I recently realized I really like british TV (in addition to my love of edgar wright's movies), with The Mighty Boosh, Look Around You, Spaced (which you all ready know I love). I decided to check out some other british stuff. The first show I looked into was Man Stroke Woman. Here's just one of the clips you can find on youtube. Apparently british TV is full of sketch shows, i'd say in monty python fashion. Tons of british comedy actors have a 2 season sketch show in their resume, this is one of them. Not every sketch is amazing but there are enough great ones to make it worth while. And the jokes are super british, theres no in your face american humor. Heres one of my favorites, theres a ton more on youtube check em out.
Another show I came across is Green Wing. It's a pretty classic hospital sitcom, I've read a lot on the net of people calling it the british Scrubs. I don't think its exactly like scrubs but its similar in that its a sitcom with mostly dry humor set in a hospital. The whole show is on Hulu (www.hulu.com/green-wing) so you should check it out. It's definitely worth a look, good characters, story, and pretty funny.
I like the fact that the more the internet develops more diverse stuff becomes really accessible, like british TV that I would have never seen without first reading about or seeing clips of online. It opens up a whole new bucket of content to Americans, and I don't have to stick with tired crap that gets pushed out season after season by major networks.
- By Wes
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