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Pub. Date
2006, c1987-1989
Description
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie wrote and starred in their own sketch comedy series on the BBC. "Witty and urbane, Fry and Laurie lampoon an endless array of targets with a delicious turn of phrase and elaborate wordplay. Absurdities abound... Includes 1987 Christmas special."--Cover.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Writer, director, and performer Wyatt Cenac stars in this digital series about a Brooklyn resident moonlighting as a crime-fighting vigilante, confronting self-absorbed parents, upstart artisanal-mustard shops, and his own relevance in the world. Nominated for a 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
AMERICAN PRINCESS is the story of an Upper East Side socialite whose storybook wedding plans are dramatically derailed when she violently reacts to her fiancé's affair, becomes a tabloid headline, suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately runs off to join a Renaissance Faire.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Popular comedian Brent Butt returns to small town Saskatchewan to the life he would have led had he gotten a real job – pumping gas. Each episode of CORNER GAS delivers a half-hour of comedic voyeurism in a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. The series is set in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, and focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of gas station owner Brent Leroy (Brent Butt), coffee shop proprietor Lacey Burrows...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
CHRISTMAS SNOW Despite being evicted on the day before Christmas by their mean-spirited landlord, Mrs. Mutterance and her children come to his aid during a blizzard. SCROOGE The classic story of a miserable miser and the joy he rediscovers about the holidays. A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER In need of a fresh start, Caroline heads to her quaint hometown just in time for Christmas. But when she reunites with her ex-flame, they return to their old, bickering...
9) Dead Like Me
Description
You're about to be collected. This groundbreaking, original series delivers you into a realm of shockingly funny characters and twisted narratives you'll find addictive! When a toilet seat from the falling Mir space station puts an abrupt end to her life, George (Ellen Muth) discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others as they die, she suddenly finds herself an unwilling participant in a line...
10) Moone Boy
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A warm family comedy series about a young boy growing up in a chaotic and creative household in late 1980s Ireland. This semi-autobiographical series is written by and stars Chris O’Dowd as the imaginary friend of 11 year old Martin, the youngest child in the large, loud Moone family. Headed by Martin’s signwriter father,who longs to be an artist and his frazzled mother, this is a family with a lot of love where everyone tends to pull in different...
Pub. Date
1964.
Description
You rang? They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky! America's first family of ghastly giddiness are here in all of their ghoulish glory in the original TV series based on the delightfully demented imagination of Charles Addams. Tarantulas, torture, racks and tombstones have never been so much fun! Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and all together ooky experience. It's time to...
12) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The longest-serving writer and producer for "The Simpsons" offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.
14) Aftertaste
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
17) The Office
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A brilliant and cringe-makingly funny 'mocusoap' set in a paper merchants in the heart of middle England. David Brent is a lower-middle-ranking manager in charge of a lower-middle-ranking office. His workplace is the antithesis of TV's glossy law firms full of bright professionals. Instead of mutual respect and intelligent dialogue, David's office is a place of backfiring practical jokes, failed flirting and bad showing off.
18) Stella
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Ruth Jones stars in this heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working-class Wales.
19) Lead Balloon
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jack Dee is at his grumpy best in this dark comedy about a disillusioned comedian.
20) Ballykissangel
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
When Father Peter Clifford arrives from Manchester, he knows he will be facing some opposition. After all, what is a young, inexperienced English priest doing in Ireland, of all places? He soon finds out that the town of Ballykissangel poses many more challenges. Rural village life is very different from the big cities. Here everyone knows everyone else's business and a secret doesn't stay secret for long.