Author Topic: Your all time fave TV Comedy Show  (Read 5580 times)

Basil

  • Um....err......oh bugger!
  • Help me!
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #25 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:22:44 pm »
No more votes (admittedly 2nd choice for me) for The Young Ones?  ???
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

ian

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #26 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:32:09 pm »
No more votes (admittedly 2nd choice for me) for The Young Ones?  ???

I saw a few episodes not long back. Despite being of an age that makes The Young Ones a defining comedic moment, it's hasn't aged all that well. My anticipated hysterics were mostly meh.

Dad's Army, oh my, my gran made me watch that as a kid and it was awful.

mattc

  • n.b. have grown beard since photo taken
    • Didcot Audaxes
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #27 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:37:13 pm »
I rather fear the same, Ian :(

(Although the Uni Challenge episode was still great when they showed it a couple of years back.)
Has never ridden RAAM
---------
No.11  Because of the great host of those who dislike the least appearance of "swank " when they travel the roads and lanes. - From Kuklos' 39 Articles

Hillbilly

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #28 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:47:18 pm »
The first series of 'Nighty Night'.

Ah, how could I forget that.  Dark.  And brutally funny - I felt complicit laughing at it, but couldn't help myself.  Julie Davis, superstar.

red marley

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #29 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:51:37 pm »
Two that stand out in my memory are The Fast Show and Big Train. Both hugely creative without being "difficult" comedy. But like pop music, probably reflects as much on my age and demographic as it does the quality of the comedy.

When I saw the title of this thread, my first reaction before reading any of the posts was "I hope no-one mentions Fawlty Towers". I really don't get that one and don't understand why it is liked so much by so many. To me it's just crude unimaginative slapstick  (with a few unchallenged racial stereotypes thrown in for good measure). Perhaps someone can explain its appeal?

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #30 on: 18 March, 2013, 07:53:24 pm »
No more votes (admittedly 2nd choice for me) for The Young Ones?  ???
Fantastic as it was in its day (especially the University Challenge episode!), what spoils it for me is that Ade Edmondson & Rik Mayall are still getting by "acting" almost identical characters some 30 years later. Dads Army was also great in its day, but Clive Dunn is just so OTT in it, that I have to turn it off. I can't have Tiswas, can I? If not, then Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.
Haggerty F, Haggerty R, Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Robson, Crapper, Dewhurst, Macintyre, Treadmore, Davitt.

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #31 on: 18 March, 2013, 09:00:39 pm »
Father Ted
The League of Gentlemen (first two series)
Dear John
The Goodies
Beavis and Butt-Head
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Biggsy

  • A bodge too far
  • Twit @iceblinker
    • My stuff on eBay
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #32 on: 18 March, 2013, 09:13:22 pm »
I'm changing my vote to Peep Show.  I love every second of it.  Ahh, Dobby.
●●●  My eBay items  ●●●  Twitter  ●●●

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #33 on: 18 March, 2013, 09:43:26 pm »

caerau

  • SR x 3 - PBP fail but 1090 km - hey - not too bad
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #34 on: 18 March, 2013, 09:53:31 pm »
That'll be why I loved back in the 70s then :-D

More seriously, watch it now (and ignore the blacked up bone through the nose shit) and tell me it wasn't way ahead of its time in terms of the effort that went into making an episode. It may have been rather silly but some of their set piece sequences were groundbreaking technical TV achievements in their day.

(But WTF is Tim Brooke-Taylor doing at moment?! :facepalm:)
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #35 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:01:29 pm »
Unfortunately the comedy show I have spent watching more than any other was Friends.

The show I have spent most money on was Little Britain.

rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #36 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:16:34 pm »
That'll be why I loved back in the 70s then :-D

More seriously, watch it now (and ignore the blacked up bone through the nose shit) and tell me it wasn't way ahead of its time in terms of the effort that went into making an episode. It may have been rather silly but some of their set piece sequences were groundbreaking technical TV achievements in their day.

(But WTF is Tim Brooke-Taylor doing at moment?! :facepalm:)
Kitten Kong and the giant Dougal.  You want more?
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
    • the_dandg_rouleur
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #37 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:22:33 pm »
I'll throw in Black Books

caerau

  • SR x 3 - PBP fail but 1090 km - hey - not too bad
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #38 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:23:17 pm »
And the Golden Egg Goose bomber :D
It's a reverse Elvis thing.

Redlight

  • Enjoying life in the slow lane
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #39 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:42:39 pm »
Don't forget the plague of Rolf Harrises - very scary if you were a young kid!
Why should anybody steal a watch when they can steal a bicycle?

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #40 on: 18 March, 2013, 10:57:46 pm »
Besides all the usual British comedies, I always liked "Third Rock from the Sun", a US series based on a "family" of aliens disguised as humans living in the US. The humour was based on their not understanding standard social conventions, which they always transgressing. So it was a satire on such conventions.

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #41 on: 18 March, 2013, 11:16:25 pm »
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
This ^^^^^

... and the Goodies.

Wowbagger

  • Former Sylph
    • Stuff mostly about weather
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #42 on: 18 March, 2013, 11:28:43 pm »
Probably the cleverest was Yes Minister. The episode hen he became PM was one of the funniest programmes I have ever seen.

No one has mentioned Till Death Us Do Part. It was something we always watched at home, even though my mother heartily disapproved of the swearing. A quite brilliant series. It's a great tragedy that many of the early episodes no longer exist. It's incredible that the BBC didn't have a policy of archiving everything.

Another that appealed greatly when it was on was One Foot in the Grave.
Quote from: Dez
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.

Jaded

  • The Codfather
  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #43 on: 18 March, 2013, 11:56:00 pm »
For long lasting, it has to be Flowery Twats.

More recently and probably won't stand the test of time, that Local Shop one.
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #44 on: 18 March, 2013, 11:59:43 pm »


No one has mentioned Till Death Us Do Part. It was something we always watched at home, even though my mother heartily disapproved of the swearing. A quite brilliant series. It's a great tragedy that many of the early episodes no longer exist. It's incredible that the BBC didn't have a policy of archiving everything.



We watched an episode at Christmas, it was fun to count off the points which would make it impossible to screen today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonChsnUO6Y

Jaded

  • The Codfather
  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #45 on: 19 March, 2013, 12:11:23 am »
It's incredible that the BBC didn't have a policy of archiving everything.

Just imagine.

56 Dave channels.

and nothing on...
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #46 on: 19 March, 2013, 08:36:30 am »
One not mentioned above is Coupling. Not highbrow stuff, but above the pratfall slapstick level and some brilliant "digging yourself into a really deep hole" moments with Steve, and Jeff's interesting outlook on life.

Edit: Spaced is probably my favourite, but people had already said that.

nicknack

  • Hornblower
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #47 on: 19 March, 2013, 08:41:17 am »
Blackadder 2 or 3
There's no vibrations, but wait.

Morrisette

  • Still Suffolkating
    • Now Suffolkating on the internet:
Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #48 on: 19 March, 2013, 08:57:15 am »
Father Ted.

Everything I know about Catholicism I learned from that show.
First thought on seeing film of the new Pope taking Mass was: 'I'm a great fan of his. He really knows how to work the altar. Look at that chalice-work!'
Not overly audacious
@suffolkncynical

LEE

Re: Your all time fave TV Comedy Series
« Reply #49 on: 19 March, 2013, 08:57:47 am »
You can choose ones that others have already chosen...as long as you CHOOSE JUST ONE