Merry Telly

From Adam Buxton's BUG show on Sky back in 2012, still works nearly 15 years later. Credits! This little ditty was made by Cyriak, one of many collaborations between the artist and Buxton over the years, though these characters were illustrated by Sarah Brown and not he. I was going to do all the captions by hand but figured pretty quickly that it might be a task better suited to tiktok's auto captions editor. #adambuxton #2010s #britishcomedy #nostalgiacore

I'm still trying to track down all the episodes of COMEDY NATION, because when it was good it was very good. A sketch show from 1998 with a simple premise: you can do what you want with no real interference from the execs, but you've got barely any money to do it with. The budget for each episode was apparently £29k, which uhhh...showed! Poor lighting, mostly filmed in free locations, I'm not even sure what camera it was filmed on but none of it really mattered - the jokes and performers were th

Prescient. THE PETER SERAFINOWICZ SHOW ran for just one season back in 2007/2008 on the BBC. An explosive era for British sketch shows, these programmes birthed comedic actors and characters that are staples on the comedy scene today. The best of them merged social commentary with surrealism, and The Peter Serafinowicz Show was expert at throwing in nostalgic references, much like the earlier collaboration between Serafinowicz and Robert Popper, Look Around You. ~ Sorry, had to reupload. #brianb

Did you know that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was originally filmed as a more modern day comedy? It went through a few iterations before it reached its final magnificent form. The test footage shown here was part of a trial of these different ideas with Matthew Holness, Alice Lowe, Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade. Inspired by Spinal Tap, creators Holness and Ayoade decided to test out setting the show in the past, and filmed a couple of scenes prior to production. Originally it was set to be simila

hungry? Olivia Colman in LOOK AROUND YOU. *** #britishfood #satire #oliviacolman #lookaroundyou

Replying to @annevictoriaclark look I love Doon but her accent needs more than a little work #doonmackichan #brasseye #accents

just what she's always wanted, actually Doon Mackichan and Hugh Dennis are the ridiculously named duo in this Science episode of BRASS EYE *** #satire #exercise #brasseye

Very sad to learn of the sudden passing of a comedy great, Rob Grant, today. Red Dwarf is a cornerstone in mine, and I'm sure many others, love for British comedy. Equal parts punk, camp, and nerdy, it lived through so many iterations and escaped being left on the pile just from the pure love it received from its fans. There is no other show that has been resurrected in so many ways, and it was all for the love of these characters and the absurdity of the universe created by Rob Grant and Doug N

From the minds of Rob & Neil Gibbons, THE WITCHFINDER landed on the BBC back in 2022 featuring an abundance of British comedic talent. Probably best known for their work on various Alan Partridge projects, the Gibbons brothers enlisted Partridge regular Tim Keys in the headline role to play alongside the inimitable Daisy May Cooper's "witch". It takes its place in a tradition of British comedy which I guess could be labelled as historical comedy dramas - think Year of the Rabbit, Upstart Crow an

An entire nation fitted with a single personality, how handy! NIGHTY NIGHT is a uniquely dark take on...sociopathy, let's be honest 😂 Jill, played by the brilliant Julia Davis, on finding out her husband has cancer, declares him dead and goes on the hunt for someone new (despite the fact that he is very much alive).Written primarily by Davis herself, the show lasted 2 seasons in the mid noughties and was lauded for its frank, dark humour. One of the best aspects of the show is the central chalk

Back in the late 90s, Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade were touring Cambridge Footlights, packed in at various times with John Oliver, Robert Webb & David Mitchell, amongst others, with productions such as Emotional Baggage and Rainbow Stranglers. Ayoade and Holness went on from this to develop one of the most memorable cult figures in modern British comedy: Garth Marenghi. The TV show Darkplace was developed for Channel 4, but a couple of years later they brought back characters from their li