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| British TV ComedyOnline Catalogue | British TV Comedy Michael McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian who in 2012 was reported to be the highest-grossing comedian in the world. As well as his stand-up, he hosts his own twice BAFTA nominated BBC1 programme Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.
McIntyre has released three stand-up DVDs; Live and Laughing in 2008, Hello Wembley in November 2009 following a set at Wembley Arena and Showtime in 2012. Live and Laughing was the fastest selling debut stand-up DVD ever, and Hello Wembley is the fastest selling stand-up DVD in UK chart history, selling over a million copies.
Mcintyre has won British Comedy Awards for Best Live Stand-up (2009) and Best Male TV Comic (2010). |  | Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme was a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. It was first broadcast on UK television station BBC Four in March 2011 to coincide with the 500 day countdown to the opening ceremony. | | Alan's back! Now we have Mid Morning Matters ! After Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge and the following Christmas special, Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, he's back in two series. In series one of "I'm Alan Partridge" we see how Alan continues his descent from his brief moment of stardom. He's working as a DJ at a local radio station, Radio Norwich, as well as living in a hotel, the Linton Travel Tavern, all the while plotting and planning his return to BBC television. Series two continues some two years later, after an apparent complete breakdown, Alan is 'bouncing back' with a new girlfriend, a better time slot on Radio Norwich, and a new house in the works! | | Jack Dee stars as Rick Spleen, a successful but world-weary stand-up comedian who spends too much of his time hosting corporate events. He and Marty, his American co-writer, spend their days arguing, drinking too much coffee, and devising work avoidance strategies.
Further distractions are provided by Magda, Rick’s home help, his show-biz agent wife Mel, their teenage daughter Sam and her feckless boyfriend Ben.
| | ‘Firmly established as a jewel in the BBC's comedy crown..’ The Daily Mail
“It remains by a long distance the finest mainstream British sitcom of recent years...’ The Guardian
Herein lies all four series and the 2009 Christmas special of Britain’s favourite comedy series, Outnumbered. That’s four school years of spookily familiar and often bafflingly surreal family dilemmas, traversed by Pete and Sue Brockman and their brood.
From the seemingly innocent, “can I have a biscuit?” to progressive theological debate, “what would Jesus do if someone stole his mobile?” Outnumbered has redefined the family comedy by bringing it closer to home. | |  Series 1 A gentle yet compelling story of life, love, loneliness and blocked urinals. Each evening, the regulars bring their particular foibles and characterstics up to the bar. Overhearing their conversations and reliving the events in each of their lives is both moving and amusing. Series 2 The welcome return of the gentle, critically acclaimed comedy set entirely in The Grapes, a small pub in the North of England. Into this warm, slightly hopeless environment come a group of lovable characters who like a pint, but more than that, like each other. Lads Joe and Duffy command centre table and most of the conversation, largely at the expenses of landlord Ken's less acute regulars, such as Eddie, for whom a change in the town's traffic flow can become a preoccupation Features As per original releases
Early Doors Series 2 The welcome return of the gentle, critically acclaimed comedy set entirely in The Grapes, a small pub in the North of England. Into this warm, slightly hopeless environment come a group of lovable characters who like a pint, but more than that, like each other. Lads Joe and Duffy command centre table and most of the conversation, largely at the expenses of landlord Ken's less acute regulars, such as Eddie, for whom a change in the town's traffic flow can become a preoccupation. Meanwhile, Ken's preoccupation is how his stepdaughter Melanie will respond to having met her real dad, while local policemen Nige and Phil show their concern over the level of crime in the neighbourhood by listening to police radio in the comfort of Ken's snug. Overhearing their conversations and reliving the events in each of their lives is both moving and amusing. | |  Meet Mark and Jeremy, twenty-something former Dartmouth University alumni (although Jez technically never finished his degree) and slightly fucked-up denizens of Apollo House, South London.
Mark is the sensible one: a professional brogue wearer with a slightly worrying interest in World War Two. Jeremy is the loose cannon: a lazy waster with dodgy friends, who dreams of becoming a musician, but can never get his act together, or often even get up in the morning. Their lives together have taken in smoking dope in the lazer bowl toilets, affairs, possible homosexuality, rainbow rhythms, and a broader understanding of the siege of Stalingrad and now Mark seems to be about to get hitched.
Having proposed by accident to Sophie, he now faces the horror of having to actually go through with the wedding. Or will he?? And, when Jeremy’s beautiful ex "visa wife", Nancy (Rachel Blanchard), unexpectedly turns up again, how far will he go to win her back?
Also this series, Mark spends a horrific weekend with Sophie's argumentative parents, tries to get his gym instructor sacked, and also gets involved in a spot of arson. Meanwhile, Jeremy performs some "handy" work for a male pop star, does something pretty unspeakable to a dog and, worst of all, sleeps with Sophie's mother
| | James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery, dark humour and sometimes his use of one-liners. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television. | | It's been a phenomenal few years for welsh comedy sensation Rhod Gilbert; truly cementing his position as one of the UK's leading comedy talents. A regular on our TV screens, he has performed twice on Live At The Apollo - most recently as a host, headlined Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, hosted Have I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks and appeared on The Royal Variety Performance - as well as making regular guest appearances on panel shows 8 out of 10 Cats and Would I Lie To You?.
| | Billy Connolly, CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One).[1] His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a boilermaker) in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade in favour of being a folk singer. In the mid-1970s he changed career again, this time becoming a comedian, a role in which he continues. Today he is one of the world favourite comedians ! | | Jasper Carrott O.B.E. - A Brief Biography
His first performance of note was as resident compére at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. There he discovered his talent for comedy, and his inability to sing, and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 1975 Jasper released his first single. Funky Moped / Magic Roundabout, was a massive chart hit, selling almost a million copies and narrowly missing a Gold Disc. Jasper’s first television appearance was in The Golden Game for BBC Midlands, in 1975.
His first television series was aired in 1978, 'An Audience with Jasper Carrott' for LWT, a series of six shows. The show title was then purloined for the hour-long celebrity shows with which we are now all familiar.
In 1979 Jasper was named as ITV Personality Of The Year. This remains unique as a live to air one hour comedy show.
From 1979 onwards Jasper's national and international tours have taken him to many corners of the world. | | In the 1970s, sitcoms were king on British TV and among the most regal of these was The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. It starred the late Leonard Rossiter as a businessman in the throes of a mid-life crisis. More than 30 years later, the show has been remade with Martin Clunes in the title role. Much of the humour of the original came from recurring jokes that heightened Reggie's growing exasperation at the absurdity of his monotonous life. Reggie's ridiculously pompous boss CJ, the "farting" chairs in his office, Perrin's "hippo" of a mother-in-law, all pushed Reggie further and further towards the edge. Simon Nye, creator of Men Behaving Badly in which Clunes also starred, has written the updated version, closely assisted by David Nobbs, the brains behind the original.
| | Combine the juvenile smut of SUPERBAD with the cringing embarrassment of PEEP SHOW, against the 'stylish' backdrop of GRANGE HILL, and what do you get? E4's hilarious comedy THE INBETWEENERS. A super sharp, one-liner packed celebration of the highs and lows of being a teenager. Perfectly capturing the relentless disappointment of suburban adolescence, the show's four main characters yearn for sex, booze and cheap thrills, without the emotional maturity, money or ID to get them. Briefcase-carrying nerd Will (Simon Bird) has recently left the relative sophistication of private school to join Rudge Park Comprehensive, where he befriends Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley) and Neil (Blake Harrison); a group precariously straddling the social gulf between the in-crowd and the outcasts. | | From karaoke, pub quizzes and mobility-scooter duels to bull fights and arm-wrestling competitions, it’s a fiesta of fun in this scorching comedy. With middle-aged swingers Jacqueline and Donald; the Garveys - Janice and Mick, their chain-smoking mum, Madge and teenage mum Telle; hairdressers Gavin and Troy; newlyweds Martin and his reluctant wife Kate, and ‘The Oracle’ and his mum, there’s plenty of scandal and silliness to go round. | | This BBC comedy sitcom Gavin and Stacey features a romantic, off-beat, boy-meets-girl story. | |  The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed fourteen half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister. To date, the series has earned Best New Comedy and Best Comedy Performer for Chris Langham at the 2005 British Comedy Awards, and won Best Situation Comedy and Best Comedy Performance, also for Langham (although Peter Capaldi was also nominated), at the 2006 BAFTAs.
The series can be described as the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister, highlighting the struggles of the media and spin doctors against civil servants. Iannucci himself describes it as "Yes Minister meets Larry Sanders". The former civil servant Martin Sixsmith is an adviser to the writing team, giving some of the storylines an element of realism to them. In particular, the character of Malcolm Tucker bears a distinct resemblance to former Director of Communications and Strategy Alastair Campbell, a comparison Campbell himself has acknowledged.
A feature film spin-off, In the Loop, was released in the UK on 17 April 2009.
| |  "Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement. We've had running water for over 10 years, an underground tunnel that links us to Peru, and we invented the cat," narrates Tom Baker gleefully at the beginning of Little Britain, introducing the first hit show for fledgling digital channel BBC3 and the best new British comedy since The League of Gentlemen.
Read our interview with Lucas and Walliams.
In fact, creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams acknowledge a large debt to the League, not only in the gallery of grotesques all performed by the duo, but also in the way in which the familiar sketch-show format is expanded by clever use of locale: not Royston Vasey here, but "Britain" itself in all its perverse splendor: from Darkly Noon, where chavette Vicky Pollard seems all too frighteningly real ("Yeah, but no, but yeah. Shut up!"), to the Welsh village with only one gay, to the council estate where buck-toothed Lou looks after apparently wheelchair-bound Andy ("Yeah, I know"), to Kelsey Grammar School where pupils are baffled and confused by their fusty teacher, and many more besides. It's unashamedly puerile stuff and, as with The Fast Show before it, many sketches rely on a single incident or catchphrase repeated over and over in only slightly different contexts. But it works brilliantly, thanks to the characterizations of Lucas and Walliams, their sharp eye for the eccentricities of modern life, and of course that surreal voiceover from Tom Baker. Another triumph for Auntie Beeb. | | Features three Ricky Gervais stand-up shows: Animals, Politics, and Fame. Animals sees Ricky Gervais gives his own unique insight into the animal kingdom, Politics sees Gervais discuss Thora Hird and being mistaken for Johnny Vegas, while Fame finds Gervais discusses his fame and the resulting complications that occur. | | BAFTA winning comedy about the Slough paper-merchant where life is stationary...David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a petty, pompous boss who thinks he's the funniest, most popular man in the world. Pedantic jobs worth Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) agrees with him.They're both wrong.Tim (Martin Freeman) really is popular and funny but the joke is on him, as he's stuck in the middle of their little world - a world in which he hates everything except the receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis). Will Tim escape? Will Dawn choose the right man? Will MI6 ever call on Gareth to help them out? And will David Brent ever regret letting a film crew Into The Office?
| | This show is about two IT professionals (Geeks) who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all. | | He became the first compère at the Comedy Store and gained widespread TV recognition, especially through his regular appearances in The Young Ones. His strong persona was well-suited to television and Alexei Sayle's Stuff, his first starring vehicle, reached screens in 1988. At the heart of the show were Sayle's trademark monologues to camera, which offered a showcase for his engaging stand-up style. Usually filmed on location in a variety of settings, they would cover a wide range of subjects and observations and provide a through-narrative for each episode.
| | This witty, instantly addictive British series could also be called Chaps or Squelchy in the City. Coupling charts the tangled sex lives of a close-knit group comprising "exes and best friends": womanizer Jack, hapless nice guy Steve, "strange and disturbing" Jeff, uninhibited Susan, neurotic Sally, and manipulative Jane. Coupling may inspire feelings of déjà-vu. The obvious frame of reference is Friends (Steve and Susan are the Ross-Rachel equivalent), but this series also echoes Seinfeld in its coinage of catch-phrases (although it's doubtful that "the boyfriend zone" will replace "master of your domain") and plotlines (in episode one, Steve tries to dump Jane, who refuses to accept). But Coupling has its own fresh and provocative takes on relationships. At one point, a furious Susan discovers that Patrick not only had a videotape of the former couple having sex, but that he also taped over her. | |  So just who is Ali G, and how did he get on TV?
In his own words: "Me woz born in da heart off da Staines ghetto. I has lived wiv me Nan in Staines at 37 Cherry Blossom Close from da day me woz born, coz wiv both me parents havin been smoked, dere werent no one else around to look afta her. Me has been carin for her ever since. Me woz failed by da skool system and hated every minute me spent in da classroom. In fact added together, dat time woz probly da most borin 3 hours of me life - altho me do still go to a skool re-union every second Monday at Staines Job Centre... As well as bein unemployed - i iz also got a lot off well important careers. As head of Da West Staines Massive, me control da most peace lovin and violent gang in da hole of Barkshire. Afta happearin on some crap programme dat woz on at 11 a clock or somefin, it werent long before me ad me own show. Dis meant me was able to take a in depf look at a lot off serious issues.... I iz now easily da most respekted face on Brittish telly and it iz probably only a matter off time before me get offered me own slot on Channel 5 - or hopefully even cable..."
| | The Pub Landlord is a stereotypical working class British nationalist with a dislike for anything "un-British". He has a particular dislike of Germans and the French; he will challenge the audience to name any country in the world before producing some plausible instance of Britain bettering it. Catchphrases include "All hail to the ale!", "...beautiful British name!", "Time-waster!", "You DISGUST me!", "Pint for the fella... Glass of white wine/ fruit-based drink for the lady!", "The Point is this..." "if we had no rules where would we be? : France! and if we had too may rules where would we be?: Germany!", "Is your dad proud of you, son? He's never said so, has he?" and "I was never confused", which is an allusion to a supposed gay interlude in his character's early identity. | | If you've heard of QI, the chances are that you've heard of the BBC2 comedy panel quiz of the same name, hosted by Stephen Fry. Unlike any other quiz show you will have failed to avoid catching, QI's questions are impossible to answer, but at least the guest panel of top-shelf comedians can laugh at themselves (and the universe in general) while trying.
"It is easily the best show on television". Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun.
"It is a show bursting with intelligence, originality and fun, as refreshing as a line of Colombians in an ice-cold shower- and perfect for smart-arses like myself who think they know everything". Dominik Diamond, Daily Star.
The comedy quiz that refreshes the parts other shows don’t even have names for.
| | Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is the smuttier, stupider sitcom descendent of Men Behaving Badly, the series tells the story of five twentysomethings--the loveable Johnny (The Royle Family's Ralf Little), his libidinous sidekick Gaz (Will Mellor), their long-suffering girlfriends Janet (Sheridan Smith) and Donna (Natalie Casey), and a token comedy-weirdo Louise (Kathryn Drysdale)--doing their best to fathom life's hardships through endless discussions about sex, booze and relationships. | | Join Howard moon and Vince Noir on their mad capped and surreal capers: from their origins in series 1 as Zoo keepers through to working in a Boutique shop in Dalston in series 3. They are joined by a host of characters, both friend and foe like Bolo the gorilla and Naboo the shamen, the terrifying crack fox and cockney nightmare, the hitcher. | | After many, many years apart, it’s genuinely great to see comedy heroes Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield reunited for a brand new sketch show. And while Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul! doesn’t really come close to touching the brilliance of their work in the 1990s, there’s still quite a lot to enjoy. Comedy chums Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse reunite for this hilarious sketch show, populated by all-new characters. | | The British phenomenon and 2007 Emmy winner Ricky Gervais, founder of BBCs original The Office, stars in the hilariously funny series Extras! Watch the story unfold as Ricky Gervais plays a lowly film extra, Andy Millman, who makes his mark in the background while the stars do their work. Both Seasons of the hit series Extras and a 90 minute series finale! Extras: The show with big, big stars and Andy Millman. | | Comedian Harry Enfield, perhaps best known for his role on Men Behaving Badly , starred in a new series beginning in 2000, Brand Spanking New Show. A collection of character sketches that reveal a much more adult edge than Enfield had shown previously, this DVD presents the best moments from the show's first season. | | | | | The Detectives is a comedy programme that spoofs other cop programmes. It features Jasper Carrott as Detective Bob Louis and his partner, Detective David Briggs played by Robert Powell, as well as their Superintendent, Frank Cottam, played by George Sewell. Both Louis and Briggs were fairly incompetent, but at the end of the episode had solved the crime hanging on to their jobs, nearly being fired fairly often. Louis was more downbeat, whereas Briggs tried to emulate the gung-ho cops shown on TV and in film. | | The Catherine Tate Show is an award winning Comedy sketch series shown on BBC2. The series stars Catherine Tate as a variety of different characters | | Jim Davidson has long been amongst the country's most popular live entertaines, with his outrageous, no holds barred approach to adult humour. | | Evans rose to fame during the 1990s, becoming noted for his loud, hot, sweaty, energetic on-stage performances, humorous voices and very physical observational comedy. He is regarded as having a Norman Wisdom style of slapstick comedy acting, and in many respects has taken on Wisdom's role for a later generation.[citation needed] In his earlier work, he often used a dysfunctional character called Malcolm to illustrate how he viewed unusual characters in the world. | | Meet Gareth Blackstock, award winning chef and prat par excellence. He is insufferably rude to everyone, and yet, all is forgotten and forgiven the moment anyone tastes one of his delicious creations. Although he is thoughtful and caring deep down, it is beneath a thick layer of self absorption and a pure workaholic mentality as he struggles like an artist with his vocation and love: cooking. This passion is the basis of all that is wrong with his character, as he demands nothing short of perfection from himself, and hence, of others as well. He is driven to create and give his career ever ounce of energy he has, to the detriment of his social graces as well as his relationship with Janice, his wife. | | Will the Insecure Woman ever stop worrying about the size of her bum? Who can forget the sleazy Suit You Sir salesmen, Competitive Dad always trying to score over his children, the permanently inebriated Rowley Birkin QC, slimy used car dealer Swiss Toni and Ralph, the restrained and sexually repressed lord of the manor who tries to reveal his passion for the gamekeeper Ted by making small talk. The Fast Show is arguably one of the most influential British comedy series ever. First screened in 1994 the show gave new life to the sketch show format with its quick fire catchphrase based comedy. Delivering the classic lines are Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne. | | Happiness is Paul Whitehouse's first foray into the world of comedy drama and sees him playing Danny Spencer, a recently widowed minor celebrity in the midst of a midlife crisis. He writes and voices a cartoon character called Dexter (a kung-fu nurse bear). Danny is unhappy that he's loved more for his creation Dexter than for himself. Will he ever rediscover the happiness that he lost with his wife's death? | | Innovative, BAFTA and British Comedy Award-winning comedians Robert Webb and David Mitchell return to in the wake of the cult hit sitcom, Peep Show, with a hilarious new sketch show, That Mitchell & Webb Look.
Full of strange and wonderful characters, The Daily Telegraph describes the series as "pure comedy gold," raving, "keep this up, they'll be making Gervais and co. look like the warm-up act."
Writing the series mainly in David's bedroom, the comedy duo claims influences from Monty Python to Peter Cook and Spike Milligan. "The thing we are most proud of is the fact we've written most of the material ourselves and we've always wanted to work with the sketch show format," says David. | | On the surface, The Royle Family appeared to be humdrum and low on incident - but such ordinary appearances belie the fact that it was a groundbreaking work of exceptional comedy invention.
Writers Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne's knack of capturing every nuance of character and dialogue made the sitting room of the titular Royles a must-see for an ever-growing audience. Viewers simply dropped in to this Northern family's conversations and watched them channel-hop and discuss various everyday subjects.
Family patriarch Jim Royle is master of his space - unafraid to rearrange his nether regions, pick his nose or fart, regardless of the company. Ricky Tomlinson embraces the part with gusto, making Jim's oft delivered "My arse" a national catchphrase
| | The Green, Green Grass follows the time-honoured fish-out-of-water format, our hero having been forced to flee Peckham, with wife Marlene and son Tyler in tow, after grassing-up infamous local villains the Driscoll Brothers.
Now he is stuck in Shropshire, desperately trying to become a gentleman farmer as his staff – cunning farm manager Elgin Sparrowhawk, serially-lovestruck herdsman Bryan and dim ploughman Jed – try desperately to separate him from all that car-dealing cash he's amassed and neighbour, Llewellyn, just desperately dislikes him.
Meanwhile, Boycie's family are less than enamoured by their new surroundings.
| | In an effort to escape the pressures of stardom, some of the world's most famous celebrities move to The Good Life country, Surbiton, to a nondescript Stella Street. Michael Caine, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Dustin Hoffman all live down this road, along with other celebrities, oh and some ordinary working class people as well. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards own, and work in, the corner shop. Everyone gets along, after a fashion, until a financial advisor persuades everyone to hand over control of their finances to him. When this goes horribly wrong, the stars decide their old lifestyle wasn't so bad after all! | | Includes the Peter Kay live titles Live at the Top of the Tower and Live at the Bolton Albert Halls. In Live at the Top of the Tower, Comedian and actor Peter Kay is captured live in Blackpool, presenting the stand-up show which first made his name. In Live at the Bolton Albert Halls Peter Kay performs his 'Mum Wants A Bungalow Tour' in front of a home town audience. | | Gimme, Gimme, Gimme was a comedy series shown on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Linda and Tom share a flat in London and Tom is trying to become an actor without much success. He and Linda are both lonely people desperate to find love with somebody. Linda often throws herself at any man who crosses her path. | | Jimmy Venables, divorced father of two, moves back into the marital home to look after his children when his wife decides to take her nursing skills to a Third World natural disaster. The only problem for Jimmy is that his mother-in-law also decides to help him.
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