I think Armstrong and Miller is easily the best sketch show around right now. That Mitchell And Webb Look's the only one that comes close and the latest series of that was pretty awful. Some of A & M's stuff is truly genius and original.
shareAbsolutely agreed. I'm not a fan of Mitchell & Webb at all (well, Mitchell sometimes but Webb, never) and I can't think of any other sketch shows that can really compete; the only ones I can think of from the last few years are Little Britain, which became too dependent on catchphrases and "gross-out" comedy towards the end (and the less said about Little Britain USA, the better), Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, which was undoubtedly the low point of Al Murray's career and various stuff by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse who, I'm sorry to say, are past their prime.
Armstrong and Miller seem to be the only ones doing a funny sketch show anymore and they're always willing to try new things too; some of their stand-alone sketches are the funniest ones (like the teacher who did things in his students' exams in the first episode of the second series) and my favourites -- Brabbins and Fyffe -- have some of the most consistently intelligent writing in comedy.
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