wow thats a big title, well i want to write something a little mockumentary and true to life, very northern type comedy. think what you would get if you got arrested development with phoenix nights. The charaters would all be developped and grounded to the show, not like a sketch where the characters are just in funny situations.

Son (kelvin) walks in from work, looks tired, his family is sat at the table eating sunday lunch, mum is at the kitchen sink.

mum: oh hello love, you're late, thought you got lost.

kelvin: lost? i work at the co-op...up the road, how could i get lost?

mum: well you know what i meant, what you doing tonight

kelvin sits at the table starts tucking into his food.

kelvin: well i was going to see dave but he is packing to go to Paris tomorrow with natasha

mum: ooo that sounds lovely, how longs he going for?

kelvin: well its sort of like a long weekend...don't know why he's going on a monday.

Arrested Development - possibly the greatest comedy that never made it big. i blame BBC2 for hiding away its utter brilliance on late night slots. So many have missed on on the pure hilarity of Tobius and G.O.B. Another hidden mockumentary style show is Operation Good Guys - well ahead of its time and without a doubt an inspiration for The Office.

Arrested Development- wasn't that the 'The Office' style cop programme. I'd forgotten all about it. It was brilliant. Touches of Green Wing about it too, I thought.
I knew The Office wasn't that original and I'd forgotten why. Thanks for reminding me.
Cheers BSD
BTC

Maybe I'm thinking of Operation Good Guys??????
I'll never forget the stakeout in someone's house whilst watching for bad guys across the road and the cops pinched most of the architectual features whilst in there- including fireplaces, the lot!!
Hilarious.

Yeah, thats Operation Good Guys. I have the DVD boxset of all three series. The second and third ones are good but they added canned laughter which spoils it a bit, but the first series is pure gold. Arrested Development is an American comedy, that doesn't fall into the canned laughter cheesy joke format alot of american comedies do. It is very original and its characters are brilliant, strongly recommended.

......By the way Nay nay, well done, nice work............

I haven't seen operation good guys for YEARS.

I used to like the Garry Shandling Show (the one whith Garry Shandling). It was a sitcom about a guy stuck in a sitcom, which I thought was way ahead of its time.
Operation Good guys was good, but there wasn't too many memorable moments.

The Lary Sanders show was good too (also starring Garry Shandling), and I think that preceded Arrested development and The office on the mockumentary style approach.

But for me Pheonix nights tops them all. Being from the north myself it kinda has a lot of in-jokes that never fail to make me giggle.

I like Peter Kay. Prefer his stand up to his sitcoms though.

My favourite sitcom of all time is the Young Ones. I love anything with Adrian Edmondson. Saw him do a talk on writing comedy about two years back with my ex. The guy is a legend. It was the first grown up comedy show I ever saw (I mainly watched the muppets and anything else with puppets before then). My Dad let me stay up past bedtime when I was little to watch the repeats. I went through a whole Vyvian phase when I was little, smacking my head on things and causing panic for my Mum. She hated it. I have a scar on my forehead from jumping off the wardobe. Ah....happy days....

I liked The Young ones, but I preferred Bottom.

Managed to see Bottom 3 live in Glasgow, which was nice. My girlfriend at the time had a bit of a crush on Ade Edmonson, so I spent most of the evening mopping up drool.

Had to peel her off the seat when it was time to go home.

I never went THAT far.

I have strange crushes on funny men. All women do. I guess it's the fact that you think, "well, at least they are used to being laughed at".........

Time and place, though..... very important.

hmm, time and place huh? what kinda guys do you date? thats not happend to me...oh God, does that mean im not funny. i think i have a problem. i dont know why, but this reminds me when my uncles mum, barbara died. at her wake my cus, who is very spoilt and was acting a lil OTT if u ask me was crying her eyes out. She was a lovely woman and i just mentioned how lovely it was that we were all here to remember her life, my cus said..."theres only one person missing though, and thats Barbara." excuse me if i instantly thought "out of all the people at this wake she definately shouldnt be here!"
am i twisted?

I dunno. Holding your own wake sounds fun. Halfway through, you jump out the coffin, do a song and dance number, and watch all the old biddies keel over around you. Now THAT'S going too far.

Time and place for laughing at men, I meant. Here is an example of a bad time and place.

My mate Smokey ended up a couple of years ago getting together with this guy who was a friend of my flatmate. He was one of these flash types - fast car, plenty of "Bling", real sugar daddy without the age gap - Smokey likes rich chav types, okay?! Anyway, the problem was it was long distance so he would come and stay a week every couple of months, and she would go over to his and do the same. Anyway, the first time she stayed over at his, she was reading his bed while he was playing on the computer. The next thing she knew, he had turned off the computer, made a fake yawn, and grabbed this remote. He pressed on button and the curtains drew. He press another another and the lights slowly dimmed. Hiding under the covers so she wouldn't let on she was trying to stop laughing, Smokey could no longer hold it in when the next two buttons pressed switched on the disco style lighting and the Barry White CD in the hi fi. There was her boyfriend, trying to set the scene for a romantic night and there was Smokey, on the floor, wetting herself. It was three days before they tried again.

Bloody asking for if you ask me. What scene was he setting? A Badly dubbed german porno? But it did hurt his feelings, bless him.

What kinda guys do I date? Is that an offer?! Nah, just kidding. Please don't run for the hills. Who I want to date and who I have dated are two completely different things.

I seem to do a nice range of emotionless, cruel, selfish, evil little cowards.

I like being single. Less washing to do.

to be honest, its that corny, if someone did try to seduce me like that, it would really do it for me. It may not be intimate, but it would be sex for sure...am i shallow? ha.
well it sounds like you go for the wrong type of guys,maybe you should set up a pre-fixed criteria and hold naked interviews, then it would be very honest wouldn't it? wait i've had an idea, talking about intimate sex, what other kinds of sex can you think of, im going to up a new disscussion page!

nay-nay of the century.

You are very scary my horsey friend......

It's not my fault. The horns only appear half way through the relationship. To be fair, I'm a good girl and behave myself like a lady-ish, hence the nice, sweet, and daft guys, who are my type, chase after the tarts with skirts so short, you can see their breakfasts and I get left with brilliant lines like this.

"Think of a number between 1 and 10"

"Er....9?!"

"Wrong, take your top off.........."

This is why I'm more than happy being single. I'm looking forward to old age. The fun I am going to have being "Crazzee old lady". I want to get loads of cats and knit crap jumpers on purpose for the neighbours kids with three arms and no neck. "You have to wear it when she visits" their Mums will say, "Or she will be hurt" HA HAAA!!!

Other ideas include dropping false teeth into drinks and naked bingo.

Naked bingo. Kelly's Other Eye

WRONG.........SO..............WRONG.....