I think I would have to go for

Steptoe and son
Fawlty Towers for laughs

I also thought Butterflies was great, carla lane was a great writer of sit com

Mine would have to be Rising Damp, the late Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby was superb.

Fawlty Towers

Mine would have to be Rising Damp, the late Leonard Rossiter as Rigsby was superb.

oh yes absolutely....brilliant:thumbsup:

Cheers wasn't bad.

Phillip - The erogenous zones Mr Rigsby
Rigsby - The eri, ero er....the what?
Phillip - The erogenous zones, dont you know where they are.
Rigsby - Course I do, there near the equator.

Class

Blackadder did it for me:hihi::hihi:

Fawlty Towers are the perfect twelve half hours of comedy, so I remove them from the 'bouquet garni' and look further.

"Ever Decreasing Circles" is one of the deepest, darkest, but funniest British comedies ever. I wouldn't recommend it if you're using Prozac though.

Just in case you're Martin.

"The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin" is another deeply, darkly funny comedy.

"Red Dwarf" was too silly not to be funny ........

Nope, can't really get past "Flay Otters". True, true perfection.

"Red Dwarf" was too silly not to be funny .....
Dwwaainn Dibbbbly!:hihi::hihi:

My favourites are: Yes Minister/Prime Minister, Black Adder, Spaced, Peep Show and Fawlty Towers.

Friends :D

Married With Children

Porridge, for me, has to be the most fabulously -written and brilliantly-cast comedy show ever.

Married With Children

Mmm. Kelly Bundy :love:

Fawlty Towers > everything though, except maybe Hi De Hi.

Green Green Grass














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Flowery *****

Open All Hours & Fawlty Towers. Both brilliant

open all hours
steptoe and son
porridge

nothing comes anywhere near these classics

I think I would have to go for

Steptoe and son
Fawlty Towers for laughs

I also thought Butterflies was great, carla lane was a great writer of sit com

What. It was awful about as funny as having all your teeth pulled out by a tramp.

What. It was awful about as funny as having all your teeth pulled out by a tramp.

It must be a girl thing.The only people I know who like Carla Laine "comedies" are women.

It must be a girl thing.The only people I know who like Carla Laine "comedies" are women.

And vegans.

And vegans.

Vegans are women,aren't they?

Married With Children
"A man needs his toilet time.":hihi:

Fawlty Towers,Allo Allo,early Bread.

Phillip - The erogenous zones Mr Rigsby
Rigsby - The eri, ero er....the what?
Phillip - The erogenous zones, dont you know where they are.
Rigsby - Course I do, there near the equator.

Class


Rigsby - "You're a young man, I mean you know where the erogenous zones are."
Alan - "I know where the Himalayas are, but I've never been up them"

Father Ted
Peep Show
Green Wing

Does The Office count as sitcom?

Yes Minister/Prime Minister are my all time favourites.

UK / Ireland:
Father Ted
The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
Faulty Towers
Ripping Yarns


US:
The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko)
Soap
The Munsters


I seem to remember "Fairly Secret Army" being rather good but haven't seen it since it was on ... CH4, 1982, I think.

The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko)

Oh I forgot about Bilko (possibly because of Steve Martin). Bilko was brilliant. Pity you can't buy all but a few episodes of it on DVD.

I like 'Early Doors'. Craig Cash is a good writer. However I think 'Rise and Fall' and 'Rising Damp' are unbeatable. 'Open All Hours' was also top notch.

The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin. I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good sitcom when I see one!

Shame the BBC are remaking it with Martin Clunes in the lead role......:huh:

Craig Cash as dopey Dave in the Royle Family... ROFL! :lol:

My arse! :hihi:

I would have said fawlty towers until the office and extras came out FANTASTIC

Fawlty Towers are the perfect twelve half hours of comedy, so I remove them from the 'bouquet garni' and look further.

"Ever Decreasing Circles" is one of the deepest, darkest, but funniest British comedies ever. I wouldn't recommend it if you're using Prozac though.

Just in case you're Martin.

"The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin" is another deeply, darkly funny comedy.

"Red Dwarf" was too silly not to be funny ........

Nope, can't really get past "Flay Otters". True, true perfection.

Fawlty Towers was really special. Nothing to add.

I loved 'Ever Decreasing Circles' - Richard Briers as Martin was a casting gem! 'Mole Valley Valves'. :P

Open All Hours, and Only Fools and Horses are two more of my favourites, and in more recent times Early Doors, The Office and Father Ted.

I enjoyed them all, plus many more, and can't really choose a favourite.

Just good Friends is one of Johnnys all time favourites. I reckon Sullivan was writing at his best there.

Only Fools & Horses, Allo Allo, Open all Hours, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted are a few of my faves.

The best sit com ever comes back to BBC3 next Sunday! Two Pints! WOOT! Not the same without the hilarious Ralf Little as Johnny but still a classic!

The best sit com ever comes back to BBC3 next Sunday! Two Pints! WOOT! Not the same without the hilarious Ralf Little as Johnny but still a classic!

Have you got shares in the production company or something?

Can I include To The Manor Born?

Otherwise, all the usual suspects: Fawlty Towers, 'Allo, 'allo; Early Doors, Father Ted and one I never tire of watching, Bread.

Cue rant from scousers stating that that series did untold harm to their reputation, that Carla Laine is one nasty, nasty, woman!

Porridge, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers and Peep Show.

edit: Forgot Blackadder!

Have you got shares in the production company or something?

No, I just love the show! :clap:

Cue rant from scousers stating that that series did untold harm to their reputation, that Carla Laine is one nasty, nasty, woman!

Yeah, Bread was a shocking representation of Scousers, portraying us all as thieves and idiototic benefit scroungers who cared about nothing but family.....

.....but heck if it wasn't funny! :)


(NB: Practically everyone I know back in the 'pool enjoyed watching Bread - the only ones who didn't are those without a sense of humour about themselves, and who are ashamed to be Scousers. In other words people from the wirral!!)

Of their era I would suggest

One Foot In The Grave
Steptoe And Son
I Love Lucy

Best ever sitcom ?...............Porridge...........

Best ever sitcom ?...............Porridge...........

Damn straight :) Still trying to get my other half to understadn what is so immensely great about Porridge.

Great about Porridge ? It was the script wasnt it ?

Great about Porridge ? It was the script wasnt it ?

Hmmm, what as great about porridge?

well,

the writing,
the acting,
the cast (who just "gelled")
the (usually) gentle humour,
Fletch generally getting one-over on Mr McKay...
The utterly hilarious Ronnie Barker,
and of course, the late-lamented Richard Beckinsale, who was just gorgeous.

My two faves are:

British sitcom - Porridge

And

U.S. sitcom - I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet, but FRASIER. It's one of the wittiest, funniest comedies I've ever seen with a cast of amazing actors, extremely well written episodes and a chemistry between every character.

Frasier? Sod that, I used to LOVE Roseanne on Channel 4! (and no, I wouldn't), funniest American comedy ever, along with stuff like ALF, the Cosby show, and Different Strokes.. Seriously the Yanks knew how to do good comedy in the 80s.

Great about Porridge ? It was the script wasnt it ?

It was everything. The right mix of witty scripting and great comic timing from the cast. As well as having a bit of a heart to it too.

But all the wife sees is an old comedy from the 70s set in a prison. She always goes and finds something else to do whenever I put it on!


U.S. sitcom - I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet, but FRASIER. It's one of the wittiest, funniest comedies I've ever seen with a cast of amazing actors, extremely well written episodes and a chemistry between every character.


I loved Frasier, but it was a prime example of a series that went on too long. Once Niles and Daphne got together it should have ended, as it was all downhill after that.

Scrubs is another one that has gone on too long now, and even My Name Is Earl has lost the magic and just become formulaic.

Have to admit, though, that i am still enjoying the US Office.

But all the wife sees is an old comedy from the 70s set in a prison. She always goes and finds something else to do whenever I put it on!


She's not even tempted to watch for the gorgeous Richard Beckinsale? ;)

Best British sitcom is 100% Steptoe & Son, I mean considering it one of the first british sitcoms around (I can only think of Hancock before it, and that was by same writers) its amazing how it stands the test of time.

I was watching a few episodes the other night and couldnt believe how little things have changed.


American wise, it has to be Malcolm in the middle

The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin. I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good sitcom when I see one!

Shame the BBC are remaking it with Martin Clunes in the lead role......:huh:

It does sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but the one glimmer of hope is that David Nobbs is involved. I think a sitcom based on the trials and tribulations of modern working life is just as relevant now as it was then, so fingers crossed...

Fawlty Towers
One Foot in the Grave
I'm Alan Partridge
Father Ted
Dad's Army
Rising Damp
On the Buses (only joking)

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

By no means the best sitcom but one of the best openings to one.

I would have voted for My Family, then I noticed the word Sitcom.

I would have voted for My Family, then I noticed the word Sitcom.

Yes the aitch is missing.:hihi:

I would nominate Father Ted. It is still just as funny 11 years after it ended.

Ever Decreasing Circles
Dad's Army
Potter

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

By no means the best sitcom but one of the best openings to one.



Seeing this clip has reminded me. I read years back that Sally Thomsett (who played Jo in MATH) is a clinical nymphomaniac and that she has an actual compulsion to be having sex ever such a lot. Not sure how true it is.

Why has no one mentioned Spaced yet??? Awesome awesome show!

Also, Father Ted, Peep Show and Red Dwarf.

It does sound like a disaster waiting to happen, but the one glimmer of hope is that David Nobbs is involved. I think a sitcom based on the trials and tribulations of modern working life is just as relevant now as it was then, so fingers crossed...

Indeed, Martin Clunes just isn't funny IMO... Then again neither is the other one, him wot does the voice of Bob the Builder.

Surprised no-one's mentioned Bottom and The Young Ones. My personal favourite is I'm Alan Partridge, just the funniest thing ever!

Indeed, Martin Clunes just isn't funny IMO... Then again neither is the other one, him wot does the voice of Bob the Builder.

I dunno, I loved Men Behaving Badly.

I dunno, I loved Men Behaving Badly.

I quite liked it too but it was very much of its time and is as now as outdated as an Oasis CD. Furthermore, the main actors in it have all abandoned comedy in favour of cosy feelgood family dramas.

The IT Crowd, The Office, Father Ted, Extras.... all equally brilliant in their own rights! Can't choose a favourite out of the 4 though!

What was that one called with the recluse in his flat, the blonde sort off Eastenders, and the ginger tosser (not my words, that's what the recluse used to call him) ?

Game On ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/gameon/

First series was best with Ben Chaplin, then he b*ggered off to Hollywood. Neil Stuke, who was average, replaced him. Interestingly Stuke will be in the new "Perrin"

I would have to go for Fawlty Towers.....just brilliant

Game on - that was it, cheers!

While I'm here, I'd also like to put forward a nomination for best sitcom character - Vince Pinner off Just Good Friends.

A different world- does anyone remember that?

A different world- does anyone remember that?

Was that the spin-off from the Cosby show?

Yeah it started off that way then it got better on its own kinda losin the link with Cosby Show. Jada pinket smith and warrick from CSI was in it among loadsa others!

I dunno, I loved Men Behaving Badly.

The scenes of Homosexual Phillatio used to be great.

I quite liked it too but it was very much of its time and is as now as outdated as an Oasis CD. Furthermore, the main actors in it have all abandoned comedy in favour of cosy feelgood family dramas.

What comedy did they abandon ? Falling over, throwing up and hitting a Policeman ?

Hancock's Half Hour
The IT Crowd
The Big Bang Theory