What is your favorite British comedy show?

[Lovecrafty]

These are just the most popular shows I can think of in the States..but if there's one I missed, just select "other" and tell us about it!

[yorgatron]

1. you are a smeghead

if you don't vote for red dwarf!

[dorktv]

2. I know...After he had a bath I would totally be lister's love slave.

[Lovecrafty]

4. That's my favorite too!

"Polymorph", the episode with the "Emotional Vampire" has GOT to be the most hillarious thirty minutes of television I have ever seen! After the creature sucked out some of the crews negative emotions I nearly died laughing at the results! Rimmer was truly hillarious!

Rimmer: Well, that's certainly an option, David, yes. Erm, but here's my proposal. Let's get tough. The time for talking is over. Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign, and while it's reeling from that, we'd follow up with a whist drive, a car boot sale, some street theatre and possibly even some benefit concerts. Okay? Now, if that's not enough, I'm sorry, it's time for the T-shirts: "Mutants Out" ... "Chameleonic Life Forms, No Thanks" ... and if that's not enough, well, I don't know what will be.

Erm, I think we're all beginning to lose sight of the real issue here, which is, what are we going to call ourselves? And I think it comes down to a choice between "The League Against Salivating Monsters" or, my own personal preference, which is "The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society." Erm, one drawback with that - the abbreviation is CLITORIS.

[barackmyworld]

3. Mr. Bean

that show was priceless. He did the turkey on his head thing way before Chandler did.

[rooboy]

5. Yes, Minister (later Yes, Prime Minister) n/t

[pagerbear]

35. This one is terrific!

[enigmatic]

6. Dave Allen At Large!!!

The Man himself:

[donheld]

7. Are You Being Served?

was the best of all!

[pagerbear]

36. My all-time favorite!

[lapfog_1]

8. Doctor in the House - EOM

[BOHICA06]

9. Dawn French in the Vicar of Dibley ...

... too funny.

[whirlygigspin]

10. Yes, Minister

brilliant

Red Dwarf in smeggin' second place

Two Ronnie's third

[wickerwoman]

11. Father Ted edges out Black Adder and Red Dwarf by a smidge.

(Assuming we're counting Irish as British).

My lovely, lovely, lovely horse
(My lovely horse)
Running through the fields....
Where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the wind...

I want to shower you with sugar lumps.
And ride you over fences...
Polish your hooves every single day.
And take you to the horse dentist.


And no, I didn't have to look that up. :P

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Father Ted destroys all other TV comedy.

[BigMcLargehuge]

32. FECK! DRINK! GIRLS! FECK!

[slutticus]

12. AB FAB!!!!!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

13. "As Time Goes By"

I hate to admit it, since I became aware of it because my Freeper mother watches it, but it is really very well done. It stars Dame Judi Dench.

I also loved "My Hero," a very silly comedy about a British nurse who fell in love with, and eventually married, a super-hero alien. But, sadly, it's no longer on around here.:shrug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. After 29 votes, I was the FIRST to select "The Young Ones?"

You people make me SICK! :o

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. 'Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads' edges it out.

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. You are a shite eating nut-fuck.

Which BBC comedy did the Damned play on?

QED.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. What Channel 4 show featured Julian Cope's Microphone Stand

as a regular cast member?

[Magrittes Pipe]

29. Hell if I know.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. The genius Sean's Show. A few episodes.....

Sean wallows in his unreciprocated love for Susan, which endures the length of the first series, as do his futile efforts to shake off Angela, a former one-night stand who claims to be madly in love with him. Things look promising when a new script arrives from dead author Samuel Beckett. But when Windsor Davies shows up at his door carrying a giant box of concentrated strawberry jelly and asking to use his bathroom, Sean is worried the show will take a turn for the worse and resort to cheap gimmicks for laughs.

Sean asks his neighbor Tony to build him a shed so he'll have a place to smoke cigarettes unrebuked. Meanwhile, he decides to commit suicide by employing the "Morrissey method" of dancing himself to death wistfully, but his will to live is revived when his suicide note is published and becomes a best-seller. Panic sets in when it's time for the credits to roll and a moral for the episode hasn't been established.

Tony spoils the story for the final episode, so a new plot must be devised at the last minute. When Sean's parents ring to tell him that he's adopted, he begins the search for his natural mother, encountering one candidate who looks suspiciously like Robert Smith of The Cure. Sean and Elvis the Spider perform a duet of "I Got You Babe," and (of course) Sean receives a visit from a space alien.

[Magrittes Pipe]

31. Did somebody put a video camera in my house?

I demand royalties!

[UdoKier]

15. Gas Bladder and AbFab are tied in my book.

But AbFab gets it just for being a fun guilty pleasure...

[Crunchy Frog]

16. I had to give it to Black Adder

since he only had 1 vote:-(, but I would also take Ab Fab and Monty Python. I love Red Dwarf too, (particularly the first 2 seasons).

[Swamp Rat]

17. Black Adder...

"¡Mas por favor!"

"More please!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/

[terrya]

18. "Fawlty Towers"...the best.

From the brilliant, occasionally scathing writing, to the marvelous cast, the best British comedy series ever.

[Courtesy Flush]

19. I can't vote. I like too many of them

You left out "Yes, Minister", which was a very intelligent comedy. Excellent stuff.

There was another one called "Good Neighbors" that we loved. It was about a couple that lived in a middle-class suburb, and decided to dropout and live off the land -- while still living in the suburb. Hilarity ensued as they pissed off their poseur neighbors by raising crops and pigs in the back yard.

[mac56]

20. The Goodies!

photocred: bbc.co.uk

[RivetJoint]

21. "Only Fools and Horses"

[Rowdyboy]

22. "The League of Gentlemen" and "keeping Up Appearances"

Obviously, I am WAY wierd by DU standards!

[rooboy]

39. League of Gentlemen was one I'd considered posting too...

and Keeping Up Appearances is also a good choice.

[BigMcLargehuge]

23. Chef!

[Weezy]

26. Manchild

sigh, it's not on here anymore...I think I must have been the only one watching it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

33. Obligatory votes for Porridge and 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'

[redqueen]

45. I loved Reginald Perrin

Had to go with The Young Ones on this poll.

[Magrittes Pipe]

34. "Coronation Street" is hilarious.

[pagerbear]

37. Brittas Empire deserves a mention!

[Zuni]

38. Where is Ali G?

Even though he is on HBO now, he started in the UK.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. Black Books kills all of these.

[Deja Q]

41. Chef!

Lenny Henry ROCKS! :D :D

[flamingyouth]

42. "Are You Being Served?"

Obligatory retail slave response. :D

[Fenris]

46. "Mr. Humphries, are you free?"

[flamingyouth]

47. "Well, you just seemed to catch me in the middle of nothing."

[Endangered Specie]

43. Whose line Is It Anyway? and Are you Being served?

[Fenris]

44. "I'm Alan Partridge"