Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-03-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 3

Customer Reviews

Intelligent comedy
Gosh! What an extraordinary creation. Brilliantly written, superbly acted - the cast play together so well that the script almost disappears. So funny I hurt from laughing so much. Didn't like it at first. But now, goodness me, I belly laugh at the sweet comedy!! I have fallen in love with it!!

Brilliant
In the world of comedy you do not have to be vulgar an offensive to make people laugh , in stead you can you use your imagination and create 3 very real characters and put them together in the basement of a corporation to run the IT support unit , the only tinny flaw is that they do not know anything about computers or life for that matter.

The result? The most original and funny comedy in Britain in many years, personally since Spaced. Others compare it to Father Ted or Black books but I feel this is better than the 2.

" Work outting " and " Dinner party " both of series 2 are the best 2 episodes of the first 2 series and they work very well as the 3 main cast interact brilliantly with each other ,the timing of the jokes is excellent ( Yes Miss ) and the script is fresh and original.

The series gets better as it goes along with "Employee of the month " and " friend face " ( both in series 3 ) being the best episodes.

Chris Morris steals every shot he is in and his substitute ,Matt Berry was not as funny in series 2 but got better in series 3 and " The Speech " is his best episode so far. It was sad to loose Noel Fielding (the Goth)in series 3 , he was the most interesting recurring cast.

The only thing I do not like about the series is the background laughter that gives it an American sit-com touch that I feel is not necesary.

The outtakes for the first 2 series are ok but not near as funny as the real footage.

I hope they bring a fourth series.

Wonderful Linehan Comedy
Graham Linehan surely must be one of the most talented comedy writer/directors of recent years. Father Ted, Black Boooks and then this - top quality stuff and good enough to keep you crying with laughter.

I can remember that the first series got a rather tentative write up when it was first aired, and in an interview on the 3rd DVD Linehan even admits that the 1st series didn't quite hit the mark. I can't see it myself - the 1st series is as funny as its successors and benefits from a fair degree of freshness - it's hard to find any reason to criticise it. Perhaps the rather conventional sitcom settings that Linehan produces in his comedy might seem rather unadventurous to the more demanding audience members, but the writing is what makes this so special. Linehan also seems to have a knack of bringing high quality performers into his productions and O'Dowd, Ayoade and Parkinson work wonderfully together. They are well supported by a number of other actors, including Noel Fielding who plays the gloomy goth Richmond and Chris Morris and Matt Berry who play the trio's successive (and appalingly overbearing) bosses.

There are a few extras, including outtakes, deleted scenes, set tours and the like and the Ken Korda (Adam Buxton) documentary on the first disc had me aching with laughter. The 3rd deries interview with Linehan suggets that there's at least one more series to come, which will keep this idiot in suspense fora while.

This stuff just doesn't get old.

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