">in the Night</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGkLCmyaLM8">A</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2LhriYTkOE">Body</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9hvi08zDw">Like Mine</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkv-fvLBeiE">Come On</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL_D2c0bwaU">in the</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odKALBJzgfQ">Water's Lovely</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Ain't_Half_Hot_Mum" title="It Ain't Half Hot Mum was a British sitcom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army. It was set in British India and Burma, towards the end of the Second World War. [...] The first four series of It Ain't Half Hot Mum were set at the Royal Artillery Depot Deolali, a place where British soldiers stayed before being posted up the jungle. The Royal Artillery Concert Party, consisting of several soldiers who would rather sing, dance and dress up as women than fight, are stationed permanently in Deolali to keep the troops entertained. In the first episode of the fifth series, the concert party are posted up the jungle, and from then on It Ain't Half Hot Mum is set in Tin Min, Burma close to the front line.">It Ain't Half Hot Mum</a> (1974-1981): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2oSGhCn-_Q">The Curse</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnGIpZNiGzo">of The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8EtIWFhaa0">Sadhu</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwV9upAMl7g">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otNMY06igHI">Road</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xR-gbGPm7I">To Bannu</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtvHM1pkHq8">Lofty's Little Friend</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvTJp-7rk">My Lovely Boy</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers" title="Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Only twelve episodes were produced, but the series has had a lasting and powerful influence on later shows. [...] Fawlty Towers was inspired by the Monty Python team's stay in the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay in May 1970. Cleese and Booth stayed on at the hotel after filming for the Python show had finished. The owner, Donald Sinclair, was very rude, throwing a bus timetable at a guest who asked when the next bus to town would arrive, and placing Eric Idle's suitcase behind a wall in the garden on the suspicion that it contained a bomb (it actually contained a ticking alarm clock).">Fawlty Towers</a> (1975-1979): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od0z1KYnpGU">The Germans</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLIr1zqMGo">Basil Snaps</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8DngrgIpS0">Too Much Butter</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX85Y5Zb7sw">I Speak English</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ3cmoyiYaM">How to manage your staff</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life" title="The Good Life is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1975 to 1978. It was written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. In 2004, it came 9th in Britain's Best Sitcom. [...] On his 40th birthday, Tom Good gives up his job as a draughtsman in a company that makes plastic toys for breakfast cereal packets as he is no longer able to take his job seriously. Their house is fully paid for, so he and his wife Barbara make a decision to live a sustainable, simple and self-sufficient lifestyle while staying in their beloved home in The Avenue, Surbiton. [...] Their actions horrify their kindly but conventional next-door neighbours, Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Originally, Margo and Jerry were intended to be minor characters, but their relationship with one another and with the Goods soon become an essential element of every episode.">The Good Life</a> (1975-1978): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxtQW2EzRUM">from The Green Door episode</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjxPZXOWdzo">Margo V Jerry</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLwcHuhwHRY">Margo loses it!</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_and_Rise_of_Reginald_Perrin" title="The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. Both book and TV series were written by David Nobbs, and the screenplay for the first series was adapted by Nobbs from the novel, though certain subplots in the novel were considered too dark or risqu&#0233; for television and toned down or omitted from the TV series, a case in point being the relationship between Perrin's daughter and his brother-in-law.">The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin</a> (1976-1979): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4PGiJl2dQ">Title Sequence</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3HEq3HaUY">Grot</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIc4W6-c9l8">Weekend Safari Trip</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-jK37C4CxA">Ravioli</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nxo0fS2VMM">Forces of anarchy</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_All_Hours" title="Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. In 2004, the series was voted eighth in Britain's Best Sitcom. [...] The series centres around a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The store's owner, Albert Arkwright (played by Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack of being able to sell anything and everything to any passing visitor to his shop.">Open All Hours</a> (1976 and 1985): [no clips found] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_and_Mildred" title="George and Mildred was a British sitcom produced by Thames Television that aired from 1976 to 1980. It was a spin-off of Man About the House and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as an ill-matched married couple, George and Mildred Roper. [...] George and Mildred Roper have left their old house after receiving a compulsory purchase order from the Council and move to 46 Peacock Crescent in Hampton Wick. While Mildred enjoys moving up in the world socially, lazy and unemployed George remains true to his working class roots and also continues to show a lack of interest in sexual relations with Mildred.">George and Mildred</a> (1976-1979): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH_AT1y51ys">All Work</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLj8DzkuUc">and No</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5I98Qb2B8I">Pay</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngPVnP4f34">House for Sale</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLfHnYSd4zA">You Must</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vylZsBUBX4">Have Showers</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Manor_Born" title="In To the Manor Born Penelope Keith, who had became famous for playing Margo Leadbetter in the suburban sitcom The Good Life, plays Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, an upper-class woman who, upon the death of her husband, has to move out of her beloved manor house. The manor is then bought by Richard DeVere, played by Peter Bowles, a nouveau riche millionaire supermarket owner.">To the Manor Born</a> (1979-1981): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyeCMl4zDbY">Raising Money</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDdARzMdA5Q">After The Funeral</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUncZYWa8Q">Watch</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbwv6o4R_20">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_T4LK9iys8">2007</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0hcz-PyeqI">Christmas</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlW7PrAmuUs">Special</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LES4u7Di0lo">Episode</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_the_Nine_O'Clock_News" title="It featured a new generation of young comedians, principally Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, and helped to bring alternative comedy to the mainstream. Rather than being written by a single team of writers, it gave virtually anyone involved in UK comedy scriptwriting a chance to demonstrate their talents, creaming the best of the contributions. Its format was similar to that of a forerunner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, including sketches that lasted from a few seconds to several minutes.">Not the Nine O'Clock News</a> (1979-1982): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I">Gerald the Gorilla</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffFo2Ymrck">Darts</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLeloIypeI">Barry Manilow</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KyA_KabNM">The Judge</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykN-00i7VVs">General Synod's Life of Christ</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2GFfpgTBt0">Songs Of Praise</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stupGCfMVuA">Bathroom Plan</a> <strong>1980s</strong> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister" title="Yes Minister is a multi-award winning satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total this made 38 episodes, all but one of which last half an hour.">Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister</a> (1980-1988): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgDxvaCsZMI">How's the Environment?</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyf97LAjjcY">The Empty Hospital</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYI3M2098w">Complete Confidence</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on2I1U-F3BY">Planes, Trains and Boats</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKjShmHw7s">A Clear Conscience</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9NifqJyDMI">Former PM's Memoirs</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdMFRwztl4">Who Reads the Papers</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-de-Hi!" title="Hi-de-Hi! was a popular British sitcom set in a holiday camp that aired for nine series from 1980 to 1988. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had previously written Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. The title was the phrase used to greet the campers at events, and in early episodes was written Hi de Hi.">Hi-de-Hi!</a> (1980-1988): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7Zh9RoIk8">Bad Acting?</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses" title="Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast in the UK between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. After a relatively slow start the show went on to achieve consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode “Time On Our Hands” holds the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode.">Only Fools and Horses</a> (1981-2003): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzh6S37GIc0">Time</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B732zhBf6V0">On</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIR7s7BXR0">Our</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22t9bjCUVeQ">Hands</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTSw64qyGs">episode</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNT_kGIc1Q">May the</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDphNrJ7N0">Force Be</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-WhgZCo5FM">With You</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Allo_'Allo!" title="'Allo 'Allo! was a long-running British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. Set during World War II, 'Allo 'Allo tells the story of Ren&#0233; Artois, a French caf&#0233; owner in the village of Nouvion (the town square scenes were filmed at Lynford Hall, Norfolk). Germans have occupied the village and stolen all of its valuable artifacts.">'Allo 'Allo!</a> (1982-1992): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkz1ecxrQO4">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFWONHgT10c">Season</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCOCUTY5k8">One</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6To9XzDPVi0">Pilot</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a_-0kfOlLA">Dance</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hbvk6rZehs">Of</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIV1ZAAfkjs">Hitler</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j2Bt5UQ6AQ">Youth</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ1W24ZkCPA">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPE9f2H_stE">Nicked</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFplVl0YArI">Knockwurst</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I4pVT-vwSY">episode</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)" title="The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. Soon after, it was shown on MTV in its early days, being one of the first non-music television shows to appear on the fledgling channel.">The Young Ones</a> (1982-1984): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LBPiuq6EMU">Neil's Letter</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1NOWHd00nA">Exploding Kettle</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxRdx7HMME">Entrance</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cApVy4Ei6lo">Teetering Crockery</a> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder" title="Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments. The first series was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd, and starred Rowan Atkinson as the eponymous anti-hero, Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as his sidekick/dogsbody, Baldrick.">Blackadder</a> (1983-1989): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3eH-E6v5E">Lord Flashheart</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTUAz7eq0U">Amy and Amiability</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqzcC_jf_0">MacBeth</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTm7Z_6Dcs">Flashheart Redux</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GyrRhK3mWM">The</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbhAjVBdDLQ">Cavalier</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyMknIKiBa4">Years</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUw62LnmlWk">Special</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntdmf82nVfQ">General Hospital</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00SlNX1rFLE&NR=1">Private Baldrick singing</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image" title="Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdom's ITV television network from 1984 to 1996.">Spitting Image</a> (1984-1996): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de6V90jT4SQ">Never Met a Nice South African</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t8YTvdYXws">Madness sing Our House spoof</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18K7OM7tWA">Every Bomb You Drop</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqrWjd8kZQs">Princess Di sings Morrissey</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_in_a_Million" title="The hapless Tom Chance meets his long-suffering girlfriend, Alison Little, by chance. This happens when Tom Chance goes to the same pub on a blind date to meet a girl (who is also called Alison), that Alison Little has arranged to meet her cousin Tom (for the first time since they were young children).">Chance in a Million</a> (1984-1986): [no clips found] * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Saunders" title="French & Saunders is a British sket tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68452 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:38:57 -0800 alloallo bbc bennyhill blackadder british chronology comedy fawltytowers frenchsaunders funny humor irony montypython reginaldperrin satire show sitcom sketches timeline uk unitedkingdom videos Foci for Analysis http://www.metafilter.com/64946/hahaha%2Dhoo%2Dhoo%2Dhehehe%2Dha%2Dha%2Dha%2Dhee%2Dhee A collection of vintage <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/videos.php?id=12">British Comedy Clips</a>. <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=1">Monty Python </a>l <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=6">Ali G</a> l<a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=4"> The Office</a> l <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=2">Mr. Bean</a> l <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=3">Fawlty Towers</a> l <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/index.php?cat=5">Benny Hill</a> One of my favorites, Monty Python's <a href="http://britishcomedyclips.com/videos.php?id=5">Argument Clinic</a>. <a href="http://standupcomedyclips.net/videos.php?id=179"> Stand Up Comedy Clips</a> thrown in for good measure. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64946 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:13:55 -0800 British comedy funny videos nickyskye http://www.metafilter.com/62128/I%2Dlove%2Dyou%2DDad A salute to my Dad and all the good Daddies out there for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqNKz5wvEs">all the sacrifices you made for us</a>; for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9dMnJhwdk">making us laugh</a>; for <a href="http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp">letting us come to work with you</a> to help drive the bus; for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KzDwnOxwdY">looking after us</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24n1LDJB4o">teaching us things</a>; for <a href=http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10_60/91_top_10_list.html>never being a phony</a>; for all the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCKoCG0K7lQ">awesome things you were</a> and for all the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM">awful things you weren't</a>, well for all that, we have a few words <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c_wgKAs-8"> we'd like to say to you</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62128 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:43:53 -0800 daddy dads fathers fathersday funny humor love parents respect videos YouTube madamjujujive http://www.metafilter.com/48953/Shes%2Dgot%2Dthe%2Dangles <a href="http://www.disturbedfilms.com/wmp.php?id=3365">MySpace: The Movie</a> (embedded .wmv) - Oh that Tom, he's everybody's friend! tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48953 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:23:59 -0800 Funny MySpace Videos Space Coyote http://www.metafilter.com/26432/I%2Dwanna%2Dtake%2Dyou%2Dto <a href="http://www.electricsix.com">Electric 6</a> is the new rock sensation in Europe... Their first video, 'Danger' (High Voltage) was tastless but undeniably funny... But with <a href="http://www.gaybetamax.co.uk/flash1.html">their new one</a>, 'Gay bar', nobody will dare to say Rock music isn't political anymore... After George Michael's <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2077598.stm">Shoot the dog</a> video (which has been discussed here if memory serves me right), this one is just another way to admit that yes, political "leaders" do inspire artists... tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26432 Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:42:27 -0800 bands funny music musicvideo videos Sijeka http://www.metafilter.com/14541/ <a href="http://www.phonebashing.com/">Hate mobile phones?</a> Man... this site both makes me laugh, and makes me furious in anger.. because it's so damn hilarious, but I imagine if this happened to me I'd be horribly upset and angry... I hate the misuse of mobile phones, but I do USE one... tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.14541 Wed, 06 Feb 2002 14:37:28 -0800 cellphones funny videos twiggy