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Your Top Ten Comedies Of All Time

  • 08-06-2015 8:58pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭


    Mine:

    1. The Likely Lads/Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
    2. Dad's Army
    3. Only Fools and Horses
    4. Till Death Us Do Part*/In Sickness and In Health*
    5. 'Allo 'Allo
    6. Steptoe and Son
    7. Porridge/Going Straight
    8. The Royle Family
    9. Goodnight Sweetheart
    10. The Vicar of Dibley


    *Just want to qualify these two by pointing out that I laugh at Alf for being an idiot not with him which was what Johnny Speight was trying to achieve anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭lulu1


    My top 5

    Keeping up apperances
    Mrs Browns boys
    Some mother's do have e'm
    Steptoe and son
    One foot in the grave


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    In no particular order .......

    The Royle Family
    The Office
    Men Behaving Badly
    The Good Life
    To The Manor Born
    Don't Wait Up
    Man About the House
    Mildred and George
    Vicar of Dibley
    Terry and June
    Dinnerladies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    In no particular order:

    Frasier
    Fawlty Towers
    Married With Children
    Only Fools And Horses
    South Park
    The Simpsons
    The Thick Of It
    Father Ted
    The New Statesman
    Bottom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    in no particular order.........

    Fr Ted
    Fawlty Towers
    Not Going Out
    The Royle Family
    Only Fools and Horses
    Blackadder
    Friends
    Seinfeld
    Police Squad
    Love and Marriage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    In my opinion, Alan Partridge is the best UK comedy series ever.

    Also Blackadder and The Inbetweeners


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    Only fools
    royal family
    father ted
    blackadde
    inbetweeners
    keeping up appearances
    malcom in the middle
    the middle
    some mothers do ave em
    game on


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Frasier
    OFAH
    Fr Ted
    Ab Fab
    Black Books
    Rising Damp
    Blackadder
    Cheers
    The Inbetweeners
    The Royle Family

    fairly in order as of 8/6/15


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,640 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Saying 'In no particular order' is a bit of a cop-out, to be honest.

    Anyway, in no particular order...

    Father Ted
    Only Fools and Horses
    Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
    I'm Alan Partridge
    The Simpsons (when it was good, i.e. last century)
    South Park
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Married With Children
    Everybody Loves Raymond
    The Office


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    In No Particular Order...

    Fawlty Towers
    Father Ted
    Only Fools & Horses
    Frasier
    Seinfeld
    The Inbetweeners
    Black Books
    Extras
    Arrested Development
    Parks & Recreation


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    In order of objective brilliance:

    1. Duckman
    2. Just Shoot Me
    3. Man Stroke Woman
    4. The Fast Show
    5. Smack the Pony
    6. Absolutely
    7. That Mitchell and Webb Look
    8. Grace Under Fire
    9. Arrested Development
    10. The Mighty Boosh


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,358 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I'm afraid that I will have to go for "In No Particular Order" as well! I would find it hard to rate them in order, apart from Fawlty Towers which would be at No. 1.

    Fawlty Towers
    Yes Minister/Prime Minister
    Fr. Ted
    Rising Damp
    The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin
    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    One Foot in the Grave
    The Good Life
    Mr. Bean
    Not the Nine O'clock News


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭brian_t


    INPO:

    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    The Office
    Fawlty Towers
    The Inbetweeners
    Operation Good Guys
    Coupling
    Veep
    Nighty Night
    The Book Group
    The Worst Week Of My Life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Off the top of my head, and in no particular order...

    Father Ted
    The Day Today
    Sorry!
    I'm Alan Partridge
    The Office
    Extras
    Big Train
    Ever Decreasing Circles
    Seinfeld
    Curb Your Enthusiasm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    I can only narrow it down to 16 :p

    The Larry Sanders Show
    Seinfeld
    Arrested Development
    The Simpsons
    Peep Show
    Fawlty Towers
    Brass Eye
    Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    I'm Alan Partridge
    Father Ted
    The Thick of It
    US Office
    Police Squad!
    It's Garry Shandling's Show


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    In order:
    Dad’s Army
    Fraiser
    Yes Minister
    Daily Show
    Are you being served
    Faulty Towers
    MASH
    To the Manor Born
    ‘Allo ‘Allo
    Benny Hill

    Anything to do with Irish Politics, I'd file under tragedy.


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