{"id":8357,"date":"2012-10-12T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:54:57","slug":"best-of-british-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/best-of-british-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of British: Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I haven’t done a Best of British<\/a> posting in ages so I figured it’s about time.<\/p>\n

In these posts<\/a> I wanted to introduce Americans to some of the classic British comedy I watched growing up and which was so influential in the cultivation of my “unique” sense of humour (it’s always good to know whom to blame!).<\/p>\n

Red Dwarf<\/h2>\n

Most people know that I’m a bit of a bibliophile and that I love to read, but I don’t think it’s common knowledge which book I’ve picked up and re-read the most times. The title which gets that dubious honour is The Red Dwarf\u00a0Omnibus<\/a>, a collection of books based upon the TV comedy called “Red Dwarf”<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Red Dwarf is a comedy set in deep space about crew of the mining ship “Red Dwarf”<\/em>. The crew consists of the last human alive, the hologram of his dead bunkmate, a creature descended from a domestic cat,\u00a0a\u00a0neurotic\u00a0android and the ship’s senile computer. If that isn’t the formula for comedy gold, I don’t know what is…<\/p>\n

In the clip below, the last human alive, Dave, is teaching the\u00a0neurotic\u00a0android, Kryten,\u00a0how to lie:<\/p>\n