any good scifi comedy?

[dansigal]

Archer is the opposite of science fiction.

It seems like modern day, but also they keep using tech that is systemic to the 1970s and 1980s. Well not the real seventies and eighties... If old Bond films were real.

And yet then they also sometimes use technology that seems futuristic even for us. There's been a running cyborg subplot for 2-3 seasons now. It's kind of a running joke on the show that there's no real way to know when it actually takes place.

 

[DarthTom]

While not strickly a comedy, I always thought Quantum Leap had its funny moments.

 

[Silvercrest]

hi
do you know about any good scifi comedy?
well, there's Spaceballs, Land of the lost, Galaxy quest, paul, ted(maybe)... any others?

"Land of the Lost" counts as "good"?

 

[MacLeod]

Good comedy is of course subjective. What one person finds fun ny another might not.

 

[Greg Cox]

"A Boy and His Dog" is arguably a black comedy . . ..

And, of course, there's always "Time Bandits." Not to mention the "Bill and Ted" movies.

(We start listing time-travel comedies we'll be here all day!)

 

[MacLeod]

By grabthors hammer Galaxy Quest.

 

[Mistral]

Hardware Wars. The Lee Marvin James Bond spoofs.

 

[Silvercrest]

Good comedy is of course subjective. What one person finds fun ny another might not.

Oh, so we can list anything.

 

[Melakon]

"A Boy and His Dog" is arguably a black comedy . . ..

Excellent!

. . .Not to mention the "Bill and Ted" movies.

Bogus!

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Austin Powers films should count.

 

[Greg Cox]

Hardware Wars. The Lee Marvin James Bond spoofs.

Lee Marvin? Do you maybe mean James Coburn in the Our Man Flint movies?

 

[Melakon]

Hardware Wars. The Lee Marvin James Bond spoofs.

Lee Marvin? Do you maybe mean James Coburn in the Our Man Flint movies?

Or Dean Martin in the Matt Helm films? Or. . .

 

[Cyrus]

I remember Ice Pirates, that was funny.

I only watched a few episodes but TV series Lexx had some funny stuff like when the Stanly character was hired as a fluff guy for a porn movie.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Would Garth Marenghi's Dark Place fit the criteria?

 

[Miss Chicken]

My best friend has suggested Hyperdrive starring Miranda Hart. I have never seen it myself.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Starring is an exaggeration. Miranda plays third officer hopelessly in love with the Captain played by Nick Frost (Simon Pegg's bud.) who really hasn't noticed her infatuation.

It's oh-dear-funny, not haw-haw-funny.

But there's only 12 episodes, so if you power through, it'll all be filed away in your brain before you start to get ill.

 

[MacLeod]

The Beeb would have been better off making 12 more episodes of Red dwarf rather than Hyperdrive. But alas that didn't happen.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The beeb did make another 12 episodes of Red Dwarf.

Hyperdrive fizzeled out years ago, but they're still making Red Dwarf.

 

[ITL]

The beeb did make another 12 episodes of Red Dwarf.

Hyperdrive fizzeled out years ago, but they're still making Red Dwarf.

The last BBC Red Dwarf was made in 1999. Hyperdrive came along a few years after that.

 

[Guy Gardener]

To dirty foreigners, all companies broadcasting in Britain are BBC.