OT - Top 3 TV comedies of all time

electric_blue

Clever Pun wrote:

Mighty Boosh
Father Ted
Not the Nine O'clock News
Monty Python
Blackadder
League of Gentlemen
Brass Eye
Alan Partridge etc

There's two i forgot about right there!

electric_blue

PresumingEd wrote:

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

1. south Park
2. Futurama
3. Ren & Stimpy

DCowling

list is endless ( in no order)

Red Dwarf
Simpsons
Blackadder
Father Ted ( Dougal should have had his own show)
Fawlty towers
Aint half hot mom
Porridge
Gaffer
Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy

why do we get crapppy modern day repeats when we could bring back the classics
(except the simpsons which seems to have been repeated more times that you can shake a sh*tty stick at )

Dazza2280

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

Really?? you chose the fast show and green wing, and you're moaning about me picking friends????? Maybe we'll ask someone for the viewing figures for the shows you picked, versus friends. I'm willing to bet anything that friends was way more popular, and has more fans than both of them added together.

il_principe

Bzzztttttttt!

This is basically impossible. What about top 3 America, UK, animated etc etc?

Blackadder
Family Guy
30 Rock

Do panel shows count? 'cos Buzzcocks and HIGNY would be up there as well.

PresumingEd

Dazza2280 wrote:

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

Really?? you chose the fast show and green wing, and you're moaning about me picking friends????? Maybe we'll ask someone for the viewing figures for the shows you picked, versus friends. I'm willing to bet anything that friends was way more popular, and has more fans than both of them added together.

Popularity means nothing: the Sun is the best read newspaper but it's total shite. Likewise the X Factor is most watched TV programme at present but it is utter garbage

electric_blue

Damn - i forgot Fast show - always pretty much kept me laughing from start to end.

electric_blue

PresumingEd wrote:

Dazza2280 wrote:

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

Really?? you chose the fast show and green wing, and you're moaning about me picking friends????? Maybe we'll ask someone for the viewing figures for the shows you picked, versus friends. I'm willing to bet anything that friends was way more popular, and has more fans than both of them added together.

Popularity means nothing: the Sun is the best read newspaper but it's total shite. Likewise the X Factor is most watched TV programme at present but it is utter garbage

In the 70s two of the most popular comedy shows were "On The buses" and "Man About The House" <-- not generally considered classics these days. The genius we know as Spike Milligan was shunted to the back end of BBC2 where 3 people and a dog watched him.

Wallace1492

1. Only Fools and Horses - all time classic, no comaprison, just quality after quality....
2. Fawlty Towers - Just simply delightful. Real laugh out loud stuff.
3. There is no third.... none match up.

PresumingEd

Il Principe wrote:

Bzzztttttttt!

This is basically impossible. What about top 3 America, UK, animated etc etc?

I've already done UK and animated; my favourite American shows are probably:

1. Cheers
2. My Name is Earl
3. Malcolm in the Middle

electric_blue

Il Principe wrote:

Bzzztttttttt!

This is basically impossible. What about top 3 America, UK, animated etc etc?

Blackadder
Family Guy
30 Rock

Do panel shows count? 'cos Buzzcocks and HIGNY would be up there as well.

Top three american:

1. Seinfeld
2. Larry Sanders Show
3. Phil Silvers Show aka Sgt Bilko

DCowling

Laurel and Hardy
Harold Lloyd
Sgt Bilko

electric_blue

DCowling wrote:

Laurel and Hardy
Harold Lloyd

Did they do a lot of television?

DCowling

Only in the sense that their shiows have been televised , yes, did they do made for tv no
I have only ever watched them on tv ( too young to watch them on the matinee down at the Ritz on a sat afternoon along with the Pathe news and Dick Barton)

shm_uk

In no particular order, these are comedies that I always watch when they are re-run on TV:


1. I'm Alan Partridge (preferred this to Knowing Me, Knowing You)
2. Blackadder
3. Family Guy



Also on my list of favourites are:

Green Wing
Spaced
Hyperdrive
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
The Day Today
Fast Show (anything with Paul Whitehouse)
Simpsons
Reggie Perrin (original series)
Fawlty Towers
Futurama



Best ever Radio Comedy? ... Got to be The Goon Show

Chewy Cheeks

Its friday so I'll give it a go.

1 Fawlty Towers
2.Green Wing, just for Alan Statham.
3.The Two Ronnies.

Animated.

1. Family Guy
2. The Simpsons
3. Futurama

Clever Pun

Animated

Metalocalypse
South park
The Tick

dhope

shm_uk wrote:

In no particular order, these are comedies that I always watch when they are re-run on TV:


1. I'm Alan Partridge (preferred this to Knowing Me, Knowing You)
2. Blackadder
3. Family Guy



Also on my list of favourites are:

Green Wing
Spaced
Hyperdrive
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
The Day Today
Fast Show (anything with Paul Whitehouse)
Simpsons
Reggie Perrin (original series)
Fawlty Towers
Futurama



Best ever Radio Comedy? ... Got to be The Goon Show

Green Wing! How did I forget that.

hatbeard

dhope wrote:

Green Wing! How did I forget that.

the coffee enema and the jumping out of the cupboard playing the flute skits are two of the funniest in recent years.

m00nd0g

Only Fools
Vicar of Dibley
Porridge

tailwindhome

3 best comedies yet to get a mention


Mash
Gavin & Stacey
Frasier

electric_blue

spike Milligan's Q series - I loved them as a kid. haven't had the opportunity to see them as an adult, damn you BBC!! :evil:

jeremyrundle

Nearest and Dearest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWmgiF0dg0

Mr Pastry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fedb77hZ ... re=related

and Harry Worth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaTxTPAMduM

What about the worker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6paqi-oz ... re=related

Are you all so young ...................

tailwindhome

Royle Family

greg66_tri_v2.0

TailWindHome wrote:

3 best comedies yet to get a mention


Mash
Gavin & Stacey
Frasier

Yes to Frasier.

The Fast Show. Genius.

Simpsons.

dilemna

Laurel and Hardy - The Music Box
Laurel and Hardy - Busy Bodies
Laurel and Hardy - Thicker Than Water
Laurel and Hardy - Laughing Gravy

There have been some great comedies since but these guys were the pioneering Kings of Comedy.

Canny Jock

Right, I've decided that out of all those mentioned, The Day Today wins. Fight amongst yourselves for second and third

SmellTheGlove

Steptoe and Son - comedy or tragedy - discuss











(me browsing BR on Sat night - same question... )

welkman

Black Books
The IT Crowd
Coupling

daviesee

1. Fawlty Towers.
2. Father Ted.
3. Blackadder.

PS:- Popularity means nothing. It just shows that a massive amount of people have nothing better to do. Fawlty Towers v Friends? Pah! No contest.