8/21/13

A sumptuous orgy of TV comedy on Netflix, Hulu & Crackle

So, what do you like? Wanna bathe in a glorious pool of comedy ooze? Let in run over and through you? Give yourself over to the funny without reservation?

Got your comedy boner yet? Well stick it in these shows you can binge on right now on just about any screen you've got. Big, small, in between ... there's no prejudice here, just get your comedy on.

That Mitchell & Webb Look, from BBC Two

BBC America decided after series two that we didn't need to see three or four.

They were VERY wrong. I love these guys (pictured above), they're sketch writing is top notch and they have great chemistry as they always have since starting together with the Footlights at Cambridge and moving through clubs and onto TV in three sketch shows, as the stars of Peep Show from Channel 4 and as the Mac guy and PC guy in the British version of those Apple commercials that starred Justin Long and John Hodgman here in the US.

Watch all of the second season premiere here thanks to some copyright infringer at YouTube, as most of you don't have Hulu Plus:


The third and fourth seasons lose a couple of fan favorite sketches. Sir Digby Chicken Caesar ends with the second series as does Numberwang, but you get a great game show parody that takes place after a horrific armageddon only referred to as "the event." Hilarious. You can't lose with these guys, I'm also rewatching a bunch of episodes of Peep Show on Hulu Plus too.
Netflix has the first two seasons of Bob's Burgers available for instant streaming and Hulu has the third. It's better than sex. Of course I'm getting up there in age and sex isn't what it once was, but this show brings me such great joy every week and has arguably the best cartoon voice cast in television.

I particularly love when the Belcher children are together without the parents:




Finally, you can check out Crackle which of course is the official home for Jerry Seinfeld's Emmy nominated web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. I'd post the Sarah Silverman episode here if would comply, but since it won't click this.

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