TV shows
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Three Classic British Sketch Comedy Shows
During the same period they were bringing Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster to the small screen, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were sprinkling the British airwaves with their own sketch comedy show A Bit of Fry and Laurie. If you ever thought to yourself, as I have, “Is there any such thing as ‘highbrow absurdist humor’?”… Continue reading
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Leading Ladies of British Comedy
The Vicar of Dibley – Reverend Geraldine Granger is assigned to the small Oxfordshire village of Dibley, its first female vicar following the Church of England’s quite tardy change of heart regarding the ordination of women. Offering spiritual guidance to the tiny town’s cast of oddballs, the vicar negotiates her way around and through entrenched… Continue reading
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One Season Wonders (kind of…)
At Last the 1948 Show (1967) Prior to 1967 it was a dark time. Comedy hadn’t yet been invented and the population was just starting to accept the world becoming colorized after thousands of years being a nice, calm, black and white. Enter two scholars from Cambridge, John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Well, them and… Continue reading
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Flaked Soundtrack Appreciation
We don’t have a cable television home, but the boyfriend and I do have Apple TV, so we like to occasionally choose a new show to watch together. He binge watches CSI when I work my late nights and I binge watch Shameless on my days off, but it’s nice to have something to enjoy together… Continue reading
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Top 10 TV Series to Binge Watch While Home With The Flu
~posted by Carrie F. Being stuck at home with the flu is the best excuse to spend some quality time vegging out. Here are a few TV series that I’d binge watch right now if I were under the weather: X-Files With all the buzz about the new series, bone up on The Smoking Man… Continue reading
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