Greatest sitcom characters of all time?

Madou

I'll go out on a limb here, but I've been mulling this over for quite some time, but this is what I've come up with:

1) George Costanza - Seinfeld

2) Eric Cartman - South Park

3) Agent Dale Cooper - Twin Peaks (perhaps pushing the boundaries of what qualifies as a sitcom, but fantastic character)

krudler

Tobias Funke

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orlaj

it has to be ab fab ... joanna lumley totally brill!!

amacachi

krudler wrote: »

Tobias Funke

True dat.

Tzetze

Craig - Ideal.
Bubbles - Trailer Park Boys.

ScumLord

Basal Fawlty.

Mr E

Fr. Dougal McGuire
Basil Fawlty
Del Boy
Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
Moss (the IT Crowd)
Larry David (CYE)

Dman001

Michael Scott-The US Office
Dwight Schrutte-The US Office
Dr Cox-Scrubs

amacachi

Mr E wrote: »

Barney Stinson

That guy's awesome.

Dozen Wicked Words

Murray - Flight of the Conchords.

sqlpod

Trigger (only fool's)
norm & Cliff (cheer's)
not the star's but theyhold the show's together,and of course at number one...HOMER !!!

Crotchety

Father Teddy Crilly?

deadhead13

Bernard Black & Manny Bianco.

happyoutscan

1st - Ricky (TrailerParkBoys)
2nd - Buzz (HardyBucks)
3rd - Jim Lahey (TrailerParkBoys)

Special mentions - Eric Cartman (SouthPark), George Jefferson (The Jeffersons), Miley (Glenroe), Ross (Friends)

*Absolutely no thought has gone into this

Crotchety

Leo Dowling - Fair City.

ronnie3585

Larry David - Curb your Enthusiasm
Kramer - Seinfeld
Gob Bluth - Arrested Development
Bubbles - TPB
Randy Marsh - South Park
Buzz - Hardy Bucks

Max Power1

South park is hardly a sitcom now is it?

If we're allowing cartoon characters then brian griffen, if not then Father Ted.

Mr. Presentable

Niles Crane - Frasier

JP Liz

Doug Heffernan - The King of Queens

Chandler Bing - Friends

Del Boy Trotter - Only Fools and Horses

Jo Polniaczek-Bonner - Facts of Life

Sam Malone - Cheers

Miles Crane - Frasier

David Brent - The Office UK

Michael Scott - The Office US

Barney Stinson - How I Met Your Mother

Mental Mickey

Most of the OFAH cast! Pure genius.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Randy - My Name Is Earl
Jay - The Inbetweeners
Dougal - Father Ted
Bernard - Black Books
Denholm - The IT Crowd
The Janitor - Scrubs
Jake - Two and a half Men
Ross - Friends

Caprica

Larry David - Curb your Enthusiasm
Bebe - Frasier
Frasier Crane - Cheers & Frasier
Jake - Two and a Half Men
Alan Partridge - Knowing me Knowing you
Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers
Alice and Owen - The Vicar of Dibley

itsallaboutheL

Bernard-Black Books
Ari Gold-Entourage
Wollowitz-Big Bang Theory

Zoidberg FTW

Wooooop Woooooop Woooooooop Wooooooop

K-9

Basil and Cybil Fawlty: Gave him a reason for his madness. Special Mention for the Major.

David Brent

razorblunt

Basil Fawlty
Ralph Wiggum
Classic Homer Simpson
Simon (Inbetweeners)
Randy Marsh (South Park)
Fr Ted
Quagmire (Family Guy)
Trigger (OF&H)
Kreed from the American Office

KnifeWRENCH

I could list the whole cast of Arrested Development but special mentions for Tobias Funke and Lucille Bluth.

Also:
Murray & Mel (Flight Of The Conchords)
Pamela, Bryn and Nessa (Gavin & Stacey - can't pick my favourite out of those three)
Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers)
Bernard Black (Black Books)
General Melchett (Blackadder Goes Forth)
Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
Bob Kelso and Janitor (Scrubs - again, can't pick my favourite)
Rachel Green (the only Friends character who was consistently funny for all ten seasons)

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »

Rachel Green (the only Friends character who was consistently funny for all ten seasons)

Eh.... what about Ross? When was he ever not funny? In fact, I'm adding Ross to my list...

Crotchety

CaptainNegative wrote: »

Eh.... what about Ross? When was he ever not funny? In fact, I'm adding Ross to my list...

He was acting like a dope. That ain't funny. Always had a smug creamy face on him.

Ruu_Old

JP Liz wrote: »

Doug Heffernan - The King of Queens

...

Jerry Stiller (as Arthur Spooner) in King of Queens also.

Dman001

♫ wrote: »

He was acting like a dope. That ain't funny. Always had a smug creamy face on him.

Nah Chandler and Joey were the only two who were funny in all 10 seasons. The others weren't as funny.

Crotchety

Dman001 wrote: »

Nah Chandler and Joey were the only two who were funny in all 10 seasons. The others weren't as funny.

Too right. Ross always looked like he had a pair of brass balls slung across his face. Didn't know if he was laughing or crying.

ronnie3585

Ruu wrote: »

Jerry Stiller (as Arthur Spooner) in King of Queens also.

...and as Frank Costanza in Seinfeld - lest we forget the creator of Festivus.

rednik

Rigsby from Rising Damp for crying out loud. "Oh Miss Jones, Miss Jones". One of the greatest sitcoms ever.

Kazuma

Vyvyan from The Young Ones?
I really think we're stretching the term Sitcom though.

splashdown18

alan partridge,
larry david,
barry o hanlon
leo dowling!

Liam O

The Chandler-Ross-Joey axis in Friends
The Todd in Scrubs
Henry Sellers and The Milkman guy (can't remember the name now-Swirly or something was it?) and the rest of the guest characters like Eoin McLove in Father Ted.
I know there are some obvious ones that I'm missing :mad:

Donnelly117

Turk and Dr. Cox from scrubs

KnifeWRENCH

♫ wrote: »

He was acting like a dope. That ain't funny. Always had a smug creamy face on him.

QFT. His character was completely dumbed down.

Dman001 wrote: »

Nah Chandler and Joey were the only two who were funny in all 10 seasons. The others weren't as funny.

Joey became too unrealistically stupid. Chandler was the best character at the start of the show but I think he lost his edge; again, the character was dumbed down.
Phoebe went from being endearingly kooky to being a bit of a bitch. Monica became obnoxious and loud.

Rachel was the only character who I think actually progressed throughout the series and didn't go downhill. Plus she had some fantastic lines and Aniston is a terrific actress.

larchielads

charlie harper!!! end of story!!! what red blooded man wouldn't want that bachelor lifestyle. i know its only a tv show, take out that his bro and nephew live with him then you've got a great lifesyle

good looking
great house
loaded i.e. money
gets loaded i.e. alcohol
gets laid nearly every night

thread closed, charlie harper is hereby declared the winner!!!

Madou

Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »

Rachel was the only character who I think actually progressed throughout the series and didn't go downhill. Plus she had some fantastic lines and Aniston is a terrific actress.

A terrific actress?? Don't know about that chief - her range is fairly limited to be saying things like that. She'll never step out of that character, much like the rest of the cast from that show.

deadhead13

I'm surprised that Blackadder and Baldrick haven't been mentioned.

Kev8360

Liam O wrote: »

The Milkman guy (can't remember the name now-Swirly or something was it?

Pat Mustard - The hairy-Baby maker!

itsallaboutheL

deadhead13 wrote: »

I'm surprised that Blackadder and Baldrick haven't been mentioned.

Great Call

jobucks

ALF..... from well....ALF

Alex P keating, sit ubu sit, good dog

L31mr0d

krudler wrote: »

Tobias Funke

+1 I can't actually think of his character without cracking a smile. Gob was very good also.

More recently:

Tracy Jordan - 30 Rock

Otis Driftwood

South Park isnt a sitcom.

Friends isnt funny.

Anyway,

Dr Bob Kelso - Scrubs
Michael Kelso - That 70s Show

uncleoswald

George Costanza's mum.

Tobias "the worlds first analrapist" Funke or Gob from Arrested Development.

Murray from Flight of the Concords.

Joey's weird new flatmate in a few episodes of Friends.

And Ross from Friends because I'm weird and I wont back down on this even though it makes my point of view null and void. But at least he is a sitcom character unlike a lot of choices on this forum.

Boo-yah

Gob - Arrested Development

Arrested Development has the best sitcom cast imo

Boom_Bap

Kenny F*cking Powers - Eastbound and Down
Creed or Andrew Bernard from the US Office
Johnny Drama - Entourage
Wolowitz - The Big Bang Theory
Frank Costanza - Seinfeld
George Micheal - Arrested Develoment

Panthro

nedtheshed wrote: »

Dr Bob Kelso - Scrubs

whats got two thumbs and doesnt give a crap...bob kelso..

priceless!:D

KnifeWRENCH

deadhead13 wrote: »

I'm surprised that Blackadder and Baldrick haven't been mentioned.

I only saw the last series of Blackadder and while both Blackadder and Baldrick were brilliant, General Melchett owned that series imo.

I must watch the first three series' at some point...

papagormo wrote:

whats got two thumbs and doesnt give a crap...bob kelso..

priceless!

And a few series later:
"What has two thumbs, a funny voice, and doesn't give a crap? Bob Kelso. I added the funny voice to keep it fresh."