Which of These is the Greatest British Comedy of All Time?

Go Figure! · 25-10-2003 1:28pm #1

Which of these is your Greatest British Comedy of all time?

tman · 25-10-2003 1:42pm

people should stop making polls like this, they're inevitably going to miss out one of the greats & include absolute muck in its place.

i voted for other, seeing as the young ones wasn't on the list

parasite · 25-10-2003 1:47pm

or monthy python's flying circus, or alan partridge, or ...

Go Figure! · 25-10-2003 1:48pm

That's why I gave you that option! MATE!!! And I will continue to post polls like this!

Go Figure! · 25-10-2003 1:56pm

By the way you can only put a maximum of ten options in these polls so you can not fit everything in. Someone will always come with something you havn't thought of. Whatever suggestion you make in your post will count just as much as anything in the poll. On that basis the Young One's and Monty Python's Flying Circus now have one vote each!

irishman_abroad · 25-10-2003 2:09pm

Gotta go with the Pythons

Oswald Osbourne · 25-10-2003 2:17pm

I'm 'Alan Partridge Series 1' is better than all of those. Blackadder Series 2-4 likewise.

ferdi · 25-10-2003 2:23pm

red dwarf and blackadder

sceptre · 25-10-2003 2:34pm

Hmmm, Yes Minister. or Blackadder. Or Fawlty Towers.

I'll go with Fawlty Towers then as Blackadder season 1 was really really terrible and not everyone finds Yes Minister to be one of the funniest things they've ever seen.

and season 1 of I'm Alan Partridge deserves a mention. Ditto Phoenix Nights if you're off your face

Goodshape · 25-10-2003 2:45pm

I'm sorry... but 'Greatest British Comedy' and no Monty Pyton on the list?

That's a bit careless.

Voted 'other', naturally.

Karl Hungus · 25-10-2003 2:56pm

Christ, no Monty Python, no Red Dwarf, No Blackadder, no Young Ones, in fact Fawlty Towers is the only thing there I'd have considered voting for.

My vote goes for blackadder.

I'm agreed that you can't include everything in a poll like this, but ffs. Leaving out Monty Python is just beyond carelessness. Yet "Some mothers do have 'em" gets a mention? FFS!

sceptre · 25-10-2003 3:07pm

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Yet "Some mothers do have 'em" gets a mention? FFS!

And The Good Life (which is only two steps above Last of the Summer Wine - and quite a few below Red Dwarf)

No chance of dumping The Good Life and putting in something better?

Mossy Monk · 25-10-2003 4:25pm

Fawlty Towers

mike65 · 25-10-2003 5:32pm

Impossible poll question!

I'll vote for Blackadder cos while series 1 was poor, the next 3 were all classics of the genre...

Mike.

DapperGent · 25-10-2003 6:39pm

Fawlty towers for me.

Most of the rest of the poll was muck but fawlty towers would be number one for me in any case.

byte · 25-10-2003 9:24pm

I'd have to choose between

Men Behaving Badly
Harry Enfield & Chums
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Fast Show (one of the best sketch shows EVAR!)
Blackadder

Capt'n Midnight · 25-10-2003 9:55pm

One foot in the Grave - because it has serious bits too.
Black Books
The estate agents (is that the name ?)
Red Dwarf
Sykes
Love thy Neighbour (not exactly PC)
Man about the house (but it did spawn the dreadful - George and Mildred / Robin's Nest - so best forget it -OMG it also spawned Three's Company - a US cover version ..)
Rising Damp (nah.. but lots of people like it)

I've not seen Q1 or whatever Spike Milligans show was called - but... and I can't remember Ken Dodd's show clearly - but they gotta be up there..

Say what you want about Terry Scott and the dire "Terry and June" but he amazing as the voice of Penfold in DANGERMOUSE !
-"crikey DM"

and lets not forget the one you can't watch with a straight face
Party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative party...

Glad to see that the passage of time seems to have killed off things like "open all hour" "sorry" "last of the summer wine" "it ain't half hot" And what is the fasination with Hancock ?

sceptre · 25-10-2003 10:12pm

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
and lets not forget the one you can't watch with a straight face
Party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative party...

That show gets me in stitches every time they do a remake. Absolutely hilarious. Even funnier than the Irish version - "Party political on behalf of Fianna Fail". Shame they only seem to show it every few years

malico · 25-10-2003 10:21pm

Red dwarf.. Classic!

Ahh have them on Divx!

carbonkid · 25-10-2003 10:22pm

choosing from the poll it would have to be by far absolutely fabulous
its just so funny and joanna lumley is the best ever...i meet her once with a friend doin extras for some film she was in...she was even better in the avengers:)

mike65 · 25-10-2003 11:40pm

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight

The estate agents (is that the name ?)

Eh? Which one was that Capt'n?

Glad to see that the passage of time seems to have killed off things like "open all hour" "sorry" "last of the summer wine" "it ain't half hot" And what is the fasination with Hancock ?

Open all Hours is back on BBC1 Saturday tea-time! Hancock was great....

Mike.

Elmo · 31-10-2003 3:03pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/top100.shtml

mike65 · 31-10-2003 4:50pm

Christ some horrors in that list - Barbara was sh!te, Allo Allo????????, Duty Free?????!!!!, man the public have NO taste at all.

Mike.

ixoy · 31-10-2003 6:35pm

Blackadder. It's doing very well in the poll considering it's not even listed

joseph brand · 03-11-2003 1:49am

voted other.

Wheres Alan Partridge, Blackadder, Hippies, Spaced, Big Train????

Rev Hellfire · 03-11-2003 9:59am

I cannt believe you left out father ted in that list., put in it god damn it.

Coolz · 03-11-2003 10:17am

i was just about to mention father ted, after all it is technically british.

red dwarf, black books, blackadder... all great!

davil · 03-11-2003 10:34am

Originally posted by ferdi
red dwarf and blackadder

My sentiments exactly. Blackadder first though.

The fourth series was great:

"Edmund: (removing the pencils, looks at Baldrick) Fat chance! Now, all we have to do is wait. Baldrick, fix us some coffee, will you? And try to make it taste slightly less like mud this time.

Baldrick: Not easy, I'm afraid, Captain.

Edmund: Why is this?

Baldrick: 'cause it is mud. We ran out of coffee thirteen months ago.

Edmund: So every time I've drunk your coffee since, I have in fact been drinking hot mud...

Baldrick: With sugar. "

taken from http://blackadder.powertie.org/transcripts/

davil · 03-11-2003 10:37am

Originally posted by Coolz
after all it is technically british.

Apart from being filmed in Ireland with brilliant Irish comedians, a proper Irish theme and characters that could only have been imagined by an Irish person (they're not in the pub all day long)

Just cos it's screened on Channel 4 doesn't make it British. But then I'm nitpicking aren't I. Sorry about that.

Frank Grimes · 03-11-2003 10:44am

Originally posted by davil
Just cos it's screened on Channel 4 doesn't make it British. But then I'm nitpicking aren't I. Sorry about that.

The production company was British though wasn't it?

I voted for Fawlty Towers (got it on DVD recentley too, best money I've spent on DVDs in a while).
Blackadder was great, although I wasn't much into the first series which is why FT got my vote (and the fact that Blackadder isn't on the list

)

Coolz · 03-11-2003 10:50am

you don't need to tell me, i totally agree but it is known as a brit com purely cos channel 4 aired it when rte didn't wanna know. it sucks! i'm a huge ted fan.

davil · 03-11-2003 10:53am

Originally posted by Frank_Grimes
The production company was British though wasn't it?

Your point being? I see it as an Irish show but that's just my opinion.

And yes I never mentioned but Father Ted was an amazing show. Take the piss out of the Irish the proper way, not just have them falling about drunk all the time like Eastenders did. Anyway long live Dermot Morgan

Frank Grimes · 03-11-2003 11:03am

Originally posted by davil
Your point being? I see it as an Irish show but that's just my opinion.

Firstly I was asking a question, secondly you're saying that it's (technically) not a British show. If the production company is a British company, then technically it is a British show.

LFCFan · 03-11-2003 2:52pm

what about Only Fools and Horses? None of you have mentioned it? It's is by far the best Comedy to come out of England. Faulty Towers, Blackadder etc were all brilliant but OFandH lasted so long and never lost it's appeal. I don't think I ever saw an episode I didn't like. There will never be another character like Del Boy or Rodney.

smiaras · 03-11-2003 3:06pm

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Elmo · 03-11-2003 3:19pm

Father Ted's was film in front of a live studio Audience in London 50% of the time.

superfly · 03-11-2003 3:20pm

some of my favourites not mentioned are
The League of Gentlemen
Men Behaving Badly
Jam
Coupling
Bottom
The New Statesman (Alan B'stard

)
and Drop the Dead Donkey

lodgepole · 03-11-2003 3:27pm

I'm the only Some Mother's Do Ave Em fan then?

I think it was genius... It only narrowly got my vote ahead of Fawlty Towers.

Sauron · 03-11-2003 4:45pm

I voted for Fawlty Towers cause Python wasn't on the list..Though I do think that Fawlty Towers was and is Brilliant...
but t'would be Python for me:rolleyes:

Coolz · 04-11-2003 7:49am

Originally posted by LFCFan
what about Only Fools and Horses? None of you have mentioned it? It's is by far the best Comedy to come out of England. Faulty Towers, Blackadder etc were all brilliant but OFandH lasted so long and never lost it's appeal. I don't think I ever saw an episode I didn't like. There will never be another character like Del Boy or Rodney.

I didn't mention OFandH cos i voted for it!

Bubba · 04-11-2003 1:59pm

all those listed are terrible!!!

LFCFan · 04-11-2003 2:02pm

Originally posted by Bubba
all those listed are terrible!!!

you're taking the piss right?

Bubba · 05-11-2003 11:31am

ehh.....yeh............riiiight!!

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