My English Comedy Recommendations 

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I have always loved "Keeping up Appearances"

Black Adder is great! Tony Robinson playing Baldrick always had a cunning plan! 😂 I also like Dad’s Army and The Young Ones.

A British classic is “You Rang, M'Lord?” that still has a cultic status and a large fan base in Hungary (the outstanding work of dubbing actors helped a lot). Its setting is after the ‘Great War’ and a lot of the comedy is rooted in the eroding social system and stereotypes of lords, ladies and various servants of different levels.

I remember one cable channel used to run "The League.." 24/7 for about a year. Ever since then I can't ask "Are you local?" in a normal human way 😅

Black Adder is the best. Hilarious. 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠highbrow is a new word for me.

Jade ..you looks so fabulous today as earlier. It's really good to see you in this form fighting all the obstacles. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Fawlty Towers with Basil's impeccable command of the English language and the other characters (the Colonel's, Sybil's etc); compared to Manuel's.

Classics: The vicar of Dibley, Only fools and horses, Are you being served, Open all hours, the good life More modern ones: The it crowd, Not going out, Miranda

Thank you for sharing your favourite shows. Comedy is a great way of getting into another language. It was a pleasure to hear from you about series I enjoy too, and also to learn about a couple I hadn't heard of before (The League of Gentlemen and Harry & Paul). By the way, when they started airing Blackadder here in Bulgaria in the 90s (it was dubbed), the next morning, after an episode, everyone in elementary school was abuzz, laughing our heads off, repeating the Bulgarian translations of the jokes 😀 It was before they started airing Mr Bean, so it was a genuine love at first sight. I've watched it a few more times since then and I always find something new.

I agree with you, regarding Black Adder being rather intellectual, in many respects. However, I do think there's enough 'other stuff' to keep anyone amused. Along with Fawlty Towers, probably my favourite. You should watch it again.

Most informative and helpful video.

Great practice listening to descriptions.

JAM!

Have watched Black Adder and Fawlty Towers Others that I have watched are Allo Allo, Mind Your Language, Yes Minister and The Thin Blue Line :)

Dear Jade, thank You very much for 'The League of Gentlemen' as well as 'Harry & Paul'! I didn't know about those and according to your description I like them already. 'Black Adder' is far above my powers of comprehension but I compensate by watching 'Thin Blue Line' which is not so "hoity-toity". 😋I also adore the performance of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in 'Jeeves and Wooster' (some listening workout!), available right here on YT. Do I need to mention 'Yes /prime/ minister'?

Hello Jade.That is unbeliveable but not longer than two weeks ago when i was watching one of your relaxed english videos i said to myself how nice would it be to see a video of your favorite english comedies And now it is.As if i made an order for specific video and you created it in response.Amazing. Thank you for everything you do teacher Jade.I have discovered you few weeks ago and since then i watch a lot of your materials.And that help improve my english, helping sort out english english from american english that i know from school and/or movies. The english comedy i know myself and can recommend to you and others is "Death at a funeral"(original, english version of course.Because there is also american version that is not funny at all) It is by far the only english comedy i saw and i love it. It is a story of Simon who was invited to a funeral of his fiances uncle.Simon is very scared of that event because there he supose to meet with his fiance-Martha-father who seems to hate him so much for hanging with his daughter. As they come by to pick Marthas brother to the funeral who is studying to be the farmacist, Martha is giving Simon a pill of what she believed was Valium.To calm down Stressed Simon.Little did she knew the pill she gave him wasnt valium at all.It was a halucynogenic pill similar to LSD.These were produced by Marthas brother who was trying to hide them in an empty bottle of valium pills. Poor Simon is having a funeral of his nightmares and there is where the whole comedy goes. Absolutely amazing film😊

I've watched first episode of The League of gentlemen. Well, perhaps this is my cup of tea, I'll start with it.

Love Fawlty Towers. Pitty they didn't make more episodes. ❤

Thank you! And your hair strands suit you well 👍

Some Russian guy here, no diplomas. Blackadder is a simple show for the masses. No sophisti-humour here. The jokes and situations are straightforward and don’t need context. You can follow along without an Eton or Oxford. And you'll pick up on moments in English history likely etched in every UK schoolchild's memory, like the Spanish Armada, some kings and queens, etc. By contrast, Harry and Paul, aside from Loadsamoney, actually require some background knowledge to fully appreciate them. Thanks for the recommendations and the reminder: I was struck by Monty Python and have seen a lot of their solo work. But somehow always skipped over Basil Fawlty. I'll give him a shot. Any recommendations for modern sketch shows in 2024? Something along the lines of Mitchell & Webb or Fry & Laurie classics?

For me as an Montenegrin it's : 1. "OFAH - Only fools and horses" 2. "Black adder" 3. "Monty Python's flying circus" 4. "Mr. Bean" 5. "Alo, alo" 6. All the rest. I got OFAH and Monty Pyton complete series on DVDs that i bought sometime in the 2000s in a shop that's been long closed. All my DVDs as well as music CDs, magazines, comic books, even my library and other physical media are in my basement now... I mostly use Netflix for movies and tv shows now. And digital cable tv and an app on my smart tv for watching live sports. And mostly play video games on my PC anyways.

My favourite comedy shows are Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr's gigs. English is not my native language, I am french. I also love the black adder and Hugh Laurie with Stephen Fry.

Oh Jade,vous m'avez rappele le dvd de mister Bean que je possede et que peut etre je vais le revoir.

I❤ comedy 🎉

I love the David Bowie song in Extras about the Ricky Gervais character called something like 'Chubby Little Loser' - the cruel lyrics are by Gervais but the song itself is rather beautiful.

I usually stick to Bollywood films but I have watched some British films as well NOTTING HILL,FULL MONTY EAST IS EAST we have some great Indian actors working in ENGLISH FILMS om puri, saeed jaffery,victor banerjee ( a passage to india) foreign body & irfan khan, amrish puri,BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM but my favourite British actor is HUGH GRANT , Rachael weiz,Catherine zeta jones , Evan mcgregor

are you really watching DVDs - that's so nostalgic lol

Hi Jade. Couldnt disagree with any of your choices. Got to say I loved blackadder. The Mighty Boosg us out there but I love it The young ones as well. Even like some radio comedy from Hancocks half hour to The Goon show. All the best 🙏

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Also if everyone knew the amount of spying, or snooping or personal data that TV shows get through intel on real lifes and people that they put into programmes then the public would be furious also.. further evidence we have depression and social divide😢

*I haven't seen any of those you showed*

George Michael is gone now in a percilar freak accidenr... This is the truth of what celebrities... Love goes into it because people sent a massive load of money at them... 😅

Hallo Jade, in Germany we have a British crime series , Inspector Barnaby in Germany (2005)and Midsomer Murders in UK(1997). This TV Program was in German , like any other TV Program , even the Cinema Movies are in German . John Nettles played Inspector Barnaby. Here a Link in EN and a Link in D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders Inspector Barnaby - Skurrile Morde in der Grafschaft ...