Favourite TV Comedy Character?

coolhull

Hyacinth Buck-ay

McChubbin

Bernard Black (Black Books)
Dr.Cox (Scrubs)
Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
Red Remington (The Blacklist)
Ron Swanson (Parks & Recreation)
Del Boy (Only Fools & Horses)

suffering golfer

Reading this thread made me miss OFAH and Father Ted. We really dont have shows like that anymore

Another favorite comedy charactor for me was Mr Bean. I know it is a bit dated now, but when you first saw the show he was brilliant...

Gwynplaine

Al Bundy.

HoratiJoe

Harry Molloy Fair city

sligojoek

A trio.

Eddie, Joan and old Tommy in Early Doors.

Agree with Bertie Wooster. He's better again in the books.

Cienciano

Peep Show is my favourite comedy show of all time.
Few clips of the 3 best characters:
Mark and Jez

Superhans

Potential Underachiever

Another good Peep Show scene.

gammygils

Hawkeye Pierce, Frank Burns - M*A*S*H*

gg2

Marty Crane - Fraiser
Patsy - Absolutely Fabulous
Dougal - Ted
Pheobe - Friends
Douglas - The IT crowd

kfallon

Jim Royle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4IXGYbaS8

Brian Potter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR2-xA8TXxQ

j80ezgvc3p92xu

The Father, Francis - Malcolm in the Middle
Julius - Everybody Hates Chris
Onslow - Keeping Up Appearances
The Gestapo Guy (for being so unbearably German)- Hallo Hallo
Will - The Inbetweeners
Ned Flanders - The Simpsons

FatherTed

Going old school here but my two favourites are Archie Bunker and Lucy Ricardo. Also, I hate to say it now but also Cliff Huxtable.

Also Michael Scott from the US Office.

KKkitty

Father Ted
Del Boy
Sheldon Cooper
Dougal
Phoebe Buffay
Another nod for Mr. Bean

kfallon

Ali G in his prime was great

PandaPoo

kfallon wrote: »

Ali G in his prime was great

His interview with Buzz Aldrin never fails to make me laugh.

I'm here with my main man Buzz Lightyear

Ali- will we ever land on the sun?
Buzz- no its too hot
Ali- But what if we went at night....

kfallon

PandaPoo wrote: »

His interview with Buzz Aldrin never fails to make me laugh.

I'm here with my main man Buzz Lightyear

Ali- will we ever land on the sun?
Buzz- no its too hot
Ali- But what if we went at night....

This one was a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7R7dDJmwPY

Rosie Rant

It is so hard to name a select few! These are in no particular order.

Cheers : NORM!!!! Cliff Clavin, Coach, Carla. ( Special mention - Harry the Hat)

Frasier : Niles, Martin, Eddy, Frasier, Roz
(Special mention - Gill Chesterton and Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe.)

Friends : Phoebe, Ross, Monica, feck it; all the friends! ( Special mention : Jack Gellar )

How I Met Your Mother : Ted, Robin, Lily. ( Special Mention : Patrice )

Father Ted : Dougal, Mrs Doyle, Ted, Jack ( Special mention : Bishop Len Brennan, Father Larry Duff, Father Noel Furlong. All the priests were great!)

The Vicar of Dibley : Alice Tinker, Jim Trott, Owen, Geri, Hugo. (Special mention : The goat or lamb that had perfect comic timing during the nativity scene )

Only Fools and Horses : Del, Rodney, Trigger, Granddad ( Special mention : Denzel )

There are so many more I could name!

Melisandre121

Liz Lemon!

ratmouse

Buster from Arrested Development

Duff

Haven't read past the first page to see if he's been mentioned, but Ari Gold.

The Strawman Argument

Victor Meldrew
Has some great rants and wonderfully pessimistic lines; but he's also pretty much always in the right, clearly much more genuinely intelligent than most british sitcom characters and is regularly shown to have quite good intentions. David Renwick clearly had a strong affinity for the character that's apparent throughout.


I find it weird that One Foot in the Grave seems to never get mentioned by anyone anymore. People's recollections of it as being like Keeping Up Appearances and the like are quite off so that could be why, the show has some genuinely fantastic silly and dark humour littered throughout. I rewatched it all a few years ago and was crying with laughter at a lot of episodes, really surprised me. Basically every episode in series 2-5 is constructed incredibly well.

catallus

They'll never know

s8n

Larry David

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paconnors

Onslow - Keeping Up Appearances

emigrate2012

Jack donahuge 30 rock, "this is it lemon, 'i'm Reganing"......

Diabhal Beag

Malcolm Tucker from Thick of It
Animal Control and Jean Ralphio from Parks and Rec

Optimalprimerib

Rafi, taco or andre from the league.
Sterling Archer

J Cheever Loophole

Probably mentioned already - Sergeant Ernie Bilko - class never grows old.

I recall an extract from the TV pages of the NME back in the mid-eighties, with a comment under The Phil Silvers Show which read - "A pearl amongst pig sh!t".

Conall Cernach

The Strawman Argument wrote: »

Victor Meldrew
Has some great rants and wonderfully pessimistic lines; but he's also pretty much always in the right, clearly much more genuinely intelligent than most british sitcom characters and is regularly shown to have quite good intentions. David Renwick clearly had a strong affinity for the character that's apparent throughout.


I find it weird that One Foot in the Grave seems to never get mentioned by anyone anymore. People's recollections of it as being like Keeping Up Appearances and the like are quite off so that could be why, the show has some genuinely fantastic silly and dark humour littered throughout. I rewatched it all a few years ago and was crying with laughter at a lot of episodes, really surprised me. Basically every episode in series 2-5 is constructed incredibly well.

Cat in fridge, plant in downstairs toilet, the tortoise, Mrs. Warboyce shutting his vegetable in the door. Brilliant!