Best Old School Comedies

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 06-05-2007 4:18pm #1

What were your favourite sitcoms/comedies back in the day?

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 06-05-2007 4:25pm

You also gotta love shows like 'Happy Days', 'Mork & Mindy', 'Married... With Children' and '3rd Rock From The Sun'!

Kojak · 06-05-2007 5:12pm

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show?? I just never found Bill Cosby funny, for some reason

From the list, I'd go with Married with Children, fresh prince (up to about the time that the mothers were changed) and Father Ted.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 06-05-2007 5:21pm

Kojak wrote:

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show?? I just never found Bill Cosby funny, for some reason

Bill Cosby is legendary! You gotta love Cosby, same way you gotta love Gary Coleman!

Sandwich · 06-05-2007 5:24pm

Poll is a little flawed - The Cosby Show and Different Strokes werent comedies - twee featherweight family dramas.
And : Father Ted, a comedy alright, but looks out of place in a list of Amercana. If you are inluding recent English stuff, then where's Blackaddar, Bottom etc

And : By old school I was expected George and Mildred, Dads Army etc.

homah_7ft · 06-05-2007 5:24pm

CaptainNegative wrote:

Bill Cosby is legendary! You gotta love Cosby, same way you gotta love Gary Coleman!

What'you talkin' 'bout Captain.

mike65 · 06-05-2007 5:59pm

Hopless poll. Pesky kids.

Mike.

Wishbone Ash · 06-05-2007 7:11pm

mike65 wrote:

Hopless poll. Pesky kids.

Mike.

Yes :rolleyes:

What about Are You being Served, Faulty Towers, Open All Hours, The Liver Birds, The Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses, etc.

emeraldstar · 06-05-2007 7:40pm

"Are You Being Served?" !!!!! The best

^^^ oh, didn't notice you got there before me Wishbone

theone · 06-05-2007 7:51pm

don't forget Porridge probably the best old school comedy of them all

Nightwish · 06-05-2007 7:54pm

Wheres Only Fools and Horses? Surely thats the finest!

Ruu_Old · 06-05-2007 7:54pm

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em would be in there also.

Jesus Wept · 06-05-2007 7:56pm

Fawlty Towers?!

Wishbone Ash · 06-05-2007 7:57pm

The poll is ridiculous. Fr Ted is the only one of those that I've seen. :eek:

purplegeko · 06-05-2007 7:59pm

I drove my parents mad watching boy meets world and fresh prince but i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls every weekend on living its my guilty pleasure and as was mentioned before i love Happy Days too

Jesus Wept · 06-05-2007 8:02pm

purplegeko wrote:

I drove my parents mad watching boy meets world and fresh prince but i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls every weekend on living its my guilty pleasure and as was mentioned before i love Happy Days too

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Wishbone Ash · 06-05-2007 8:02pm

purplegeko wrote:

i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls ... ..... i love Happy Days too

IMO British comedy is streets ahead of American comedy. I find a lot of it very bland and even unfunny.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 06-05-2007 8:03pm

Whoa, hold the phone! There's only space for 10 options in the poll and I just put in the first 9 that came into my head plus the other option. The whole threads about discussing any old school comedies you want, doesn't just have to be the ones in the poll.
Old school is basically any comedy that isn't still making new episodes, by the way.

Jesus Wept · 06-05-2007 8:34pm

qwertplaywert · 06-05-2007 10:45pm

70s show ftw........btw topher grace totally steals the show in spidey-3

Pride Fighter · 06-05-2007 11:08pm

In one word, Bottom.

Cork · 07-05-2007 10:59am

Comedys:

Family Ties
Murphy Brown (very under rated)
Famous Teddy Z
The Young Ones
Cheers

Schism · 07-05-2007 10:22pm

Not surprised Father Ted is topping the poll, my fave comedy.

Pigman II · 07-05-2007 11:19pm

Dust off the cobwebs for these ones......

Ever Decreasing Circles
It's Your Move
Mr. Belvedere
Head of the Class
Sledge Hammer!
Married with Children
Desmond's
Major Dad

darkskol · 07-05-2007 11:27pm

Allo Allo
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
Only fools and horses
The Phil Silvers show
Father Ted

Daemonic · 07-05-2007 11:34pm

Yes Minister and The Good Life...classics.

BendiBus · 07-05-2007 11:44pm

Daemonic,

I was going to say The Good Life & Yes Minister! Can't believe you sneaked in just ahead of me with both my faves.

We must be of a similar vintage.

Rollo Tamasi · 08-05-2007 7:39am

Are you being served is one of the best comedies ever.
Ridiculously hilarious for its time.

User45701 · 08-05-2007 1:50pm

Mr Been!!!

Mossy Monk · 08-05-2007 2:40pm

Worst poll ever!!!

Fawlty Towers for me.

Zaph · 08-05-2007 4:57pm

Kojak wrote:

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show??

No, I hated it too. About as funny as a dose of the clap.

Fawlty Towers and Yes, Minister/Prime Minister are streets ahead of anything else. Two funniest shows ever, IMO.

Bubs101 · 08-05-2007 5:06pm

I'm Alan Partridge. Amazing

The crosby show was crap

Marshy · 11-05-2007 9:40am

Bubs101 wrote:

I'm Alan Partridge. Amazing

Yeah, I second that. Best comedy in long time.

Fawlty towers next. Father Teds the best on the poll.

slipss · 11-05-2007 12:50pm

From the ones on the poll I'd say Father Ted, then That 70's show, thought the rest were crap. Not on the poll I'd say Fools and Horses, Faulty Towers and The Thin Blue Line, anyone remember that, with Rowan Atkinson in it?