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What would you consider the most "difficult" comedy you've ever watched, for any given definition of "difficult" or "comedy?"
(I'm thinking about the subject because I'm about to start my fourth attempt to get into The League of Gentlemen's "Psychoville." It's one of those series that I keep hearing is rewarding but makes itself real difficult to love...)
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@zebratron2084 Difficult but clearly worthwhile, I'd say, would be either 'The Dearly Beloved' (Terry Southern-written dark comedy about the pet-funeral business) or 'The Bed-Sitting Room' (absurdist comedy about the nine people in London who survived The Two-Minute War; yes, this is the one where a woman transforms into furniture).
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@Austin_Dern Oh, I've heard of the Bed-Sitting Room, never seen it!
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@Austin_Dern That reminds me, there's a full episode of Spike Milligan's Q5 out there-- the show that legendarily made John Cleese afraid Python had been beaten to the punch-- and I still haven't sat down with it.
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@zebratron2084 Ooh, neat. I hadn't heard.
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@zebratron2084 It sometimes turns up on TCM. Spike Milligan co-wrote it, so there's a lot of daft people acting absurdly as ridiculous things happen, and then they remember they're barely processing everybody and everything dying, which is part of what makes it difficult.
It's kind of like crossing post-traumatic stress disorder with one of those Monty Python sketches were you mustn't say 'box' in front of Terry Jones or 'green' to Graham Chapman.