Your top 3 british Comedies.

I tried to do a thread similar to this a while back, started to think nobody was interested in BBC comedy, lol

Anyway, my three are

1. Coupling

2. Red Dwarf

3. The IT crowd

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Bottoms brilliant - i watched some of the live perfonaces too - great stuff )

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And one from little britain - brilliant:

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When I saw "Little Britain" and heard the narrator, I thought he sounded a lot like Tom Baker. I was quite surprised to see it was Mr Baker! (The credits move awfully quick to catch his name.)

How could I forget Father Ted? One of the best episodes was the one where he kicks the Bishop in the rear end. The look on the Bishop's face was priceless as he was thinking to himself if what had happened just happened. The end of the episode where he is running toward Father Ted like a mad man with his cape flowing had me hurting I was laughing so hard.

Right off the bat, three that stick in my memory as being my favourites are:
1) Jeeves and Wooster - I believe it's a PBS series but is hilarious in many subtle ways. Stephen Fry and Hugh Lawrie are perfect together.

2) Red Dwarf - I discovered this after it had been on for awhile and got to enjoy catching up with the series in a bachnalian feast of pizza and VCRing.

3) a dozen could go here but that one show with the woman who puts on airs named Hyacinth cracks me up to tears.

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Lil britain. Yeah Tom Baker is cool isn't he. Listen for the last bits as the program closes - 'good bike' is one )

mine are

1/ itcrowd
2/ red dwarf
three is a tie between black adder and father ted

Originally posted by kerrichin
1/ itcrowd
2/ red dwarf

Agreed - I loved the IT crowd one where they went to the theater - thats genius the way that builds and builds!

#3 I'd go with a new one I've just started seeing called Cowards (BBC4 skecth show)

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yeah the threatre one and the one at the funeral ' im sorry for your lose but move on' i love that bit

oh and this






[edit on 30/1/2009 by kerrichin]

Hard to pick three...


In no particular order:

Faulty Towers

The Benny Hill Show

'Allo 'Allo!

just thought of another great episode from it crowd the peter file one thats hilarious.

Red Dwarf

Fawlty Towers

Keeping up Appearances.

A while ago I heard that there was supposed to be a Red Dwarf movie. I'm still looking forward to it, when and if it happens.

I can't narrow it down to three... there are too many!

The Goodies
Kenny Everett
Keeping Up Appearances
Little Britain
Ab Fab
The Vicar of Dibley
Young Ones
Are you being served
Allo Allo

Ok...so thats 9....3 for each personality! haha

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They are filming two new episodes of the series Red Dwarf. It will have the original cast back:

www.digitalspy.com...

Originally posted by kidflash2008
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They are filming two new episodes of the series Red Dwarf. It will have the original cast back:

www.digitalspy.com...

How nice! I have Rimmer as my background screen, and have so for years.

A round of Chicken vin du le for everyone!

I look forward to this, I hope we don't have to wait to long in the States. Maybe the hold up of all this was when Craig Charles was having a bad time with drugs.....plus he was on some soap opera for a time. Could still be, not sure.

Thanks for the information!

for me it's
1)Peep Show
2) IT Crowd
3) The Office (UK version of course)

1.The young ones!
2.Blackadder
3.Bottom
those gotta be my fav
Mr.Bean too

benny hill is a king of comedy..that smirk look at the camera and it's over for me

blackadder is just a quotefest from start to finish,prolly my fav comedy outside python

hafta go for dwarf over the office for the third,every character is a crackup

Another Benny Hill fan here. Whatever happened to him?

Hitchhiker's was good as well.

Originally posted by TheComte

Whatever happened to him?

He died in 1992...


Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne Hill (21 January 1924 – 19 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comedian, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show.