Best British Sitcom Ever?

[Jairzinho]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

Bullshit this list. No Bottom but the fucking Vicar of Dibley and Dinnerladies makes it? I demand a recount. Radio four poll based on a 42 strong panel of 'comedy experts'.

 

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/feck-father-ted-is-pipped-to-crown-of-best-ever-sitcom-38000238.html

 

20 greatest sitcoms ever

1. Fawlty Towers 

2. Father Ted 

3. I'm Alan Partridge 

4. Blackadder 

5. Dad's Army 

6. Only Fools and Horses  

7. Porridge 

8. The Royle Family 

9. Absolutely Fabulous

10. Dinnerladies

11. The Thick of it

12. The Office

13. Peep Show

14. The Vicar of Dibley

15. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

16. The Young Ones

17. Gavin & Stacey

18. The Good Life

19. Detectorists

20. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Fawlty Towers, I'm Alan Partridge, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses, The Thick of It, The Office, and Peep Show were all fucking brilliant. Porridge was decent but not clearly not better than The Thick of It, The Office and Peep Show. Could never get into Father Ted or The Royle Family. The rest weren't very good. Gavin & Stacey and Dinnerladies...fucking hell.

[Sugar Ape]

Some of those shows have aged badly and shouldn’t be in the top 20.

 

Fawlty Towers is still as funny now as it was when it was first released but Dad’s Army, Reginald Perrin, The Good Life and Likely Lads aren’t very good to watch now imo.

 

Goes without saying Vicar of Dibley, Dinnerladies and Gavin and Stacey shouldn’t be in it. Wasn’t keen on Absolutely Fabulous either.

 

Detectorists is a weird one. I loved it, and Simon and Garfunkel are great characters in it, but top 20 sitcoms of all time? Not for me.

 

Red Dwarf, Bottom and Phoenix Nights all worthy of a place in the top 20. Black books and Friday night dinner are boss too.

[Tony Moanero]

The Royle Family was brilliant. The Thick Of It wasn’t my thing at all, so I barely watched it. Seen the film at the pictures with mates, who were really into it, and fell asleep!

[Stickman]

UK Gold are currently showing Fawlty Towers...(yes again) so I was watching The Psychiatrist last night it's over 40 years old but is still incredibly laugh out loud funny, every episode is just genius as is every character in it.

There's been lots of great British sitcoms that have been mentioned on here but Fawlty Towers is head and shoulders above them all it's no wonder so many have it as number one

 

 

[Sugar Ape]

Fawlty towers is the best overall but the best single season is Blackadder goes forth. And the best episode of that is where  Blackadder is accused of killing Speckled Jim. Has me in bits every time. 

[Dr Nowt]

Bob Massingbird posts on here.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Bottom. 

[Dr Nowt]

Rising Damp is in the conversation for me.  

 

Rigsby is one of the great television characters.

 

Fleabag would jump straight into that list now as well.

[KMD7]

No Bottom or Rising Damp but Gavin and Stacey make the list? Fuck off.

[Strontium]

I can't argue with the ageless brilliance of Fawlty Towers at number 1, but it scares me that there are comedy professionals out there who rate Gavin & Stacey more highly than Yes Minister.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

1 hour ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Bottom. 

GAS MAN!!!!!

[Bjornebye]

Fawlty Towers is rightly number 1. 

 

Some horrors on there though. Bottom not being there is scandalous and The Inbetweeners is better than at least 7 of the shite on there. 

[KMD7]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

Some of those shows have aged badly and shouldn’t be in the top 20.

 

Fawlty Towers is still as funny now as it was when it was first released but Dad’s Army, Reginald Perrin, The Good Life and Likely Lads aren’t very good to watch now imo.

 

Goes without saying Vicar of Dibley, Dinnerladies and Gavin and Stacey shouldn’t be in it. Wasn’t keen on Absolutely Fabulous either.

 

Detectorists is a weird one. I loved it, and Simon and Garfunkel are great characters in it, but top 20 sitcoms of all time? Not for me.

 

Red Dwarf, Bottom and Phoenix Nights all worthy of a place in the top 20. Black books and Friday night dinner are boss too.

I think Dad's Army is still brilliant myself, agree with you on the others though.

[Bjornebye]

To be fair The Likely Lads episode when they are trying to avoid the England score is funny as fuck. 

[stringvest]

1 hour ago, KMD7 said:

I think Dad's Army is still brilliant myself, agree with you on the others though.

Dad's Army is fantastic.  

Reggie Perrin (the original) is brilliant too, quite dark and does touch a nerve for men of a certain age. 

[skend04]

Brexit. Funny, unscripted and neorealist with an untrained cast, it knocks everything into a cocked hat.

[Dr Nowt]

I dunno, Moyes at United was arguably the greatest comedy in human history.

[Lee909]

1,4,5 the picks for me

[The Golden Eel]

Maitre'd: The chef does a very good red mullet.

Eddie:    Oh really?! Well he does a very good Leonard Rossiter, don't you?

Richie:   Oh... Well...

Eddie:    Go on!

Richie:   No, no...

Eddie:    Go on!

Richie:   Oh, all right! It is brilliant! Right. Everybody shut up, shut up! All of you, shut up!

          You! You! Shut it! Now! All right?! 

[VladimirIlyich]

No Early Doors? Better than The Royle Family for me. Dinnerladies? Absolutely Fabulous? Gavin and Stacey? Get to fuck out of it!

[Mudface]

No League of Gentlemen? Or is that not classed as a sitcom?

[Elite]

Biggest omission is Rising Damp. Phoenix Nights is also better than some of the shite on there. I'd even say Time Gentlemen Please is better than Dinner Ladies and The Vicar of Dibley.

[Mudface]

5 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

Some of those shows have aged badly and shouldn’t be in the top 20.

 

Fawlty Towers is still as funny now as it was when it was first released but Dad’s Army, Reginald Perrin, The Good Life and Likely Lads aren’t very good to watch now imo.

 

Goes without saying Vicar of Dibley, Dinnerladies and Gavin and Stacey shouldn’t be in it. Wasn’t keen on Absolutely Fabulous either.

 

Detectorists is a weird one. I loved it, and Simon and Garfunkel are great characters in it, but top 20 sitcoms of all time? Not for me.

 

Red Dwarf, Bottom and Phoenix Nights all worthy of a place in the top 20. Black books and Friday night dinner are boss too.

Does Friday Night Dinner get good? I switched off after about 10 minutes of the first episode, found it excruciatingly unfunny.

[Lee909]

The early few series of Dad's Army are as good now as ever. 

[Lee909]

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

No Early Doors? Better than The Royle Family for me. Dinnerladies? Absolutely Fabulous? Gavin and Stacey? Get to fuck out of it!

 

 

Gavin and Stacey that cunt James Corden on the world so should go in the same bin and Mrs Brown's boys