The funniest comedy tv show

[B_i_N]

There's quite a lot of candidates for this one and a lot as funny as Harry Hill, but the one show that really made me laugh the loudest was

Seinfeld (even if it was a Yank show which I normally find as funny as Harry Hill.)

http://www.seinfeld-fan.net/pictures/jerry/jerry_seinfeld013.jpg

[Yeadon Bantam]

Peter Kays PHOENIX NIGHTS

By A Country Mile!

1st series over 2nd, espicially the cowboy night episode when they all fight, Lancashire Vs Yorkshire, piss funny!

[European Bob]

Bloody hell that's like saying fav film or album there's just so many to choose from!

presently i'd go with - peep show, mighthy boosh and scrubs

past - alan partridge, monty python and brasseye

[king billy]

Of all time my fave would have to be fawlty towers!!

The blackadders series were funny - especially the Xmas special one...tup:

League of gentlemen is the funniest thing thats been on TV in the last decade IMO!!

Good shout on Partridge Booshie - the scene where he dresses up in a shower curtain, sticks screws to his nails and cheese biscuits to his skin and uses a kettle flex to look like a tail so he looks like a zombie always has me wetting myself....."I'm a zombie Lynne".....PMSL....:D :D
When someone scrawls "Cock, piss partridge" on his car too FPMSL.....:D

[Kop Kred]

My all time favourite comedian is Groucho Marx… he was light years ahead of his time and is as fresh today as he was in the thirties..

The Goons
TW3
Monty Python
Taxi
Spike Milligan
Marty Feldman
Morcambe and Wise
Cheers
The Young Ones
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
Men Behaving Badly
Steve Coogan
Buzzcocks
Peter Kay

All these can make me laugh again and again…

BUT!!…

There is only one comedy that has made be cry with laughter and literally had be rolling on the floor clutching my sides and that is the great lamented…..

…Only Fools And Horses.:D :D :D

Simply unbeatable in my eyes.jump: jump: jump:


PS BiN...please don't mention H666y H666 again... it makes me nausious.

[B_i_N]

Got to admit the League of Gentlemen was excellent and Cheers in its time was hilarious.
Monty Python did a lot to influence present comedy and Life of Brian is said to be the funniest film ever made.

[Yeadon Bantam]

LOG Was brilliant, gotta admit that,

"just a bit of DIY- Just filling a crack in't wall" PMSL

[Kop Kred]

My all time favourite comedian is Groucho Marks… he was light years ahead of his time and is as fresh today as he was in the thirties..

The Goons
TW3
Monty Python
Taxi
Spike Milligan
Marty Feldman
Morcambe and Wise
Cheers
The Young Ones
Red Dwarf
Blackadder
Men Behaving Badly
Steve Coogan
Buzzcocks
Peter Kay

All these can make me laugh again and again…

BUT!!…

There is only one comedy that has made be cry with laughter and literally had be rolling on the floor clutching my sides and that is the great lamented…..

…Only Fools And Horses.:D :D :D

Simply unbeatable in my eyes.jump: jump: jump:


PS BiN...please don't mention H666y H666 again... it makes me nausious.

I'm PMSL now thinking about the scenes where Delboy fell through the bar, where grandad unscrewed the wrong chandeliere and when 'Batman & Robin' came running through the mist... f'kin hilarious...the wife thinks I've flipped.

[Rick]

Monty Python did a lot to influence present comedy and Life of Brian is said to be the funniest film ever made.

Imagine if they did a life of Ali instead, wonder what the outrage would be like.

[Yeadon Bantam]

Family guy is always good for the laugh! I have every episode! Drop me £5 and you too can own them:D

[B_i_N]

Imagine if they did a life of Ali instead, wonder what the outrage would be like.

FPMSL :D LIFE OF ALI

Imagine.

"He's not the prophet he's a very naughty boy":D

[king billy]

I'm PMSL now thinking about the scenes where Delboy fell through the bar, where grandad unscrewed the wrong chandeliere and when 'Batman & Robin' came running through the mist... f'kin hilarious...the wife thinks I've flipped.

For those who haven't seen the funniest moment ever in TV comedy (the Batman and Robin scene) you've got to see it....

Rodders and Delboy are late for a fancy dress party, dressed as Batman and Robin, a man is mugging a woman down an alley, to take a shortcut Delboy and Rodders run down the alley (to set the scene its foggy) the mugger notices Batman and Robin coming out of the mist running towards him and shits himself - need i say more......PMSL.....:D :D :D

[Yeadon Bantam]

Sounds funny!

i like the episode with keith laird in phoenix nights, "Bit of a dog"

"Thats a dog hes drawing"

[Rick]

FPMSL :D LIFE OF ALI

Imagine.

"He's not the prophet he's a very naughty boy":D

More like, He's not the prophet he's a very naughty boy, init :D

[Rick]

Family guy is always good for the laugh! I have every episode! Drop me £5 and you too can own them:D

So you'll have seen the one where he goes to get some milk and ends up in the AHA take on me music video :D

[king billy]

Found it on youtube.....tup:

Batman and Robin scene....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUqqzKmL8z4

Delboy falling thro the bar....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emyd0xZ7rAE


Enjoy....:D :D

[king billy]

Alan Partridge "Zombie" scene.....:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJizBpKdJsc

[Rick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcW-IrZe6aI

"One more turn Del"

"Right, Brace yourself Rodney"

[Rick]

Whilst on You tube looking for Only Fools and Horses I just found this :D

Someone has put some Only Fools and Horses over the top of Thomas the Tank engine :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0RsVk-G70&mode=related&search=

[Kop Kred]

Some Groucho quotes... Genius!jump: jump:

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.




I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Remember, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more than she's ever done!

Room service?…. Send up a larger room.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.


Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Women should be obscene and not heard.

[B_i_N]

FROM A LIFE OF ALI

Soldier "Which one is Ali, you can go free"

Crucified person "I'm Ali"

Soldier "Okay let him down"

Ali "Hey I'm Ali"

Other crucified person "No I'm Ali"

Another Crucified "I'm Ali and so are my WIVES."

[Rick]

FROM A LIFE OF ALI

Soldier "Which one is Ali, you can go free"

Crucified person "I'm Ali"

Soldier "Okay let him down"

Ali "Hey I'm Ali"

Other crucified person "No I'm Ali"

Another Crucified "I'm Ali and so are my WIVES."

We're gettin' in through the underground heating system here, up through into the main audience chamber here, and George Bush wife's bedroom is here. Having grabbed his wife, we inform George Bush that she is in our custody and forthwith issue our demands. Any questions?

What exactly are the demands?

We're giving George Bush two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the West's Imperialist State, and if he doesn't agree immediately, we execute her.

[B_i_N]

Ali "But I'm the prophet"
Mum "No you can't be"
Ali "Why"
Mum "Because your father was a Jew"
Ali "A Jew! What was his name?
Mum "Ishak EmAl"

[Mallorcabantam]

In no particular order ---

Groucho, W C Fields, Monty Python, the great Spike Milligoon , peter Kay (stand up only)
and as a tv series -- "Soap" - confused - you soon will be

[Parrot]

This took some beating for 70s British comedytup:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/risingdamp/risingdampIMAGE/risingdamp.jpg

[tony d]

The ones below are my faves from the past. But for me nothing beats Fawlty Towers.....
LOG was a sheer masterclass of black comedy but i don't know if i would personnally follow the trend and punt it with "Sitcoms"....

Flowery Twats
I'm Alan Partridge
Blackadder
Men Behaving Badly
Red Dwarf
New Statesman
Bottom
Open all hours
Phoenix Nights
The Office

[meelin]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Likely Lads or Dads Army,both still very watchable now.

[Kop Kred]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Likely Lads or Dads Army,both still very watchable now.

Good call on the likely ladsjump: ...

....Got me thinking about other laid back sitcoms....

Just Good Friends - God I was in love with Pennylove:

Yes Minister/Prime Minister - Actually made me laugh a lot and topical tootup:

Citizen Smith - "power to the people"jump:

Dinnerladies - Classic one-liners.:D

[Mallorcabantam]

Dinner ladies was a cracker
I used to watch The Royals for the punch line at the end
Early doors was good too

[ChuckleBantam]

Fools and Horses & Blackadder are the Daddies that raised the bar for every single Britcom to adhere to. They are almost untouchable in their consistency and classic status. Fools and Horses should have ended when they made their money when they sold the watch. I believe Blackadder could still be made today and be as funny. From recent times, The League of Gentlemen is the pretender to their throne down to the sheer quality of it, it's originality and the flawless performances of the cast.

Frasier is the Yank Comedy that set the standards across the Pond and stands head and shoulders above their best of the rest such as Friends etc.

Best of the rest.

Father Ted
Steptoe & Son
One Foot in The Grave
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
Dads Army
Red Dwarf (Series 3-6, the rest is shit)
I'm Alan Partridge
Fawlty Towers
Porridge
The Young Ones
Hi-De-He
Ever Decreasing Circles
Just Good Friends
Drop the Dead Donkey
The New Statesman
Rising Damp
Only When I laugh
Nightingales
The Thin Blue Line
The Brittas Empire

Edit: How the Feck could I forget The Office??!!

[meelin]

Another one from the dim and distant past:

My Wife Next Door - John Alderton and Hannah Gordon.

[Yeadon Bantam]

Brittas Empire was kwality!

So was dads army and dinnerladies!

[california bantam]

you are very correct about seinfeld.its as good if not better than any english comedy.an if you like seinfeld,youd love kerb your enthusiasm,written by larry david.

[B_i_N]

you are very correct about seinfeld.its as good if not better than any english comedy.an if you like seinfeld,youd love kerb your enthusiasm,written by larry david.

Saw an interview with Ricky Gervais once where he said all the characters in Seinfeld were the kind of people who needed putting down, that's what made it so good. I've seen that Larry David show and even though he co-wrote Seinfeld I wasn't too impressed. It reminded me of watching recent material from John Cleese. I can imagine it went down well in the US though.
The problem with Seinfeld is that it has spawned a whole new generation of sitcoms which try to copy it, but fail miserably.

[Jantje]

I like the Larry David show , first saw it in portugal, the only programme i could understand & really enjoyed it

[california bantam]

its deffo tamer ,but has its funny moments.but ya cant beat george an his parents frank an estel.george is supposed to be the real life of larry david(or somewhere near)have ya seen the soup nazi one ???faf.

[Jantje]

Yes & the sniffing dog one with Ted Danson & Michael York in & they are arguing about whether to have splashguards in the Gents!!!!

[B_i_N]

its deffo tamer ,but has its funny moments.but ya cant beat george an his parents frank an estel.george is supposed to be the real life of larry david(or somewhere near)have ya seen the soup nazi one ???faf.

You mean this on? The guy who runs the soup shop which is so popular and he is so strict that people will do anything to get served :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRoRVCCzEk

My favourite Cheers episode was when Frazier and Lilleth met again on TV :D
Also the one with John Cleese is a classic.

[European Bob]

anyone ever watch 15 storeys high.........dark but very funny. i quite liked nathan barley as well but it did shit in the ratings and only ran for 6 eps. chris morris is a genius!

[ernie06]

Dont know if anyone has mentioned it but this one os the "pre qual" to Only fools and......

Open ALL Hours with GGGGGGGGRanville and Nurse gladys emmanual

Pure class and had bit parts for many many Only fool regulars.

Ronnie Barker is pure class and a great foil for Gggggrrranville.

It repeated on sky every day and it still cracks me up...........



Modern day i think the Dr Lazzeroo "subject " is a dark and a wonderful creation.......genius jump:


Dave..... Dave ....... YOUR MY WIFE NOW!!!!!

[beerbantam]

Dont know if anyone has mentioned it but this one os the "pre qual" to Only fools and......

Open ALL Hours with GGGGGGGGRanville and Nurse gladys emmanual

Pure class and had bit parts for many many Only fool regulars.

Ronnie Barker is pure class and a great foil for Gggggrrranville.

It repeated on sky every day and it still cracks me up...........



Modern day i think the Dr Lazzeroo "subject " is a dark and a wonderful creation.......genius jump:


Dave..... Dave ....... YOUR MY WIFE NOW!!!!!


Clarence too was piss funny with Ronnie Barker !tup:

[axel]

Brasseye?

[Herr Doktor]

Having read all the posts I can't remember if anyone has mentioned it already or not but you can't beat Porridge. You can't beat a show that has someone digging up the pitch at Bellend Rd.

Of the more recent stuff, Seinfeld and Scrubs were/are both good.

Also, I have to say that watching a good comedy series is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. As you can gather, I like Swiss Toni as well, just a shame it's on so late on BBC3.

[BantamMenace]

Have to agree with Seinfeld, it is probably my favourite comedy, the things that happen to george and the way he re-acts are priceless, I think the funniest though is The Office. My other favs are Alan Partridge, The Simpsons (mainly just for the Homer and Chief Wiggum parts) and Curb your enthusiasm which is well funny and complety improvised!!! Cant believe a show can be improvised but still be so good.jump:

[Edwin Fitzgerald]

My favourites have to be:
jump: 1. Faulty Towersjump:
jump: 2. Bottomjump:
jump: 3. Blackadder (all)jump:
3 superb comedy shows.tup: tup: tup:

jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop: jawdrop:

[ChuckleBantam]

I can't do with Seinfeld. Pretentious, poorly acted rubbish that barely raises a smile. However, I'm halfway through the first series box set of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is basically a sitcom based around the life of Larry David, the fella who created Sienfeld and despite my reservations, I think it's brilliant! This for me mirrors the character of Frasier in Cheers, I thought he was poor and was a big part of the shows decline but when I got round to watching Frasier it ended up and still is one of my favourite tv shows ever.

[Jantje]

[QUOTE=Liverpool Bhoy;106784] However, I'm halfway through the first series box set of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is basically a sitcom based around the life of Larry David, the fella who created Sienfeld and despite my reservations, I think it's brilliant!

Wesaw a couple of episodes of this on holiday & thought it was brilliant, have you seen the one where the retaurant opening is held up because of the sniffer dog thinking theres a dead body under the floor, & all Larry David is bothered about is getting splashguards in the Gents khazitup: tup: tup:

[ChuckleBantam]

Wesaw a couple of episodes of this on holiday & thought it was brilliant, have you seen the one where the retaurant opening is held up because of the sniffer dog thinking theres a dead body under the floor, & all Larry David is bothered about is getting splashguards in the Gents khazitup: tup: tup:

Nah not seen that one. I've just watched the one where he dictates his wife's recently deceased Aunt's obituary to his agent to put in the paper and "Beloved Aunt" comes out as "Beloved Cunt":D