Your favourite or least favourite comedy

HomelessMidge · 09-12-2013 01:09AM

Reno 911 is a pretty funny series, some South Park can be very funny too.

Never found Frasier funny.

ringadingding · 09-12-2013 01:10AM

The early only fools and horses

AgileMyth · 09-12-2013 01:11AM

I enjoyed Friends when it came out, although I was a child at the time. Watched an episode recently and it really is awful, not a single laugh in it.

Theres a lot of bad american comedies recently. Big bang theory and 2 and a half men are both awful but have done very well.

Cheers and Frasier are the best of American comedy. Fawlty Towers and Father Ted probably the best from this side. I may be biased about Father Ted though, coming from the west of Ireland.

Monty Python made two of the finest movies of all time. I don't just mean comedy movies either.

Since its Christmas I'll give Home Alone a mention. Fantastically well put together.

Totally forgot The Simpsons too.. For a few series it was pure genius. Pity they kept making it.

April O Neill II · 09-12-2013 01:15AM

Muise... wrote: »

Heresy: my least favourite is Fawlty Towers.

I don't really like FF.

And I actively dislike Curb Your Enthusiasm.

April O Neill II · 09-12-2013 01:16AM

extra gravy wrote: »

Favourite is definitely Frasier...clever, witty and original.

Except when depicting British people. Daphne and her family are embarrassing.

Other than that, great show. Love Niles and Roz.

grohlisagod · 09-12-2013 01:19AM

April O Neill II wrote: »

Except when depicting British people. Daphne and her family are embarrassing.

Other than that, great show. Love Niles and Roz.

The way they deal with Maris is brilliant.

Degag · 09-12-2013 01:20AM

Has to be Frasier. Not such a fan of the last series or 2 but it was a fantastic show. David Hyde Pierce made it for me. A really great actor.

Honourable mentions go to Inbetweeners, Father Ted, Blackadder, Only Fools and Fawlty Towers.

El Weirdo · 09-12-2013 01:23AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwW3ytid4DA

April O Neill II · 09-12-2013 01:33AM

grohlisagod wrote: »

The way they deal with Maris is brilliant.

Indeed, but when people say how smart it is, I mostly agree, but cannot believe how badly they went wrong with Daphne's AWFUL family. Like something out of Oliver Twist. I can't watch any episode in which they feature.

The Th!ng · 09-12-2013 01:34AM

I loved the Paul Hogan show back in the mid 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9-ZST7qzek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO0PI9I9IM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vruJVx5CNvo

Kettleson · 09-12-2013 01:36AM

Ripping Yarns. And that Count John what's his name. Superb.

April O Neill II · 09-12-2013 01:38AM

Degag wrote: »

Has to be Frasier. Not such a fan of the last series or 2 but it was a fantastic show. David Hyde Pierce made it for me. A really great actor.

Niles is such a great character.

My faves?

Well I'm a classic Simpsons whore, it's my No.1 I'm talking seasons 2-8 with a few from season 9.

Others:
Black Books
Father Ted
Blackadder
South Park
Early Friends (seasons 1-5ish) - don't care how "uncool" this makes me
Arrested Development
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners
Eastbound and Down
Spaced

There's more that I can't think of now.

Alfred Borden · 09-12-2013 01:39AM

Favourites would be the inbetweeners, early seasons of HIMYM and Southpark

never liked Father Ted so thats my least favourite, followed by the IT crowd and the terrible Big Bang

padd b1975 · 09-12-2013 01:58AM

Favourite is Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Least favourite would be Two Pints of Lager and A packet of crisps, utter sh1te!!

Yamanoto · 09-12-2013 02:33AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Least favourite: M*A*S*H. Maybe it's because I'm so dementedly anti-war and I hate anything that tries to normalise it but also because (I think) it was on before The Simpsons for years when I was younger and I had to endure it until I could see Homer do his thing.

Could be that a lot of the shows subtext was lost on your younger self.

M*A*S*H was decidedly anti-war & anti-authority in tone, with the more hawkish characters often being the butt of the jokes for their unthinking jingoism. All the while, an endless stream of young men damaged physically and mentally by battle were sensitively portrayed, in a manner which left the viewer in little doubt as to just how futile the whole endeavour appeared to many of the medics serving in the field.

Lapin · 09-12-2013 02:35AM

Only Fools and Horses.

Vicar of Dibley. :mad:

stefan idiot jones · 09-12-2013 07:37AM

Alpha Papa, Alan Partridge's new film is utterly superb.

The American Office, The American Inbetweeners, The American Fawlty Towers, The American Shameless can F.O.A.D.

Vicar in a tutu · 09-12-2013 07:44AM

It's alway's sunny, Absolutely Fabulous, Married with Children, Bob's Burgers, The Inbetweeners, Father Ted, Bad Education.. I like them.

I dislike 2 broke girls, 2 and a half men, the big bang theory, family guy ( utter sh!te that tries way too hard )

Real Life · 09-12-2013 08:43AM

Favs: The Office (UK), Arrested Development, Curb your enthusiasm

Least Fav: Only Fools and Horses, Big bang theory

SmilingLurker · 09-12-2013 08:45AM

Great: Life of Brian, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Big Bang Theory, Father Ted

I hate: Mr Bean, Mrs Browns etc, The office (sorry may be in a minority of one)

MRnotlob606 · 09-12-2013 08:56AM

i like monty pythons flying circus and harry enfield,

Xavi6 · 09-12-2013 09:37AM

Fav: Father Ted, UK Office, Only Fools and Horses, Alan Partridge, The Inbetweeners, Simpsons, Malcolm In The Middle

Quite like: Modern Family, Teachers, Family Guy, Futurama

Hate: Big Bang Theory :mad:, Mrs Brown's Boys :mad:, Seinfeld, Frasier, 30 Rock, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will & Grace

bradlente · 09-12-2013 09:47AM

It's always Sunny,Louie,Workaholics,Peep Show,Irish Pictorial,The Blizzard of Odd and Ted of course.

How I met your Mother,Mike and Molly,Loads of other crap that's crap.Father Ted.:P

e_e · 09-12-2013 09:51AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

Quite like: Family Guy

Hate: Seinfeld

We can't be friends.

Meangadh · 09-12-2013 10:02AM

Favourites: Friends, Fr. Ted, A Touch of Cloth, 8 Out of 10 Cats.

Rather pull my nails off: Mrs. Brown's Boys, anything with Katherine Lynch. Comedy is a very personal thing but I genuinely do not understand how anyone finds them funny.

e_e · 09-12-2013 10:59AM

Favorite comedy movies: Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Play Time, This Is Spinal Tap, Modern Times, Anchorman, Dumb & Dumber, Annie Hall, Shaun of the Dead, Dr Strangelove, Four Lions, Black Dynamite, Groundhog Day, Election, In The Loop, In Bruges

Least favorites: The Hangover, Superbad, Epic Movie plus a tonne of similar stuff.

preston johnny · 09-12-2013 11:12AM

Anything with Steve Coogan, Peter Cook and Tony Hancock.

preston johnny · 09-12-2013 11:15AM

e_e wrote: »

Favorite comedy movies: Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Play Time, This Is Spinal Tap, Modern Times, Anchorman, Dumb & Dumber, Annie Hall, Shaun of the Dead, Dr Strangelove, Four Lions, Black Dynamite, Groundhog Day, Election, In The Loop, In Bruges

Least favorites: The Hangover, Superbad, Epic Movie plus a tonne of similar stuff.

What a cracking movie,Chris Morris at his brilliant best.
Rubber dinghy rapids bro..:)

e_e · 09-12-2013 11:17AM

preston johnny wrote: »

What a cracking movie,Chris Morris at his brilliant best.
Rubber dinghy rapids bro..:)

**** Mini Babybel!!!

Duggy747 · 09-12-2013 11:39AM

Police Squad was a brilliant show which was later transformed into the Naked Gun movies.

Also enjoying rewatching Frasier again, genius.

Your favourite or least favourite comedy

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