Monkey Dust - Series 1

Don't listen to this 'Rip' guy above me, this is pure comedy gold, and I have haven't laughed so hard since I first saw Family Guy. A must see for all British comedy fans. A bit repeditive across the episodes, but you will only really notice this if you watch them all back-to-back. Some of the best comedy that you can buy for under £5.

What a staggering indictment of Blair's Britain in the early 00s!

And depressingly accurate with it, from the rule-the-world advertising agency to the desparate first-time cottager, this 6 episode TV comedy was animated by people who have clearly taken some kind of mind-bending drug in order to cope with the brutal reality they are so stunningly illustrating.

I don't normally like animation as it nearly always dumbs down the visual content but here it just makes the characters even more larger than life.

It's very, very funny, if scarily true, and interesting to see how so little has changed in the intervening years (Sven Goran Ericcson has gone from the national psyche and the weatherman's graphics have become more flashy).

It's a piity you can't get series two, with the Tipton Taleban and the Paedofinder General!

My favourite from series 1: Day 362 of the Daisy Harris murder enquiry and the police still haven't got a clue who done it!

Maybe if I'd just returned from the pub 'half cut' I may have appreciated this just alittle. As it was 'stone-cold-sober' I found it to be callous, offensive and when not being that, boring. If your overly sarcastic, pessimistic and glib, you'll love it.

I felt the need to review this, as there are quite a few negative comments that I believe are ill conceived.

This is a collection of sketches by a collective of animators that satire (to the extreme) modern culture and life in the city. Some of the animations are incredible with so much attention to detail and each have their own brilliantly unique style; you could just watch this with the sound down and it would still blow you away! It covers some pretty dodgy ground but does so intelligently if rather harshly at points. In some of the sillier reviews they say that the subjects of death, suicide, rape, paedophillia etc aren't funny, and you'll be pleased to hear that I’m with them on that, but I’m not sure the writers of this program think that those subjects are funny either. I think you'll find that these subjects are forced upon us with utter negligence in atrocious scripts acted out by some of Britain's worst actors on our TV screens every night of the week (with audiences over 10 million believe it or not, children and all), and in other irresponsible sensationalist programs that masquerade as informative News/Documentaries, ooops I’m ranting now!!! These are just a few of the many depressing things in our culture that Monkey Dust is ridiculing, please tell me if I’m wrong, and I think this has gone way over a few of the previous reviewers tiny heads (tiny because they have tiny brains; thought I’d better explain that in case any of them are reading this).

It's a shame because when there is a rare occasion that something truly original comes along made by extremely creative and intelligent forward thinking people who actually have something to say, it gets dumped on BBC4 at 12pm just after Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, so no one actually gets to see or hear anything about it!

I recommend this very highly, although it's a shame that the better second series isn't available on DVD.

This is cracking, saw it on tele few years back and always remembered it as being really funny, close to the bone and real dark, bit twisted in places, particuarly the pedo on the computer, made me fell sick. But well worth watching. brilliant entertainment