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Desmond's: The Complete First and Second Series

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In the early 90's Desmond's was shown on BET cable channel and this is where most American were exposed to the comedy. This is one of the funniest shows to come from the BBC channel 4. It is up there with Are you being served and Keeping up Appearances.
Desmond's is about a West Indian barber his wife and family and the regulars that frequent his shop. The cast consists of Desmond Ambrose played by (Norman Beaton), who owns the Barber shop with his wife Shirley (Carmen Munroe). He has three children Michael (Geff Francis), Gloria (Kim Walker) and Sean (Justin Pickett). Regular customers were the West Indian, Dominoes mad Porkpie (Ram John Holder), one of Desmond's old friends (about 50) African student Matthew (Gyearbuor Asante) and Shaky Lee (Robin Gee) hair stylist Tony (Dominic Keating) and Gloria's best friend Louise (Lisa Geoghan).

If you are from the Islands or you like BBC comedies you will enjoy this series.It is a wonderful and truly funny comedy series. If you are feeling down and want something to cheer up to this DVD definitely worth the money, You can watch the episode over and over again. The DVD contains 3 discs series (season) one and two.

I stumbled into this show on Cable TV in the early 90's and fell in love with it, so I am ecstatic to find it available on DVD, and can't wait to watch them all again.

Finally!! I found it.

I own a lot of British comedies and I have been looking for Desmond's for many years now.

Besides 'Chef'; Desmond's is the only comedy that I know of from Britian with the majority of cast members who are of African descent.

BET showed many episodes during the 1990s. I was surprised that it was not shown anywhere else.

I first saw Desmond's when I first came to this country and it's frequent references to Guyana and the easy going life there was comforting. It was fun comparing the parenting styles that are still hard to change even today for many Guyanese fathers!!!

I've been looking for this show for years, it was my favorite show in the early 90's, but I struck out everywhere. The show is hilarious.

I ENJOYED DESMOND'S DURING MY TEENAGE YEARS AND WAS INSPIRED TO PUCHASE IT AS AN ADULT, MY TWELVE YEAR OLD SON HAS NOW BEEN EXPOSED TO THIS BRILLIANT WELL WRITTEN COMEDY, AND WATCHING IT TOGETHER HAS NOW BECOME ONE OF OUR FAVORITE PASS TIMES, THIS IS A SHOW YOU CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Finally! The show that I grew up watching is available on DVD! This show brings back so many wonderful memories for me, you can't imagine. Beinga person of AfroCaribbean descent, these characters mirror members of my own family and watching the show reminds of them. Even the song makes me smile and warms my heart.

This was such a good show. I managed to locate a VHS years ago, but it was not able to be played on US equipment (region 2). I kept it in hopes and was thrilled to see it at Amazon. No hesitation, bought it promptly. Not disappointed, only delayed, and I am happy it's finally here.

I watched this show when it was on and have search for it off and on for years. I forgot the name of the show but tonight (03/16/09) a commerical mentioned British comedy so I did a British comedy search and I found it. My search is over and I will be able to watch the show whenever I want.

I have seen desmond's on Bet awhile back and fell in love with the show. me and my mom used to tape it every chance we got but when it stoppped showing on cable, we used to just watch the VHS tapes that we recorded. But when someone told me to check here for it on DVD, I was suprised that they had it.So if your into a good British comedy with a Caribbean flavor to it, Get this DVD...I can't wait until the next series come out