What about The Fast Show? One of my favourite ever comedy shows. I don't know why the comedy worked, it just did. From characters like Rowley Birkin QC with his disjointed rambling that always ended up with "but I'm afraid I was very, very drunk."
The feller who would step out of his Port a Cabin and say "Today I be mostly eating taramasalata."
The chap who would be sent by his wife to get eggs, milk and flour, and when he got back she would ask "did you get what I asked for?" He would then say, "Even better than that I bought (something really stupid)"
Arabella Weir's characters were awesome, from the woman who, when chatting with her lady friends would be saying, "yeah, I'm gonna get the new Subaru Impreza, 350BHP, engine like a tank, turns on a sixpence and all wheel drive." Then as soon as a chap walks in she goes all girly and says, " Oh hewwo, we were just talking about cars and I was wondering if I should buy a red one or a blue one."
Or the woman in the boardroom who says, "Well I think we should make noises about selling our shares in Dupont which will give us leverage when dealing with Allied Holdings. In realty of course we will be leading with a buy out of Tech Incorporated at a knock down price."
Cue silence. And then one of the guys would repeat verbatim what she'd just said, and the others would say, "what a splendid idea."
Competitive dad.
And the wonderful unrequited love between the Lord of the Manor, Ralph, and Ted his gamekeeper/handyman. I could never work out if Ted reciprocated or not.
I think it was called 'Brilliant' in the States.
). I believe that was the show (I've mentioned this before) that had possibly the funniest nonsensical line in the history of comedy. PW as a local burglar, a little kid sees him and says that he wants to be just like him when he grows up, so PW gives him some advice to be careful what he wishes for and sums it up with this gem of confusion:
