Your favourite or least favourite comedy

ghogie91 · 09-12-2013 11:43AM

I thought the Royal Family was brilliant

I actually hated Father Ted for years (although I really didnt give it a chance) but then got to love it.

I absolutely hated The Office UK. This the US version is brilliant

D-FENS · 09-12-2013 11:57AM

Fav’s have all been mentioned here – Day Today, Brass Eye, Partridge, Blackadder, Peep Show, Curb, Louie and also loved Game On when Ben Chaplin was in it

Worst ever was Give My Head Peace – an ex’s dad used to watch it on a Friday night when I called around for her, just torture. It may have played a part in our break up, now that I think of it.

Vicar in a tutu · 09-12-2013 12:01PM

D-FENS wrote: »

Fav’s have all been mentioned here – Day Today, Brass Eye, Partridge, Peep Show, Curb, Louie and also loved Game On when Ben Chaplin was in it

Worst ever was Give My Head Peace – an ex’s dad used to watch it on a Friday night when I called around for her, just torture. It may have played a part in our break up, now that I think of it.

Give My Head Peace was brilliant !

gobnaitolunacy · 09-12-2013 12:01PM

Faves:
Only Fools and Horses, before they tried, well...flogging a dead horse.
Father Ted, probably need a successor, the quotable quotes are getting overplayed by now.
Some classic Britcoms, Blackadder, Rising Damp, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf.
Early Simpsons and early to mid Family Guy, both went to sh*t in latter years.
Futurama.
Early Irish candid camera stuff, that Fran Dempsey and Mike Murphy used to do. Don't think the modern RTE shows of the same format can hold a candle to them.

Least:
Mrs Brown's Boys, panto for grown ups.
The Office, too cringy to find it funny.
Most US comedy, can go through Big Bang Theory shows without so much as a snicker.
Cha and Miah, never found those fcukers remotely funny ever.

Green Giant · 09-12-2013 12:19PM

Loves:
Father Ted - every episode is a nailed-on classic, comedy at its finest
The Simpsons - admittedly on life support in recent years but the 90s episodes were divine
Only Fools and Horses - brilliant moments and quality acting
That 70s Show - had some fantastic lines...oh, and Mila Kunis!
The IT Crowd - wacky but hilarious
The Detectives - a hidden gem with Jasper Carrott forming one half of a bumbling, yet remarkably successful, police duo
Not Going Out - again, seemingly not well known, but you'd be hard pressed to find two sharper comedians than Lee Mack and Tim Vine
The Inbetweeners - I was a latecomer to this but I've made up for lost time since

Hates:
The Vicar of Dibley - don't find Dawn French one bit funny
My Family - yawn
The Mario Rosenstock Show - a shame that a witty individual has sold his soul and tainted his glowing reputation from Gift Grub
Anything with Katherine Lynch

jimgoose · 09-12-2013 12:28PM

My favourites would include Fawlty Towers, Blackadder Goes Forth, Red Dwarf and Yes Minister/Prime Minister. As for my least favourite, they would include, but not be limited to, Only Fools And Horses and Steptoe And Son. Maybe it's me, but as far as I'm concerned they're not funny.

FouxDaFaFa · 09-12-2013 12:31PM

Love:
Frasier, Louie, Parks and Rec, Party Down, Flight of the Conchords, Father Ted, Green Wing, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Spaced, Freaks and Geeks, Pramface (recently on BBC), The IT Crowd, It's Always Sunny, Gavin and Stacey, Curb your Enthusiasm, Daria.

Dislike:
Mrs Brown's Boys, Miranda

I've been meaning to check out The Thick of It for a while now. Thread has convinced me.

My heartfelt plea to the people of AH is to please, please watch Darkplace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4mhibTfaBA

Yamanoto · 09-12-2013 12:38PM

Faves: The Larry Sanders Show, Peep Show, Yes Minister & Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter NOT Martin Clunes)

A scourge on mankind: My Hero, Goodness Gracious me & Birds of a Feather

razorblunt · 09-12-2013 12:42PM

While I'm aware that humour and taste varies from person to person I despair wildly at The Big Bang Theory, though the same can be said for all the canned laughter type comedy shows:

Actor 1: are you going to just sit there on the couch all day?
Actor 2: (usually the quirky, eccentric, loveable awkward character): <dramatic pause> <weird eye movement> .... Yes!

Cue raucuous audience laughter.

Actor 1: oh youuuuuu

Cue pants wetting in the audience.
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I think Tosh 2.0 does "found internet footage" very well though.

Welsh Megaman · 09-12-2013 01:39PM

Thumbs up: Anything that credits Armando Iannucci or Chris Morris as a writer, the work of Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-head, King Of The Hill).

Thumbs down: Anything by Seth MacFarlane.

Duggy747 · 09-12-2013 02:47PM

East End Thug :pac:

force eleven · 09-12-2013 02:49PM

Still awaiting re-runs of Leave It To Mrs O'Brien....or at least the digitally re-mastered box set of this classic series...

leahyl · 09-12-2013 03:26PM

Has to be Frasier and Father Ted.

Niles in Frasier is a classic character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c

Senor Chang · 09-12-2013 03:45PM

Favs:
Community (hence the name), even if some of the newer episodes werent up to scratch still love it
The IT Crowd, actually has me laughing out loud
Friends and Fr Ted will always have a place in my heart

I quite like Miranda, clichéd but I still enjoyed it

Hate:
The Big Bang Theory

dark crystal · 09-12-2013 04:03PM

Favourites: The Office (UK), Fawlty Towers, Friends, Father Ted, Alan Partridge.

Least favourite: Family Guy. Christ, it's awful.

Meangadh · 09-12-2013 05:14PM

I forgot Men Behaving Badly as well, some really funny stuff in a good few episodes.

chopper6 · 09-12-2013 05:40PM

My fave comedy at the moment is 'not going out' my least favourite is the 'royale family'

e_e · 09-12-2013 06:44PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUdfdzm0EpU

"That's a hate crime!" Classic.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-12-2013 06:47PM

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

Nostalgia Sandwich. You won't ever take a cookery program seriously again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezh7KjVMf0M

The Estate Agents , I hadn't seen it in a while. A bit like Black Books only darker, not so much a favourite but one that lots of people here haven't seen.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-estate-agents/4od

*hugs 4od*

Scrap Saturday / Hall's Pictorial Weekly - even funnier when you enjoy the misfortune of those on the receiving end

Yes Minister

The Phil Silvers Show / Sargent Bilko

Sean the Sheep , look at what's going on in the background

Peep Show is cringetastic, it may not always be funny but it's emotional unlike a lot of bland filler.

Hates

Hancock's Half Hour. Still don't understand why UK comedians rave about it.

Barbra and similar ITN saturday / early evening sit coms

Upwardly Mobile

Bull Island, they had so much material to choose from and did nothing.

Scrappy Doo

Perhaps a Big Bang Theory drinking game. You take a sip every time the facts about about science or technology are wrong.

Kettleson · 09-12-2013 08:32PM

I've only recently disovered Count Arthur Strong...hilarious IMO... "Still Game" is class too.....

"Count Arthur Strong":

http://youtu.be/5JLfbZixnaY

"Still Game"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-z4iMBFZA

All comedy is good, its just that some is much better then others...

poundapunnet · 09-12-2013 08:44PM

Favourites: Arrested Development, The Simpsons (drawing a veil of decency over the majority of it but eightish seasons of solid fabulousness still earns it a spot), Flight of the Conchords, Father Ted, Hardy Bucks (piss off it's funny), Peep Show, Girls, The Office, most of Alan Partridge, also Fresh Meat can be very funny but it's a bit too "dramedy" to spring to mind as a favourite.

Things that can go **** themselves: 2 and a half men, the big bang theory, dharma and greg and everything else that gobsh1te whatsisname has ever been involved with. This new one called London Irish that my mother insisted on watching, painful. Never seen Mrs Brown, don't intend to.

Things I don't have strong feelings about: Seinfeld and Curb your Enthusiasm, Friends, the US office, Fawlty Towers.

Things that were funny at the time but aren't holding up very well

: the mighty Boosh, Family Guy

Catari Jaguar · 09-12-2013 09:07PM

Favourite: The Simpsons seasons 3 - 8

Show started to decline in season 9

Least Favourite: The Simpsons seasons 10 - present, particularly the few I have seen from season 20. Woeful.

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