OT - Top 3 TV comedies of all time

Plumby Baby
Plumby Baby Posts: 82
edited November 2010 in Commuting chat
Self-explanatory really...

Mine (in order):

1. Red Dwarf :D
2. Only Fools :lol:
3. Phoenix Nights :)

Do it people...
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  • Plumby Baby
    Plumby Baby Posts: 82
    Feck....

    I forgot Father Ted.
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    Fawlty Towers
    Father Ted
    Spaced

    Can't decide on an order
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    The Office
    Peep Show
    Father Ted
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  • Canny Jock
    Canny Jock Posts: 1,051
    edited November 2010
    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.
  • gupta-patel
    gupta-patel Posts: 81
    1. Love Thy Neighbour
    2. Terry and June
    3. Last of the Summer Wine
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Ah, I see our idiotic troll Gupta Patel is back. Do not feed.

    In no particular order:
    The Real McKoy
    Red Dwarf
    Peep Show
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  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    Blackadder
    Rising Damp
    League of Gentlemen
    "Consider the grebe..."
  • gupta-patel
    gupta-patel Posts: 81
    Oh...and the brilliant remake of Reggie Perrin with Martin Clunes - so much better than the original.
  • Ramjam
    Ramjam Posts: 7
    The Inbetweeners
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Peep Show
  • El Diego
    El Diego Posts: 440
    Blackadder
    Monty Python
    Only Fools & Horses

    No order
  • vorsprung
    vorsprung Posts: 1,953
    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 Towers
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  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    The Inbeetweeners
    Porridge
    My name is Earl
    Shocker Enduro
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    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?
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    I used to love Red Dwarf, but I watch it now and it makes me cringe :(

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    The Office
    The Day Today
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Fawlty Towers

    Blackadder

    Porridge
  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    1. Young ones
    2. Bottom
    3. everything else
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  • electric_blue
    electric_blue Posts: 195
    Seinfeld
    Father Ted
    Fawlty Towers

    aaarrhgh - it hurts just picking three!
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    1. Spaced
    2. Brasseye
    3. The League of Gentlemen
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  • lardboy
    lardboy Posts: 343
    1) Dad's Army
    2) Arrested Development
    3) Seinfeld
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  • Dazza2280
    Dazza2280 Posts: 156
    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 PC
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    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...
  • PresumingEd
    PresumingEd Posts: 82
    1. Monty Python's Flying Circus
    2. The Fast Show
    3. Green Wing
  • Alphabet
    Alphabet Posts: 436
    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.
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  • PresumingEd
    PresumingEd Posts: 82
    By the way
    Dazza2280 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
  • electric_blue
    electric_blue Posts: 195
    edited November 2010
    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?
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  • electric_blue
    electric_blue Posts: 195
    PresumingEd wrote:
    By the way
    Dazza2280 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.
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  • Alphabet
    Alphabet Posts: 436
    electric_blue wrote:
    Do animated shows count?

    If they do, I'm having Ren and Stimpy
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  • electric_blue
    electric_blue Posts: 195
    Alphabet wrote:
    electric_blue wrote:
    Do animated shows count?

    If they do, I'm having Ren and Stimpy

    I'm having South Park
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    edited November 2010
    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 lols
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  • PresumingEd
    PresumingEd Posts: 82
    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 Life

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