On Wednesday 25 Sep 2002 3:07 pm, Kathy Salkin wrote:
> Oh, I agree Brit comedies are far funnier (at least to me) that the
> American ones.  The only two American comedies I found truely funny
> were 'All in the Family' and 'MASH.'

Was 'All in the Family' that show with Archie Bunker (or summut), if
so it was a Brit format ("Till Death do us Part"). In the UK we got
Mash minus the canned laughter track - much better!!

> I love all of the below, except for 'The Young Ones,' which I've
> never seen or heard of, really.  What's it about?

Another Ben Elton/Richard Curtis concoction (I think). 4 students
doing "Studenty" things!! Rik Mayall's in it.

> Kat
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:11:28 +0800 Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> > Watching Blackadder vids got me through my most
> > severe depression, Kat
> > - hysterical even after the 10 millionth
> > viewing.  ` -Goes Forth' is
> > my favourite season - but I love them all.
> > `Absolutely Fabulous',
> > ``Red Dwarf' (colour on my telly went dicky for
> > a while - so it was
> > GREEN Dwarf for a time) and of course, Monty
> > Python, all got me
> > through some really rough times.  Also `The
> > Vicar of Dibley' and
> > `Birds of a Feather'.  Oh, oh, oh.... and I
> > nearly forgot `Fawlty
> > Towers', and `The Young Ones' (Ben Elton is
> > GOD!!! - and he's married
> > to a Perth girl - seriously.)
> >
> > Basically Brit comedy shows RULE!!!!!!