Advent continues and so do the Christmas questions. This week, as per Jane's suggestion last week:
What's your favourite Christmas comedy?
This can include comedy movies (although we did movies last week), so let's focus on Christmas specials and Christmas episodes of shows. So you could have The Next Doctor or The Feast of Steven if you like Doctor Who, for example, and there are plenty of Only Fools and Horses specials to be getting on with too.
What's yours?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
December 9, 2009 | Reply
It's got to be the Father Ted Christmas special, hasn't it? Complete with the Ballykissangel joke that kicks off the plot, and must be confusing those now watching it who weren't even born when Assumpta was pining over Damien Day.
December 9, 2009 | Reply
For me it's got to be the Peckham Springs Fools and Horses. That still makes me laugh.
But also really loved the Men Behaving Badly episode where they got pissed and burnt the turkey, and of course Gavin and Stacey last year was fab.
And you can't beat a Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special, even after a thousand watches. Christmas doesn't seem the same without them...
I'm sure I thought of lots more when I suggested this last week, but am brain dead at the moment and they've all gone. I'll be back if they return...
December 9, 2009 | Reply
Oh yes, A Very Christmassy Ted.
Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
Office Christmas Special.
Umm... I bet there are many many more.
December 9, 2009 | Reply
Secret confession... it has to be Bernard and the Genie.. with Lenny Henry and Alun Cummings... oh dear.. but it makes me laugh
Oh the shame!
8D
December 11, 2009 | Reply
"The Alan Brady Show Presents" episode of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' in which there was a Christmas show within a show and Alan's writers (plus Rob's wife Laura and Mel, the show's producers performed several songs for that week's episode. (The best is "I Am A Fine Musician".)
The Christmas in November episode of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' - in which everybody is at odds with each othe while eating a Christmas dinner on the set of Sue Ann's show - is another fave, one which refused to finally give in to the early Christmas spirit.
By the way, the TV Tropes site has a great rundown of the many TV series that did their own version of "A Christmas Carol":
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChristmasCarol
and they also cover "It's A Wonderful Life":
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlea7jrnz0snt1h?from=Main.ItsAWonderfulLife
And if I might plug a blogmate's work, "Christmas On Television" is a wonderful book by TV critic Diane Werts.......
December 11, 2009 | Reply
Much as I love Christmassy Ted, Xmas inevitably means Panto to me. Consequently, my first thought of Xmas comedy is from a few years ago, when Paul Merton still did stand-up. He and the gang did a Christmas panto of Aladdin [which includes Cinderella] which was included on his comedy video Live at the palladium. Richard Vranch in the most frightening tight bikini, Merton as Buttons ("he's chirpy, he's cheeky, it's Buttons!") and Lee Simpson as Aladdin. I laugh just thinking about it and it's pretty much ruined the thought of attending panto since then.
First part here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pPEyW_Me4