Favourite TV Comedy Series

[Young Guns 11]

After just finishing re-watching Peep Show, I think it might be my favourite. That or Only Fools & Horses.

Peep Show though, 7 series in, and all are just extraordinarily funny. Can't think of a single episode I didn't love or think was weak.

What be yours???

[Cripps_orig]

Only Fools and Horses

Nothing else really comes close

[Flavs]

plus one

[Young Guns 11]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1gRgSNEMxA

:haha:

[PGFC]

Frasier and Dads Army from the UK.

[Letters]

Of the last 10 years definitely Peep Show. One of the most consistently funny shows I've seen.
Inbetweeners was brilliant too.

If you're looking at all time classics I'd have to go with Fawlty Towers. Each episode is fantastic and he made the right call not to string it out and make series after series.

[Marc Overmars]

Friends. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Friends. :bow:

Wrong. Try again.

[Marc Overmars]

No.

Friends. :bow:

[Letters]

No.

Friends. :bow:

It's nice to see we have a few female posters.
:tiphat:

[Marc Overmars]

Fresh Prince. :bow:

Red Dwarf. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

Chucklevision :bow:.

[hymppi]

the office.

monty python's flying circus.

[LDG]

Only Fools

Fawlty Towers

Keeping Up Appearances

One Foot In The Grave

[Marc Overmars]

Mr Bean. :bow:

[LDG]

Mr Bean. :bow:

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01361/PIC-682_1361044a.jpg

[Joker]

Only Fools and Horses IMO

[Marc Overmars]

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01361/PIC-682_1361044a.jpg

It's funny coz he's a retard.












and as for Bean...

[Master Splinter]

Keeping Up Appearances



:bow:

Patricia Routledge :bow:.

Shame her grandson is such a shit footballer.

[ArmchairGooner]

Blackadder (not series 1)

[Cripps_orig]

Fresh Prince. :bow:

Red Dwarf. :bow:

This

Also Friends :bow:

[GP]

Arrested Development is some of the most brilliant TV I've ever seen. Cancelled before it's time.

Community is really good too.

[Coney]

Red Dwarf
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
Blackadder
Spaced
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perin
Goodness Gracious Me
The League of Gentlemen
Teachers

[Niall_Quinn]

Chamakh > Friends

[Darth Vela]

Arrested Development is some of the most brilliant TV I've ever seen. Cancelled before it's time.

Community is really good too.

Seconded, I was genuinely surprised with how funny Community was, still possibly only the second funniest of current shows behind Modern Family though and AD is simply awesome.

Coupling would probably come down as my favourite though, that along with Dr Who and Sherlock proves that Stephen Moffat is simply brilliant.

[GP]

Seconded, I was genuinely surprised with how funny Community was, still possibly only the second funniest of current shows behind Modern Family though and AD is simply awesome.


Community is Streets Ahead.

[Darth Vela]

:lol:

Still streets behind Modern Family until it gets an over-proportioned Colombian.

[Master Splinter]

Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the best things in the last decade or so.

As is The Thick Of It in terms of British comedy.

Of all time?

The Simpsons at it's best is incredible in that it brings together so many types of comedy and hits you with ingenious ideas constantly in the space of twenty minutes.

Futurama was/is superb too, but I haven't seen the more recent ones.

Blackadder, Fawlty Towers and Keeping Up Appearances are differing but equally good examples of British comedy and it's various charms. Monty Python's Flying Circus too of course.

In terms of American comedy, I think they excel most at the simple familial sitcoms like Fresh Prince, Cheers and yes, even Friends. They may not be overly sophisticated, but they do what they do very effectively and execute it much better than most British sitcoms. Frasier would be the most high-class example of this.

More recently, shows like My Name Is Earl and 30 Rock have that Simpsons-esque sense of the surreal under a seemingly traditional format.

[Coney]

In terms of American comedy, I think they excel most at the simple familial sitcoms like Fresh Prince, Cheers and yes, even Friends. They may not be overly sophisticated, but they do what they do very effectively and execute it much better than most British sitcoms. Frasier would be the most high-class example of this.

I agree that Frasier is well written and that some of the early Friends had some decent scripts, but the problem is that when you get to series 47 episode 573, then you get the feeling you've already seen it. As for the Friends audiences, jeez. That really is sad girly stuff and is vomitworthy.

[Master Splinter]

As for the Friends audiences, jeez. That really is sad girly stuff and is vomitworthy.

MO :haha:.

[Kaiser]

Peep Show
Arrested Development
Community
Modern Family

I've heard Parks and recreation and Eastbound and Down are really good too.

[Flavs]

Chucklevision :bow:.

The chuckle brother are shit to me, to you?

[LDG]

Oh dear.

[Letters]

Oh dear.

:gp:

Falvs :rose:

[Coney]

The chuckle brother are shit to me, to you?

It's a con. They call themselves the Chuckle Brothers but they aren't even black.

[Flavs]

:gp:

Falvs :rose:

i dont care i thought it was funny

[WMUG]

Inbetweeners :bow:

Peep Show is genius but I can't watch an episode in full without leaving the room cringing, it's too painful to watch all the way through.

[Xhaka Can’t]

They made a huge mistake when cancelling Arrested Development.

[GP]

Peep Show
Arrested Development
Community
Modern Family

I've heard Parks and recreation and Eastbound and Down are really good too.

Parks and Rec is awesome.

[Xhaka Can’t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVx8lZIgLpA&feature=player_embedded

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Red Dwarf, Peep Show, League of Gentlemen, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Curb your Enthusiasm, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Yes Minister, Brass Eye, Jam, Frasier, Big Train

[GP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV8KfpE3BA

Check me one time Whitey

:haha:

Fast Show :bow:

[Syn]

Parks and Rec is awesome.

Aziz Ansari :bow:

In other news, The Office (original, UK, best)

[GP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QDhBtmDdk&NR=1

Soccer!

[Master Splinter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdpJlZ07u4

:haha:

:bow:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNIeXIaVnA8

[milla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tP0ubODOUQ

Abed :bow:

[Mr. Lahey]

trailer park boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etkarB72RbE

[Mr. Lahey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKi8r2FEcU

Curb Your Enthusiasm

[Mr. Lahey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnHusOTJY8&feature=related

bored to death

[Kaiser]

Bloody love Ted Danson. He makes that show.

Also Californication is quite funny.

[Rors]

If you're looking at all time classics I'd have to go with Fawlty Towers. Each episode is fantastic and he made the right call not to string it out and make series after series.

Purely from a consistency basis I'd put Fawlty Towers (12 episodes, of which only 2 could be described as anything less than 'excellent'*), just behind Porridge (20 episodes, and I can't think of one anything less than 'excellent'). As I've made obvious many times on here though, at their best but OFAH and the Dwarf take top honours. Bottom made the same episode nineteen times, but it was a bloody good one, so that deserves a mention too

*('The Builders' from Series 1 - slightly stereotypical - and 'The Anniversary' Series 2 - too knockabout)

[Rors]

Blackadder (not series 1)

Who would have thought the one Ben Elton didn't write would be the worst? It sure is though: over-ambitious location shoots, under-thought labyrinthine plots, and above all for the most part - just not very funny. Thankfully by II they realised Blackadder being a proto-Bean with Baldrick the clever one was an unworkable dynamic.

[Rors]

Dad's Army went on at least two series too long (it lasted for three more years than the war it was representing!), but at its peak( i.e Series 3 until James Beck died) it was character-based comedy that I don't think anything else has come close to.

One from slight left-field: Ever Decreasing Circles. Everyone goes on about The Good Life but that was past-it the very second it first went to air. As Richard Briers himself said, he didn't enjoy the latter because Tom was such an unlikable character (and he was right). Whereas Martin Bryce certainly wasn't. The bit where he gets emotional talking about Denis Compton in 'The Cricket Match' is a comedy moment not repeated often enough.

[hymppi]

oh yeah, i forgot to mention the fast show.
and what was the one with ex-baseball player coming back home to teach sports?
eastbound and down?
that was well funny.

[Flavs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfTWuB-KhE

Plus One :bow: