calling Anglos and Anglophiles

[brightlywoven]

(inspired by foreverdirt's latest link)

One thing I have found to stand between me and the feeling that England is home, has been my lack of familiarity with the people of pop and political culture. I have for indtance, rarely any idea who humph is snarking about in ISIHAC. Partly this is because I have no tv. However, rather than get one, then try to trawl through for the good bits, I am asking you, dear friends list to point me the right way.

Week one: comedy

Can you suggest British comedy or comedians that would probably not be known internationally which I might enjoy? (eg a passing comment from shanith led me to mitch benn. Awsome)

Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

BBC 7 is a very good source of classic British comedy (including a lot of telly sitcoms redone for radio, like Dad's Army, which tells you a lot about how the British imagine the home front of WWII to have been - and is very funny). 'Round the Horne' is brilliant, when it's on - it's so inventively filthy I can't imagine how they got it on air in the sixties, but then I suppose the worst bits are innuendo - or in Polari.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Inventively filthy is such a ringing endorsement I will keep an eye out for that one!

[tree_and_leaf]

The awful folk singer, Rambin' Sid Rumpole is particularly.. memorable.