British Comedy Quotes

I adored 'Drop the Dead Donkey.' That show defined Channel 4 at the time; it was so inventive and off the leash.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.

My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very early.

I stand by 'I'm not going to do 'The Office' again.' That would be weird: all the same people sitting at the same desks at a paper merchant's in Slough.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

I love Leon and June and I love 'Gogglebox,' it's a brilliant show.

Not Going Out' is what I'm most proud of.

Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

Working with Ant and Dec is so surreal.

In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.