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Lead Balloon (2006)
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Lead Balloon (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Raquel Cassidy, Sean Power and Tony Gardner also star. The first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC Four in 2006, with the first episode achieving the highest ratings for a comedy on the channel. Repeats of the series were run on BBC Two and BBC HD, bringing it to a larger audience. A second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two in November 2007, and a third series began airing in November 2008. A fourth and final series commenced broadcast on 31 May 2011 on BBC Two and ended on 5 July. Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, and positive comments were made about Lead Balloon's characters, particularly Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of "One Way Road", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller.
Style: sitcom, humorous, cynical, not serious, funny, hilarious, realistic, talky
Plot: comedian, everyday life, nothing goes right, career, alienation, socially awkward, struggle, artists and showbiz, backstage, frustration, antisocial behavior, self involved, cynic, agent, family relations, neighbor, maid, couples, slacker, mishap, cafe, relatives, coworker, disorder, marriage ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sitcom, humorous, realistic and not serious films and TV series with plots about disorder, british humour, couples, everyday life, satire, nothing goes right and lifestyle mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Lead Balloon: Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), I'm Alan Partridge (1997), Life's Too Short (2011), Pastewka (2005), Legit (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Style: sitcom, funny, humorous, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Story: I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan, of which two series of six episodes each were produced — the first in 1997 and the second in 2002. The series followed the titular Alan Partridge, a failed television ...
Style: sitcom, laugh out loud, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
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Place: europe, england
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Life's Too Short (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant from an idea by Warwick Davis, and is as described by Gervais, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf".
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, funny, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, actor, humour, fame, everyday life, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, career, dark humor, workplace, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Pastewka is a German television sitcom that began airing on German TV channel Sat.1 in 2005. The series, currently in its sixth season, is set in Cologne, with German actor Bastian Pastewka starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It has been ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, witty, cynical, not serious ...
Plot: comedian, family relations, everyday life, actor's life, private vs public, workplace, antisocial behavior, actor, workplace situations, showbiz, nothing goes right, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
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Legit (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Jim Jefferies, an edgy, foul-mouthed stand-up comedian from Australia, in his mid-30s and living in LA, is endeavoring to make his life and career more “legit,” only to find it a difficult, uncomfortable uphill struggle every step of the way. ...
Style: humorous, cynical, not serious, sitcom, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Duration: 28 min.
TV show
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Style: sitcom, humorous, sincere, light, feel good ...
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Genre: Comedy
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Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang and his flatmates, Dermot Povey and Tony Smart. It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992. A total of six series were made along with a ...
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Plot: friendship, roommate, lifestyle, socially awkward, self involved, irresponsible, friends, slacker, couple relations, loser, misfit partners, singleness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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