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Pastewka (2005)
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Pastewka (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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 compared to Seinfeld and Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series was awarded, among others, the Rose d'Or and the German Television Prize. Series was directed by Joseph Orr and Jan Markus Linhof.
Style: humorous, sitcom, witty, cynical, not serious, offbeat, realistic, talky, semi serious, fun
Plot: comedian, family relations, everyday life, actor, showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, workplace, antisocial behavior, workplace situations, private vs public, couple relations, agent, couples, actress, social relations, disorder, ethnic, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, uptight character, female nudity, prank, german humor, female full frontal nudity ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: germany
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, sitcom and not serious films and TV series with plots about disorder, workplace, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, nothing goes right, couples and showbiz mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Pastewka: Camping Paradise (2006), Lead Balloon (2006), Life's Too Short (2011), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), The Comedians (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Camping Paradise (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
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Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, sexy, realistic
Plot: silly humor, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, thirtysomething life, siblings relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, meet the parents, workplace romance, beach ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Lead Balloon (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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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 ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, cynical, hilarious ...
Plot: comedian, everyday life, nothing goes right, socially awkward, artists and showbiz, career, alienation, struggle, self involved, frustration, antisocial behavior, backstage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, london, england
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Life's Too Short (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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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
Place: europe, england
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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
Plot: antisocial behavior, comedian, bad luck, lifestyle, misunderstanding, mishap, socially awkward, career, everyday life, actress, actor, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
Style: not serious, clever, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, goofy hero, artists and showbiz, media, workplace situations, disorder, radio station, recording studio, satire, humour, newscaster, radio show ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Comedians (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: A veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sitcom, mockumentary ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: comedian, artists and showbiz, ego clash, media, rivalry, workplace, showbiz, workplace situations, hunting, entertainment industry, actor playing himself
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, offbeat ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: puppet, actor's life, nothing goes right, showbiz, workplace, artists and showbiz, imaginary, buddies, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, media satire, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Style: cynical, humorous, realistic, not serious, offbeat
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Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
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Story: Comedian and actor, Kevin Hart teams up with BET Networks to bring viewers one of the funniest shows on television "Real Husbands of Hollywood". The semi-scripted series is the fakest reality show ever following these men of Hollywood ...
Style: parody, humorous, mockumentary, captivating, feel good ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978. The series follows the accident-prone ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 29 min.
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