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Your favourite or least favourite comedy

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭ghogie91


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭D-FENS


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    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 !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    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.
    ==========

    I think Tosh 2.0 does "found internet footage" very well though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,216 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    East End Thug :pac:




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,585 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Has to be Frasier and Father Ted.

    Niles in Frasier is a classic character.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 Senor Chang


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




    "That's a hate crime!" Classic.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Th!ng wrote: »
    I loved the Paul Hogan show back in the mid 80's.
    Nostalgia Sandwich. You won't ever take a cookery program seriously again.




    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


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

    "Count Arthur Strong":


    http://youtu.be/5JLfbZixnaY

    "Still Game"





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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭poundapunnet


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    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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