Comment by Insanity
1 day ago
She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series.
It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
1 day ago
She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series.
It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
And the lesser known "Look Around You" which might also not land so well with an American audience.
Thants.
For season 1 it very much satirises the early morning open university tv educational media format from the 70s through the early 2000s [1]. I'm not sure it'd land quite the same way for other countries or even for gen-z onwards.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/january/op...
I wondered, but my 15 year old loved it.
i think the skibidi toilet crew would love spiders on drugs
While we're on an Olivia Colman thread, I can't leave 'Green Wing' unmentioned
What are birds?
We just don't know.
I love that 15 years before winning an Oscar she played the mother of a boy with an arse for a face, too.
NSFW, obviously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvH86wfrzk
And she was terrific in Fleabag.
Similiarly vintage classic Coleman...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAssh20BF-k
(Circa 2004-ish?)
(Not really sure if it counts as SFW/NSFW tbh?)
And that's a show about people who are bad at relationships.
True! Two “losers” as protagonists
I personally never liked it. All the characters were deeply unlikable and a lot of the jokes are just disgusting shock humour. When I used to live in a shared house, I always skipped it if it was on the television.
Well depending on your taste of TV shows and the general culture.
When I moved to the UK early 2000s I could understand but can't appreciate that type of humour. I think its rooted in culture. Luckily that was the golden era of British comedies and there were great diversities so you can pick and choose what flavour you like.
> Luckily that was the golden era of British comedies
You'll find people saying that about every era.
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I actually didn't see that era as a Golden era and actually much prefer the sketch shows in the 80s and 90s such has the Fast Show.
I don't like any Mitchell and Webb stuff and don't particularly find either of them very funny.
David Mitchell's (at least on panel shows) brand of comedy is just doing a stupid face and making sardonic/cynical remark which is often some thinly veiled political jab, that the target audience often already agrees with. That isn't comedy. It is activism. Once you can see it, you can't un-see it and I find nauseating.
For real humour starting Olivia, I STRONGLY recommend get appearances on Graham Norton - she's a great sport