British humour movies and TV shows – page 2

List of british humour movies

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 43K
Father Ted (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Style: surreal, sitcom, semi serious, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: priest, clergy, bishop, friendship, catholic priest, against the odds, family relations, family life, conservative, eccentric family, small town, workplace ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, fictional island, europe
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 6.9
 786
Witless (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat ...
Style: sitcom, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: witness, hitman, murder, new life, danger, lifestyle, shooting, witness protection, british humour
Time: 2010s
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Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke ...
Style: captivating, humorous, detective, costume drama, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: female detective, detective agency, female police detective, victorian england, private detective, crime investigation, investigation, murder investigation, forensics, humour, murder, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future
Place: london
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Fortysomething (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fortysomething is a 2003 British comedy-drama series, starring and directed by Hugh Laurie as Paul Slippery, a doctor facing a mid-life crisis. His wife Estelle is starting a new career as a headhunter. His three sons, Rory, a student at the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, hilarious, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, midlife crisis, depression, family life, middle aged, marital problem, father son relationship, struggle, family problems, husband wife relationship, marriage, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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Harry Hill's TV Burp (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Harry Hill's TV Burp is a British television comedy programme that ran for 11 years from 2001 to 2012. It was produced by Avalon Television for ITV and hosted by comedian Harry Hill. The show presents a look at the week's television, ...
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: media satire, entertainment, media, satire, comedian, british, fight, joke, sketch, british humour, studio, archive footage
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
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Nathan Barley (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris, starring Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Charlie Condou and Claire Keelan. The series of six weekly episodes began broadcasting on 11 February 2005 on Channel 4. ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, parody, not serious, biting ...
Plot: media satire, goofy hero, lifestyle, stupidity, disorder, satire, journalist, media, designer, gadget, staff, dimwit ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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 7.3
 14K
Bad Education (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford Hertfordshire.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace, teachers and students, school, teacher, classmate, workplace situations, social relations, youth, young at heart, undisciplined, goodhearted, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Wrong Mans (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
Style: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, hilarious, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mistaken identity, buddies, wrong place wrong time, partner, escapades, life turned upside down, blackmail, comedy of errors, dishonesty, mafia, investigation, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 7.8
 2K
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 ...
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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 8.3
 1K
Mongrels (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, stylized, not serious ...
Plot: buddies, swearing, friends, bird, disorder, dog, fox, vulgar, battle of the sexes, naivete, dark humor, puppet ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, usa, europe
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 8.5
 19K
Inside No. 9 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Style: anthology, surreal, offbeat, semi serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: supernatural, surprising revelation, surrealism, dark humor, hotel room, impostor, mission, mental illness, storytelling, halloween, satire, illness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain
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 7.2
 11K
Cuckoo (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: slacker, meet the parents, hippie, family relations, culture clash, family disapproval, parents and children, newlyweds, disorder, couple relations, couples, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 7.9
 4K
Spy (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Spy is a British comedy series created and written by Simeon Goulden. The first series aired on 14 October 2011 on Sky1 in the UK, as well as on the online video service Hulu in the United States. A second series began airing on 19 October 2012, ...
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, light, captivating ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, espionage, goofy hero, disorder, boss, career change, government agency, family relations, fellow agent, double life, social worker ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.4
 4K
Danger Mouse (1981)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Taiwan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Danger Mouse, the world's greatest secret agent, and his side-kick Penfold work to foil the evil schemes of Baron Greenback.
Style: parody, exciting, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: secret agent, espionage, goofy hero, rivalry, escapades, danger, cartoon mouse, anthropomorphism, evil scientist, dangerous mission, spy, talking mouse ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story: An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series ...
Style: humorous, offbeat, light, talky, futuristic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: benign alien, space travel, ufo, imaginary, mysterious planet, alien, space, satire, time travel, fantasy world, spacecraft, outer space ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Twenty Twelve (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, nothing goes right, boss and employee, secretary, disorder, power relations, team, olympics, boss, workplace, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
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 ...
Plot: satire, radio, sketch, humour, everyday life, celebrity culture, hotel, fan, hapless, showbiz, guest, comeback ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and ...
Style: sketch comedy, surreal, sitcom, humorous, parody ...
Plot: satire, monty python, sketch, pop culture, philosophy, crossover, stoner, communism, everyday life, cabaret, mathematics, humour ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: britain, europe, england
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The IT Crowd (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: UK Comedy series about two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: nerd, geek, workplace, computer genius, workplace situations, computer, lifestyle, teamwork, popularity, career, information technology, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, london
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 8.0
 22K
Lovesick (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, light ...
Plot: friendship, sexually transmitted disease, buddies, down on your luck, disorder, farce, humour, sexual relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, illness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, glasgow scotland
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 7.7
 26K
Little Britain (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas. The show's title is an amalgamation of the ...
Style: sketch comedy, parody, not serious, cynical, witty ...
Plot: stupidity, sketch, satire, social satire, lifestyle, sexual humor, human nature, society, social misfits, misfit, gender bending, false identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, paris france, london
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, controversial
Plot: world war two, army, military, native, coward, colony, captain, singer, satire, colonel, pianist, sergeant ...
Time: 1940s, future
Place: india, asia, southeast asia, burma
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Two Weeks to Live (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the ...
Style: ironic, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: female warrior, survivalist, paranoia, strong female character, murder, dishonesty, danger, violence, runaway, parents and children, escapades, eccentricity ...
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 8.0
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Trying (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can’t have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they’re ready to be parents?
Style: realistic, semi serious, light, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot: infertility, parenthood, children, family life, parenting, husband wife relationship, new life, bureaucracy, responsibility, irresponsible, parents and children, long term relationship ...
Place: england, europe
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Stag (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: friends, manhunt, survival, hunting, farce, danger, struggle for survival, murder, forest, friend, mysticism, murder mystery ...
Place: scotland
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Not Safe for Work (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy drama series portraying a generation struggling with the realities of 21st Century working life and the camaraderie and friendships that bloom in times of difficulty.
Style: contemplative, humorous, feel good, light, sitcom
Plot: drug addict, coworker relationship, british, female protagonist, office, comedy of errors, interracial romance, civil servant, immigration, office worker, coworker, interracial relations ...
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 197K
Fleabag (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 302 min.
TV show
Story: As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, sitcom, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sister sister relationship, sexuality, sexual humor, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promiscuity, female protagonist, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, women, british, bisexual, dark humor ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london
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 7.3
 13K
White Gold (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a double-glazing showroom in Essex in the 80s, led by charismatic Vincent Swan, and his unscrupulous sales team, Brian Fitzpatrick and Martin Lavender.
Style: sitcom, psychological, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot: salesman, businessman, friendship, ambition, rivalry, friends, disorder, lifestyle, money, obsession, youth, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s
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Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: married couple, couple relations, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.6
 5K
Man Down (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: socially awkward, absurdism, father son relationship, breakup, man child, teacher, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, british, school teacher, director, father ...
Time: 2010s
Place: england
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