Britcom Deathmatch

[Chovexani]

Poll question: Britcom Deathmatch

Which is your favorite? (Monty Python's not listed because let's face it, it's in a league of its own)

I love all these shows, but for me it's a three-way tie between Blackadder, AbFab and Father Ted. Though one episode of Blackadder stopped being funny after 2000...who knew the Rotten Borough was in Florida?

[warrens]

1. What, no Fawlty Towers????

[Chovexani]

3. OMG!

I'm a moron. I'll fix it.

[DS1]

2. Black Adder, Father Ted, and I'm beginning to like "I am Alan Partridge"

:-)

[Chovexani]

5. FECK!

:D

[DS1]

7. Him "exiting" the airliner is one of the best comedy sequences ever

:D

[Chovexani]

8. I know!

...and the drink cart! :rofl:

[acmavm]

4. Okay I was forced to vote for Keeping Up Appearances. I love

Hyacinth, Richard, Rose, Daisy, Onslow and Daddy.

I equally love Absolutely Fabulous. Patsy and Edina are classic.

But you forgot Benny Hill.

[Chovexani]

6. Great, cheers, thanks alot

:)

(I'll stick Benny up there, there's one more slot)

[acmavm]

10. Benny Hill was so crazy. Very sexist. But he was one person who made

fun of both men and women, so it didn't really bother me. But he was a very very funny and clever man.

[DS1]

13. Oh bullshit

Oh look, a short balding old man. Let's see if it's funny if I film myself tapping his head with the recorder speed turned down.

Nope, not funny. Run it anyway.

[DS1]

11. No

That would be like

Zepellin
The Who
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Animals
Yardbirds
nSync

[Chovexani]

15. You just don't understand the musical genius

That is Justin Timberlake. :evilgrin:

*runs away*

[DS1]

9. Benny Hill was a worthless piece of shit that gives Britcoms

a bad name.

Well, actually, in America he gives Britcoms a good name because as you'll find out if you turn on your television any given night of the week, Americans just love to be forcefed unadulterated shit.

[Chovexani]

12. It's brainless drivel

But I can't help laughing at it. It's my tv crack, I know it's bad for me but I can't help myself.

[maxsolomon]

14. hyacinth bucket drives me stark raving

i hate her so much i have to remind myself it is FICTION.

abfab i could watch for 24 hours straight.

[supernova]

18. Hyacinth is my sister in law

without the medication. :crazy: Imagine Hyacinth on prozac and xanax. But the rest of it is all there: the greed for material weath, the need to brush up against the wealth and powerful, the need to show it off.

Except that my brother doesn't have Richard's middle managment salary. Sad, really.

[Chovexani]

19. Hyacinth

I can't help but laugh my ass off at Hyacinth because I have relatives who act exactly like her. It's like free therapy for me.

I'm with you on AbFab...I'm obsessed with it to a scary degree. My absolute favorite episode has to be the one where they went to Marrakesh and Patsy sold Saffy into white slavery. :rofl: The best was at the very end, when they were leaving and the hunky Moroccan kid winked at Saffy, implying they'd done the deed. I was so happy, Saffy finally scored! :D

[yellowdogintexas]

37. another one who is up to here with Hycainth Bucket

I know I spelled it wrong and I don't much care

The OTHER characters on the show just crack me up though, especially Onslow and Daisy


I also like

Allo Allo
Goode Neighbors
To the Manor Born
Vicar of Dibley
Last of the Summer Wine
Waiting For God

[DS1]

16. Benny Hill voters are going on ignore

I know who you are, I can smell your lack of taste

[acmavm]

17. Geez, I don't know how I'll survive. I'm shattered.

.

[miss_kitty]

20. Benny hill and Are you being served?

They were funny?

Where's the Vicar of Dibly, Drop the Dead Donkey, Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave, Black Books, The Young Ones and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin?

Right on with Blackadder, AbFab, Fawlty Towers and Monty Python. But the rest, I gotta say "meh". Tedious to say the least, except I must say I have never seen Father Ted or The Office. So I won't pass judgement there. :)

[Chovexani]

22. Man, only 10 slots

Gimme a break. :) I never saw much of the Young Ones, just a few episodes here and there when they played it on Comedy Central, but I did like what I saw.

Are You Being Served is funny to me just because I used to work in a department store (though it wasn't nearly as upscale). And I have a special place in my heart for snarky queens.

re:Father Ted and The Office: Have you ever seen that movie Office Space? The Office is basically that, as a tv show, only twice as funny (and I love Office Space, so that's saying something). NBC put on a bastardized American version last fall that mercifully died a quick death.

Father Ted is hilarious. If you get BBC America, they play it a lot, so you need to check it out. My SO got me hooked on that show. It's about these three priests in a hick town on this island. Father Ted was banished there for something (it's escaping me now), Father Dougal is the young, dumb priest and Father Jack is this insane old priest that constantly screams for drinks and girls.

It has to be seen to be believed.

[miss_kitty]

26. I know there are only ten spots-I was being kinda

bitchy. I worked in a dept store and NEVER found AYBS funny. i think it panders to the worst stereotypes and is pretty much a one 'joke' show. That being said, what one finds humourous or not is a complex personal thing, and I guess I meant to be a comedy snob there, but it was thoughtless of me, and I shouldn't have.

Sorry. :hi:

I don't get BBC America (I was all set to but they ADVERTISE!:puke: and they ditched Eastenders), but we have a great video store in town here and they probably have Father Ted and The Office available. I have heard of both, never saw them. I'll check them out sometime!

[FuzzySlippers]

27. I love the Vicar of Dibley, too.

I'm very upset it was left off the poll.:grr:

[tjwmason]

21. Yes [Prime] Minister

Which other country would even think of setting a sit-com in government? That merest fact proves what a bunch of cynics we are over here - the fact that it was simultaneously hilarious (one of very few things which has elicited an audible laugh from beneath my stiff-upper-lip) and accurate merely pushes it further into the stratosphere of comedic genius.

Oh, and Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and AbFab - with the current Tory leadership contest coming in 5th.

[Chovexani]

23. Those Tories are a pretty big joke aren't they?

:D

I haven't seen YPM, but I keep hearing about how funny it is. I'll have to, uh, "acquire" it from my usual ill-gotten sources. ;)

[miss_kitty]

28. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were very funny

I loved the way Sir Humphrey manipulated Hacker and the occasions Hacker got the upper hand.

[ghostsofgiants]

24. Black Books would take them all on at the same time...

And crush them like ants.

[Chovexani]

30. Never seen that one, what's it about?

With all the crappy reality shows on this summer, I find myself watching nothing but anime, Britcoms, and baseball.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. TV.com's summaray...

Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's worst-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who (in the first series) runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. (In the second, her shop was neither seen nor mentioned.) Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme or violent or fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre.

http://www.tv.com/black-books/show/5108/summary.html

[Chovexani]

32. That sounds right up my alley

Thanks, I'll have to check it out. :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

33. It's absolutely hilarious

Dylan Moran is so surley, I love it.

[Trigger Hippie]

25. Absolutely Fabulous!!!

Funniest show evah. :)

[Chovexani]

29. Sweetie darling!

Oh god, I'm such a dork, I know that episode.

Eddie's speech in front of the traffic court judge is hands down the funniest speech I've ever heard on tv. I've seen that episode maybe a dozen times and it never fails to leave me cackling on the floor.

"Why not just tax the stupid people?!"

[Trigger Hippie]

34. Yeah, I love that episode

Just the clothes Eddy wears in that one are fabulous... And another one of the great "falling down out of a car" scene.

"Getting rid of the car was a bit of a false economy, wasn't it sweetie?"

[Chovexani]

35. Patsy's road rage cracks me up too

...and waiting to be serviced in the supermarket.

It was just wall-to-wall comedy gold. To this day I can't look at insulation without cracking up.

[SidDithers]

36. Little Britain is a good current one...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebritain/

Sid

[u4ic]

38. Out of the ones listed

I think the edge goes to Blackadder, with AbFab and Fawlty Towers rounding out the place and show.

Add Vicar of Dibley to the mix...:shrug: quite possibly a dead heat with AbFab. So many great Britcoms, I can't choose.

And I agree about Yes, Minister and Yes, PM...what a fabulous show.

[PittPoliSci]

39. How about Spaced?

Big up to my main man Simon Pegg.

Or how about Ali G? He's British, it should count.