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Only Fools and Horses

I think it would have to be Only Fools and Horses because it actually made you care about the characters whilst being hilarious at the same time.

The Office isn't too far away though.

I'm also a big fan of Father Ted, Blackadder, Phoenix Nights, I'm Alan Partidge, & Red Dwarf.

I'm torn between Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Only Fools and Horses.

I'm the same. Monty Python was ground breaking. Fawlty towers is still so great, in part, they only made 6, leaves you wanting for more! Only fools and horses stands the test of time, can't believe it ran for so long yet remained as funny as on day 1.

Other candidates, and my personal favourites are Red Dwarf and The Office. Each great in their own ways.

Fawlty Towers is a close 2nd.

the adventures of tikay _ episode seven      the misread

kev and the burnley mob - episode three      attack of the killer pies

dewi huey and lewi  -  episode one         woolfellas

on hm (roberts) service  - episode  five       a brief jumper experience

tom and jerry  -  episode  nine   red-dogs of war

Only fools and horses by a country mile !!

Phoenix nights and max and paddy's road to nowhere are modern day classics too.

fawlty towers
only fools and horses
dads army
are you being served

cant beat the classics

Only fools by a mile. I must be the only person who enjoys 2 pints lager and a packet of crisps- juvenile humour at its best.

There were 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers. My favourite comedy by a long way though

Also if anyone wants to know what to get me for Xmas ... I would love the entire collection of " Big Deal" Robbie Box was my hero ... before he started tampering with Pauline Fowlers norks..YUK !!!!

Seriously, this was a fantastic, funny, moving,sad comedy drama .... British television at its best.

They made 12.
I like "my family" till Nick left, grrrr
I hate cringe TV so "the office" was awful for me.
Only Fools was true class.
"Watching" was excellent for it's fantastic put downs and "blackadder" was all round brilliance (the final scene of Blackadder goes forth was spinetingling).

Farty Towels
Phoenix Nights

and I know it ain't British but The Simpsons, I don't watch it much, but watching my Dad laughing in hysterics at a cartoon is bizarre!  Sad  ;tk; git he is!

Favourite Comedy must be 'Spaced'.  Ran for 2 series on Channel 4 about 5 years ago.

Very Funny.  The same team made 'Shaun of the Dead'

I love watching the Simpsopns with my kids.I laugh one minute they laugh the next

as for British comedies, can't beat Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army, Monty Python,Reggie Perrin, Porridge

Of the modern stuff, The Office and I still love Buzzcocks and Have I got News amonst the quizzy stuff

No one has made any suggestions that i disagree with really, for me watery fowls is top sitcom.

the office is brilliant.

but the funniest tv ever has to be derek and clive, its fakin funny

Blackadder.

Yes Minister (timeless)

some mothers do have 'em, terry and june, george and mildred, comic strip, the young ones, spitting image, man about the house, butterflies, in sickness and in health, little brittain, the fast show etc etc - by god the british are pretty good at this lark!!!!!

Bottom

The day today,Brass eye,Jam,Alan Partridge,The Office,Royle family.My personal top 6 :)

Well said newport, spaced is brilliant.
Alan partridge is my favourite though.
Seinfeld is the best american comedy and possibly the best ever sitcom full stop.

the new statesman

Only Fools.....Belly Laughs with pathos
The Simpsons.... Brilliantly funny, very subtle
Porridge....Ronnie Barker......

All three make me   rotflmfao

For all those who can't read, the subject matter is British comedy.

Just thought i'd clear that up.

You're wrong and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

It's blatantly Brass Eye.

trigger happy tv and monty python....especially the silly walk ministry PMSL

Python was great, a lot of it was hit and miss though, they did tend to flog dead horses a fair bit. Well worth sitting through the dull bits though.

John Cleese was the best of them and his Fawlty Towers were all classics.

Reggy Perrin was crackin. Leonard Rossiter is probably my favourite comic actor (though I can't spell his name).

Apart from 2, all the above that you mentioned are great. Are You Being Served and Dad's Army, they're a bit too catchprase reliant for me. I can't remember laughing at either of them. Each to their own tastes though.

No-one's mentioned Men Behaving Badly or Coupling yet. I think these were top notch.

There was a really good one on sky not long ago based on a colin Butts novel

Is harry on the boat.

This had me in stiches and they made a series which was quite good before they made it all serious.

OI - Can't you read:

Green Wing
Spaced
Fawlty Towers
The Fast Show
Spitting Image
2D TV
IQ - Not sposed to be comedy - but funny anyway.

There's more, but I think those are me faves...

I cant believe no-one has mentioned this:

Vivian, Rick, Neil and Mike were........

The Young Ones!!

Only Fools, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder.

No Ariston you're not alone... they're on all the time on BBC3 as well :)

One of the best which you southerners are now getting is Still Game - this is a fantastic comedy.

City Lights

Naked Video

Still Game

Chewing the fat

Scotch and rye

In series one there's a great comeback to being called a bit podgy...

"That's because every time I shag your wife, she makes me a sandwich"

John Hartson was alleged to have said similar to Barry Ferguson when he asked why he was so fat in an Old Firm game  :D

I think it was originally Glenn McGrath to Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes after Brandes had played and missed at a McGrath delivery: "Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?" to which Brandes replied: "Cos every time I f*** your wife she gives me a biscuit!" Apparently even the Australian slips were in hysterics.

AS for best British comedy programmes, most of the usual contenders have been mentioned (though anyone who didn't notice the huge decline in Only Fools and Horses once Grandad died needs to watch the early ones again). For real comedy/pathos, OFAH doesn't come close to Steptoe and Son.

I notice our Caledonian friends missed out the almost forgotten Absolutely (which was three sixths Scottish). Chris Morris is also a god amongst men (even Nathan Barley wasn't that awful). AS correctly noted, Spaced was the most innovative new comedy of the past fifteen years - it really tried to be more than 'just a sitcom'. Ironically, the current vogue (thanks to The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm) is comedy which looks under-produced - all handheld cameras and naturalistic acting. Thankfully, this has led to 'the funniest new comedy since Father Ted' (copyright me) - The Thick Of It (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/thickofit/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/thickofit/)).

This was on BBC4 earlier this year (being repeated this weekend and on BBC2 sometime after the New Year) and it's 'Yes Minister getting mauled by lions' (copyright me, again). A fantastic political satire, which is also roll-around-on-the-floor-laughing funny. It will no doubt lose the Best New Comedy award at tonight's British Comedy Awards to Extras, because the official comedy world's opinion is that Ricky Gervais (and Little Britain) are the funniest things ever, no matter how lazy their current efforts are, and if you disagree you are some kind of horse-fiddler. If you have BBC4, watch it this weekend, else don't miss it when it comes to terrestrial.