Britainology 36: Absolutely Fabulous (feat. Phoebe Roy)

Tovfly said exactly what I was gonna comment, represent staph let’s flats and Derry girls! I guess a different question is how much the BBC’s programming specifically has got worse

Also, Phoebe's completely right about how the budgets and opportunities are basically gone from TV comedy, but not enjoying a UK comedy since PhoneShop? Granted there haven't been many, but it just sounds like you haven't tried. This Country? Chewing Gum? Stath Lets Flats? Derry Girls? Ghosts? Detectorists? Hell there's been This Time with Alan Partridge since.

y'know what, this is completely unwelcome criticism, but I'm a fan of Britainology and I get that it's a comedy podcast but sometimes I think you overdo the dismissive snark a little bit and it's just a bit...I don't know, disappointing.

My mum used to watch this when i was very young and I only remember it be viscerally upsetting

The end of the Morocco episode where Patsy and Edina figure out Saffron hooked up with a guy by smell is seared into my brain.

Just wanna say: The Steube Brothers. That is all

It's quite impressive how, upon revisiting, French and Saunders as a sketch show is almost avant-garde in terms of how confident it is with sketch length and style. The sketch that's proto-Absolutely Fabulous (series 3 or 4 I think?) is something like 20 minutes long. Came fully formed I suppose. Shame they went off the boil when they started just doing film parodies and not much else. The Harry Potter one they did for comic relief was god awful but it was nice to see Nigel Planer enjoying himself.

looked up greg steube thanks to this and he just looks like a himbofied ted cruz so thanks for putting that concept into my fragile mind

I literally screamed when I saw this. “WHEELS ON FIRE, ROLLING DOWN THE HILL”

Those impressions were outstanding.

Tf with these britainologies (fucked if I know the plural) you're truly spoiling us