>The Top 10 greatest comedy series of all time:
>Only Fools And Horses (51%)
>Blackadder (28%)
>Friends (25%)
>The Vicar Of Dibley (21%)
>Dad’s Army (19%)
>Mr Bean (19%)
>Father Ted (18%)
>The Simpsons (18%)
>The Office UK (18%)
>Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (16%)
Hmm.
Did they just poll London cabbies for this?
t.wally's
How would a bunch of pakis that arrived 10 years ago know about these old comedies? More like they surveyed the middle-aged middle-management women at the BBC.
Black cabs, not minicabs. Keep up. Nobody means minicabs when they say London cabbies.
Fools and Horses is brilliant early on but it gets badly watered down once they both get hitched. Cassandra was fine but Del should have stayed a bachelor throughout.
Nothing against Uncle Albert but you know it's a good one when you see granddad and that it probably isn't when you see Uncle Albert.
The show lost its gritty harsh life feel. The show definitely took a dip after Raquel became part of the family. It's weird too how Del's face shape change so much about halfway through.
>no peep show
>no whatever happened to the likely lads
completely correct, it should be #1
It's probably my all-time favourite, along with Red Dwarf. I love all the shows you listed though, though maybe not Friends quite so much.
Red dwarf was quite good I re-watch it every few years I tend to stop at season 5
Series 6 is great though. I love series 7 too, though not many do.
>Red Dwarf
I feel like it'd get shit on here if it was made in 2023
>Black main character who lusts after white woman
>Only living human is black, whites are literally gone
>Only hologram of a white man is a cowardly cuck who gets bullied
The difference is Craig Charles is an old school, northern, working class, Northern black man not some young London hoodrat like 90% of the black actors that BBC use these days
Just realised I said northern twice
The scouse accent does a lot of the heavy lifting in that regard. Not to say he grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth or the like. But he did rise to prominence by doing stuff like political slam poetry. Basically an 80's northern version of Peep Show Jez's "Frick You Bush".
He's also continually shown to be an uncouth, unintelligent, classless slob. That is the only human alive due to sheer luck.
>I feel like it'd get shit on here if it was made in 2023
You mean like literally every other show ever created?
How the frick do those percentages work?
They probably said "Name your top five" and then counted what percentage of lists contain each show.
>Vicar of Dibley only fourth
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba- cringe
the young ones and bottom not listed.
Fawlty Towers is better than all those shows except for early Simpsons and maybe Father Ted.
Surprised it's not up there. It's probably top 5 British sitcoms.
The epitome of a slag.
I would probablly agree, Fools and Horses is great, also this .
As for funny moments though, nothing has ever made me laugh as hard as the first time I saw the Biggus Dickus Sketch in Monty Python, its a shame it loses its edge once you've seen it, but the recepy for good comedy is when the cast themselves can't keep it together any moment something is so genuinely funny it gets the actors laughing the laughter is contagious. Like that moment in top gear convertible people carrier where Jeremy stands back to admire their work and they all just start laughing at it.
>The Office UK
So just The Office?
>>Only Fools And Horses (51%)
Kino
(28%)
Kino
(25%)
Cringe
>>The Vicar Of Dibley (21%)
Cringe
>>Dad’s Army (19%)
Cringe
>>Mr Bean (19%)
If you forced me to choose I'd say Kino
Ted (18%)
Kino
>>The Simpsons (18%)
Sneed kino
>>The Office UK (18%)
Kino
>>Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (16%)
Cringe
The omissions are most cringe part. Who actually some Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is better than Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Porridge, I'm Alan Partridge, Frasier etc.
>>>The Vicar Of Dibley (21%)
>Cringe
>>>Dad’s Army (19%)
>Cringe
delet.
Never. Go back and watch them. They don't hold up.
I watch both every so often, they do hold up. You might have a point with Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, that can feel dated but I still like it.
Yeah I'm just being a dick. They're not that bad but I don't care for them. I just don't like the list.
My dad usually has dad's army on UK gold and I'll always end up watching it. It's good old wholesome comedy
the manic clapping at the end of that era of sitcoms drives me up the wall.
it pulsates in waves, just when you think it's about to die down they turn the applause signs up to full brightness and flash them, and the nearly exhausted audience struggles to clap even faster and more loudly.
the young ones parodied it in 1982
>dads army
>cringe
Kys
I only disagree with Dad's Army as cringe. Everything else is correct.
Mr Bean is good but wouldn't put it that high.
Friends was okay but has zero replay value.
Dad's army is the most comfy.
Vicar of Dibley was fine for one watch.
The office was alright but cringe comedy is low tier just above sarcasm.
Uh, you don’t get to bring friends
>Friends instead of Seinfeld
List voided
Some planes do ‘ave ‘em (big guys)
>BR*TISH """""""""""""""""""comedy""""""""""""""""""""""
shan't
Well what else is there, American comedy? That can be alright sometimes. Or whatever country your from produces? If so then godspeed.
>Or whatever country your from produces? If so then godspeed.
loriot and dieter krebs are insanely funny
In no particular order
Red Dwarf
Only Fools and Horses
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
I'm Alan Partridge
Till Death Us Do Part
Drop The Dead Donkey
Steptoe and Son
Father Ted
Rab C. Nesbitt
The League of Gentlemen
One Foot in the Grave
Dad's Army
Porridge
Bottom
Desmond's
The Young Ones
The Vicar of Dibley
Spaced
Keeping Up Appearances
The Thick of It
Yes Minister
The Office
Rising Damp
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Men Behaving Badly
Phoenix Nights
Black Books
The Fast Show
Peep Show
Green Wing
PhoneShop
>Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
>I'm Alan Partridge
When introducing someone to this great series its pretty important to get them to watch Knowing me, knowing you.
AHA!
>Till Death Us Do Part
Kino. I still mark for Alf Garnett and his outright racist language. Sad how far we've fallen.
I would add to that:
Gavin and Stacey
Fresh Meat
The IT Crowd
The Inbetweeners
Toast of London
Man Down
House of Fools
Friday Night Dinner
Stath Let's Flats
Him & Her
Mum
>Millennial garbage
How's this generational prejudice going to benefit you?
The IT Crowd, House of Fools and Toast of London are very much the products of GenX creatives.
anything made after 1999 is tripe, and it's not because of "generations" made up by marketing freaks in the 60s, it's because all real comedy was stifled by the ones in charge of television.
same goes for "why are actresses all ugly misshapen blobs of indistinct origin now" - the answer is, the ones casting them chose that type.
>PhoneShop
It was unwatchable.
>people in this thread saying they like The Vicar of Dibley
What is this: Mumsnet?
this
genuinely confused. Vicar of Dibley is anti-comedy
alexei sayle's the ayatollah of dibley was funny though.
odd that absolutely fabulous isn't on the list if women were doing it. that was a lot funnier than Vic o' dib
My mum did love the show and Dawn French. I grew up watching it so.
I swear I once witnessed a French and Saunders "sketch" where they were both seated facing away from each other and the camera was panning around them, to non-stop canned laughter. Because this was apparently inherently hilarious. That may have been when I started to hate the universe.
hahaha
can you find it?
it sounds sidesplitting
Dawn French is pretty funny, for a woman.
Also great cast of side characters.
>pretty funny, for a woman
Well, that's not saying anything.
>Also great cast of side characters
Have to take your word for it, since I've probably only seen about 15 minutes of it in total over the years. But it looks like one of those "gentle comedies". "Gentle" basically meaning "shit".
I think "gentle" comedies can be comfy. Not everything has to be loudly spouting edgy bollocks for shock value.
Maybe I'm just getting old.
the list was for funny comedies, not visual tranquillisers.
last of the summer wine would be at the top of the list otherwise.
hey hey, it's sunday afternoon, time for the antiques roadshow.
though, just as John Cleese mocked it all and then said he'd rather be back when England was England, so would I choose those mind numbing Sunday afternoons of silence than see the world as it is today.
French and Saunders are funny, back in the day anyway. Same with Victoria Wood. These days women aren't really funny, and neither are most male comedians.
comedians have been steadily neutered.
somehow the alternative comedians of the 80s and their follow ons in the 90s is where it reached a peak; from then on there was only sharp decline as the panel show became all the so-called comedians were ever seen on.
Never found F&S remotely funny. We can compromise on Victoria Wood, though - think she at least managed to generate a few sensible chuckles back in the day. And, yeah, pretty much all "comedians" today aren't.
>I think "gentle" comedies can be comfy
OK - something like Last of the Summer Wine has value due to the comfiness, despite not being funny. But I hate the term, because it's used as an excuse for comedy writers who can't/can't be arsed to actually write comedy. See also "offbeat".
>Not everything has to be loudly spouting edgy bollocks for shock value
Those aren't the only two possibilities, though. Take Yes Minister, for example.
Who the frick doesn't like Vicar of Dibley? Are you brown-skinned?
Not even slightly. But fine: if the show's so good, show me a funny clip that'll cause me to reconsider. Not sitting through a whole episode, but if you can find one scene/moment that raises at least one sensible chuckle, I'll concede I may have been wrong (I'm not wedded to my opinions on trivial shit such as TV, like your average American). That's a pretty low bar.
they misspelled red dwarf
The Office(cUcK)
Wow what came in 5th, watching paint dry?
I remember that one episode with Uncle throwing himself downstairs in the pub for insurance money. I always love seeing old timey pubs.
Very funny.
do you remember when del went to lean against the bar, and someone had lifted up the bar so he fell straight through it. the funniest part was, that he didn't react or try to break his fall, which is something that most people would automatically do, Bx that's why I think it is top 100 funniest tv sitcom moments of the 80s/all time/television of tv.
Stuart Lee has a good bit on this. If you can’t find it I’ll link it
https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/slcv1/2009-03-29-sundaymercury/
found a response to it instead
You didn't look very hard
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I was too busy laughing about the idea of delboy falling through the bar to be able to look properly
Where is The Thick of It? The Inbetweeners?
in the dustbin, where they belong.
>The Thick of It?
Nowhere near famous enough
>The Inbetweeners?
Only Millennials like it. You can tell from the answers of the poll that the sample skewed heavily to Gen X.
>no Gimme Gimme Gimme
We used to be a country…
aids
Not a good show but I always found Kathy Burke likeable.
It was okay but not top ten okay
where his keepin' hap happearansiz??? the amount hov times I yav larfed at ayasinf bookay saying er name waz bookay his hastranomikal
hime larfin now justa finkin abowTITah
>british """""""""humor"""""""""
funniest country on earth.
the only problem is, it takes over 30 IQ to follow it. you'll never understand why delboy falling through the bar was so funny, even if I explain it to you as being because he didn't react to the fall or try to brace himself which is a natural reaction that most people would have.
Germans are unironically more humorous than angl*s
A German summed up their humor for me very well. It is just "If somebody falls down, that's funny. If they fall down and break their leg, that's hilarious.
We've seen your take on IT crowd yank.
You people literally think being a passive aggressive homosexual is being reserved and humorous
remind me where do anglos come form?
England. I know you're going to cope by saying they have Germanic roots, but that's not really important considering the two have wildly diverged for centuries now.
Really dumb attempt at an own but points for trying I guess
Wrong try again, where do anglos come from?
You are moronic. You're like a child who has discovered pranks, you telegraph yourself to an absurd degree, and even if I were to humor you the end result would be puerile at best.
answer his question.
pseudo intellectual stuttering c**t
I already did, he's playing a juvenile game of semantics that accomplishes nothing outside of his own head.
>answer my question, but don't say the correct answer
Literally that tier shit. I'm not going to humor it.
my question, but don't say the correct answer
lol, the correct answer is that Angles came from around what is now Schleswig-Holstein. There are no semantic games to be played. You just want to dance around and pretend that they are an entirely distinct race to you.
You are quite probably on the spectrum.
he's absolutely right though.
no one forgets where saxons come from, no one knows where these mystery 'anglos' come from though, or what the word means.
if you'd been around on here 15 years ago you would have seen it was anti-german propaganda barraging the site for several years, and after that was done, the anti 'anglo' stuff came. you won't remember divide and conquer being pointed out, because you came late in the game and were part of the wedge instead of outside of it.
after all scandinavians are the real israelites, right?
German autism, folks.
>Ach, Du bist nicht being mature! Ve are wery funny. *watches dinner for one again*
I ask them this every time and I've never had an accurate response - in years.
they're utterly mindless and repeat whatever they've heard on american tv series.
>americans don't even know about del boy and rodney dressed as bat man and robin who run through the streets when the car breaks down and accidentally save the mayor from being mugged and when they get the the party nobody else is wearing fancy dress.
The alone is the greatest sequence in sitcom history
>delboy visibly shaken and embarrased decides to leave the bar leaving a confused trigger standing there having failed to impress some birds
Vs
>dude broke his leg
This is why germans will never br funny
Meant for
Steptoe and Son didn't even make the list?
The frick are these c**ts smoking?
One of my favourites too.
>filmed in 1901 through a hand ground bottle glass monocle
Is that the guy from fraser on the left?
yes
>HE FALLS THROUGH THE BAR STEW
haha what's the screenshot from?
Always loved watching Mrs Brown’s boys growing up. Couldn’t believe it wasn’t an actual woman
Poll of British pensioners, was it?
>no partridge
>no peep show
Alan partridge is genuinely the best british comedy ever produced. There isn’t a single bad episode in any season of it.
(25%)
i don't believe anyone thinks this
Why not? Friends is ultra normie tier, all the normies love it
>Yes Minister isn't even on the list
YM/YPM is way too high-IQ for any popular opinion poll
>vicar of dibley over the young ones
>Friends
>The Simpsons
How does this garbage get praised so much when Malcolm in the Middle is objectively the only genuinely god-tier American comedy?
Never understood the appeal of Vicar of Dibley. It's mum-tier garbage. Even Keeping Up Appearances is a far superior mum comedy.
it's comfy
honestly the funniest joke in the show is seeing Peter Capaldi show up as the attractive hearthrob that Jerry has a crush on
I thought it was good at the start, but yeah, it definitely got worse as time went on. KUA was overall comfier and consistent.
The Young Ones is better than all of them.
No Monty Python
No Spike Mulligan
No Benny Hill
No Kenny Everett
No Tommy Jones
No Fawlty Towers
No Whoops Apocalypse
No Yes Minister
No Alan B'strd The New Statesman
>You pulled a couple of ravers eh?
>No Rodney it's a couple of geezers
Classic. Glad to see this show gets some recognition here.
>no mention of Porridge or Open All Hours
it's over.
Open all hours is gold and comfy af. I couldn't appreciate it as a kid as it was always on late Sunday night so after it finished it was always bedtime.
I'd have put Monkey Dust and Nathan Barley up there. But they are 100% products of their time, if you weren't 18-30 in the UK during the very early 00's it's unlikely they'd be something that would resonate with you.
Nothing wrong with that. It’s a mass appeal show for sure, but it also had some great, intelligent structure that provides hilarious and satisfying punchlines. Aside from the comedy it’s also a brilliant touchstone of its time, one of the very core representations of post-war Britain.
Who’s dad hasn’t harped on about trigger’s broomstick in some form, or referenced the chandelier scene when doing DIY.
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the sopranos was funnier than friends ever was
Replace Friends with Yes, Prime Minister.
Replace The Simpsons with Seinfeld.
>Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (16%)
Never even heard of this one. But should be Operation Good Guys.
replace only fools and horses whatever that is with the al bundy show, and replace some mothers do av em with SNL and replace vicar of dobly with letterman and you've got yourself a winner bucko!!
>Hey Mr. Bartender give me a drink, I want a cold wet glass with bubbles in it
>no Bottom
it's the most gritty and realistic depiction of a pre-internet Anon ever made
little did I realise while watching it at the time, that I'd turn out to be it.
>>Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (16%)
'Ave what???
Unmanly/incompetent/accident-prone sons. It was slapstick humour, basically. Completely out of fashion now, but comfy/surprisingly funny IIRC.
>'Ave what???
willys
morons.
Thick as frick kids
Where's Are You Being Served I can't get enough jokes about Mrs Slocumbe's pussy or implications that the suit salesman is a bender.
>no Steptoe or porridge etc etc
shit poll
americans, zoomers, boomers, krauts and frogs will never understand the true meaning of top quality comedy
see
Wait... Friends? American Friends? I thought it was some British show named Friends or Friends from Birmingham or something? That stupid fricking dull dumb show makes the list? Frick off...
remember when Ron said he was having a break
How's the son, Lem?
>friends in the top 3
bahahaahahahahaa
>what she hulk should of been
Instead we got feminist garabage, shame
*yakety sax intensifies*
Wtf? Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister is quite literally the greatest comedy in existence.
UNC'S SHIT HIMSELF AGAIN
RODNEY YOU BILCH
HE FELL THROUGH THE BAR STEW
DEL BOY FELL THROUGH THE BAR
I liked it.