The IT Crowd
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In Brief
Neither Arthur Mathews nor Graham Linehan have ever topped their timeless, near-perfect Father Ted, but Linehan managed to get closest with The IT Crowd, a sitcom set in the barely-hilarious world of IT support - you know, the socially-backward people in your office who think they can lord it over everyone else because they can talk about codecs for 15 minutes without drawing breath.
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stuartheritage
26 Mar 2008
In Depth
Neither Arthur Mathews nor Graham Linehan have ever topped their timeless, near-perfect Father Ted, but Linehan managed to get closest with The IT Crowd, a sitcom set in the barely-hilarious world of IT support - you know, the socially-backward people in your office who think they can lord it over everyone else because they can talk about codecs for 15 minutes without drawing breath.
However, far from being an off-putting barrage of jokes about ethernets, The IT Crowd is in actual fact a pleasantly silly traditional sitcom. It was designed this way, and created as a deliberate riposte to the single camera documentary-style comedies that wallow about in quiet awkwardness without ever really making you laugh. It shows, because the broadness of characters like Richard Ayoade's Moss and Noel Fielding's Richmond - who, in one episode, actually fixes himself the the ceiling like a vampire - means that episodes can centre around things like cannibalism, face poo and uncomfortable bras rather than relentless jokes about how funny geeks are because they wear glasses.
The IT Crowd's never going to be held in the same high regard as Father Ted, but if you're after a consistently funny half-hour you'd pick it over My Family any day. Having said that, you'd probably pick slow motion footage of drowning orphans over My Family, but that's something to discuss in the My Family and Slow Motion Footage Of Drowning Orphans listings respectively. Anyway, the main point is that The IT Crowd is a pretty good show.
However, far from being an off-putting barrage of jokes about ethernets, The IT Crowd is in actual fact a pleasantly silly traditional sitcom. It was designed this way, and created as a deliberate riposte to the single camera documentary-style comedies that wallow about in quiet awkwardness without ever really making you laugh. It shows, because the broadness of characters like Richard Ayoade's Moss and Noel Fielding's Richmond - who, in one episode, actually fixes himself the the ceiling like a vampire - means that episodes can centre around things like cannibalism, face poo and uncomfortable bras rather than relentless jokes about how funny geeks are because they wear glasses.
The IT Crowd's never going to be held in the same high regard as Father Ted, but if you're after a consistently funny half-hour you'd pick it over My Family any day. Having said that, you'd probably pick slow motion footage of drowning orphans over My Family, but that's something to discuss in the My Family and Slow Motion Footage Of Drowning Orphans listings respectively. Anyway, the main point is that The IT Crowd is a pretty good show.
last edit by
stuartheritage
26 Mar 2008
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