I love this kind of comedy. Never actually heard of this one, I'll have to give it a look.
On the subject of obscure comedies, ever heard of an early 90s Channel 4 one called Nightingales? It starred Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall and James Ellis as three bored security guards working the night shift in an unidentified office block. The show was kind of reminiscent of early Red Dwarf, only far more claustrophobic and surreal; episodes featured a werewolf named Eric, a fourth guard whose corpse they kept around so they could claim his wages, and a new guard, Terence the gorilla. Even the obligatory seasonal episode had Mary, the Christmas Allegory, who gave birth to consumer products (as wikipedia puts it). It only ran for two series and thirteen episodes, some of which are on youtube and Dailymotion, though it has been released on DVD.
Here's a typical episode, from the second series:
On the subject of obscure comedies, ever heard of an early 90s Channel 4 one called Nightingales? It starred Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall and James Ellis as three bored security guards working the night shift in an unidentified office block. The show was kind of reminiscent of early Red Dwarf, only far more claustrophobic and surreal; episodes featured a werewolf named Eric, a fourth guard whose corpse they kept around so they could claim his wages, and a new guard, Terence the gorilla. Even the obligatory seasonal episode had Mary, the Christmas Allegory, who gave birth to consumer products (as wikipedia puts it). It only ran for two series and thirteen episodes, some of which are on youtube and Dailymotion, though it has been released on DVD.
Here's a typical episode, from the second series:
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
