Best UK Comedy Series? (NEW EXPANDED)
Submitted by pennini on Sun, 11/30/2003 - 07:12
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What do you think is the funniest of these British comedy Series? Please suggest any you feel merit an inclusion in this poll.
Still Game! I weep over the fact that it's unavailable in the US.
My faves:
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder (esp pts 3,2)
Monty Python
Morecambe and Wise*
Porridge*
Red Dwarf
Only Fools and Horses
The Two Ronnies
Dad's Army
The Good Life
One Foot in the Grave
+
Tommy Cooper show
Dave Allen show
(*= should surely be listed here)
4 of my favourites aren't on the list.
Steptoe & Son
Rising Damp
Citizen Smith
The Detectives
All good uns.
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BRITAIN'S BEST SITCOM (BBC POLL).
Another new (UK) TV series that might be worthy of note over time, is Bedsitcom. It has just appeared over the last few weeks (this December) as a daily reality TV show. It is about six young flatmates who think that they are on a Big Brother type show (except that they are free to go outside, work, study, carry on their normal life). The twist is that three of them are actors/actresses being fed with storylines by a team of writers hidden away in an adjacent flat, keeping (occasional) contact by mobile phone.
Eventually after four or five days, because of the bizarreness of the goings-on, the real flatmates start to suspect something, and the storylines / actors adapt accordingly. One thinks another must be a plant or an actor and confides in someone else (who also happens to be an actor) and is put off the scent, or another of the (real) flatmates is accused of being an actor by the actor instead. Finally one of the actors confesses that he and a colleague are actors, except that his 'colleague' is one of the real flatmates, and confusion reigns.
Plotlines include secretly wearing women's clothing, being gay, being an outrageous womaniser, one of the actor's pet goldfish dying whilst being looked after by one of the real flatmates (one of the other actors convinces him to buy a look-alike replacement, volunteers to buy it for him, and of course it looks very different). Outsiders (actors) are also introduced, such as a girlfriend, a frail old grandmother, petshop assistants.
Once the game is blown, everyone admits the truth, and the writers show, and the real flatmates freak out.
The next day - a new group of 'real' flatmates appear - with different plotlines.
It is an absolute riot.
Monty Python's Flying Circus is not only the best and greatest UK series ever, but the standard by which all sketch comedy shows (SNL, Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Upright Citizens Brigade, etc.) have been judged by.
Personal faves:
Python
Fawlty Towers
the entire Black Adder series
The Office
And I have such fond memories of my dad letting me stay up late to watch Benny Hill
I agree with you Monty Python's - it was the greatest and set the standards, but over the (many) years it has been overtaken (IMHO) by Fawlty Towers and Blackadder, and probably in time they will also be overtaken by others. I love The Office, but it is not up to Blackadder or Ali G.
My personal favourites would be.....
1. Blackadder
2.Dads Army
3.Im Alan Partridge
4.Bottom
5.The Office
Am also very fond of "Red Dwarf, "Phoenix Nights" and of course "Mr Bean".
Feel free to suggest new entries into the poll.
I reckon u should put in "the vicar of dibley" or "
french and saunders"
My favorite is by far Red Dwarf
The Strangerers was made by the same team as Red Dwarf, but it seems to have disappeared after the first series.
It was about a pair of inept aliens visiting Earth, supposedly under the supervision of a supervisor who is run over by a truck at the very beginning of the first episode. They carry his head around with them in a holdall from then on. Without their supervisor the two bumbling Cadets have no idea what their mission entails.
The aliens are of vegetable in nature but have taken on human form. In certain episodes they are learning about their human bodies. Their attempts at sleeping (when their human bodies have become very tired), and at eating (when they have become hungry), and then subsequent toilet activities are all hilarious. As long as I live I shall never forget the scene when one needs to move his bowels and he thinks a snake is trying to climb out of his nether hole, and his fellow alien gets up close to see if he can see what is happening to his bent-over colleague.
They sometimes add 'er' to the end of words, such as humaner or burgerer (hence the name 'The Strangerers').
Catch it if you can.
My favourites;
1. Blackadder
2. Yes, Prime Minister
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Ali G
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
6. The Strangerers
Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights, Only Fools and Horses, or Bottom would not even come in my top twenty.
The very first Mr Bean (initially made as a one-off) was simply brilliant, and so successful that they had to make another. The second was also brilliant, so they made another and another ... but after the second I thought that they deteriorated and thinned out.
Dont know how i left out ali g. Will make adjustments at once.