Live Free Learn Free Blog » Dreaming of British Comedies <title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thirteen/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php" /> <style type="text/css"> </style> <link rel='archives' title='August 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2007' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/03/' /> <link rel='archives' title='February 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/02/' /> <link rel='archives' title='January 2006' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2006/01/' /> <link rel='archives' title='December 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/12/' /> <link rel='archives' title='November 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/11/' /> <link rel='archives' title='October 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/' /> <link rel='archives' title='September 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/09/' /> <link rel='archives' title='August 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/08/' /> <link rel='archives' title='July 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/07/' /> <link rel='archives' title='June 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/06/' /> <link rel='archives' title='May 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/05/' /> <link rel='archives' title='April 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/04/' /> <link rel='archives' title='March 2005' href='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/03/' /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> </head> <body> <div id="headwrapper"> <div id="header"> <h1 id="title"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog">Live Free Learn Free Blog</a></h1> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <div class="post" id="post-84"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2005/10/09/dreaming-of-british-comedies/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Dreaming of British Comedies">Dreaming of British Comedies</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> October 9th, 2005 at 12:34 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/musings/" title="View all posts in Musings" rel="category tag">Musings</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Saturday night is <a href="http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/">British comedy</a> night on our local PBS station. Usually, I’m not able to watch - real life gets in the way - but tonight, I sat down for the last hour of it and caught both <em>The Vicar of Dibley </em>and <em>Chef!</em> There are several they show that I could do without - <em>Last of the Summer Wine</em> is one. And, though they don’t air it, <em>Ab Fab</em> comes to mind as a particular non-favorite. I started thinking about which actually <em>were</em> my favorites and came up with a tentative list - a dream night of British comedy, I suppose. In no particular order:</p> <p><em>Waiting for God<br /> Chef!<br /> Black Adder<br /> Monty Python<br /> Fawlty Towers<br /> Vicar of Dibley<br /> Are You Being Served?<br /> Red Dwarf<br /> Good Neighbors</em> (Called <em>The Good Life</em> in England)<br /> <em>To the Manor Born<br /> Yes (Prime) Minister<br /> The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin</em></p> <p>And, occasionally, <em>Open All Hours</em> and <em>Keeping Up Appearances</em>. Both are extremely repetitive (and it really isn’t all that funny to see an entire town treating a middle aged man as if he were 16, as they do in <em>Open All Hours</em>), but they’re funny if watched in small doses, and I do love Patricia Routledge (look for her in my all-time favorite Sidney Poitier movie, <a href="http://tosirwithlove.co.uk/"><em>To Sir With Love</em></a>).</p> <p>That’s quite a bit of television, now that I think about it. Perhaps this should really be more of a dream <em>weekend </em>of British comedy…. </p> </div> </div>  <h3 id="comments">4 Comments</h3> <ol id="commentlist"> <li id="comment-21"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Patrice said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> October 9, 2005 at <a href="#comment-21" title="Permanent link to this comment">2:06 am</a> </p> <p>I LOVE Britcoms. The PBS schedule here in Nashville is so lame. I miss NY so bad, I got spoiled growing up there. I love Red Dwarf (own them!–and the books ROCK, plus the books that are not RD by Robert Llewellyn), Monty Python, Father Ted, Chef, French and Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, You Must be the Husband, Keeping up Appearances–I too love Patricia Routledge, did you see the Hetty Wainthrop Mysteries with Domenic Monaghan?, and too many more to list. I’d be a happy woman with a direct BBC feed, and a Canadian TV feed. Drool. LOL! </p> </li> <li id="comment-22"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Patrice said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> October 9, 2005 at <a href="#comment-22" title="Permanent link to this comment">12:48 pm</a> </p> <p>BTW, what a great site. I’m remembering all the Thames, BBC and Yorkshire TV shows I used to love. Now it’s bookmarked! </p> </li> <li id="comment-23"> <h4 class="commentauthor"><a href='http://profile.typekey.com/LFLF-Editor/' rel='external nofollow'>Shana Ronayne Hickman</a> said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> October 12, 2005 at <a href="#comment-23" title="Permanent link to this comment">11:46 pm</a> </p> <p>There are so many British comedies I haven’t seen, simply because I’ve been limited by what’s shown on PBS (and now BBC America). Luckily, when I lived in North TX, we watched the PBS station out of Dallas. Someone there really liked the Britcoms. I almost forgot The Lenny Henry Show! <img src='http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> ) </p> </li> <li id="comment-24"> <h4 class="commentauthor">Patrice said,</h4> <p class="commentdate"> October 15, 2005 at <a href="#comment-24" title="Permanent link to this comment">1:54 am</a> </p> <p>How cool! My husband wanted to move to TX when we were relocating, and I shot him down (too close to some IL’s I don’t like) I wonder how Houston handles Britcoms. I would love a decent station for Britcoms, a cross between PBS and a commercial Anglophile channel. Right now the idea is just to go broke buying them on DVD’s. LOL!</p> <p>I LOVE Lenny Henry. And it’s fun the few times I’ve seen him perform with his wife Dawn French. </p> </li> </ol> <h3 id="postcomment">Post a Comment</h3> <form action="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p> <input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="28" tabindex="1" /> <label for="author">Name (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="28" tabindex="2" /> <label for="email">E-mail (required)</label> </p> <p> <input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="28" tabindex="3" /> <label for="url"><abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr></label> </p> <p> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="8" tabindex="4"></textarea> </p> <p> <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" class="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="84" /> </p> </form> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li id="meta"> <h2>Meta</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-login.php">Login</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/feed/" title="Syndicate this site using RSS">Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/comments/feed/" title="The latest comments to all posts in RSS">Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/blog/index.php"> <p> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Search" /> </p> </form> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="Powered by Wordpress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">Powered by Wordpress</a> · Design by <a href="http://beccary.com" title="Theme designed by Beccary">Beccary</a> and <a href="http://weblogs.us" title="Theme sponsored by Weblogs.us">Weblogs.us</a> · <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a> · <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page validates as CSS"><abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a> </p> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=605365; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="d224bf47"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=605365&java=0&security=d224bf47&invisible=1" alt="free stats" border="0"></a> </noscript>  </body> </html>