Alex Horne's Top 10 Comedy Picks
What TV and film titles make the host of Taskmaster laugh?
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1980
Comedy
Music
15
Musical comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as brothers Jake and Elwood Blues who re-form their legendary band to raise money for their old orphanage, which is threatened with closure. But the pair find themselves pursued across country by a mysterious woman, a band of neo-Nazis, an irate country and western group and the police, culminating in one of the biggest and most spectacular car chases in movie history.
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1997
Sitcom
Comedy
15
Comedy series with Steve Coogan. Failed TV presenter Alan Partridge has been reduced to working the graveyard slot on Radio Norwich, but he desperately wants to return to TV in any capacity.
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2026
Sitcom
Comedy
A man whose girlfriend disappeared seven years previously is given a recipe for a potion that helps foretell the future. Comedy written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, starring Michael Palin, Pearce Quigley and Lauren Patel
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2014
Comedy
Drama
15
Comedy with Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. Andy and Lance go in search of their hearts' desires with a couple of metal detectors, determined to dig up the discovery of a lifetime.
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1991
Sitcom
Comedy
15
Richie is clumsy, pompous and incredibly dull-witted, thinking of little else but sex. Eddie is violent, likes a drink and has brainless pals. The pair share a flat in this anarchic comedy.
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Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy
2004
Comedy
12A
Period comedy starring Will Ferrell. Ron Burgundy is the top newsreader at a San Diego TV station in the 1970s. But his position comes under threat with the arrival of ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone. Male chauvinist Burgundy is torn between defending his job and his attraction to the glamorous newcomer.
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2009
Comedy
Family
U
Comedy starring Martin Freeman. Despite being traumatised by a bad review years earlier, primary school teacher Paul Maddens is tasked with directing the annual Nativity play. Taunted by a teacher from a rival school, Paul foolishly promises that an old flame, now a Hollywood producer, is coming to see his production.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
Comedy
Adventure
12
Comedy from the Monty Python team. AD 932: King Arthur and his page Patsy are seeking knights to join them at the Round Table. But a more demanding task awaits them when God appears telling them of their quest to find the Holy Grail.
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2018
Comedy
Sitcom
15
Family comedy with Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Louisa Harland. It follows the escapades of a group of teens as they grow up amongst the Troubles in early-1990s Northern Ireland.
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Comedy
The comedy series has been entertaining viewers since 2001. Each week, Harry Hill mercilessly pokes fun at British television, often subverting the context of a scene to make it humorous.
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