Haven't blogged in a while, and I felt like making a list, so here's my top 5 favorite British comedies. Enjoy!
1. Monty Python's Flying Circus - an alltime classic, and the sketch comedy model for Saturday Night Live, Kids In The Hall, MadTV, and others that followed. The classic line-up of John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin produced some of the best skits in comedy ever - who could forget the Parrot Sketch, the Lumberjack song, 'Nudge Nudge' and the Gumbys?
2. Fawlty Towers - another bit of comic genius from John Cleese and Connie Booth. Cleese is perfect as the long-suffering hotel manager, and plays off Prunella Scales as his wife extremely well, and of course Andrew Sachs as the porter Manuel is a classic character.
3. The Office - the original version by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant is better, in my opinion, than the American version. I think that Gervais plays the middle-manager with more ease and charm than Steve Carell. A modern gem!
4. Little Britain - another two-series sketch comedy show from creators Matt Lucas and David Wailliams, that created memorable characters like Marjorie Dawes the "Fat Fighters" lady, the team of Andy and his clueless caretaker Lou (unaware that Andy can get out of his wheelchair and cause chaos), and Vicky the delinquent teenager who always says "yeah but, no but" in every sentence.
5. Mr. Bean - although Rowan Atkinson's character doesn't say much, he does get into of amusing situations, enough to spawn a couple of motion pictures. Not my favorite, but I still get a few laughs from it.
Well that's all for now - have a nice night, and I'll blog later!
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