Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1423 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-04
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 196 minutes

Synopsis
Modern life is rubbish. Nobody talks to each other, work is dull and we are made to feel inadequate by everyone and everything around us. Features the complete series of comedy genius Ianucci's sketch shows.

Customer Reviews

The best TV show ever
I watched this show on its initial run, taping it as it went along. Over the next few years there was rarely a that month went by where I didn't watch an episode. That video was accidently crushed underfoot, and I was devastated. Months later I discovered that it was (finally) being released. For those of us who saw it at the time, this DVD was a very important release, the result of much campaigning. For those of you who missed out or haven't seen it, this is the best comedy series ever, probably the best TV show ever. Now, if only they'd release Time Trumpet!

Better than Partridge, The Day Today and Friday Night Armistice put together
I can't really heap enough praise on this dvd. It's fairly surreal, even by Iannucci's standards, and when I first watched it on TV it took me a few episodes to really get into it, but once you have got into the idea of what he is trying to do, and separate it from things he has done in the past, you can come to realise what a comic masterpiece it is.
Unlike a lot of comedy it gets better with every watch, and it really is very rewatchable stuff. My favourite parts include his comedy routine at the business meeting, the mechanics, the football pundits under the pub floor and swearing in flowers.
There's nothing that compares to this, and it destroys any contemporary British (or American) comedy being produced. It's ridiculously astute and, as always with Iannucci, years ahead of everything else.
A must for anyone who likes their comedy on the stranger side of things.

"Man - your horse is so confused!"
I rewatched this earlier this week and was reminded of what a work of genius it is! So underrated. Every episode has so many clever and beautiful things in it. I can't even begin to describe it adequately. In fact, it contains one of my favourite comedy moments of all time - the tangible shock and indignation of a group of young black and Asian men as police horses make racist remarks about them in front of their oblivious handlers is priceless. Armando Iannucci makes a likeable, self-depreciating and witty everyman in this exploration of the bigger themes in life, and the mix of personal story and big set-pieces (Busby Berkeley with corpses, anyone?) makes a series that actually pulls off the trick of having a comedian act as themselves in amongst a cast of fictional characters. Just take it as read that it's one of those 'must-own' series. More than perfect.