Your List of Worst British Comedies

You can always tell a British comedy by it not being funny.

Not really fair. Of course there are lots and lots of unfunny British comedies, but most of the best comedies are British also. Fawlty Towers, Royle Family, The Office, Spaced, Blackadder, Phoenix Nights, to name but a few off the top of my head.

Miranda is awful. Also thought Dad's Army was pure crap.

Hmm, Citizen Smith captures that whole absurdity of a 1970s urban revolutionary brilliantly! There is plenty of really awful and completely non-PC stuff from the early seventies. Last of the Summer Wine would be on my list, never got its popularity at all. The Brittas Empire would also be on it. Mrs Brown too, even though I know it appeals to a lot of people. To finish off the list I'd add Lunch Monkeys and an Amanda Holden thing called Mad about Alice.

Oh No it's Selwyn Froggitt.

On the Buses.

Goodnight Sweetheart.

Last of the summer wine was sh1t

Dishonourable mention Mrs Brown

Didn't particularly like Keeping Up Appearances, one joke: snobby housewife vs dole jockey relatives done to death.

Us remake will likely be even worse...there remakes are generally abysmal...skins...Kath and Kim...Gavin and Stacey...

Gavin and Stacey - mind numbingly boring storylines and poorly acted hammy rubbish... nothing funny about it.

Miranda - not a single character was likable or relatable just a bunch of really annoying people and the set looked like it might fall apart if you put the radio on too loud.. Miranda = quirky is not the same as Miranda = funny....

Summer Wine in its heyday was very funny I thought, a bit obvious and repetitive at times but Bill Owen, Brian Wilde, Peter Sallis, Kathy Staff, that era but by the time it finished it was clearly just a poor and unfunny pastiche of its past, the humor was forced, the acting poor and hammy... Roy Clarke should have known when to finish, he didn’t... Russ Abbot was fûcking beyond dreadful in it, as was Brian Murphy, neither could act, the originals certainly could act and the writers trying to slowly turn Glenda into her mother was a dreadful and not good weird idea.

The formulaic stuff repeated over the decades like George and Mildred, Ever decreasing circles, Terry and June, Keeping Up Appearances, etc are dreadful.

80-90% of those are awful anyway.

Way more misses than hits.

Outnumbered.

Benidorm.

Blackadder.

'Allo 'Allo

Comedy is so subjective though, what I find funny, someone else will think diabolical. We can't all like the same things. I love Friday Night Dinner but know that some people would rather pull their toenails out than watch it.

Someone mentioned It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

I heard an interview with Sanjeev Bhaskar recently who said that that programme was very popular among the Indian community.

Even though Alan Bates may well have played the part of an Indian, in blackface, but he spoke fluent Hindi and dropped phrases and sentences in Hindi into the script which gave the Indian audience much amusement.

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. There was a time when this was quite popular and I could never figure out why.

Yep. Michael Nates, who was also the original cast member of LOTSW. Mental note: always check😫😁