Ash786

Can't think how I forgot "The League of Gentlemen" and "Psychoville" - complete mentalism when it came comedy

scrubbedexpat141

Goodness Gracious Me was pretty funny.

Blue Cat

Jim Smith

Agreed. Also Beyond our Ken? which was before Round the Horn.

mentalist

That Miranda woman and Beautiful People currently tickle me. From the old days, The Young Ones and Bottom were always good for a laugh. I even enjoy Ade Edmondson's dreary trip around Britain. He is simply funny without trying to be.

Beakersful

Spitting Image - creator said it wouldn't be suitable to resurrect today unfortunately.
Young Ones - used this for a large presentation on student identity once, joy!
The New Statesman - absolutely psychopathic.
Bottom - same as above, less politics though.
My Family - lost the best actor and it struggled to keep it up after that, although Zoe Wanamaker (stirring in loins, last I saw when down in London was she was playing some hot role in a spanish ghetto type musical?)

Ash786

Quite liked 'Extras' as well. Not because of Gervais (the guy seems to be a bit too up himself) but the celebs in each episode. Notable ones for me were the episodes with Les Dennis and Kate Winslet

Spitting Image - would love to see it back. seemed they missed a open goal when Bush and Blair ruled the world

God, this topic has got me thinking. I was always a big fan of the Two Ronnies as well, preferred them to M&W any day

Autonomy

Have you noticed - some of all the above in this thread stand the test of time and some really don't.

I loved The Young Ones originally and years later got the box set on DVD - I hated it....

Ash786

The IT Crowd - especially when Chris Morris was in it (far too short for my liking)

Have to agree with Autonamy, I watched the DVD of 'the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer' and 'Bang, Bang..' a while ago. Loved it when I was a daft yoof, not so much now.

On a slightly different tangent - worst comedy for me would have to be 'The Thin Blue Line' - about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and then finding there's a gas bill attached to it. Hard to believe the same people came up wth it

mikelincs

Fawlty Towers has to be high amongst the best TV programmes, amazing to think that they only ever made 12 episodes..

Blue Cat

Bottom wasn't funny the second time I watched it, and the new red dwarf is shite

Ash786

Thats why FT was so good...they didn't out stay their welcome. Apparently it took John Cleese and Connie Booth about six weeks to write one episode

mikelincs

well they were married to each other at the time of writing the first series, but had divorced by the time the second series was filmed.

Ash786

I will same something now which, as a member of an ethnic minority, would be deemed very un-PC and bordering on treachery.

I was actually quite partial to 'In Sickness and in Health', 'Rising Damp' and 'Mind your Langauge'

mikelincs

and 'Love they Neighbour'.