The things that have entertained me both on TV and in the movies have always horrified other people:
1) Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - Gormless young social misfit Frank Spencer getting involved in death-defying stunts caused by his accident prone nature. I still have hysterics over the time when he drove his car over a cliff at the beach and he had fertiliser in the boot which started to spill all over him when he was suspended 100 ft above the ground.
2) Let The Blood Run Free - a 'choose your own adventure' TV show which was a comedy show about life in a hospital.
3) The Young Ones - Ben Elton, Alexie Sayle, Rik Mayall and a group of grouchy anarchists sharing a house in London in the early 80's and constantly getting into fights and clonking each other over the head with kitchen utensils.
4) Kenny Everett Video Show - celebrity gunging, BDSM spoofs, sexy dance troupe 'Hot Gossip' miming to pop tunes, and the most idiotic commercials for stuff like 'electric meat', and taking the mickey out of rock stars like Rod Stewart, Elton John, Mick Jagger and Barbara Streisand. A complete loony, who died of AIDS complications in 1993.
5) It's A Knockout - Barmy British people doing the most absurd and torturing obstacle races with heaps of buckiets of water, balloons, foam and bridges that tilted. The show's commentator Stuart Hall spent virually all his time on the show laughing like a hyena at the stunts.
6) German 'Blind Date' - this was shown on the Channel 10 special 'Nude Moments' which was a matchmaker game show where the contestants participated in the raw.
7) The Goodies - Giant kittens, monster cods, Eddie Waring impressions, fanatical love of the Royal Family, newscasters going punk, black pudding martial arts cults, Christian denominations settling differences over games of Rugby. Monty Python for the under 12's of the 70's. A yobbish ugly hippie who loved tripping on sherbet and rancid halibut giblet sandwiches, a rational scientist with a very odd relationship with his computer, and a poncy public-school educated patriot who played 'Land Of Hope And Glory' every time he made a political speech. They would do anything, anytime.
8) Australia's Funniest Home Videos - people slipping over, getting bitten on the goolies by wild geese, spilling milk all over their best jackets, falling asleep in church during wedding speeches. Best one was a Japanese film with a little boy picking his nose and popping the goober into his sleeping brother's mouth.
9) Charlie Chaplin/Buster Keating - anything that contains people slipping on banana skins and having buildings falling on their heads and all they do is give them a quick rub has me in stitches.
10) Rage during the early hours - that's if you're a bit tipsy or speeding of your nut on something it's funny, but otherwise you just have to shake your head and mutter "B.loody Kids!"
Crashedman