Favourite British Comedy?

[london boy]

Only Fools and Horses is my personal fave
Father Ted (if you include Irish)

 

[ScottishJohn]

Hey why has noone mentioned 'The Green Wing' yet? Or Spaced? They would be up there in my favourites!

 

[PEANUT]

MR BEAN

Need i say more, Rowan Atkinson is a comedy legend.

 

[steverock]

Hey why has noone mentioned 'The Green Wing' yet? Or Spaced? They would be up there in my favourites!

i mentioned them both earlier in this thread!!

see how ahead of the time i was!

Spaced is one of my all time faves. Simon Pegg is possibly the best british comedy actor/writer around at the moment. the two major things he's done (Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead) have been absolute classics!

Green Wing was very good but it wont be a classic.

Extras was pretty good this year! not up to Office standard but still very good. i laughed my head off at the Les Dennis episode and i cringed so much with the Samuel L Jackson episode!!

 

[ScottishJohn]

i mentioned them both earlier in this thread!!

see how ahead of the time i was!

Spaced is one of my all time faves. Simon Pegg is possibly the best british comedy actor/writer around at the moment. the two major things he's done (Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead) have been absolute classics!

Green Wing was very good but it wont be a classic.

Extras was pretty good this year! not up to Office standard but still very good. i laughed my head off at the Les Dennis episode and i cringed so much with the Samuel L Jackson episode!!

Sorry I missed your post! Still, I'm glad to see someone appreciates Mr Pegg and his comic Genius - you got to love all the little sneaky references to cult films in Spaced.

Green Wing was fantastic, I don't think I have seen anything so funny since - and it ended with a real cliffhanger - still makes me laugh just thinking about it. I'd love for them to make another, but I don't suppose they will.

I missed Extras.

 

[steverock]

Sorry I missed your post! Still, I'm glad to see someone appreciates Mr Pegg and his comic Genius - you got to love all the little sneaky references to cult films in Spaced.

Green Wing was fantastic, I don't think I have seen anything so funny since - and it ended with a real cliffhanger - still makes me laugh just thinking about it. I'd love for them to make another, but I don't suppose they will.

I missed Extras.

i love the first episode of spaced when the twin girls are in the cupboard of the flat then Marsha asked them if cleaning took them long and they go "it took us forever......and ever.......and ever" in a blatant parody of The Shining.

i also love an episode in the second series where Tim and Daisy go out for the night to get "monkied" and very drunk. on the way back home they get mugged by teenangers for their cannabis. they give them oregano accidently so the teenagers return later and then the slo-mo imaginary battle commences and it goes very platoon!!

i love so many epsiodes and so many parts of episodes i could keep on going!!

you just reminded me about the "cliffhanger" ending of Green Wing that was fantastic!! i still wouldnt put the show in my top ten though.

 

[Casslanpepci]

Dad's Army
Keeping Up Appearances

 

[Illenius]

I always love Monty Python - lots of random, but very funny.

 

[artybloke]

SHUT THAT GATE!!!

"I call this the Camberwell Carrot..."

 

[Kehaar]

Yes Minister

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?

James Hacker: That's all ancient history, surely.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times.

James Hacker: But if that's true, why is the foreign office pushing for higher membership?

Sir Humphrey Appleby: I'd have thought that was obvious. The more members an organization has, the more arguments it can stir up. The more futile and impotent it becomes.

James Hacker: What appalling cynicism.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: We call it diplomacy, Minister

 

[RufusTheRevelator]

gotta be father ted!
''ted howd that kurt cobain survive blowin his head off?''
''no dougal, he died, hes dead''

 

[winglovesall]

Favourite British comedy -
Mr. Bean

 

[Diane_Windsor]

Keeping Up Apperances-I love Onslow he is soooo funny!
Father Ted

DIANE

 

[Annabel Lee]

Keeping Up Apperances-I love Onslow he is soooo funny!
Father Ted

DIANE

I love bone idle Onslow.

 

[Annabel Lee]

What ever happened to The Royle Family? That was a very strange show but I couldn't stop watching it, the characters were just perfect.

 

[Cat59]

Caroline Aherne retired from TV a couple of years back and hasn't done anything since then.
Pity, as she is so talented.
I love Catherine Tate at the moment. Bit uneven in places, but some spot in characters, especially Laura.
It's all I can do to stop answering "Am I bovvered" to my children when they come complaining to me in their CT way.
I've had to restrain myself online too, once or twice.

 

[MagicSteve]

Black Books
The Office
Bottom

 

[Athene]

Little Britain, I love it because I know people like some of the characters.

 

[chaoschristian]

Red Green - yeah, I know it's Canadian, but without the British the show would be French language only

Strictly British

1st Tier:
Vicar of Dibley
Chef
Red Dwarf

2nd Tier:
Are You Being Served
Last of the Summer Wine
Waiting for God

 

[flaglady]

For me it's Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister. Classics! Oh and Tony Hancock but then I guess a lot of you will be too young................!