Top Ten Comedy Shows

[Mr Delicieux]

Created because try as I might, I could only think of 4 drama series that I've genuinely liked over on DPDPDPDP's thread, who I can't seem to tag...

Steptoe and son
The Eric Andre show
Curb your enthusiasm
Combined works of Alan Partridge
The Simpsons
Malcolm in the middle
The I.T crowd
Police squad!
The Dave Chappelle show
15 storeys high

[Mr Delicieux]

Silicon valley and peep show came close to making it, I liked the first two seasons of Rick and Morty, and now I'm thinking about it, police squad could well have displaced one in my top ten list.

[Mr Delicieux]

I also need to watch the detectorists, would I lie to you and taskmaster, but have yet to watch any of them, and now I live overseas won't be doing so in the immediate future.

[Guy Profumo]

Dave Allen
Father Ted
Python
Scrubs
Young Ones
New Statesman
Reggie Perrin
Allo Allo, before it disappeared up its own rectum
Ditto Last of the Summer Wine

(And the one and only one episode of Mrs Brown)

[Nocturnal Submission]

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Porridge
The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
Brass
Don't Forget To Write
The Detectorists
This Country
Peep Show
Arrested Development
Frasier

[Toby Gymshorts]

In no particular order:

Spaced
Young Ones
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Porridge
Reginald Perrin
Ever Decreasing Circles (yes, it was a comedy)
Rising Damp
Father Ted
Cheers
Police Squad!

Honourable mentions for Colin's Sandwich, Shelley, Soap and May to December.

EDIT: and for most of the ones on 3CR's list. Can't believe I forgot Bottom, Blackadder and The Fast Show. In truth ten is virtually impossible, isn't it?

[3 Colours Red]

Created because try as I might, I could only think of 4 drama series that I've genuinely liked over on DPDPDPDP's thread, who I can't seem to tag...

I'd have struggled to come up with four, let alone ten.

Bottom
The Simpsons (seasons 3-9)
Blackadder
Drop The Dead Donkey
Police Squad!
The Fast Show
Father Ted
The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer
The Day Today
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

In the "need more love" department: 15 Storeys High, Nightingales, Dare To Believe, World Of Pub.

[Mr Delicieux]

Dare to believe! I can remember being surprised to see such a thing on ITV.
I'm also tempted to switch one of mine out for 15 storeys high.

[G-Man]

Where would Freaks & Geeks fit in? Not really comedy, in the sense of sitcoms, nor drama. Ditto The Wonder Years. So I won't list them, though they would rank high in my Top 10.


The Office (UK)
Friends
Blackadder
I Am Alan Partridge
Seinfeld
Fawlty Towers
Cheers
Police Squad
The Partridge Family
The In-Betweeners

[WOM]

We had an interesting experience the other day of accidentally catching the very last episode of Friends followed in the loop by the very first. What a contrast. It reminded me how fresh and 'new' it felt when it came on the air.

[Simon G]

Only Fools and Horses
Friends
Fawlty Towers
The Big Bang Theory
Schitt's Creek
Scrubs
The Inbetweeners
The Simpsons (S2-9)
Family Guy (S1-5)
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

[Capybara]

In no particular order ...

Early Doors
Cheers
World of Pub
Fast Show
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

.. then struggling

edit: I'm adding I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue as the thread title doesn't specify telly.

[Jah Womble]

01 The Larry Sanders Show
02 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
03 Seinfeld
04 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
05 Monty Python's Flying Circus
06 The Bob Newhart Show
07 Fawlty Towers
08 Not the Nine O'Clock News
09 Porridge
10 Father Ted

[Sean of the Shed]

1. Father Ted (shame about the writer)
2. Monty Python's Flying Circus
3. The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
4. Flowery Twats
5. Police Squad!
6. The Fast Show
7. Have I Got News For You
8. Blackadder
9. Would I Lie To You?
10. Extras

Notable others:
Goodness Gracious Me, Never MInd the Buzzcocks (until Simon Amstell left), Porridge, TMWRNJ, Not the Nine O'clock News

[WOM]

Did Golden Girls make much noise over there? I have big love for it, and it's gained intergenerational classic status over here.

[Jah Womble]

It was reasonably popular here. (My parents loved it - but then they lived in the US most of the time they watched it.)

One of the original writers is a good friend of mine, so he'll be thrilled to learn of its 'intergenerational classic status'!

[Ray de Galles]

Off the top of my head but could change on any given day ;

Frasier
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
30 Rock
Would I Lie To You
Detectorists
Alan Partridge in all iterations.
Taskmaster
The Trip (specifically series one and two)
Brass Eye
Gavin & Stacey
The Day Today
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Morecambe & Wise


...and yes that's more than ten.

[ad hoc]

1. (the various series of) Alan Partridge
2. Reggie Perrin
3. Monty Python
4. Would I Lie to You?
5. The Day Today
6. Porridge
7. Cheers
8. Father Ted
9. Steptoe and Son
10. Taxi

[Ray de Galles]

I could add The Simpsons and Father Ted but that would take me to a top 16.

I've lost the ability to do Top Tens or do any rankings about art since my thirties, I equivocate too much.

[ad hoc]

Having seen Ray's list, I wish i could find space for 30 Rock and The Trip And also can;t believe I missed out Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister

[Mr Delicieux]

I'm with Ray, trying to squeeze in ten has fast felt like a fool's errand, having seen some of the suggestions here.
Have as many as you like people, go wild.

[San Bernardhinault]

* only the good seasons, lots of these jumped sharks at some point

Yes (Prime) Minister
Arrested Development
Better Off Ted
Fawlty Towers
Silicon Valley
Simpsons
30 Rock
Police Squad
The Good Place
Blackadder

[Ray de Galles]

Now I need to add Blackadder and Police Squad too, if I add The Office (UK, obviously) and Seinfeld as well that gives me a round top twenty.

Frasier
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
30 Rock
Would I Lie To You
Detectorists
Alan Partridge in all iterations.
Taskmaster
The Trip (specifically series one and two)
Brass Eye
Gavin & Stacey
The Day Today
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Morecambe & Wise
The Simpsons
Father Ted
Blackadder
Police Squad
The Office (UK, obviously)
Seinfeld
Cheers

Ah, no it doesn't, I double-counted Partridge so I've added Cheers too.

[Nocturnal Submission]

In that case I'm adding:

Soap
Not The Nine O'Clock News
Drop The Dead Donkey
Would I Lie To You?
The Two Ronnies
Morecambe And Wise
The Day Today
Big Bang Theory
The Office

[Ray de Galles]

What on earth is Better Off Ted? I think that's the first one on the thread I've never heard of.