What is the very best British comedy?

Question

and who is the best comedian?

OK- many yanks saying monty python, what do brits think? (there is a right answer here in terms of TV ratings)

The correct answer is = only fools and horses, it notched up audiences of around 8 million on poor days and 15 million for good days (which is massive in the UK)

Answer 1

The old ones are the best! Only fools and horses, Blackadder & The Young ones..... bring them all back!!!!

Answer 2

God there are so many. Recently ive watched reruns of Blackadder Series 3 & 4, will get round to watching the second series. Peep Show, all 3 series. Smoking Room was very good, older comedies, of course, Monty Python was good, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses is always a classic, Up Pompeii was full of sexual innuendo but in a good way, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, maybe im the only person who likes My Family, i think its funny, Coupling (until Geoff left anyway).

Answer 3

Red Dwarf.

A regular audience of 10 million (not bad for a BBC2 show shown at 9pm on a thursday night).

Also, RD holds the record for the longest continual laugh from a studio audience. Filming had to be stopped for over 15 minutes as the crew couldnt hear the director over the laughter. It makes DelBoy's fall through the bar top seem rather feeble.

As the the Best comedian.... its a toss up between Billy Connolly and Lee Evans.

Answer 4

Eddie Izzard, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Lee Evans, Billy Connolly

Best Series: The Office, Peep Show, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, I'm Alan Partridge

Probably loads i've forgot, british comedy is the best

Answer 5

I believe the Vicar of Dibley ran a huige national poll conducted by the BBC last year. Having said that, I've never met anyone who thinks Dibley was - or is - better than Only Fools and Horses.

OFAH is the usual pick, with the likes of One Foot in the Grave, The Two Ronnies and Fawlty Towers always up their as classics, as well as more recent offerings such as The Office.

Answer 6

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

John Cleese?

Answer 7

I've just watched Comedy COnnections with Only Fools and Horses and as they said in the programme it transcends time.

I can pick up anyone of my OFAH DVDs and know I'm going to be laughing my socks off all the way through.

As for the best comedian how can you separate David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, they work so well off one another

Answer 8

1) Little Britain
2)The Catherine Tate show
3) Only Fools & Horses

Best Comedians are :John Cleese &Kathy Burke

Answer 9

Do Not Adjust Your Set
The Goodies
Nobody is Norman Wisdom
The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
Porridge
2.4 Children

Answer 10

Start Here:
http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/index.html
and
http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/python/index.html
and
http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/benny/index.html
My two choices, Benny Hill, and Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Answer 11

Fawlty towers / Monty python / John Cleese