Was just about to add that

Rising Damp
The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin
I Didn't Know You Cared
George & Mildred

Good call - Porridge was ace.

I also loved The Good Life; watched a couple on Sky recently - still funny and Felicity Kendall is still a hottie.

every married man and schoolboys cheeky fantasy, don't really know what it was about her.

Stop it I'm melting.

She was well fit?

just searched I didnt know you cared on ootoob and got this

I Didn't Know You Cared - Uncle Mort's Ideal Woman

first line ironicaly mentioned Wakefeld Trinity

spooky

I'm also a big fan of Spaced - not to everyone's taste I know, but brilliant stuff.

Not a huge fan of American comedy but I thought cheers was pretty good.
Out of new uk stuff, you can't look past "inbetweeners", went to the pics to see the movie and that is just as good, also "not going out" is worth a watch.

I seem on to a the Dave TV channel forum.........fwiw funniest thing I have seen for ages was the wardrobe malfunction on the fashion show episode of The Inbetweeners. Absolute classic.

Yes I loved Spaced when it was on, liked Green Wing as well. Phoenix Nights is one of my favorites and still stick it one for a laugh.
Can't beat Keeping up Appearances as well, it's still funny. The Office was great as well and didn't make too many like the yanks have done with their version.
From the US, Eastbound & Down is hilarious. Another show I love which they hardly every showed in the UK was Trailer Park Boys, brilliant show.

Forgot Brass Eye - brilliant stuff, way ahead of its time

What I find totally naff and predictable is something called mother browns boys I think, someone played me an episode the other week and I had heard a lot of people raving about it, what a pile of crud, saying that I thought the same about league of gentlemen the first time I watched it but ended up loving that.

Open all hours wasn't to bad either.

Whatever happened to the likely lads was also very good. If you watch it now it's almost social commentary.

I heard that..... pardon!

Getting home from the pub in time to listen to the shipping forecast - classic

Being pedantic here I know but Brass Eye along with the Fast show, Harry Enfield etc were sketch shows rather than sitcoms. Both very funny but very different, personally think sitcoms are much harder to get right.

Just to tag this on the end, Inbetweeners BRILLIANT almost single handedly rescues the British sitcom which had been failing badly IMO since the office and League of Gentleman in early the 2000's. So bad had it been of late that the American stuff was much better. I really like Noel Fielding but if the Mighty Boosh was the best we had to offer, god help us - sub standard Python at best.

Felicity Kendal......



as for american sitcoms, one i have not seen mentioned that i enjoyed was Seinfeld - a show about nothing.
i also enjoyed Married with Children

Porridge and fawlty towers were classic, but like only fools and horses, they have suffered by been on TV every day........

'Ooh la di da, look what I found in my washing bag. It's Felicity Kendall's underwear, and it needs a gooood wash!'

Kendall = Filthy

Completely forgot about League, took a couple of watches but it up there with the best for me. Seinfeld also very funny in it's day

Here's one for some of the older members of the forum. Love Thy Neighbour, god love the 70's.

mind your language

please sir

I think Peep Show is brilliant. I also think Brass Eye was so good for its time.

Not like you to be pedantic vasty...



Agreed - I have deviated from the format with Brass Eye, but it was superb stuff; the earnest celebrity appeals for the elephant with it's trunk lodged in its own anus was excrutiatingly brilliant.

Inbetweeners does nothing for me - I watched a couple early on and it felt like sitting in the pub behind a table full of adolescent boys; The Young Ones were my knob-gag comedy heroes, I don't think I'm target audience for this generation's version.

American stuff is less appealing, but I've loved Seinfeld for years - I also have a soft spot for Cheers, cos I used to watch it with my old man.

I guessing you didn't have a middle class upbringing and I don't mean that in a snobbish way. But for someone who spent their teenage years living in a a series of Barratt estates but who's parents couldn't quite run to Quegs or Silcotes it's hilariously and painfully close to reality.

No mate - I was brought up on Lupset; QUEGS was the place we went to beat up posh kids, not a place we aspired to attend.

Here's a guilty pleasure - Miranda; it has a 70's feel about it, in that it's all quite innocent and silly, but for some reason, I find it hilarious. Not very cool or edgy I know, but enjoyable nonetheless.

You didn't have to go to QUEGS to get beat up in Lupset to be fair.

Never seen Miranda, is that the big awkward girl? She make me laugh on chat shows.

Its a dead duck.