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Favourite comedy shows from Britain and around the world

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Just been talking about them on another thread. So not to derail it...........there have been some cracking comedy shows shown on TV, over the years what's yours ? ( pick as many as you want to :) )
 
So difficult to pick, from our shores it has to be Only Fools and Horses, from around the world it has to be Cheers.
 
Summer Heights High. It's a programme my son and I didn't like at first but when we had watched a few episodes, it was hilarious. We still say "It's fuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyy!" to each other some times. :D

Only Fools and Horses has to be there

Knowing me, knowing you, Alan Partridge
 
Harry Enfield & Chums, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Mr Bean, Men Behaving Badly, Red Dwarf, The Royale Family are among comedies I like.
 
This is hard as there is so many: Steptoe and Son, Blackadder, Absolutely Fabulous, not forgetting Norman Wisdom and Tommy Cooper.
Then on the radio, The Goon Show.:D
I am currently watching some "Last of the Summer Wine" episodes, on the Dave channel that I have never seen before. :)
 
Dads army, Ever decreasing circles, Hancocks half hour, Till death do us part...............and on and on.

Just remembered Seinfeld and Those were the days.
 
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Fawlty Towers
Only Fools and Horses
Morecambe and Wise
Waiting for God
One Foot in the Grave
Steptoe and son
Hancocks Half Hour
and not forgetting Question Time ;)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Fawlty Towers
Only Fools and Horses
Morecambe and Wise
Waiting for God
One Foot in the Grave
Steptoe and son
Hancocks Half Hour
and not forgetting Question Time ;)
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Steptoe and Son, priceless comedy :)
 
I often find that things that used to crack me up now hardly produce a smile. Comedy often ages badly and, whilst many of the programmes mentioned are classics in their own right, by and large their time has been and gone.

Of the current or recent crop, I love/loved The League of Gentlemen, The Inbetweeners, Green Wing, Friday Night Dinner, 2012 (and W1A) and Coupling. Catastrophe, which has started recently, is looking very promising: I think Sharon Horgan is an under rated genius.

Of the older stuff, Spike Milligan's Q programmes still make me laugh - but he was always years ahead of his time.
 
Black Books
Red Dwarf
Coupling (eat your heart out Friends)
Green Wing
Twenty Twelve
The High Life
Father Ted
Drop the Dead Donkey

Hmm, they're all British aren't they? Most US comedies leave me cold, but I will make an exception for Bilko (timeless) and MASH.
 
I don't watch telly ..... :oops:
 
sanguine said:
Black Books
Red Dwarf
Coupling (eat your heart out Friends)
Green Wing
Twenty Twelve
The High Life
Father Ted
Drop the Dead Donkey

Hmm, they're all British aren't they? Most US comedies leave me cold, but I will make an exception for Bilko (timeless) and MASH.
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Oh I forgot MASH !!! I also loved Bilko, but MASH was brilliant.
 
sanguine said:
Black Books
Red Dwarf
Coupling (eat your heart out Friends)
Green Wing
Twenty Twelve
The High Life
Father Ted
Drop the Dead Donkey

Hmm, they're all British aren't they? Most US comedies leave me cold, but I will make an exception for Bilko (timeless) and MASH.
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Good choices!!


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Phoenix Nights with the comic genius that is Peter Kay :)
 
Blackadder is still one of the finest comedies ever produced.

I also still find the fast show very funny.
 
Father Ted (especially the one about the chinese community)
Black Adder
Morecomb & Wise (especially the Andre Previn one)
Frasier
Slowly getting into Big Bang Theory
Simpsons
Ever Decreasing Circles
It Ain't Half Hot Mum (not shown on tv anymore in our PC times)
 
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