The Funniest UK Sitcom Of All Time - Round 1. The Royle Family vs Phoenix Nights

[Bjornebye]

Poll will close at 7pm tomorrow. 

 

The Royle Family

 

 

Phoenix Nights

 

 

 

[littletedwest]

Fucks sake  tough one that. Phoenix nights by a whisker 

[Tony Moanero]

The Royle Family. Hands down.

[Bjornebye]

Phoenix Nights for me too. Not even that close really. Royal Family had its moments of course but Phoenix Nights had laugh out loud moments every 2 minutes. 

 

"And the answer to question 7, The Shroud of Turin"

 

"Oh for fuck sake"

"Fuck"

"Argh"

"what did we have?"

"Lisa Stansfield" 

[mgw100]

Phoenix Nights was brilliant. Royle Family was pretty good. Gotta says recent rounds just highlight the paucity of that first thread. Men Behaving Badly for fucks sake

[clockspeed]

59 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Phoenix Nights for me too. Not even that close really. Royal Family had its moments of course but Phoenix Nights had laugh out loud moments every 2 minutes. 

 

"And the answer to question 7, The Shroud of Turin"

 

"Oh for fuck sake"

"Fuck"

"Argh"

"what did we have?"

"Lisa Stansfield" 

 

Based on being in virus  lockdown PN worth a rewatch loads of visual and verbal aside gags that were missed cause you were laughing first time round. 

[manwiththestick]

Phoenix Nights. Just.

[Raymond Duck]

That’s really tough. I love Phoenix Nights but The Royle Family is arguably the greatest of them all.

 

I defy anyone who lived up North as a kid not to see a little glimpse into their family life in there. Great characters, funny, warm and sad in equal measures.

 

I remember my dad crying when Nana died, reminded him of when his Nan (my Nin) passed away. She live in the one of the downstairs rooms in one of those big hospital beds. 
 

I also remember getting sent up the shops and getting a chocolate bar for everyone as a treat. I love that scene, no words for a couple of minutes and just watching it with pure joy on my face.

 

It was consistently brilliant. 

 

 

[KMD7]

Royle Family for me.

[Vincent Vega]

The episode of The Royle Family where Nana dies (The Queen Of Sheba) is one of the greatest things that’s ever been on tv. Jim Royle was like watching my dad brought back to life.

Loved Phoenix Nights as well, but voted The Royle Family.

[Sugar Ape]

Phoenix nights by a distance. The thread is asking for the funniest of the two and The Royle family wasn’t that funny. 

[Chip Butty]

Phoenix Nights

All the way

Fuck the Royles 

and Men Behaving Badly

 

[Vincent Vega]

Where’s The League Of Gentlemen Stig? If that’s been overlooked and Men Behaving Badly included I’m going to write to the lead singer of Echo & The Bunnymen.

[VladimirIlyich]

1 hour ago, littletedwest said:

Fucks sake  tough one that. Phoenix nights by a whisker 

This. Very close one though.

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Where’s The League Of Gentlemen Stig? If that’s been overlooked and Men Behaving Badly included I’m going to write to the lead singer of Echo & The Bunnymen.

It’s not in the 16 

[Vincent Vega]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

It’s not in the 16 

What about The Young Ones?

[Bjornebye]

Oh yes 

[mgw100]

Just now, Vincent Vega said:

What about The Young Ones?

To be fair to Stig, it would have taken ages to get everyone to agree on the 16. As he's said, maybe 32 would have worked but it'll be the same winner in the end. Fair play to him for a bit of fun and getting started without endless debate.

 

Men Behaving Badly though.....

 

 

 

[sir roger]

Phoenix Nights is probably my favourite 'newer' sitcom , bought the scripts on Amazon for 1p and tears were streaming down my face for days.

 

My brother-in-law sang in the clubs for years and the characters and carryings-on  were realised brilliantly. He had a running joke dedicating Simply the Best to me as I fucking hate that song , but unfortunately announced me as his friend one time in a rugby club in St Helen's and I nearly got filled in in the toilets by a couple of local lads who thought we were a gay couple.

[redinblack62]

Phoenix Nights was great but the fact that Paddy McGuinness was in it sours it a bit for me

[sir roger]

Baldy, baldy bouncer

[Bjornebye]

When Brian Potter rings the fella in Stranraer and his phone flashes up with “ironside”

[littletedwest]

"Is he drawing a dog?"

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Royle Family is another one that overstayed its welcome.  The Christmas specials were increasingly desperate.

 

Phoenix Nights had Kenny Dalglish, a song about binbags and a psychic calling someone a nonce. That's all I ask.