[Humour] Comedy's that have aged well and those that haven't

[WATFORD zero]

From a couple of the threads already on the main board one of each please

Aged well - Not the Nine O'clock News
Hasn't - Fawlty Towers

And just to prove it's not about 'being down with the kids'

Aged well - Keeping up appearances
Hasn't - The Good life

 

[Triggaaar]

Aged well - Keeping up appearances

That was crap to start with.

 

[WATFORD zero]

That was crap to start with.

But age hasn't worsened it, (and I think Patricia Routledge is brilliant )

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

From a couple of the threads already on the main board one of each please

Aged well - Not the Nine O'clock News
Hasn't - Fawlty Towers

And just to prove it's not about 'being down with the kids'

Aged well - Keeping up appearances
Hasn't - The Good life

The Good Life is brilliant and anybody ("down with the kids" or otherwise) who thinks otherwise can f*** right off.

 

[Charlie Livesey]

Still enjoy Royle Family and Early Doors. Always found Butterflies boring

 

[Pevenseagull]

Aged well .Yes Minister

Aged badly. Little Britain

Always crap. Mind Your Language

 

[nwgull]

Dad’s Army - a lot of the lines are still very funny, obviously including the classic ‘don’t tell him Pike’.

 

[keaton]

From a couple of the threads already on the main board one of each please

Aged well - Not the Nine O'clock News
Hasn't - Fawlty Towers

And just to prove it's not about 'being down with the kids'

Aged well - Keeping up appearances
Hasn't - The Good life

How hasn't the Good Life aged well?

 

[Weststander]

Aged well:
Fawlty Towers
Spike Milligan
The Office - UK and US versions
Frasier - saw an incredible episode this week.
Anything by Smith and Jones.
Dad’s Army
The Thick Of It

 

[highflyer]

Aged badly: The Young Ones
Aged well: the 10% of money python that was any good in tbe first place

 

[WATFORD zero]

How hasn't the Good Life aged well?

Very much of it's time

 

[Mustafa II]

Aged well: Brass Eye, Nathan Barley

Not aged well: Little Britain

 

[JBizzle]

Blackadder has aged well, most of Friends has, a lot of Only Fools and Horses hasn't

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Still enjoy Royle Family and Early Doors. Always found Butterflies boring

I loved butterflies, but it is a whimsy rather than a comedy.

Aged well:
League of Gentlemen;
Black Adder,
Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Red Dwarf;
Hancock's Half Hour

Aged badly (disregarding obvious shite such as Mind Your Language):
Monty Python;
Whatever happened to the Likely Lads;
Porridge;
Man about the house
Up Pompeii

 

[jcdenton08]

Fawlty Towers is the best sitcom of all time. It has aged absolutely fine, so well in fact it’s just extended in the West End before it goes on what will be a sell-out tour. Same as Only Fools and Horses.

There is a lot of people wanting comfort and nostalgia and couldn’t give two shits if social norms mean you’re not allowed to laugh at things that upset some people nowadays.

There’s a reason why Dad’s Army, Only Fools, Fawlty Towers et al are still loved today, and trash like Up The Elephant isn’t.

That’s because Up the Elephant was racist garbage then, and is racist garbage now. Not a case of aging badly, but audiences hopefully growing out of it. The fault of the audience not the material.

 

[Chicken Run]

Aged Well Fawlty Towers
Badly-Open All Hours

 

[The Clamp]

Aged well - Nathan Barley


Aged poorly - Duty Free

 

[keaton]

Very much of it's time

If I had to name 100 comedy programmes that haven't aged well I wouldn't even think about the Good Life. In fact, like Yes Minister it's one a lot of people I know have recently watched and said how good it was

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Very much of it's time

I'd say the idea of trying to live a more sustainable lifestyle is very much of the here and now.

That bit where they all come back from Margo's am-dram Sound of Music and can't think of anything to say is brilliant as well.

"Why did Margo sing Maria?"
"It's the name of her character"
"I know, but the song's from West Side Story"

 

[Weststander]

Still enjoy Royle Family and Early Doors. Always found Butterflies boring

I loved Butterflies. More than a comedy, a take on life, teenage sons, suburbia.