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. Terry & June
2. Sorry
3. Our Kid
4. Get Some In
5. My Family
6. Friends
7. butterflies
8. Ever Decreasing Circles
9. That Hyacinth Bouquet sh1te
10. Please Sir

I don't know about 10...but I do the evenings washing up / load the dishwasher when East Enders is on.

sitcoms cc

.....all I know is that it makes my wife and daughter .......which is pretty in my opinion

Why be negative and go for the 10 worst.

why not the 10 best ?

I will start it off with my favourite sit com


(1) Fawlty Towers

Heysham_Shrimp wrote:Why be negative and go for the 10 worst.

why not the 10 best ?

I will start it off with my favourite sit com


(1) Fawlty Towers

Good shout. I'll add:

Coupling
Game On
Men Behaving Badly
The Inbetweeners
The Detectives

...and not strictly a sitcom, but one of the funniest programmes to have been on TV in the last 10 years - Teachers.

Comedy, like music and food, is so subjective but, for me....

Fawlty Towers
The Office
Extras
Nighty Night (first series)
Early Doors
Royle Family
The Young Ones
Filthy, Rich and Catflap
(though those last two were definitely 'of the age' and haven't stood the test of time so well)
Flight of the Conchords
Ab Fab

......are ones, off the top of my head, that tickle me.

Coupling - for me a poor man's Friends (which I don't particularly rave about but is the superior version IMO, a bit less clumsy in 'build up to a punchline' format. BTW I don't know how they got away with selling 'Coupling' 'back' to the US as it was a straight Friends rip-off anyway).

Also 'Only Fools...' - most over-rated comedy ever (IMO). Not rubbish but nowhere near the 'classic' it's made out to be. No better than the likes of Hi-de-Hi and 'Allo Allo'.
Again, very formulaic 'di dum di dum.... obvious punchline'.

Not going out

The funniest thing on TV in the last 3 years

Favourites:-

1. Red Dwarf
2. Blackadder
3. Peep Show
4. Game On
5. Frasier
6. Only Fools & Horses
7. Father Ted
8. Friends
9. Citizen Smith
10. Monday Monday

Here goes - not my worst ten, but ten of my faves...

Fawlty Towers, sheer genius, farce at its finest.
Phoenix Nights, ditto, some classic episodes.
Father Ted, mental, wierd and silly, all at the same time.
Frasier, consistently funny, sometimes brilliant.
Early Doors, a grower, with characters not caricatures.
Spaced, Simon Pegg before he went Hollywood, silly and funny.
The Thick of It, very visceral and sweary but some insults are hilarious.
The original Reggie Perrin with Leonard Rossiter, again silly lines and fantasy.
The Good Life, cozy yet warm and funny. Felicity Kendal, nothing more to be said.
Loved the Young Ones but boy has it dated badly!!

There are more.....love Kath & Kim and Flight of the Conchords, also Summer Heights High was so bloody daft... the list goes on....

The older ones are usually best ~ can you spot them?

Seriously Mark, you should give some consideration to finding a "job of work"

1. Fawlty Towers
2. The Office
3. Not Going Out
4. Frasier
5. Father Ted
6. Early Doors
7. Royle Family
8. Phoenix Nights
9. Blackadder
10. Dinnerladies

my fave uk sitcoms

Whatever happened to the likely lads
Steptoe and Son
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
I didnt know you cared
Fawlty Towers
Dads Army
Porridge
Open All Hours
On the Buses
The Good Life

all from the 70ss just think theyre the best

Mark S wrote:Not going out

The funniest thing on TV in the last 3 years

Without a doubt! Lee Mac one liners are superb! Tim Vine is actually incredibly quick with one liners in his stand up routine.

Top totty too...


























Oh, sorry!



The other fantastic sitcom that was under rated has to be Green Wing! Totally surreal and quite dark at times. For me it comes in above Scrubs for two reasons. firstly that darker side and also, Scrubs went on a couple of series too long, where Green Wing (like Not Going Out) quite while it was ahead.

So that is...

Not Going Out,
Green Wing,
Scrubs,
Faulty Towers,
Father Ted,
Inbetweeners,
Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps (first couple of series, awful show now).
Big Bang Theory, (more top totty too!)

The I.T. Crowd,
Soap.

Tomorrow I'd put them in a totally different order! Does Family Guy count as a sitcom?

Green wing was superb, Mark Heap (Dr Alan Statham),Michelle Gomez (Sue white) and Pippa Haywood (Joanna Clore) were three of the funniest characters i've seen in a sitcom.

No one rated Rising Damp?

In no particular order:

I'm Alan Partridge
The Office
The Inbetweeners
Fawlty Towers
Phoenix Nights
The League of Gentlemen
Peepshow
Monkey Dust
Blackadder
The Royale Family

I was Once in an episode of a sitcom called Cheltenham 123. (bet no one remembers that 1 to be honest I'm not sure its even called that)
I was stood holding a horse.

Life in the spotlight can be tough.

A lot of it was in Latin with English subtitles!

I'm not really into sitcoms at all anyway, but three I really loved and enjoy brushing the dust off the dvd sets now and again are:-

1. Mind Your Language
2. Please Sir!
3. Fawlty Towers.

Aspers wrote:A lot of it was in Latin with English subtitles!

Can't imagine why it didn't take off? Was it as good as Up Pompeii?

Who remembers "The Dustbin Men"

Cheese and Onioin
Smelly Ibbotson
Winston

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I think he was called cheese and egg