whats your funniest british comedy series? my favourites this far are Fawlty Towers, Mr Bean, and the Monty Python shows
Last of the Summer Wine is probably my all time favorite. Those old coots are absolutely hilarious. Are You Being Served is a very close second though. All those sarcastic put-downs kept me laughing for many seasons.
Black Adder
Keeping Up Appearances
Waiting For God
Mulberry
To The Manor Born
Spaced
Red Dwarf
The Young Ones
Black Adder
Keeping Up Appearances
Monty Python is kind of in a class by itself.
Honorable mentions: Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Absolutely Fabulous
Huge British Comedy fan here! The ones I love best are:
Last of the Summer Wine
Open All Hours
Monty Python....I agree with Rev.Powell
Black Adder
Are You Being Served
Good Neighbors...probably my second favorite of all Time
Butterflies
Keeping Up Appearances
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Two Ronnies
Red Dwarf
Mr.Bean
Love almost all of 'em but in particular love:
Are You Being Served?
Red Dwarf
Keeping Up Appearances
The Young Ones
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
Mr. Bean
Quote from: JaseSF on September 27, 2012, 07:51:57 PM
Love almost all of 'em but in particular love:
Are You Being Served?
Red Dwarf
Keeping Up Appearances
The Young Ones
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
Mr. Bean
Fawlty Towers....of course! I love Watery Fowls.... :teddyr:
Young Ones. I can't believe I've never seen a Young ones tattoo
sit-com type shows...
The Office
I'm Alan Partridge
Spaced
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Dr Terrible's House Of Horrible
Saxondale
Non sit-coms...
Brass Eye
Bo Selecta!
Da Ali G Show
Daisy Daisy
The Day Today
Adam & Joe Show
Newman & Baddiel In Pieces
DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
ARE YOU BEING SERVED
MONTY PYTHON
VICAR OF DIBLEY
MY HERO
AS TIME GOES BY
THE OLD GUYS
WAITING FOR GOD
FAWLTY TOWERS
I forgot Ali G that is hysterical. "Pat Boo-cannon"
Quote from: lester1/2jr on October 04, 2012, 01:54:30 PM
I forgot Ali G that is hysterical. "Pat Boo-cannon"
Ali G In Da USA was possibly even better, but that's not exactly a 'British' show
Quote from: JaseSF on September 27, 2012, 07:51:57 PM
Love almost all of 'em but in particular love:
Are You Being Served?
Red Dwarf
Keeping Up Appearances
The Young Ones
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
Mr. Bean
Much the same list, but also One Foot in the Grave and...
The Goodies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRviD5ppfY4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me8v7tv0tjo
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Only Fools & Horses. it was voted best UK comedy of all time in a tv thing a while back. I think it's pretty good but wouldn't put it in my top 10.
I'm also surprised how popular the show My Hero appears to be in the US. it was barely noticed over here and mainly considered a flop!
Quote from: zombie #1 on October 04, 2012, 06:53:50 PM
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Only Fools & Horses. it was voted best UK comedy of all time in a tv thing a while back. I think it's pretty good but wouldn't put it in my top 10.
Ah,yes! Thanks for reminding me....I liked that show. It had two of my favorite British comedy actors in it....David Jason who I also adored on "Open All Hours" and Nicholas Lyndhurst whom I first discovered on "Butterflies".
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fBastoiZjUg/T6lZaDpbgkI/AAAAAAAAAVY/S4GRLfbAJd0/s400/Miami+Twice+publicity.jpg)
I'm also a fan of CREATURE COMFORTS and the UK version of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY. I wasn't really thinking of them as Britcoms since they're unscripted but what the hey.
Even though I will always love the classics like Red Dwalf, the goodies, and anything monty python. Right now I love the I.T. Crowd. Moss is like the sheldon off the big bang thoery as both are the Abed off Community. Aka there is a new formula emerging where we have the funny socially awkard guy now. Pretty damn awesome.
Spaced
Black Books
The IT Crowd
Alan Partridge
Drop the Dead Donkey
Absolutely Fabulous
Only Fools and Horses
Steptoe and Son
Fawlty Towers
Father Ted
Yes Prime Minister
Vicar od Dibley
A Touch of Cloth
BlackAdder
Bottom
The Office
League of Gentlemen
Green Wing
Trollied
The Mighty Boosh
What- no Benny Hill? :buggedout:
http://youtu.be/XvuQsb181Cc (http://youtu.be/XvuQsb181Cc)
The Goodies. A show that was actually more popular than Monty Python back in the day.
The Goodies - Kitten Kong on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/33122684)
I don't remember The Goodies, although I think my dad has mentioned it a few times.
Don't know much about Benny Hill either. Although looking at some of clips on Tube, can't say I find him funny.
Forgot to mention "The Fast Show" and "Smack the Pony", and the comedy panel show "Have I Got News For You"
Red dwarf.
The young ones.
The goodies.
Fawlty towers.
The Benny hill show.
God save us, the queen farted!
I have a soft spot for Allo Allo, a WWII comedy created by the Are You Being Served guys. Like McHale's Navy, many of the antics are likely more true to life than some folks would like to admit. Fun fact: Two of the actors who portray recurring German officer characters (Guy Siner and Hillary Minster) also appear in the Doctor Who serial Genesis of the Daleks, the former as a Kaled and the latter as a Thal.