Monty Python? Have you the faintest idea of what a sitcom is? And not just you looking at some of the other posts on here. Obviously most on here are too young to remember the likes of On The Buses, Terry and June and a whole host of others from the 1970s. They made some of the ones mentioned in this thread look like side-splitting comedy genius.
Two of my favourites i just remembered from reading through, porridge and open all hours. What a genius that man was.
Anyone mentioned Terry n June?? Never The Twain. The Upper Hand?? The Thin Blue Line?? Carmine Father Ted is ****ing genius.
siiigh , i was merely replying to the previous comments about Python - i didnt realise i had to make it necessary to point out its not a sitcom - even though i alluded to it being a sketch show twice in the first paragraph ,
I just thought of another horrific one .....Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Duty Free. Apologies if anyone beat me to it, I cant be arsed to read 8 pages of this. And how has it got on to a discussion about best sitcoms as well? That's a whole other thread.
Mrs Browns Boys is comedy for idiots. It's just bollocks; the comedy is far too obvious. The Morgana Show was ****ing terrible, especially that one she did about the special needs kid, which is awful. Blackadder, Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Porridge...they're all class. I really like surreal stuff (somebody else mentioned it), so Garth Merenghi's Dark Place is probably my favourite 'modern' sitcom, closely followed by Black Books (Graham Linehan really knows how to write, Father Ted was brilliant.). Alan Partridge I can quote all day long, but if I want a bit of cringe I'll watch The Office (the UK one) or Extras. Ricky Gervais is ****ing class.
You could stick 100 people in a room on this one and get 101 different opinions. I never got why Only Fools was funny, it just didn't hit the spot for me. My Best 3: Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and Men Behaving Badly. Red Dwarf an honourable 4th. Worst? There have been so many bad ones over the years. Ones that got a few episodes and then thankfully dies. 3 long runnings ones where the master tapes should be melted down and turned into inner soles: Friends, My Family and 2 1/2 Men. No redeeming features in any of them.
What an utterly pathetic dig. If you're going to criticise so many people in one sweeping statement, at least make a proper attempt to read the thread first so that you can be sure you've got your facts right. These are from posts 5 and 6 of the entire thread, so your brain wouldn't have had to work too hard...
i almost wet myself remembering this rubbish The Royale Family - although i did say earlier i didnt watch enough crap comedy to be able to comment i did also see a fair bit of this For some reason it was popular at our house , it wasnt ever funny . Just lazy people umming and arring over stuff WE talk about - oh and farting
Was my family the one with wolfie from citizen Smith in it? Dreadful. Any British sit com on BBC 3 tends to be ****e
Noticed gimme gimme gimme listed on the best sitcom thread. I'd tried to erase that from my memory. ****ing ****e
