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May 6, 2024 · If real life hasn't traumatised you enough and you find yourself with the overwhelming urge to feel embarrassed on someone else's behalf, cringe comedy is just the thing for you. Below, we take a look at some of the best cringe comedies British TV has to offer.
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Office
- Arrested Development
- Fleabag
- The Inbetweeners
- Peep Show
- I Think You Should Leave
- Nathan For You
- The Eric Andre Show
- Review
Seinfeld co-creator Larry David writes and stars in this HBO series that follows Larry David, the incredibly successful and cantankerous co-creator of Seinfeld. In Curb Your Enthusiasm, LD encounters famous friends and acquaintances in Los Angeles, never missing an opportunity to voice his opinion, no matter how insensitive it may be. The show can ...
This entry is a two-for-one from both sides of the pond. In just two seasons and a beloved Christmas special, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant created one of the most influential sitcoms of the century with their office set mockumentary. In this bone-dry series, a documentary crew films the staff of an office as it faces a potential closure. Gerv...
When a shady businessman (Jeffrey Tambor) and patriarch of a wealthy family is jailed, it is up to his most competent son (Jason Bateman) to step up and keep his chaotic family together. While the Netflix revival may have tainted some of the luster towards the Bluth family, the original network TV run of Arrested Development remains as one of the f...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s modern masterpiece follows a young, grief-stricken woman trying to navigate through her life. Waller-Bridge delivers a tour de force in both writing and acting, as the eponymous Fleabag, in this tragic and hilarious comedy drama creating one of the most memorable series of the past ten years in just twelve episodes. Fleabag m...
Almost everyone can look back at moments from their teen years and find something to unbearably cringe over. But hopefully, nobody has suffered through as much embarrassment as the four leads of the British sitcom The Inbetweeners. When his parents divorce, posh geek Will (Simon Bird) is forced to leave his private school and attend a much rougher ...
A 21st-century Odd Couple, Peep Show takes us into the lives of Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) a pair of old university friends and long-time roommates living in south London. While their inner thoughts may reveal deep resentment for one another, the two can’t seem to function unless if they’re by each other’s side. Shot with a poin...
Sketch comedy can often be the best place to explore weird social quirks or just plain bizarre comedic concepts. And former Saturday Night Live writer Tim Robinson manages to repeatedly mine both for a variety of wildly original, cringe-inducing, and surprisingly rewatchable sketches. From its first episode, I Think You Should Leave wields a confid...
Nathan Fielder uses his good grades from one of Canada’s top business schools, and unmatched skills at making people uncomfortable, to create this sometimes painful-to-watch mockumentary series. In Nathan for You, Fielder stars as a version of himself who embarks on helping small business owners revitalize their companies through outlandish, someti...
Eric Andre hosts television’s most unhinged talk show, in this Adult Swim series that comes across as Jackass meets The Tonight Show. Alongside co-host Hannibal Buress, Andre has cultivated a comedy space that revels in shock and awkwardness, by pulling pranks on unassuming guests and producing man-on-the-street segments that would make Jay Leno bl...
This underseen gem from Comedy Central features a delightfully inventive premise that sees the host of a review show forced to endure whatever life experience his audience requests of him to have and give it a rating out of 5 stars; whether that means eating 15 pancakes, divorcing his wife or eating 30 pancakes. Andy Daly stars as Forrest MacNeil, ...
Dec 6, 2013 · LAST week we highlighted the 22 most binge-worthy TV series in history. Now for the flip side. These are the programs that make us wince, roll our eyes and scramble to find the remote.
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- Amanda Holden, This Morning, ITV, 2017. In October, Amanda Holden had a fairly excruciating exchange with Britain’s first official astronaut, Tim Peake.
- Nick Weir, Catchphrase, ITV, 2000. With Roy Walker having hung up his Catchphrase hosting boots in 1999, the following year the show returned with Nick Weir at the helm.
- First Dates, Channel 4, 2017. It's raining, you're exhausted, and it's been a tough week. So you need something to soothe your troubles away. Enter First Dates, the ultimate comfort-watch.
- BBC News, 2006. Here's music and internet expert Guy Kewney detailing whether rules and regulations regarding downloading will impact on the future of online music.
- Daniel Welsh
- David Tennant. Year: 2002. What’s he flogging? Boots (the chemist, not the footwear) Just a couple of years before landing his breakthrough role in Doctor Who, David Tennant was playing an aloof boyfriend in a string of Christmas ads for Boots.
- Cheryl Tweedy. Advertisement. Year: 1990. What’s she flogging? British Gas. The future Girls Aloud star was just seven years old when she and her brother Garry were selected to appear in this ad for British Gas.
- Olivia Colman. Year: 2004. What’s she flogging? The AA. It felt like this somewhat grating advert – also featuring Grange Hill’s Mark Burdis – was absolutely everywhere in the early 2000s.
- Courteney Cox. Year: 1985. What’s she flogging? Tampax. Long before the world knew her as Monica from Friends, Courteney Cox was “telling it to us straight” in this ad for Tampax tampons.
May 25, 2023 · Then some shows are so cringe that they can sometimes be hard or even unbearable to sit through. Whether a mockumentary, a grumpy neurotic older man, or an awkward group of office coworkers, here...
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Jan 24, 2021 · 7 shows and movies that are so bad, they are good—streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Whether to indulge in some guilty pleasure or to give your brain cells a rest, queue up these shows for the next time you're in the mood to cringe-watch. By Hasina Jeelani. 24 January 2021.
