There's something about British shows that compels me to return to them and look for more in the hope that their newer productions will match the classics like Fawlty Towers in terms of sense of humour and creativity. Apart from Ricky Gervais's Office, whose two seasons I swallowed in a matter of hours, I've had a go with the Royale Family, a gritty comedy set in a working-class family in the north of England, the Vicar of Dibley, a sitcom centered around a rural community that is stunned to discover that their new vicar is a female, and BBC Radio 4's radio comedy Fags, Mags and Bags that revolves around a corner shop in Glasgow.
Some good language:
- buy from a catalogue,
- He's been cheeky to Sharon, mom,
- These jeans have gone at the crotch,
- a tangerine,
- a schoolgirl figure,
- do sb a perm,
- a career woman,
- He's on disability allowance,
- stop for a brew (=tea),
- talk of the devil,
- in a cunning disguise.
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