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Classic underrated British comedy.

	Nightingales [DVD] Buy new: £7.98 Nightingales - Back when Channel 4 knew how to commision. Robert Lindsay in some surreal night security escapades.
	How Do You Want Me - Complete Series 1 And 2 [DVD] [1998] Buy new: £13.88 / Used from: £12.50 How Do You Want Me - City boy Dylan Moran escapes to the country... Insults everyone!
	Fun At The Funeral Parlour [DVD] Buy new: £13.88 Fun At The Funeral Parlour - Welsh undertakers. Very nearly on a par with some famous Irish Priests.
	Absolutely - Absolutely Everything [DVD] Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £6.53 Absolutely - Sketch show nirvana. The best ensemble comedy show since Monty Python.
	Big Train : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 [1998] [DVD] Buy new: £7.88 / Used from: £6.05 Big Train - Sketch show heaven.
	Black Books Complete Box Set [DVD] by Black Books Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £9.90 Black Books - Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey... Priceless ridiculousness.
	Spaced - Definitive Collectors' Edition [DVD] Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £9.99 Spaced - 1990's generation X style comedy with a truckload of references and homage-ing.
	The Day Today : Complete BBC Series (2 Disc Set) [1994] [DVD] Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.00 The Day Today - Classic satire that ruffled feathers only because it exposes TV and those who live on it as being pompous windbags who should be first against the wall etc. etc.
	Still Game: The Complete Series 1-6 Plus Christmas and Hogmanay Specials [2007] [DVD] [2002] Buy new: £23.97 / Used from: £22.76 Still Game - Brilliant. Just perfectly observed old codgerism!
	A Very Peculiar Practice [1986] [DVD] Buy used from: £68.94 A Very Peculiar Practice - Psychedelic and drug-fueled. Crazy stuff from the middle of the ultra-conservative 1980's.
	Blott On The Landscape [DVD] [1985] Buy new: £5.98 Blott On The Landscape
	Porterhouse Blue [DVD] [1987] Buy new: £7.98 Porterhouse Blue
	Brass [DVD] [1983] Buy used from: £11.56 Brass - The US had 'Soap', we had this.
	The Goodies (4 Disc BBC Box Set) [DVD] The Goodies - Like the Pythons had taken too much sugar. Blissfully silly.
	The Original Vic Reeves Big Night Out [DVD] [1990] Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £5.87 Vic Reeves' Big Night Out - You had to be there, and being drunk, under 20 and with friends helped enormously, but it's still a riot.
	Coupling: Complete BBC Series 1-4 Box Set (Special Collectors Edition) [2000] [DVD] Buy new: £13.38 / Used from: £13.75 Coupling - Still one of the sharpest relationship-between-the-sexes comedies. And rude & explicit, too :o)
	Green Wing Complete Collection [DVD] by Green Wing 8 Disc Collectors Edition Buy new: £24.98 / Used from: £14.88 The Green Wing - Series 1 demands your attention. 2 is a distraction and the Special is padding. Off-the-wall ridiculousness.
	Game On: Complete Series 1 - 3 [DVD] Buy new: £13.88 / Used from: £11.84 Game On - 1 is fantastic, sexy, sexist sit-comedy, II is treading water, three's stillborn.
	The IT Crowd: Series 1-3 Box Set - Limited Internet in a Box Edition [DVD] [2005] Buy used from: £40.00 The IT Crowd - Damn shame Chris Morris has left but this is still easily the best C4 comedy since Father Ted.
	The Thick Of It : Complete BBC Series 1 [2005] [DVD] Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £7.50 The Thick Of It - It's not Yes Minister for sure but it does seem to reflect the sad state of modern politics. Great satire.
	The New Statesman - the Complete Series Box Set [DVD] [1987] Buy new: £20.48 / Used from: £10.99 The New Statesman - Or more appropriately, the Blackadder of political comedy! &, oh Lord, does Marsha Fitzalan look hot in those power suits! lol!
	The Big Bottom Box [DVD] Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £12.50 Bottom - Seven discs of Bottom! Worth it for the live shows to see two great comedy entertainers playing off each other. Mayall always corpses!
	Jeeves And Wooster : Complete ITV Series (8 Disc Box Set) [DVD] [1990] Buy used from: £21.00 Jeeves & Wooster - Just about as prefect an adaptation of Wodehouse's novels as you could hope for. Fry and Laurie at their best.
	Mapp And Lucia [DVD] Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £13.00 Mapp & Lucia - Not so much a comedy of manners as a refined and reserved all out war between the two leads for control over the social scene in their small town of Tilling. Slow but joyous.

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