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Two Brit Com Camps?

posted 17 years ago by jsipe16
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I've been watching some of the newer british comedy offerings of the last decade or so, and the top folks in the British comedy world seem to separate, more or less, into two camps (with only a bit of overlap):

Camp One: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, Mark Heap, Jessica Hynes, Bill Bailey, and Kevin Eldon

Camp Two: Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Noel Fielding, and Adrian Barratt

Now, obviously, I'm leaving a whole "others" camp floating out there, but these two main camps seem to keep working with each other on a lot of projects.

Okay, my "others" camp is: Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Mitchell and Webb, The League, Dylan Moran, Chris Morris, and others I can't really think of right now.

Anybody else see this pattern, or am I nuts?

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[–] psirenca 16 years ago

After watching a few episodes of Comedy Connections it is quite striking what a small world TV comedy (and Radio 4 for that matter)really is.

[–] fuzzy_cheesecake 16 years ago

Yea, I've seen the pattern too!

However, I have also been looking to find any, y'no, breaks in it.

For example: Grahame Lineham wrote Black Books, which Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran are is, but also the IT Crowd, with Chris Morris, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding.

Olivia Coleman is in pretty much everything Mitchell and Webb do, but also in Hot Fuzz.

Kevin Eldon has been in basically in EVERYTHING! Big Train, Hot Fuzz, Hyperdrive, Nathan Barley, Look Around You, Green Wing... wow.

I was really bored over this summer holiday, and tried to do a HUGE Venn diagram about who's been in what... but got too confused. But I have discovered if you name any two British comedians, I can link them by what and who they've appeared in/with.

Oh, and did you mean JULIAN Barratt, not Adrian? Sorry...

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