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A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.

A spoof of the British news - including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On The Hour'.

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?

Reno, dans le Nevada, est la plus grande petite ville du monde. En composant le 911, les habitants de Reno font appel à des agents de la sécurité publique qui n'inspirent pas vraiment confiance et qui enchaînent bourdes et farces au gré d'interpellations plus ou moins musclées.

The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.

A zany sketch comedy featuring many wacky characters hosted for kids and by kids.

Frank Drebin est un fin limier de la police de Los Angeles... enfin presque ! S'il fait bien partie de la police de Los Angeles, le lieutenant Drebin est plutôt spécialisé dans les gaffes, quiproquos, interrogatoires surréalistes et catastrophes en chaîne. C'est à se demander comment il réussit à résoudre les enquêtes....

Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

A comedy sketch show featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

The big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular characters

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.

A sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by editor George Dent, the staff of GlobeLink battle to maintain the company as a serious news organization against Sir Roysten's right-hand man, Gus Hedges, who wants to make the show more sensationalist and suppress stories that might harm Roysten's business empire.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.

A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

A la tête du département de recherche et développement d'une grande compagnie sans scrupules, Ted a du succès... et une conscience. Et cela ne fait pas toujours bon ménage ! Il adore son boulot, sa boss Veronica, et ses collègues, Lem, Phil et Linda, mais parfois il se demande si son boulot mérite de passer outre certaines valeurs. Surtout quand on lui demande de créer une dinde suicidaire, de concevoir un métal capable de rebondir ou de cryogéniser un collègue pour les besoins d'une expérience. Il y a des jours où Ted se pose des questions, vraiment...

Un homme d'affaires à la retraite se présente à la mairie de Los Angeles pour prouver qu'il «l'a toujours». Une fois qu'il gagne, il doit comprendre ce qu'il représente, gagner le respect de son plus grand critique et entrer en contact avec sa fille adolescente, tout en essayant de faire tout ce qu'il faut pour la deuxième ville la plus étrange d'Amérique.

Quatre acteurs jouent la vie d'une petite ville (ou un grand village) lugubre et isolée d'Angleterre, Royston Vasey, au début des années 2000. Meurtres, incestes, perversions, pauvreté, chômage, racisme, tous les clichés qui accompagnent la campagne sont présent à gros traits.