Netscape just crashed after I typed a long rave so in a nutshell:

Thanks (not!) 'Spaw for reminding me that I haven't seen Reggie Perrin since it first came out and it was my favourite at the time. I just fall back into a cosy misty lack of loss about it and you remind me again.

Goodness Gracious Me, and the spin-off from that, The Kumars at No. 42, are wickedly funny, giving the Indian-British perspective on comedy.

I've decided that once I identify a comedy actor I like I can then take a punt on any show he/she is in after that and usually like it, e.g. Rik Mayall.

What was the name of that comedy with the guy who played Rimmer in Red Dwarf as a ditzy, self important office manager? Sort of like a fictional version of The Office.

We generously lend out Dame Edna to other countries as required, but we are very proud of her Oz origins.

There have been other threads recently on tv comedies, and British shows have ranked among the highest on those threads. I'll try to find them and put a link in.

I'll refrain from mentioning the Oz sit-com Mother & Son because, except for DNA connections to actors and scriptwriters etc, it isn't British and therefore that would be thread creep (grin). But, if I did mention it I would rave about Ruth Cracknell and Garry MacDonald, other wise notorious as "Norman Gunston".

Helen