Your Top 5 Comedies

[Icy Gull]

Fawlty Towers
Red Dwarf
Drop the dead donkey
Black Adder
Only fools and horses

Falwty Towers being the only one that I seem to be able to watch
over and over again and still find funny even though I must know all the lines off by heart.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

blackadder
alan partridge
red dwarf
the office
league of gentlemen

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Only Fools And Horses
Red Dwarf
Coupling
All Blackadder
Porridge

 

[Curious Orange]

Everybody likes a laugh, and here's what tickles my funny bone....

Red Dwarf
The League Of Gentlemen
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
Open All Hours

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

In no particular order:

Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, Open All Hours, Blackadder II, Yes Minister

 

[Albion Edd]

1. The simpsons
2. The office
3. Malcolm in the middle
4. Alan Partridge
5. Only Fools and horses

 

[Theatre of Trees]

In no particular order:

Fawlty towers, Blackadder, Simpsons, Father Ted, the Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.

Bubbling under:

Porridge, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, League of Gentlemen, Steptoe and Son, Rising Damp

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

It's interesting how lots of people are posting The Simpsons alongside stuff like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder.

I think the Simpsons is great, but there's a school of thought that says it ain't a sitcom... notably a guy called Mark Lewisohn who's written the Radio Times guide to TV Comedy... listing every British and US comedy programme up to about 1999 (which was when it was published). He sets out what it and what isn't included at the start: and deliberately ignores anything quiz-based (so no Have I Got News For You or Shooting Stars) and animated.

Presumably because this means he'd have to include, for example, Foghorn Leghorn alongside Victor Meldrew, and comparisons could be tricky there.

Having said that, the Simpsons has all the hallmarks of a sitcom such as regular characters, regular locations, physical comedy and running jokes.. it just happens to be animated. Should we be discriminating against the two-dimensional? Discuss!

 

[tinx]

1 Only fools
2 Blackadder
3 Royle Family
4 The office
5 I'm alan partridge

 

[tinx]

Oh shit forgot to put the simpsons in probably my number three.

 

[Fluffster]

Simpsons
Only Fools and Horses
They Think It's All Over
Bo Selecta
The Royle Family

and probably loads i've forgotten.

 

[JEM]

It's interesting how lots of people are posting The Simpsons alongside stuff like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder.

I think the Simpsons is great, but there's a school of thought that says it ain't a sitcom... notably a guy called Mark Lewisohn who's written the Radio Times guide to TV Comedy... listing every British and US comedy programme up to about 1999 (which was when it was published). He sets out what it and what isn't included at the start: and deliberately ignores anything quiz-based (so no Have I Got News For You or Shooting Stars) and animated.

Presumably because this means he'd have to include, for example, Foghorn Leghorn alongside Victor Meldrew, and comparisons could be tricky there.

Having said that, the Simpsons has all the hallmarks of a sitcom such as regular characters, regular locations, physical comedy and running jokes.. it just happens to be animated. Should we be discriminating against the two-dimensional? Discuss!

So his and his definition alone defines what is humour.
Bugger Mark Lewisohn, if you're a fan of schadenfreude you'd probably find ER funny.
So essentially it's anything on TV that makes you laugh. Whatever it may be. :thumbsup2

 

[Dunkstar]

1.Family Guy
2.Father Ted
3.The Simpsons
4.Scrubs
5.South Park

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

So his and his definition alone defines what is humour.

No, he has come up with a working definition of TV comedy.

It's a genre, just like horror or westerns. Surely it needs some boundaries?

 

[JJ McClure]

1. Blackadder
2. Men Behaving Badly
3. Friends
4. Father Ted
5. Red Dwarf (exept the final series, which was pants)

 

[CHAPPERS]

The Office
Cheers
The Simpsons
Royle Family
The Club (skit from Vic and Bobs show but i had to include it coz it gets me every time).

 

[REDLAND]

1) Filthy, Rich and Catflap
2) Young Ones
3) The Simpsons
4) South Park
5) The Office

 

[Rochester Seagull]

The Office
Alan Partridge
Royal Family
Harry Enfield Show
Rise & Fall of Reginald Perrin

 

[Dave the OAP]

Blackadder
Not The Nine O'clock News
Taxi
'Allo 'Allo
Q series ( Spike Milligan)


Second 5

Dad's Army
Cheers
It Aint Half Hot Mum
Till Death us Do Part
Spitting Image

 

[Loops]

1, Bottom
2, Vic Reeves Big Night Out
3, I'm Alan Partridge
4, Young Ones
5, Bo Selecta