Whats your fave tv comedy show?

[PaulD]

I really should get the dvds of Bottom - I only ever catch the odd episode on Sky these days and always forget how much I love it. Hilarious and oddly bleak in equal measure, like a Beckett play filled with knob jokes and cartoon-violence

[VicDakin]

Bottom : Complete Series 1-3 BBC Box Set [DVD]

Word of warning don't buy the dutch box set as its missing the Contest episode from series one,why who knows?

[Baseball Fury]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

"Bottom" (1991)
Season 2, Episode 5: Holy
Original Air Date—29 October 1992
It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Although dinner is not up to Michelin standard Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of god!

"No Spud. Gun. One. Potato. Or. Two."

[Mojo]

The 'Chess' episode was one of my favourites...

[VicDakin]

Although Spinal Tap is daddy of mock docs,theres something wonderfully British about the Comic Strips BAD NEWS TOUR

Opening shots of London skyline intercut with shots of Bad News performing "Bad News". Skyline shots reach a tower block and zoom in on a lit window. Cut to the kitchen inside this flat. A radio/cassette player is playing the song, loudly. There are various kitchen utensils lying around, and underwear hung up to dry. Vim is in the kitchen, trying to look natural for the cameras. He starts to fry an egg.

Den: D'you see the Whistle Test last night?

Colin: Sort of, yeah, but I... I was really stoned, you know, and I drank a bottle of brandy, and... yeah, I was with this chick and we were just about to get down to it - huh - I went and put my foot through the television set.

Vim: Oh no!

Colin: Yeah, so it sort of blew up a bit, you know, and set fire to the curtains, and I missed the second half of the show, so...

Den: I bet your mum was really angry!

Colin: Well... she wasn't there, was she, Den?

Den: Yeah, but, I mean, when she gets back, she's gonna be...

Colin: No, Den, Den, she won't be getting back.

Den: How come?

Colin: 'Cause... 'cause she's dead.

Den: Eh?

Vim: She's dead, Den.

Den: Oh, I get it. Alan's called Vim and your mum's dead. (Colin shakes his head in despair.) Can we cut this bit as well, please?

[VicDakin]

Originally Posted by Mojo

The 'Chess' episode was one of my favourites...

Season 2, Episode 3: Culture
Original Air Date—8 October 1992
Richie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay their license fee and cannot think of anything to keep their occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including "How much Custard can you put in your underpants" and Chess. Richie and Eddie decides to play Chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.

[VicDakin]

Bottom factoid.
'S Out
Although now generally referred to as episode six of the second series, this episode did not air in the UK for almost three years after it was made. Following production, on 15 July 1992, Rachel Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon Common, the setting for this episode. Accordingly, The BBC decided to withhold domestic transmission for reasons of sensitivity, although it was included in overseas sales packages, and was screened in New Zealand in 1993. The episode was released on video in the UK 1993, and finally was broadcast there on 10 April 1995.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by VicDakin

Although Spinal Tap is daddy of mock docs,theres something wonderfully British about the Comic Strips BAD NEWS TOUR

Opening shots of London skyline intercut with shots of Bad News performing "Bad News". Skyline shots reach a tower block and zoom in on a lit window. Cut to the kitchen inside this flat. A radio/cassette player is playing the song, loudly. There are various kitchen utensils lying around, and underwear hung up to dry. Vim is in the kitchen, trying to look natural for the cameras. He starts to fry an egg.

Den: D'you see the Whistle Test last night?

Colin: Sort of, yeah, but I... I was really stoned, you know, and I drank a bottle of brandy, and... yeah, I was with this chick and we were just about to get down to it - huh - I went and put my foot through the television set.

Vim: Oh no!

Colin: Yeah, so it sort of blew up a bit, you know, and set fire to the curtains, and I missed the second half of the show, so...

Den: I bet your mum was really angry!

Colin: Well... she wasn't there, was she, Den?

Den: Yeah, but, I mean, when she gets back, she's gonna be...

Colin: No, Den, Den, she won't be getting back.

Den: How come?

Colin: 'Cause... 'cause she's dead.

Den: Eh?

Vim: She's dead, Den.

Den: Oh, I get it. Alan's called Vim and your mum's dead. (Colin shakes his head in despair.) Can we cut this bit as well, please?

"..I just DONT see why we cant play one of MY songs...."

[VicDakin]

Two students go to Spain to do the 'whole spaghetti western thing' and run into a series of disparate and desperate characters.

[darthelvis]

Was lucky enough to see Bottom live on stage in Aberdeen in my youth, great show I need to pick up the DVD's as well!