The Vicar of Dibley!

[yendi]

Yay! My favorite Britcom comes out on DVD this month!

And the BBC has also announced series one (uncut!) of Mi-5!

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

*Laughs!*

'Britcom'?

I didn't realise you had a word over there for our exports!

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

When will we get Murder Most Horrid on DVD? That's my favourite Dawn French show.

[yendi]

*nod* It first got usage years ago when the PBS stations started showing shows like Vicar and Keeping up Appearances, but with the success of BBCAmerica, the term has really come into vogue.

[yendi]

Not familiar with that one, but if it has Dawn, I need to see it!

[meihua.livejournal.com]

*Nods* She's great!

Murder Most Horrid features different characters, setting and plot in every episode. The common feature is that Dawn French always plays a character who, whether deliberately or accidentally, ends up murdering someone during the course of the episode. The rest follows the typically Dawn Frenchy attempted cover-up. ("Knife? Knife? Ha, ha, what knife? I'm not carrying a knife! This? /This/ is an.. erm, a paper cutter! No, no, that's red INK! From the paper, you see...")

*Re-reads that and laughs* ... I make it sound kinda grim, don't I? It's not. It's very good comedy. :) Maybe someone else's review would do it more justice than I...

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

I prefer Caroline Quentin. More subtlety.

Checkout "Men Behaving Badly" (for gross-out laughs) or the first 3 seasons of "Jonathan Creek" (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0118363/plotsummary) (mystery drama with a lightly comic touch).

[yendi]

I adore Men Behaving Badly (the real one, not the American remake). But Dawn is still my favorite.

[yendi]

Actually, that sounds very nifty! If anything, not grim enough (I love black comedy). :-)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite is Chef!, but I like Vicar of Dibley quite much too.

Fun fact: Lenney Harvey and Dawn French are married to each other.

[storme]

I'm sure Lenny Henry would be sad to hear this.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Whoops.

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

Quite varied. Some are laugh out loud silly, others are really well plotted mini mysteries. And there's a well thought out time travel story in there too. Oh, and one where she is Death.

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what I did with my tape of Comic Strip episodes. Dawn and Jennifer are hilarious as horny Aussie tourists in the Spanish desert in "A Fistful of Travellers Cheques."

[pinballsorceror.livejournal.com]

Dude if you haven't check out "Father Ted" Very much in the same vein, very funny. And I suppose you have but in the slight chance you haven't, gank copies of "Red Dwarf"

[yendi]

I enjoy Father Ted, too. And yeah, I'm a huge Red Dwarf junkie.

[pinballsorceror.livejournal.com]

As Ali G would say, I is well looking fowad to the Red Dwarf movie, it's going to be funny innit.