BEST TV comedies

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

To go with the "Worst TV" thread just wondering what everyone's favourite comedy programmes are....

Don't forget to slag off the deserving bad programmes in that other thread though!

So, I really love....

'Allo 'Allo

Fawlty Towers

The Day Today

Father Ted

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Peep Show

Morcambe and Wise show

Teachers

Outlaws

Never Mind the Buzzcocks (with Mark Lamarr)

Shooting Stars / Smell of Reeves and Mortimer / Bang Bang

Black Books

Nathan Barley

Futurama

Garth Marenghi's Dark Place

Brasseye

Armando Iannucci show

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Mighty Boosh series 1

Probably loads of stuff I've missed...

Also, I have a real soft spot for Spaced but I've not laughed out loud watching it in years.

[Scott McFly]

I'd be here a while naming all my favourites, but recently it's been Peep Show and The Inbetweeners, two right at the top of my all-time list. Probably because they're so realistically written that they remind me of my own shit life, both now and back at school.

But off the top of my head - Fawlty Towers, Friends, Futurama, The Office (original) and American Dad, and Family Guy has its moments too.

[GA!]

Father Ted

One Foot in the Grave

The Simpsons

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Futurama

Bottom

Shooting Stars

Big Train

Fast Show

The Peter Serafinowicz Show

Dinnerladies

Red Dwarf

Blackadder

Spaced

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The IT Crowd

Basically, anything that isn't ripping off The Office's awkward atmosphere is great.

[Liam]

I have DVD's of:

South Park (all)

Family Guy (1-5)

The League Of Gentleman (all)

Arrested Development (all)

Father Ted (all)

Time Gentleman Please (all)

Blackadder (all)

Garth Merenghi's Darkplace

Brass Eye

The Day Today

Peep Show (1-3)

And possibly some more. Family Guy aside, I'm a big fan of all the others on the list, Family Guy more often than not getting an airing if there's nothing better on. I also really like Fraiser, which is awesome when they air it on Channel 4 of a morning, because it gives me something to watch at work.

[ROC]

I love the earlier seasons of Scrubs and they were a great bonding point with folk. I am really diminished in my big programming loves, but NewsRadio was beyond phenomenal television. The first four seasons with Phil Hartman in awesome mode were just phenomenal. It just hit on all cylinders, especially the absurd "in space" and "on the Titanic" episodes. The first three seasons of Always Sunny were also can't miss, although I haven't gotten the excitement over the last two years. Hmmm. Others are a bit tougher, quite honestly.

[Mr Evil Guy]

Scrubs/Always Sunny/South Park/Futurama/Simpsons

[Liam]

I love the earlier seasons of Scrubs and they were a great bonding point with folk. I am really diminished in my big programming loves, but NewsRadio was beyond phenomenal television. The first four seasons with Phil Hartman in awesome mode were just phenomenal. It just hit on all cylinders, especially the absurd "in space" and "on the Titanic" episodes. The first three seasons of Always Sunny were also can't miss, although I haven't gotten the excitement over the last two years. Hmmm. Others are a bit tougher, quite honestly.

Completely forgot that I have all Scrubs that is available on DVD in the UK. Very easy to watch, thrown on a lot when there is nothing better on.

[Hobo]

I echo ROC's NewsRadio love.

Scrubs up to the last three or four seasons.

Frasier

Fr. Ted

The Big Bang Theory

Black Books

The Mighty Boosh

Peep Show

Teachers

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Arrested Development

Look Around You

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Have I Got News For You

QI

Nevermind the Buzzcocks

Shooting Stars

Gareth Marenghi's Darkplace

Blackadder

How I Met Your Mother

[TKz]

30 Rock is my all time top, easily.

30 Rock,

How I Met Your Mother,

Chuck,

It's Always Sunny In Philly,

Rules of Engagement,

A Bit of Fry and Laurie,

Fawlty Towers,

Modern Family,

Extras,

Black Books,

Big Bang Theory,

South Park,

IT Crowd,

Arrested Development,

My Name Is Earl,

Freaks and Geeks,

Undeclared,

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

[badotori]

In no particular order:

Peep Show, (YOUR TOILET SEAT REGIME IS OVAAAAA!)

Scrubs, (Seasons 1 - 4.5)

No Heroics,

Green Wing, (Only saw First Season for some reason - but it had it's LOLworthy moments.)

IT Crowd,

Black Books,

Spaced,

Not Going Out, (Not so much the actual show, just the brilliance of Lee Mack and Tim Vine.)

Big Bang Theory,

Frasier,

Never Mind The Buzzcocks,

Mock The Week, (now up it's own arse, but it has its moments.)

Futurama,

Fast Show,

The InBetweeners,

Have I Got News For You,

Red Dwarf.

...and that's about it, really.

[Skummy]

Some I like;

I'm Alan Partridge

The Thick Of It

The Day Today

Brass Eye

Jam

The Armando Iannucci Shows

King Of The Hill

Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law

Frasier

Black Books

Spaced

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Shooting Stars

Arrested Development

[Blue Rosler]

How I Met Your Mother

Arrested Development

Peep Show

Teachers

The Inbetweeners

Always Sunny

[YI]

I'll do a 'list' when I can be arsed. But I will toss out that "The Armstrong & Miller Show" is quite possibly the best sketch show I have ever seen. EVERYTHING is funny.

[Jimmy]

The only Television Comedy I watch at the moment is Chuck; which is quality. I really, really love that show. Inbetweeners, Friends, Mock The Week and Scrubs are all top quality too. I can put any of them on and find myself laughing.

[hackerjack]

Most of the above + High Hopes

[Gazz]

Where's the love for Big Train?

Peep Show

The Office (UK)

The Day Today

The Daily Show

Arrested Development

Family Guy (although the latest seasons the writing is just lazy)

Garth Marengi's Darkplace

Who's line is it anyway?

[NobBe Nobbs]

Mock the Week is one of the few things I make a concerted effort to watch every week because, while people complain that it's gone downhill and Andy Parsons is crap and so on so forth, it never fails to make me laugh and I enjoy that. Much of the same goes for Whose Line Is It Anyway and Have I Got News For You, although there are rather a lot of games in the former that I don't find particularly entertaining unless they go off the rails or really hit a groove (Hoe Down, Irish Drinking Song, Greatest Hits...really, the ones involving sings).

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I love the British Whose Line Is It Anyway after series 1 at least cos Tony Slattery was in that first series far too much.

[Guest Spongebob Weinstein]

Might be a little confused there Hamster, it was John Sessions in the first season all the time (Y)

[Ron]

No particular order, except Seinfeld is my all time #1.

Seinfeld

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

The Office (US)

Arrested Development

Family Guy

Cheers

Three's Company

How I Met Your Mother

The Big Bang Theory

Modern Family (just started but it is hysterical)

Married...With Children

Soap

Night Court

Newsradio

MASH

Clone High

Curb Your Enthusiasm