Jack Rooke's Top 10 Comedy Picks
The creator of the award-winning comedy Big Boys reveals his favourite shows…
- Huw Fullerton
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2010
Comedy
Romance
15
BBC comedy drama about twenty-something couple Steve and Becky who are unemployed and lazy, preferring to stay in bed and drink, eat and have sex, living happily and free from any ambition.
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2015
Children's
Comedy
15
Comedy with Michaela Coel, Susan Wokoma and John Macmillan. Religious, Beyonce-obsessed 24-year-old Tracey Gordon is determined not to turn out like her uptight older sister Cynthia.
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2016
Comedy
Sitcom
15
Family comedy with Lesley Manville. A woman forced to deal with the death of her husband becomes determined to rediscover who she is and possibly find love second time around.
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2014
Comedy
Sitcom
15
Spoof documentary sequel to Twenty Twelve with Hugh Bonneville, following former Olympic Deliverance Commission chief Ian Fletcher in his new job as head of values at the BBC.
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2014
Comedy
Music
15
Spoof documentary series with Allan Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin about the lives of MC Grindah and DJ Beats, who run Kurupt FM, a pirate radio station broadcasting garage and drum and bass.
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2017
Comedy
15
Mockumentary with Daisy May and Charlie Cooper. Taking up residence in a small village in the Cotswolds, a camera crew follow ne'er-do-well cousins Kerry and Lee Kurtan Mucklowe.
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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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2016
Sitcom
Comedy
15
Comedy with Anna Maxwell Martin and Diane Morgan about the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, featuring ultra-organised Amanda, chaotic Liz and stay-at-home dad Kevin.
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2016
Comedy
Romance
15
Comedy with Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Olivia Colman. A woman named Fleabag wrestles with the demands of modern living in contemporary London through a mixture of bravado and casual sex.
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2018
Comedy
Sitcom
15
Comedy with Jamie Demetriou. He plays an incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent who works for his family's business, which is struggling to compete against the slicker operation next door.
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Authors
Huw FullertonCommissioning editor
Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.
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