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Greatest TV Comedy ever!

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited January 2023 in General Chat
Whats your favorite comedy sitcom ever!
Heres some my favourites in no particular order (mostly british, cuz..well...lets face it, we're the best :hyper: );

Blackadder (makes me laugh just thinkin about it)
The Office (as above)
Only Fools and Horses (classic.)
Little Britain (hilarious!)
Scrubs (so surreal and stupid!)
Fawlty Towers (cant laugh at them anymore, but very funny)
Monty Python (comedy genius)
Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights (lol)
Bottom (some hate it, I love it!)
I'm Alan Partridge (cringingly funny)
Father Ted (very funny)
Friends (not really that funny, but entertaining)

The ones which I just never got into;

Men Behaving Badly
Absolutely Fabulous
The Royal Family
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Coupling
Porridge
Fraiser
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Friends and Scrubs are good indeed...

    Oterwise mine are:
    Married with Children
    Unhappilly ever after
    Family Guy
    Futurama
    Becker
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i agree with most of those :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nightingales
    South Park
    Porridge
    Filthy, Rich and Catflap
    Curb your Enthusiasm
    Twelve Storeys High
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Partridge just HAS to be top.

    But also: The Office, Father Ted, Futurama, Frasier, Cheers, Steptoe & son, Family Guy, Nighty Night, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The 11 'o Clock Show, The Fast Show, Porridge, The Day Today, Malcolm in the Middle, Blackadder, Men Behaving Badly, The Young Ones, The League of Gentlemen, Peep Show, The Detectives and there are loads more that just aren't popping into my head right now.

    As you can see, my taste is not that discriminating but I do hate Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Two Pints of Lager :yuck: I never got into Black Books, though in theory I thought I should've loved it...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I liked The Royle Family, Peep Show and Men Behaving Badly, can't really think of much else. King of The Hill is quality too.

    The programme that made me laugh most was Cold Feet, even though it was a comedy-drama.

    Can't abide Little Britain, Bottom or Gimme Gimme Gimme etc.

    Hate a lot of American crap like Friends too, any time I hear somebody quote something "funny" someone from Friends said, I want to smack them in the face with a spade.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    And of course -

    Snuff Box
    The Mighty Boosh

    I was in the same pub as the chubby one from Peep Show on Friday...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    nihilisticmadman wrote:
    Friends and Scrubs are good indeed...

    Oterwise mine are:
    Farscape
    Married with Children
    Unhappilly ever after
    The Dead Zone
    Family Guy
    Futurama
    Becker
    Huff

    :eek2: :eek2:
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Porridge
    Futurama
    Lexx
    Worlds Wildest Police Videos
    Father Ted

    Two Pints

    And the rest are good too, yeah.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ooh, one show I'd completely forgotten about was Rock Profile... I used to piss myself laughing at it. Not sure if I'd find it so hilarious now, but at the time it was comedy gold... :thumb:

    :heart:ed UK Play
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Red Dwarf. A bit patchy in places, but when it's good, it's really good.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Livin' on a prayer wrote:
    :eek2: :eek2:

    What's wrong?

    EDIT: Ho no got it, only comedy show... its late...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm With Stupid wrote:
    Red Dwarf. A bit patchy in places, but when it's good, it's really good.

    True.

    I miss it :(
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    I'm With Stupid wrote:
    Red Dwarf. A bit patchy in places, but when it's good, it's really good.
    Series 7 and 8 namley.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Little Britain (my God, I love it so much)
    Family Guy
    The Simpsons
    South Park
    Scrubs
    Vicar of Dibley
    2 and Half Men (I hate Charlie Sheen, but I love this programme)
    My Name Is Earl


    I quite liked 2 Pints of Larger ... when it was on, and when I remembered to watch it.

    I think thats it
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My top 3.

    1)Father Ted
    2)South Park
    3)Only Fools and horses.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bottom
    Young ones
    Blackadder
    Only fools and horses
    South park
    family guy
    Simpsons
    Futurama
    The 11 o'clock show
    Little britain
    My name is earl
    Malcom in the middle
    Peep show
    alan partridge
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I own every single episode of Only Fools and Horses on DVD :o Blackadder is also one of my other favourites.

    I pretty much love a lot of them from the 80's. Theres a few from the 90's i like, but definitely not a fan of more recent stuff. I just can't get into it.

    Gimme Gimme Gimme was funny in places but not really a fan of like proper in your face comedy.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    scarlettleeds wrote:
    Strangely for a lover of comedy, I'm just not that into Fawlty Towers.

    Join the club. I'm always made to feel like a traitor to British humour for finding it incredibly dull but I don't care :p

    It's not godawful by any stretch of the imagination but it's just not very funny, and I don't think it has stood the test of time well at all.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    scarlettleeds wrote:
    Agreed. It looks quite dated now.

    I think that about a lot of classic comedy that you're supposed to love - like Morecambe and Wise for example - was that ever funny? But I almost daren't voice that opinion for feat of being socially ostracised :p

    I can't stand Morecambe and Wise. Nor can i stand most of those old comedians.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Likely Lads/Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

    ooh what happened to you, whatever happened to me...

    I want the DVDs, I'm sure they just came out the other week :hyper:

    Ooh, and Only When I Laugh, too. I'm H-A-P-P-Y...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    im alan partridge
    peep show
    the office

    i watch these series constantly on dvd over and over. laugh every single time.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    Nightingales
    South Park
    Porridge
    Filthy, Rich and Catflap
    Curb your Enthusiasm
    Twelve Storeys High


    Yes filthy rich never got the praise it deserved! :thumb:

    I also liked the dangerous brothers, but i don't think that was ever a series on its own, so probably doesnt count. :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded....Unless he’s not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.” - David Brent, The Office

    I'm quite shocked that things like "farscape" and "two and a half men", are actually even be discussed in the same friggen dimension as comedy genius's like Blackadder, only fools and horses and the office. What is this world coming too :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Livin' on a prayer wrote:
    I'm quite shocked that things like "farscape" and "two and a half men", are actually even be discussed in the same friggen dimension as comedy genius's like Blackadder, only fools and horses and the office. What is this world coming too :rolleyes:



    And I think it's shocking that The Office is considered to be comedy genius. (only fools and) Horses for courses.

    If I'm allowed to pick American tv stuff then I choose the Aqua Teens (duh) and Harvey Birdman.

    For Brit TV; Black Books and Peep Show.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The office is like marmite, you either love it or hate it, buts its undoubtedly a modern classic either way.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Green wing and Blackadder are theeee best ever :hyper:
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    icey wrote:
    Young ones

    YOUNG ONES how could I forget that?! So aweesome
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No one's mentioned Game on!!

    At the moment, the 2 funniest things on TV for me are Green Wing and Scrubs!!

    Funniest ever...ermm
    Men Behaving Badly
    Dukes of Hazzard
    Friends
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