I love this show, it is witty and contains a lot of puns, play upon words, ... it has a lot of recurring jokes, e,g, the extremely bad coach service, which is of course British rail, which is a running gag in itself. I absolutely love Mitchell's ranting about it, and about the oxbridge ruled England. This show also has a lot of references to contemporary "evils of modern society" like the new found printing which will ruin young peoples minds. Obvious a reference to social media and it is nice to see Mitchell getting his rant on ....
You have to be familiar with UK politics, with Shakespeare's plays, his poetry and the general criticism to get some of the references (which I don't always get). this is high brow comedy and a galaxy removed from the usual British comedy u see nowadays on the television.
I think it is funny that Elton mocks that a lot of Shakepeare's jokes cannot be understood without footnotes (or Shakespeare explaining them in the show) but the jokes he makes in the show are sometimes only funny for shakespearean scholars and hence need explaining. Luckily for us, the common folks, there is the internet where we can google why a certain phrase was funny.
You have to be familiar with UK politics, with Shakespeare's plays, his poetry and the general criticism to get some of the references (which I don't always get). this is high brow comedy and a galaxy removed from the usual British comedy u see nowadays on the television.
I think it is funny that Elton mocks that a lot of Shakepeare's jokes cannot be understood without footnotes (or Shakespeare explaining them in the show) but the jokes he makes in the show are sometimes only funny for shakespearean scholars and hence need explaining. Luckily for us, the common folks, there is the internet where we can google why a certain phrase was funny.