Why Peep Show is the Greatest British Sitcom Ever Made
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- This video is dedicated to my El Dude Brother for life, Ruth, who just moved to Australia to do a PhD. Naturally she's feeling a bit homesick, so please leave some nice messages for her in the comments!
There are many shows that could lay claim to the throne of greatest British sitcom ever made - Fawlty Towers, The Office, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses - but there's one British sitcom that blows them all out of the water with even more wit, ironic bite, visual invention, and most importantly overall laughs: Peep Show.
I GOT TOUCHED AT THE CINEMA
Written, Narrated, and Edited by Ben Sherlock
Logo designed by Danielle Greaves
MUSIC: “Ordelia” by Audiorezout
Licence: www.songtradr.com/songs/audio...
Supplementary Materials:
10 Peep Show Episodes That'll Never Get Old (screenrant.com/peep-show-best...)
Mark's 5 Cringiest Moments In Peep Show (& 5 For Jez) (screenrant.com/peep-show-mark...)
The 10 Best TV Comedies Of The 21st Century (So Far), Ranked (gamerant.com/best-tv-comedy-s...)
Mark's 10 Most Curmudgeonly Quotes In Peep Show (screenrant.com/peep-show-mark...)
Jez's 10 Most Hilarious Quotes In Peep Show (screenrant.com/peep-show-jez-...)
10 Sitcoms With The Best Re-Watch Value (screenrant.com/sitcoms-best-r...)
0:00 Dedicated to Ruth
0:27 Intro
1:32 Defining British Humour
1:51 Kissing the Fourth Wall
4:05 Razor-Sharp Characterisation
6:05 It's All About Escalation
6:50 That Mitchell and Webb Magic
7:20 Outro 
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Oh Ben ❤❤ my new favourite episode! Such a good show - how’s it hangling gets me every time hahha
Hahaha the little look he does after 'hangling' is so perfect
Go Ruth Go
upload it to the hub when you two reunite again
@@SmD-ff5xdderanged
This show did to me something that no movie or show did in years. The pure second hand embarrassment being too much so I need to pause it just to take it all in. It really reminded me of when I was a little kid and something on the tv was too cringe for me (in a good way) that I needed to look away. Trully one of the best British sitcoms I've ever watched.
"If people only did everything they wanted everyone would just spend all day sitting on the carpet watching the poker channel, wanking and eating those expensive German biscuits. Probably."
My all time favourite quote.
"Think what its doing to the mechanism" always makes me laugh, the delivery is incredible 😂
Sophie and Mark visiting the couples therapist
therapist "this is a place you can be honest and let it all out Sophie. Tell me about the sex problems you were mentioning"
*Sophie looking at Mark*
Sophie "well, sometimes I feel like you ejaculate quite a long time before I have time to... start to enjoy our sex"
Mark: "well, thanks for that Soph. This has been really good"
*marks stands up and its about to leave*
Therapist "Mark we still have 42 minutes left"
My favorite joke in the whole show.
The best bit of that is when she says she feels "unfulfilled" and he goes "UNFILLED?!"
@@rabidbasher haha so many jokes in like 2 minutes of show.
😂@@rabidbasher😂
Simply the best!! Lovely recap and thanks for breaking it down so brilliantly. Peep Show was such a big part of my 20s - taught me how conceptualising, writing, editing & acting comedy could be taken to such stratospheric levels and in a completely unique manner - we will never see anything like it again
No idea why I was recommended this video but very glad I was. Peep Show is my favourite comedy of all time and I can just tell from the clips/examples used that you have an exceptional taste in comedy. Just the one second shot of Hank Scorpio as an example of the Simpsons' sublime characterization of one-off characters made me laugh. You just earned a new subscriber.
Thanks for the sub! I take great pride in my clip usage so this comment makes me very happy
Thanks. That little musical jingle from Broad City was finally out of my head… now it’s back
GO RUTH YOU CAN DO IT! Just remember:
“Hell, who’s in charge? The world’s just people walking around, going in to rooms and saying things. It’s all a big swizzle!”
😂 that is the perfect reference
This is such a great video that I'm nervous about my own uploading quality and feel the sudden urge for a glass of water and a baguette
That's very kind of you to say! But nothing I've ever created is of the same standard as "this is outrageous" or Business Secrets of the Pharaohs
“I’m not sick but I’m not well and I’m so hot because I’m in hell” sums up this show so fucking well
I'm glad they changed the theme song after season 1, the Harvey Danger theme fits so much better
first time i tried to watch Peep Show, I couldn't get through the first episode. now I think it might be one of my favourite shows. it's similar, yet so different to most comedies i like.
Peep Show, Arrested Development and Curb your Enthusiasm are the shows I always turn to for a laugh, but Peep Show definitely takes the crown.
Those three shows are the holy trinity of modern TV comedy
@@igottouchedatthecinemahow could you forget It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I have found my people
Mark and Dobby in the stationary cupboard is one of the best scenes in any sitcom ever.
“Mark, have you pissed yourself?”
Yes, yes I’ve pissed myself.”
“You twat.”
Great video! Peep show is easily the best comedy ever made.
Also welcome to Australia Ruth 🙂
What i wouldn’t give to watch peep show or the it crowd for the first time, i think i must be on my 50th rewatch at least
First vid.
Kicking it off with Blossoms?
Subbed.
I met Superhans in a pub after hours midweek in Reading UK my hometown, got a great pic, he’s always in character, fantastic bloke, he’s funny even in a picture😂
Just watched all 9 seasons after only being vaguely aware of this series. It is so so good I can't believe it. Yes it is the best of all time.
agree wholeheartedly - and wonderfully presented. send all out love to ruth xxx
Finished the last episode today, absolutely brilliant show!
The best comedy ever made, hands down
Now I have to watch it.
You won't be disappointed!
Pretty much everyone's personality sits somewhere on the scale of Mark to Jezz, makes them so relatable.
Steptoe & Son is another brilliant British sitcom that's both deeply upsetting and utterly hilarious!
One of the few sitcoms that is genuinely as funny the 100th play through as it was the very first time you said it. Timeless comedy
What the hell el dude! I just watched this whole video then realised you have less than 1k subs wtf, better content than people 100x your size keep it up and subbed
That's very kind of you to say! I'll just keep grinding away and hopefully the channel will grow. Every sub counts so thanks for the sub!
I subscribed to your channel because of this fabulous review that so many others reviewers just couldn't get it. Peep Show is indeed the best British Sitcom ever made.
Only fools and horses is way better actual character development for one. Peep show cant even write for female characters properly. And had noe ending it went no where.
I believe they filmed a lot of this in Croydon and I pass some of the filming locations every day on my way to work :)
(I've also been told I look exactly like David Mitchell in Peep Show era which... I don't know how to feel about xD)
Peep Show era David Mitchell is pretty damn hot! But he looks more distinguished these days with the beard. And I'm jealous you get to see the filming locations every day! Can you confirm whether there's a microclimate around Apollo House?
Can confirm.
Also, I think Mitchell is MUCH better look these days. Not sure if its the beard or just less chubby in his cheeks or something.@@igottouchedatthecinema
I love Peep Show!! Ive watched this show a shit ton, too! It is my favorite show period.. honestly!
When I have these awkward silence when in crazy situations you've no idea how you got yourself into, Flagpole Sitta comes straight into my brain........... "I'm not sick but I'm not welllllll...."
It pairs so well with the tone of the show
RUclips knows my weakness of peep show videos all too well
This is a nice message for Ruth.
Found this by accident. Brilliant video. Really well understood and realised. No bullshit either. Subscribed. Oh and best wishes to Ruth.
Thank you for the sub and the kind words!
It’s happening, Ben!
In the words of SuperHans: Moorish!
We're over the hump
why doesnt this have 100x the views???
🙏
I feel the best sitcoms are ones that elevate reality to a degree that is still grounded. Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Community, Atlanta, these are some of my favs and they all use that similar tactic of embracing the surreal to make observations about our world and how ridiculous it really is. Great video!
That's a great point! All of those shows take the most absurd parts of everyday life and dial up the absurdity
Comparing American garbage like community to Peep Show lmao
I love Community but it is extremely not grounded after season 1 lol
I agree, Peep Show is the best sitcom. Good luck, Ruth!
Don’t you just hate it when they friends zone you and immigrate to Australia to set up a moped business
Quality vid and quality show
Quality comment
I liked this vid jus cus of the title. Love peep show. We are el dude bros now
Ehhh! Ehhh!
I'll be honest. I subbed just for the channel name
Green Wing has entered the chat
Congratulations Ruth you fucking genius 🎉
I love this show so much, but the weird thing is generally don't like sitcoms or much comedy at all. Peep Show just resonated with me. Maybe its the darkness of the humour, or the amazing side characters. Or the fact that I can see parts of Mark and Jeremy in myself (mostly Mark if I'm being honest). Who knows, I just know I barley stopped laughing the first time I watched it all.
Ruth I love you and be a good doctor, save some lives
Didn't even wathced it but immediatly liked. Duh... obviously is the best
That accent I just can’t pin down. It’s constantly shifting between American, Scottish and English
I get that a lot, it's the result of an Englishman watching far too much American TV as a child
@@igottouchedatthecinemahuh i thought you might be welsh
hay Ruth, we don't know each other, but that will not stop me from saying Congratulations!! Way to go Ruth!! Working on a PhD is so far above anything I've done, To be fair, I've set a very low bar, but that takes nothing away from you, (future) Dr Ruth. Charlie, my cat, says your family better be proud and he's willing to claw them, i mean meow at them if they're not. Seriously, there are about 7.8 billion people on earth, very very very few are at your level, what you achieved so far is amazing, what you are about to embark on is beyond amazing. Charlie and I are now your biggest fans at least here, in a small town in California, and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.😻😻 Oh and Charlie would like to add David Mitchell is a God.
I agree, it's the best British sitcom. But for me the best stand alone episode of any sitcom, one that is the complete package, has to be the IT Crowd episode, The Work Outing.
3:54 hahaha
Clicked on this video purely cos of the name of your Chanel
You don’t mention the witty parallels to Seinfeld
Still game then peep show followed by only fools n horse
"But there's one British sitcom that blows them all out of the water with even more wit, ironic bite, visual invention, and most importantly, overall laughs--"
--Spaced!
...Oh.
Red Dwarf is also an option.
Good luck Ruth!
Nice one Ruth
Its both hilarious and horrifying because I've met a lot of these characters in real life. Also, 'fuck me and pretend I'm your mom' 😂😂😂
I only just saw this video but I have to say that some of it was so Rainbow Rhythms, and some of it was just so... "not" Rainbow Rhythms.
😂😂 "Why don't you just say who you're talking about? You're talking about me aren't you?"
Keep up
Ruth ! Stay safe and have fun ! Keep on, keepin on!
Peep Show-Lovers family for life !
When you watch Jez and Mark, you are never alone.
Hey Ruth, all the best in Saz land.
I've tried watching this show because it is funny, but the secondhand embarrassment is too much for me to handle. So far, I've just settled on enjoying mere clips. Maybe one day I'll be strong enough to stick through it.
Some of the cringier parts are excruciating, it's like if every episode of The Office was Scott's Tots. Hopefully you can eventually hack the cringe enough to watch full episodes, the twists and turns in the storytelling are one of the best parts of the series!
It wasn’t by any shake of the imagination the greatest comedy ever. It was good but predictable, and honestly it was one of them shows you think you could write yourself ( obviously couldn’t). The best sitcom ever is something so far ahead you know you couldn’t write yourself, like a Bob Dylan song. Don’t expect many people to get that.
Idk debatable, Allo' Allo' still holds up hard, same as the Young Ones, IT crowd? come on now. I like Peep show the only thing that bugged me was the mid 2000's hipster dippster geek sheik thing they were trying to do with Dobbie, and the one thing that always ruins a good comedy show for me is when I watch to many eps in a row is how everyone is always trying to hump each other. Like who cares, it's so boring, its lazy writing with predictable story arch's and low hanging jokes for the most part. Not everyone has to be fucking to be a relatable or interesting character. Marks Napoleone jokes are classic tho.
Red Dwarf?........
Nope-best sitcom ever in my book
I’m uneasy about the emphasis on best “British” comedy which suggests you may consider another non-British sitcom better. I think I’d literally vomit if Someone tried to claim Seinfeld or something equally terrible was better than Peep Show.
Id say its always sunny is the best american sitcom, it has great characterisation and lots of great funny moments at an equally fast pace.
Why do most people not want to watch PS? What's preventing it gaining mainstream success?
Some people just can't hack the cringe
"I got touched at the cinema" uh.. weird channel name.. do you need someone to talk to mate?
This review was too small
Like your nob
@@shugmchugh5107 who told you?
my apologies Rich😬 I may have let slip after our little grindr date
@@SmD-ff5xdlet’s keep that between us
@@RichieW90210 exactly what your dad said
This guy got friendzoned hard huh
Great video but inbetweeners is clear
Stop talking!!!
A bit arrogant for a guy with 1k subs to think he has genuine haters. Is this the classic youtuber ego in action?
The irony of this comment.
Peep show isn’t the best sit com. Stop being a simp for Ruth.
No it isn't
Cant touch only fools and horses it dosnt even have a good endings the writing is awful when comes to story and characters peep show gos no where.
Thank you, I don’t care
It’s good but it’s not even top ten
What’s your top 3 then?
wtf is your accent
bet you're from Burnley
Don't be silly, Office is better.
Peep show is a funny cult sitcom, it's not among the best
Peep show is brilliant but not the best
I hate this series. It's boring and I can't laugh at it.
No it is not just university wa-ts
With there own gang of we run the lot. Never worked in there lives just mourn pieces
That makes no sense
Good luck Ruth!