Whats the funniest British comedy show in history?

Question

League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, Fawlty Towers, Catherine Taite, Fools and Horses cmon theres sooo many which makes you chuckle the most?

Answer 1

Only fools and Horses or The two Ronnies.

And to Cartman...your name tells us just how good your sense of humour is!

Answer 2

I would round it down to Fawlty Towers and Monty Python's Flying Circus, although most of what's been mentioned is absolute genius.

Cartman- I think you're missing the point a little there, American comedy does have quite a difference from British comedy, although they do buy our ideas- did you know Cosby was based on One Foot In The Grave? I do like Frasier because it's clever and Curb Your Enthusiasm but I very rarely laughed at stuff like Friends, it just wasn't my kind of humour.

Answer 3

Frazier - British? it may have a strong british input but it wasnt British
Father Ted - British? it may have been made by HatTrick but it was very much an Irish program

As others have alredy said humour is a very personal thing, its also a generational thing - whats funny to earlier generations isn't neccesarily funny to others - Personally I find "Vicar of Dibley cringemaking", as "One foot in the Grave" in fact most of the 80's & 90's self styled comedies unfunny.

Ronnie Barkers stuff seems to tbe the most consistent over time
Porrige, Open All Hours to name just two

In the sixites Dick Emery & Benny Hill made me laugh but most of all Spike Milligan

In the eighties I found sketch shows like Naked Video very funy (I thought Young Ones funny, but not that funny (its very dated looking back at it), Not the Nine O'Clock News likewise. The eighties seemed to mark the start of the unfunny comedians and comedy programmes

In the nineties Only Fools & Horses & Alan Partridge (also liked the ealier characters from Steev Coogan (such as the Calfs)

Of the new generation of comedies I find Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and Max & Paddy will ding dang do for me.

The office cringemaking,
Blackadder - lost it after the first series
Chef! didnt
much of modern output seems to be comedic road crash - you watch it out of expectation that it couldn't possible get worse and sadly it did / does

Answer 4

Here are my favorites (I'm American):

Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
Red Dwarf
Bernard Cribbins
Doctor In The House (the original)
Are You Being Served?
Black Adder (all series)

Answer 5

Fawlty Towers still makes me laugh.

Little Britain

The Fast Show was good at the time

Only Fools and Horses is a real classic

I used to love' Allo 'Allo when I was a kid

Its really hard to just pick one!!!

Answer 6

Fawlty Towers. Or maybe Spaced. Or The Leauge Of Gentlemen. And The Office ? How can I choose ?!?!?

Answer 7

Goodness Gracious Me
Monty Python & The Flying Circus!
Coupling!
Blackadder!

Answer 8

Undoubtedly Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Answer 9

Blackadder, although I've seen them all so many times now. Just imagine how funny the Young Ones used to be. By the way, if anyone's thinking of getting into Blackadder I'd suggest starting at Blackadder 2 and leaving the original The Black Adder until last just so that you can get more used to the scenario. Drop the Dead Donkey was fantastic but it was topical so it's out of date now.

Answer 10

Little Britain and Catherine taite are both great but Catherine taite wins over all , i love that show , on a resent holiday they played it on the plane , it made the flight go so much quicker !!

Answer 11

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Fawlty towers
Robin's Nest
Mother and Son
Benny Hill