Glad you liked it, Jimmy Carr is good (the host)
There is a lot of very good, if out great Comedy on British TV - not just the BBC - 9 out of 10 is on Channel 4 (commercial station)
It is probably largely because of the BBC, being a public broardcaster it can take more risks with new acts than a commercial station. That quality also forces the commercial British stations to offer quality comedy.
Of course, being British, we constantly complain about the quality of our TV (until we go abroad), and we also see a lot of American TV, but usually only the best ones make it over here so we imagine that American TV is more packed with quality progs than it actually is
My current favourite UK comedy shows are: Peep Show, the IT Crowd, the Mighty Boosh, the League of Gentlemen and The Mitchell and Webb look
There is an absolute goldmine of comedy out there, including a lot of Panel games like 9 out of ten cats.
QI - Stephen Fry presents a very intellectual game designed to route out the panellist's misconceptions of various concepts. Few points are given, mostly taken away, so that the winner is the one with the least negative score. In one episode a member of the audience shouted the right answer, so that the audience won that show.
Have I got news for you - panelists discuss and joke about the weeks news, the points system is very erratic, but no matter what happens, the regular, Paul Merton loses. One host (they have guest hosts) didn't understand the game and tried to get the players to give direct answers - not understanding that the spirit of the game is not to give the right answer, but to ramble about and hopefully be funny
Never Mind the Buzzcocks - a music knowledge game. The points system is erratic again and points are awarded on the complete whim of the host. Nobody really cares who wins
Mornington Crescent - Is a panel game on Radio 4. Mornington Crescent is a station on the London metro. The game is about moving across the London metro network and the first one to get to Mornington Crescent wins. This one had me baffled for years, since the rules are never explained, but the panellists often debate a particular cunning strategy. It turns out that there are no rules, the game is not real and the panelist make the whole thing up as they go along. Anybody who writes in and asks for the rules are given the details of a book, but told it is out of print
There are others, but the object of many UK panel games is not to win, in fact - anybody taking the game too seriously is usually mocked
