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Summary

Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Office, and other popular British-born comedies are the fodder for discussion, arguments, and queries in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.tv.uk.comedy. If you need to study up on your British comedy television trivia, visit the Fawlty Towers FAQ at http://users.tkk.fi/~ajtuomin/Fawlty-Towers.FAQ/newest.html for a start and then check out the newsgroup in your news client for your other favorite shows. In the newsgroup, you'll find discussions about the quirky characters and plots that are the hallmark of British comedy, reviews of the shows themselves and their (in some cases) American counterparts, opinions on which shows/movies/etc. are the best of the best, updates on popular British comedic actors, debate over whether contemporary British television comedies hold up to the classics, quotes from crowd-pleasing episodes, British humor compared to American humor and whether humor is lost in translation when British shows are adapted by American production companies, and many more heated and comedic conversation topics.