OT - Top 3 TV comedies of all time
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Self-explanatory really...
Mine (in order):
1. Red Dwarf
2. Only Fools
3. Phoenix Nights
Do it people...
Mine (in order):
1. Red Dwarf
2. Only Fools
3. Phoenix Nights
Do it people...
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Feck....
I forgot Father Ted.0 -
Fawlty Towers
Father Ted
Spaced
Can't decide on an order"Impressive break"
"Thanks...
...I can taste blood"0 -
The Office
Peep Show
Father Ted0 -
The Day Today
Knowing Me, Knowing You (Alan Partridge)
Too many more to consider for number 3, e.g. Father Ted, The Mighty Boosh, Shooting Stars, Family Guy (if that counts)...
Edit - and The Office, and I will probably add more as people remind me.0 -
1. Love Thy Neighbour
2. Terry and June
3. Last of the Summer Wine0 -
Ah, I see our idiotic troll Gupta Patel is back. Do not feed.
In no particular order:
The Real McKoy
Red Dwarf
Peep ShowFCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
Blackadder
Rising Damp
League of Gentlemen"Consider the grebe..."0 -
Oh...and the brilliant remake of Reggie Perrin with Martin Clunes - so much better than the original.0
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The Inbetweeners
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Peep Show0 -
Blackadder
Monty Python
Only Fools & Horses
No order0 -
The Goodies
The Alexis sale show ( or whatever his sketch show on bbc2 was called )
Vic Reeves big night out ( or whatever his first TV thing on C4 was called)
honorable mentions
Hippies
Father Ted
Brass Eye
The Young Ones
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers0 -
This is impossible. There are just too many. Looking at my original list I think only one of them would make it into a revised top three if I did it again.
The Fast Show deserves a mention, even if the weather isn't scorchio at the moment.
One of my favourite lines from a comedy comes from Porridge. Fletcher was talking about his favourite dancer in Pans People:
"Lovely Babs...... Don't know what her name is." Classic!
How Red Dwarf managed to get away with a character called Rimmer I don't know. Gene Rodenbury (bloke who created Star Trek) said if it wasn't for Red Dwarf they wouldn't have thought it possible to integrate an android into a spacecraft's crew.
How about The Simpsons? Its been going for two decades! Someone must like it (I know I do).
I'm even liking Phone Shop:
"...you're either straight or gay"
"What about bisexual?"
"Bisexual is gay!" Maybe not PC, but funny. Ennit doe, fam?FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
I used to love Red Dwarf, but I watch it now and it makes me cringe
Spaced
The Office
The Day Today0 -
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
Porridge0 -
1. Young ones
2. Bottom
3. everything elseHat + Beard0 -
Seinfeld
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
aaarrhgh - it hurts just picking three!Hello! I've been here over a month now.0 -
1. Spaced
2. Brasseye
3. The League of GentlemenMud - Genesis Vapour CCX
Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
Sun - Cervelo R3
Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX0 -
1) Dad's Army
2) Arrested Development
3) SeinfeldBike/Train commuter: Brompton S2L - "Machete"
12mile each way commuter: '11 Boardman CX with guards and rack
For fun: '11 Wilier La Triestina
SS: '07 Kona Smoke with yellow bits0 -
1. Friends - simple because it was loved by and appealed to everyone
2. Only fools - 'genius'
3. Family Guy - so good to see something thats soooo un PC0 -
Too many
Monty Python
The Likely Lads
Porridge
Dad's Army
BlackAdder
Victoria Woods (esp with Suzy Blake as the snooty continuity announcer doing the birthday kangaroo bounces, or her apology - "The BBC would like to apologise to viewers in the North. It must be terrible up there")
Reggie Perrin (orig + current)
The Young Ones
Rising Damp
Ripping Yarns
Et ceteraaah...0 -
1. Monty Python's Flying Circus
2. The Fast Show
3. Green Wing0 -
Spaced
The Day Today
The Good Life (I am utterly in love with Felicity Kendal)
and about a million more. The Office was spoiled for me by Ricky Gervais being that much of a tit in real life, Red Dwarf got crappy after about series 5 (the thing on Dave was awful), The Inbetweeners is good, but i'm worried that this film they're doing of it will be rubbish, My Name Is Earl is spoiled by Jason Lee being a Scientologist. Only Fools... should have ended when they became millionaires. Porridge is ace though.0 -
By the wayDazza2280 wrote:1. Friends - simple because it was loved by and appealed to everyone
No it wasn't. I hated it and found it hideously unfunny, as did most people I know0 -
I would have picked Monty Python 20 years ago - but have now seen it just too many times.
a few also rans though - is that allowed?
Fist of Fun; The Larry Sanders show; Hancock's Half Hour; Dad's Army; the Phil silvers Show; Ripping Yarns, Simon Munnery's short lived tv series; Reeves & Mortimer - all of their sketch based shows from big Night Out onwards.
Do animated shows count?Hello! I've been here over a month now.0 -
PresumingEd wrote:By the wayDazza2280 wrote:1. Friends - simple because it was loved by and appealed to everyone
No it wasn't. I hated it and found it hideously unfunny, as did most people I know
I hated it and so did my wife and all my friends (ironically). My young daughter liked it though - which gives you a clue as to where it was aimed.Hello! I've been here over a month now.0 -
electric_blue wrote:Do animated shows count?
If they do, I'm having Ren and Stimpy0 -
Alphabet wrote:electric_blue wrote:Do animated shows count?
If they do, I'm having Ren and Stimpy
I'm having South ParkHello! I've been here over a month now.0 -
arrgh I hate these so much
Mary Whitehouse Experience
Flattery Wows
Blackadder
I so hate choosing the final one.. you just can't win...
One of this lot
Mighty Boosh
Father Ted
Not the Nine O'clock News
Monty Python
Blackadder
League of Gentlemen
Brass Eye
Alan Partridge etc
I think I'll have to go with Black Adder given the sheer volume of lolsPurveyor of sonic doom
Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
Fixed Pista- FCN 5
Beared Bromptonite - FCN 140 -
Best 3 animated comedies:
1. The Simpsons (it was truly brilliant for years even if it is is pretty dire these days)
2. South Park
3. Rocko's Modern Life0