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Best Comedy on TV

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It's not meant to be comedy but if you can try and catch A Different Breed on Sky 1
It's about dog owners, of a more extreme nature !!
And it's mind boggling
 
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In no particular order, my favourites are;

Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
Only Fools and Horses (Early Episodes)
Father Ted
Green Wing
Open All Hours
Red Dwarf
'Allo 'Allo

I must also admit to being a fan of Friends, one of the few funny US sitcoms.

I've also been enjoying Friday Night Dinner on Channel 4 recently, and was excited about Campus (from the Green Wing team) but that was hugely disappointing, sadly!
 
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I'm currently liking Friday Night Dinner
"$#!+ on it!"
 
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Red Dwarf
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
The Big Bang Theory
Father Ted
The IT Crowd
The Young Ones
Bottom
'Allo 'Allo (the earlier series')
 

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The Thick Of It
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
Black Books
Come Fly With Me
People Like Us
 
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Sorry, Greenback, but Frasier's at the top of my list!
Consistently witty and well-written.

I'll second third fourth and fifth that. It's was one of the sharpest most consistently funny series ever done.
The trick with comedy series is knowing - like John Cleese and Connie Booth's Fawltey Towers - is when to stop. Benidorm started out brilliantly, it's now been two series too long. The same can be said of "Only Fools and Horses". Little Britain was a one series one trick pony and basically Come Fly With Me" was the same thing regurgitated. Anything with Ronnie Barker in or writing it continues to be funny. Dad's Army will never date for the simple reason that it was dated when it began. Red Dwarf, again it went on for too long by about three series. Father Ted continues to cause tears of laughter in this Roman Catholic household. The second and subsequent series of Blackadder - my own personal favourite being the Elizabethan series. 'allo 'allo continues to be stupidly funny. Yes Minister? Peerless, absolutely brilliant and little wonder it was the iron lady's favourite as it showed the civil service - whom she hated with a vengeance - to be the two timing connivers that they for the most part are.
 

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In no particular order

Open All Hours
Porridge
Only Fools and Horses
Blackadder (Especially goes forth)
Bottom
Young Ones
The New Statesman
Harry Enfield and Chums
My Family (Before Nick went)
and im partial to a bit of Morecambe and Wise every now and again.
 

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I think my fave is South Park at the minute. That whole 200th episode malarkey (has that even been officially released over here? I've only seen it through iTunes or whatever it gets called) was brilliant.

Over the last few years I have also liked Outnumbered (put it on by mistake but it was a right laugh!), Blackadder (had plenty of laughs playing George in a College rendition of Goodbyeee!), Open All Hours (especially the whole stutter thing; it gets quite funny trying to impersonate Ronnie and then stuttering myself...!) and, although not as much as previously, The Simpsons. I also like select episodes of Family Guy (Blue Harvest was a good one; haven't seen the others yet), and also some sketches in Monty Python. I didn't like Life of Brian much though. I would also give good mentions to the two great quiz-comedies of the Beeb, Have I Got News For You and QI.

I can't always understand British humour though. By autistic standards my sense of humour is quite good but it's still not all that. Fawlty Towers is hit hard by this.

Another one I would suggest, although not exactly a comedy, is Corrie. Some of the traditional Corrie charm is comedy-based; I guess Norris "Mole" [anyone seen the actual Norris Mole blog thing?] is a good example of this.

And lastly, does Top Gear count?
 
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My favourite comedy of all time is Porridge. I have watched a lot of them including Dad's Army, Red Dwarf, Bottom, Fawlty Towers etc. I don't find them funny just entertaining.
 

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Too difficult to pick a single favourite!

No mentions for the pathos laden Steptoe yet-
also Rising Damp- Leonard Rossiter was brilliant as the obnoxious yet pitiable Rigsby :)

Personal faves though are Father Ted, Blackadder, Porridge and Fawlty Towers.

With an honourable mention to On the buses and George and Mildred.

I'm showing my age now.......
 

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Favorites (in no order)
Dads Army
Porridge
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister - perhaps the best!
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
The Young Ones/Bottom
Family Guy
Father Ted
Drop the Dead Donkey
auf wiedersehen pet
The Likely Lads/Whatever Happended to the Likely Lads
The Thick of It (even if only for Malcolm Tucker!)
 
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My faviroutes (in no particular order) are

The IT Crowd
Family Guy
Only Fools And Horses
White Van Man
Come Fly With Me
Two Pints Of Lager
South Park
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air
The Inbetweeners
 

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Jointly tied for first place are...
HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU - still good, but not as threatening as it used to be - BRING BACK ANGUS (!), and...
DROP THE DEAD DONKEY (Henry Davenport - "I would sooner perform oral sex on a diseased warthog"!!!!!!)

After that..
Porridge
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (before Gary Holtom died)
Monty Python
They Think its all over
Mock the week
Spike Milligan's Q series'
Tom and Jerry (why not???????)
M*A*S*H (especially before Frank Burns left)
 

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Let's see....

HIGNFY
The Office
The US Office
Extras
Green Wing
Blackadder
The Thick Of It
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Peep Show
Fawlty Towers

...and anything with Eric & Ernie, the Two Ronnies, and Grand Master Tommy Cooper.
 

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My Family (Before Nick went)

Good news, he's coming back for the 11th season! I don't know if its for the whole season or just an episode or two. But I do know that Kris Marshall confirmed he will be returning.

I also like My Family. Always have done. It went a bit downhill around seasons 6, 7 and 8. I think it came clawing back in the more recent seasons though. Its a shame its been cancelled.

I just hope whatever the Beeb replace it with is just as good. Perhaps they should have Life of Riley as its replacement, I think thats quite good.

I'm also a Top Gear fan. I'm deffinatly not one of those who thinks its starting to go downhill. I think its still better than ever. The specials are the best, the Middle East one was brilliant.
 

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I'm also a Top Gear fan. I'm deffinatly not one of those who thinks its starting to go downhill. I think its still better than ever. The specials are the best, the Middle East one was brilliant.

Surely the idea behind Top Gear was to be tv show like the car magazines showcasing supercars and no so supercars rather than the challenge format it appears in. The Gadget show has much the same issues (as well as one of the presenters' hard-on for Apple)
 

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Top Gear still has me in fits of laughter. I really like Fawlty Towers as well, and Father Ted is absolutely brilliant!
 

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My favourites include.

The Two Ronnies
Open All Hours
Porridge
Morecambe & Wise
Monty Python

Ronnie Barker wasn't just a Comedian, he was a genius, writing & acting, making every sketch run like clockwork, especially the Hardware Store sketch 'Four Candles', how he didn't break into laughter shows what a pro he was.
 

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Friends is my all time favourite personally. :) I also really enjoy watching Two and a Half Men, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Family Guy, South Park, and Mock the Week. :)
 

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I might be a bit of an old bugger, but I don't really appreciate American humour or comedy.

Prefer British!
 

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Aren't there too many choices for a poll though? That being said no harm in putting up the most popular and seeing what "wins"

Someone give me some suggestions and I will (only the OP (myself in this case) or a mod/admin can do so).

I'll start with Only Fools (RIP John Sullivan :(), Porridge, Fawlty Towers etc, and Family Guy and The Inbetweeners from the modern era, but I need more options.
 

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If we're going to shortlist to try and find the best ones, we will have to make categories. (comedies from the past, comedies from the present). What the actually year groupings will be to classify a comedy I won't comprehend as yet.

Fawlty Towers has to be on the list though!
 
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