Quote: sootyj @ September 18 2008, 12:17 PM BSTComedy is anger.
Comedies a broad church. It shouldn't have to be one thing or another. I can enjoy Terry and June and I can also enjoy Brass Eye.
Top 3 Over rated British sitcoms. Page 10
Absolute ballbags. 
Quote: zooo @ September 18 2008, 12:24 PM BSTAbsolute ballbags.
Who are you directing that abuse at, zoooooo?
Probably sooty.
I hope.
Oh yes, sorry. It was sooty, I just forgot to quote.
(Love ya Soots.)
Are you Twin Peaks lady now, Winterlight?
Quote: zooo @ September 18 2008, 12:33 PM BSTAre you Twin Peaks lady now, Winterlight?
I'm chipolata, you dozy bint. 
That looks like Kirstie Alley.
Quote: zooo @ September 18 2008, 12:03 PM BST(I think) Look In was a magazine in the 80s. So it predates Spaced by about 10 years.
So I'm not sure what Winterlight is on about...
I deliberately said 'Look In' as an act of pure nonsense. Which is what The Boosh and Spaced are.
Quote: john lucas 101 @ September 18 2008, 10:39 AM BSTIsn't it Kirsten Dunst?
Correct!
Don't know Griff, some pretty angry aunties there.
Not forgetting Bertie's invariable initial strop, at Jeeves' suggestion to wear a more appropriate one.
Quote: Griff @ September 18 2008, 1:49 PM BSTI'll take that over pissing and shitting jokes any day.
Steady. Perry might be reading and you're dismissing his whole career there.
P G Wodehouse, warmedy of the best variety.
Affectionate, and amusing but not truly comic.
And pissing and shitting can be very funny.
And there are those who would say the canon of Wodehouse's work is a meta gag, a vast howl of fury at the iniquity of the class system. He merely did on a vast, yet subtle scale.
Also "Code of the Wooster's" is viewed as one of the sharpest piss takes on fascism.
Anger isn't shouting, some times it's a quicksilver blade.
Comedy is tragedy in reverse, a vast subliminal sea of bitterness and rage against the machines.
No wonder On The Buses and Terry and June don't cut it.
Well Griff I do correct myself, by pointing out the vast sublimated ocean of rage in his writings.
Mind you I always prefered Saki.
Laughing Gas? Trapped in the wrong body, unable to escape?
A smidgeon, surely?