All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky

2.2: The Good Life. Released 5 March 2026.

In many ways the quintessential domestic BBC sitcom from the 1970s, but there’s a richness to the characters and a snap to the performances which elevates this one. There’s a reason it keeps being repeated. We watched “Say Little Hen” from the first series and the classic “The Wind-Break War” from the third series.

Next time we will be watching Jennifer Saunders’s extraordinary Absolutely Fabulous, series 1 episode 4 “Iso Tank”, and series 5 episode 3 “Panickin’”.

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The podcast

• JOIN OUR PATREON https://patreon.com/BritishComedyPod
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Abigoliah Schamaun

• https://abigoliah.com
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• https://www.instagram.com/abigoliah
• https://www.tiktok.com/@abigoliah

Tom Salinsky

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• https://tomsalinsky.co.uk
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All British Comedy Explained is produced by The Spontaneity Shop. If you enjoy this podcast, why not check out The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances-White, Tom’s other podcast Best Pick all about movies, or Abigoliah’s other podcast Neurodivergent Moments.

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All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky

2.1: Fawlty Towers. Released 19 February 2026.

Still casting an enormously long shadow over the British sitcom landscape, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s even dozen of frenetic farces have been delighting audiences since their first transmission in the late 1970s. We watched “The Hotel Inspectors” from the first series and “The Kipper and the Corpse” from the second series. If you want to watch them, episodes pop up on iPlayer from time to time, as well as on YouTube.

Next time we will be watching evergreen classic The Good Life. We’ve chosen the second episode of the first series, “Say Little Hen” and the fifth episode of the third series, “The Wind-Break War”.

Here’s a long list of social media systems where you can find the podcast and us.

The podcast

• JOIN OUR PATREON https://patreon.com/BritishComedyPod
• https://substack.com/@allbritishcomedy
• Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/jnPC56
• allbritishcomedy@gmail.com
• https://allbritishcomedy.com
• https://www.youtube.com/@AllBritishComedyExplained
• https://www.instagram.com/britishcomedypod
• https://www.tiktok.com/@britishcomedypod
• https://bsky.app/profile/allbritishcomedy.bsky.social
• https://www.threads.com/@britishcomedypod
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/allbritishcomedy

Abigoliah Schamaun

• https://abigoliah.com
• https://www.youtube.com/Abigoliah
• https://www.instagram.com/abigoliah
• https://www.tiktok.com/@abigoliah

Tom Salinsky

• https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/in-the-print-8y4s
• https://tomsalinsky.co.uk
• https://www.facebook.com/tomsalinsky
• https://www.instagram.com/tomsalinsky
• https://www.tiktok.com/@tomsalinsky1972
• https://bsky.app/profile/tomsalinsky.bsky.social
• https://www.threads.com/@tomsalinsky

All British Comedy Explained is produced by The Spontaneity Shop. If you enjoy this podcast, why not check out The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances-White, Tom’s other podcast Best Pick all about movies, or Abigoliah’s other podcast Neurodivergent Moments.

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All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky

Episode 9: Season One Explained

For our next set of shows, we’ll be looking at some classic SITCOMS all of which became firm favourites with the public.

1. Fawlty Towers. Still the yardstick by which other sitcoms are measured.

2. The Good Life. By far the best of the “French windows” genre.

3. Absolutely Fabulous. Ripped through the world of fashion and PR like a hurricane and gifted us indelible comedy characters.

4. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. The Good Life’s weirder, darker suburban cousin, anchored by the majestic Leonard Rossiter.

5. Hancock’s Half Hour. The root of the sitcom family tree, as vital to the form as The Goons was to surreal sketch comedy.

6. The Vicar of Dibley. What’s Saunders without French? And this shows that a sitcom all the family can enjoy doesn’t have to be toothless or timid.

7. Yes (Prime) Minister. Urbane and sharply satirical, but it never forgets to be breathtakingly funny.

8. Dad’s Army. Everybody’s favourite, and the start of the ensemble sitcom.

That’s our plan for the next eight episodes. We do hope you can join us. We’ll start with Fawlty Towers from which we’ll watch the fourth episode of the first series “The Hotel Inspectors”, and the fourth episode of the second series “The Kipper and the Corpse”.

Here’s a long list of social media systems where you can find the podcast and us.

The podcast

· allbritishcomedy@gmail.com

· https://allbritishcomedy.com

· https://www.youtube.com/@AllBritishComedyExplained

· https://www.instagram.com/britishcomedypod

· https://www.tiktok.com/@britishcomedypod

· https://bsky.app/profile/allbritishcomedy.bsky.social

· https://www.threads.com/@britishcomedypod

· https://www.facebook.com/groups/allbritishcomedy

Abigoliah Schamaun

· https://abigoliah.com

· https://www.youtube.com/Abigoliah

· https://www.instagram.com/abigoliah

· https://www.tiktok.com/@abigoliah

Tom Salinsky

· https://tomsalinsky.co.uk

· https://www.facebook.com/tomsalinsky

· https://www.instagram.com/tomsalinsky

· https://www.tiktok.com/@tomsalinsky1972

· https://bsky.app/profile/tomsalinsky.bsky.social

· https://www.threads.com/@tomsalinsky

All British Comedy Explained is produced by The Spontaneity Shop. If you enjoy this podcast, why not check out The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances-White, Tom’s other podcast Best Pick all about movies, or Abigoliah’s other podcast Neurodivergent Moments.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.