Britain The Fast Show The Young Ones Harry Enfield'''s Television ProgrammeFrench and SaundersThe Day TodayBrass EyeCitizen Smith parodied the disaffected left-wing anarchistMind Your Language, late 1970s sitcomGoodness Gracious MeMonkey DustBlackadderPhoneShopMonty PythonHale and PaceAli GCitizen Khan, a sitcom about a British Asian family in Birmingham. Tolerance of, and affection for, the eccentric Tolerance of, and affection for, the eccentric, especially when allied to inventiveness, typified by: Heath Robinson cartoonsProfessor Branestawm booksWallace and Gromit animationsThe Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, situation comedy starring Leonard RossiterMorecambe and Wise, comedy show starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie WiseLast of the Summer Wine, the longest-running TV comedy series in the world (1973–2010)A Bit of Fry and Laurie, sketch show written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie noted for its eccentric and inventive use of languageThe Vicar of Dibley, a sitcom in which Dawn French plays a female vicar whose parishioners are archetypically eccentric and madQI or Quite Interesting, a panel game where points are given for being quite interesting and points are taken away for common misconceptionsThe Fast Show, notably Rowley Birkin QC sketch Pranks and practical jokes Usually, for television, the performance of a practical joke on an unsuspecting person whilst being covertly filmed, epitomised by:Candid CameraBeadle's AboutGame for a LaughTrigger Happy TVBalls of SteelSee also British comedy and British sitcoms (which blend elements of all of these in varying weaves) Comic Relief and Red Nose Day History of the British comic Understatement Irony American humor Australian humour Canadian humour Jewish humour German humour Word play Comedy An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman References Sutton, David. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929–1939. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, (2000) Alexander, Richard. Aspects of verbal humour in English'' Volume 13 of Language in performance, Publisher Gunter Narr Verlag, 1997 Google books Accessed August 2011 External links "British Humour" Sketch from "Waldorf And Sauron's Extremely Serious Circus," Podcast #2, 2009 Humour, British Ethnic humour