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Best comedy series

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by remembercolinlee, Mar 29, 2019.

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Which is tv best comedy series?

  1. Fawlty Towers

    6 vote(s)
    22.2%

  2. Only Fools and Horses

    7 vote(s)
    25.9%

  3. Blackadder

    12 vote(s)
    44.4%

  4. Red Dwarf

    6 vote(s)
    22.2%

  5. Porridge

    2 vote(s)
    7.4%

  6. The Good Life

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  7. The Office

    4 vote(s)
    14.8%

  8. Open All Hours

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  9. Butterflies

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  10. The Young Ones

    2 vote(s)
    7.4%
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  1. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

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    Voted Blackadder and Young Ones, the same writing team Ben Elton, Rick Mayall, Alexi Sayle and Lise Mayer.

    Same team behind the briliant Comic Strip series.
     
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  2. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    My new favourite is Afterlife, Ricky Gervais’ new one.

    ****ing exceptional brilliance.
     
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    Saintmagic Well-Known Member

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    Only seen a few of the ones on the list, of those Only Fools and Horses probably my favourite. Red Dwarf was ****, only saw one episode of Fawlty Towers and didn't like it either

    Favourite comedy though is South Park by quite some distance
     
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  4. E.T. Fairfax

    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    Find yes prime minister incredibly watchable. Well acted and clever as ****
     
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    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    Hancocks half hour
     
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    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    Rising Damp was hitty miss but Leonard rossitters performances were outstanding. As was his cameo in steptoe and son. That episode was the best one
     
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    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    Bottom, porridge, steptoe, Hancock, bilko, early only fools, blackadder 2 to 4, possibly not in order.
     
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    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    Ronnie Barker in porridge. Wouldn't think he was acting. Made it seem effortless. Also held open all hours together. Without him it would have been poor.
     
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    E.T. Fairfax Well-Known Member

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    What about the god damn jaffa cakes asswipe? Yeah? Bullshit! BUUULLLL ****! YEAH! Well Im gonna get Mayor Dooley to....
     
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    Treble Keyser Söze

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    His use of language and wordplay in comic scriptwriting is unsurpassed. Exceptional talent imo.
     
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    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Treble Keyser Söze

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    I think that was his first screen role but I may be wrong. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin was also hitty miss but once again he was outstanding. The same with a lesser known Tripper's Day I think had potential to be the same largely down to Rossitter but sadly he died before enough were made.
     
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    Bald Archie Not606 Official Lurker

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    Can't ignore the writing genius of Graham Linehan. Responsible for Father Ted, Black Books, and the IT Crowd.
     
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    Love that show, ****ing bonkers. Rik Mayall was a legend.

    Also loved Filthy, Rich and Catflap. Only ran for 1 series, but you can see the direction it was going as the characters morphed into the Dangerous Brothers, then on to Bottom.

     
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    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    I still watch Bottom now, I even thought about having a pickled onion sandwich the other day.
     
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    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    Can't believe I missed out father Ted...was ****ing genius comedy
     
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    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Toast of London!!!! Matt Berry is very funny.
     
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    Father Ted for me.
     
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    A pickled onion sandwich, my favourite
     
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