What are the TV shows you remember as being the funniest?
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September 5th, 2013
Yeah, I copied off the movie version, so what, I can if I want to =0}
Besides, I may have asked this before myself, vague recollection.
Anyway, fave comedy shows past/present…go!
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A Bit Of Fry and Laurie
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
The Kids in the Hall
... and for totally unrelated reasons, The 700 Club
I’m guessing The 700 Club (whatever that is) comes under the unintentionally funny bracket.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus is the funniest. That’s not debatable.
But I remember being so disappointed when Police Squad was cancelled.
Funny old ones:
Dick Van Dyke
Hogans Heroes
Leave it to Beaver
@tom_g no lie, I’ve ended friendships because people didn’t appreciate Python.
^ Completely reasonable. Somehow, I happened to marry someone who doesn’t “get” Python. If things ever go sour in the marriage, I will blame this fact.
The Carol Burnett Show, especially when Tim Conway and Harvey Korman were unable to keep straight faces.
As a child, I found the Stooges, all three of them, to be hilarious. I Love Lucy was another long-standing laugh riot for me.
Don’t know if anyone has seen Ripping Yarns, written by & starring Michael Palin/Terry Jones.
Was kind of a Python spin-off made in the mid-seventies, very funny.
Friends!! Me and my boyfriend just watched all the seasons all over again…they earlier seasons, however, were the best!
Huh! No I haven’t. I have seen “How to Irritate People” with John, Graham, and Michael, though. That had me rolling.
Friends is hilarious, if you were an American in the 1990s. If you weren’t, 90% of the jokes are irrelevant to you.
Friends went right over my head, as do the vast majority of American “comedies.”
Let me see, there musta been a funny show, one time at least, got it…Mork & Mindy :D
Monty Python
Not the Nine O’Clock News
Spitting Image
The Young Ones
@Seek_Kolinahr
< This European disagrees. Some jokes I don’t get, yeah…but closer to 10%. I love Friends.
I agree with A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and I liked Fawlty Towers.
“Actually, it’s Miss Chanandeller Bong.”
The Tonight show with Jonny Carson, and later Jay Leno.
@downtide All gems fella, sad about Mel Smith dying recently.
Third Rock from the Sun… Loved it and still watching the re runs.
Guess I should list my faves…
Fawlty Towers peerless
The Benny Hill Show
Ripping Yarns
The Young Ones
Only Fools & Horses
Porridge
The Fast Show
The League of Gentlemen
Little Britain
The Office UK version, obviously
Derek
Brass Eye
The Day Today.
Most of those already mentioned, plus Arrested Development.
@tom_g “Somehow, I happened to marry someone who doesn’t “get” Python. ” How is this even possible? How does it happen? Did she choose not to like it? Does she understand the humor just not appreciate it? What in the world…?
@rojo: “How is this even possible?”
I don’t know. She apparently had avoided any exposure during her teens and early twenties. By the time we met (23), I tried a couple of times and she didn’t seem to understand what was going on, and couldn’t get over the laugh track.
Now that I think about it, I am calling a divorce attorney.
The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Seinfeld. There were many others I loved but are three of my all-time faves.
It was, is and always will be all in the writing, and these three featured some of the best writing ever.
Oh! Duh.
How could I forget my favorite Kiwis, Flight of the Conchords?
I adore many of the shows mentioned already, but would also like to quietly add The Muppet Show to the list. It’s British and deserves lurve too.
My all time favourite comedy was Jam and Jerusalem. The BBC obviously didn’t agree with me because they only allowed it to run for three series but I personally thought it was some of Jennifer Saunders finest writing. I have all three series on DVD and can watch them over and over again without getting bored, which is more than I can say for some of the more obvious classics like Friends and Only Fools and Horses!
Men behaing badly
My boyfriend says Blackadder and Dads Army, but I don’t find those funny, but I am younger than him!
Member of the Python tribe, Blackadderists, and Young Oneians.
Malcom In The Middle
All In The Family
The Whitest Kids You Know
The State
Comedy Bang Bang
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
@Headhurts I completely forgot about Men Behaving Badly, never really got into though.
Your lad’s right about Blackadder though, top programme.
Early SNL with the original cast.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, SNL, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development, Modern Family, Pee-wee’s Playhouse and Veep.
oops, almost forget… Eastbound and Down.
A few I forgot…
Bottom
The Comic Strip Series
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Fonejacker
Auf Wiedersehen Pet Not strictly a comedy show, but funny as fuck.
The Ricky Gervais Show
An Idiot Abroad
Jay Leno
Who’s Line is it Anyway
Dick Van Dyke
Sanford and Son
All in the Family
Benny Hill
@ucme aaah how did I forget Comic Strip?
@downtide I know, they were brilliant, A Fistful of Travellers Cheques & Strike were my faves.
Dead like me
Scrubs
Community
Thanks for reminding me.
Laugh In
Carol Burnett
Monty Python I love silly walks; the larch; It had me laughing the longest and hardest and just thinking about it makes me chuckle
@Unbroken You know, I’ve never met anyone else who watched Dead Like Me. Great show.
Archer
Regular Show
Venture Brothers
The Amazing World Of Gumball
Drunk History
@jonsblond . . . i can’t believe i forgot kenny fucking powers
South Park
Big Bang Theory
Police Squad!
M*A*S*H
Friends
Ernie Kovaks
You’ll Never Get Rich (The Phil Silvers Show) (Bilko)
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Laugh In
The Simpsons
The Cosby Show
Frasier
Will and Grace
The Nanny
The Carol Burnett Show
Murphy Brown
Just Shoot Me
Cybill
Seinfeld
Friends
Cheers
The Class(TV_series)
Ugly Betty
Barney Miller
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Night Court
Keeping Up Appearances
Waiting for God
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Wonder Years
Ellen
Carter Country
3rd Rock from the Sun
Blossom
The Golden Girls
Maude
Roseanne
Grace Under Fire
Suddenly Susan
Veronica’s Closet
Rosanne and Barney Miller! How did I forget those?!
Friends, Will & Grace, Doc Martin, and Modern Family just to mention a few.
You can tell who is British and who is American just from reading the answers here.
@downtide This is true, although most right minded yanks with taste agree Brit-coms are far superior shows than their own homegrown stuff.
This is just fact :)
@ucme – I don’t know much about British sitcoms other than what I was exposed to when I was in high school through MTV. There was a brief moment that they would show Flying Circus, The Young Ones, and occasionally that other thing (Fistful of Travelers Checks). That stuff was so amazing, I was convinced that everything coming out that crazy country must be as brilliant. I hear that’s not the case, however.
@downtide, I’m quite American and my favorite shows are Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, The Young Ones, Kenny Everett’s Video Show, Benny Hill, Father Ted, and probably a couple of others I can’t think of at the moment.
@tom_g Not sure what point you’re trying to make, if any, but expecting “everything” to be top class is a little ambitious to say the least.
Of course there’s some crap, Terry & June, Are You Being Served & Hi-De-Hi just a selection of turkeys, but the diamonds far outway the rough, always have.
@ucme: “Not sure what point you’re trying to make, if any”
I generally don’t make any points. No good ones, anyway.
So maybe you were just thinking aloud then?
^^ I don’t “think” either.
So what drove you to write that post?
A desire for you to ask, “So what drove you to write that post?”
Theory confirmed, user states entirely invalid opinion & throws toys outta bed when shot down in flames…happy trails.
@ucme and @jordym84 Just finished a marathon of watching Doc Martin. I laughed, I cried and I fell head over heels in love with Martin Clunes. So much so, that I created a minor crises on @Adirondackwannabe’s lurve party yesterday, because everyone thought I had died of a heart attack. I had started to reply to Addy, then my mom asked if I wanted to do a marathon of Doc Martin, so I just left the Fluther tab open (note to self: don’t do that again). It kept saying on the thread that I was crafting a response, only I didn’t get back to the thread until 24 hours later. I feel like such a ninny. But ohhhhhhhh that Doc Martin!
I definitely think the Brits do TV better than the Americans. They have better story lines, better details, and they don’t care whether or not they have super-model casts, they use real-looking people (like Martin Clunes). We just watched the first episode of Ripper Street. But I promise I will not leave my tabs open (or my robe) when I’m out in public, including on Fluther. Hee Hee.
But I do have one question. When the F is Sherlock coming back on. I’m having palpitations just thinking about Benedict Cumberbatch.
Yeah! And what about the next installment of Broadchurch? I needs me some new Ten-inch eye candy
@Kardamom I adore that show!! It never fails to make me laugh.
@Kardamom I didn’t realise you guys get so much of our TV over there.
@Headhurts we get BBC America, which has the really popular stuff, the rest we hunt for. I request DVD’s from the local library. If they don’t have something and a few people request it, they’ll buy it. They get most BBC and Acorn Media stuff now. love me some Midsomer Murders. Murder mysteries in general, really.
@Kardamom I’m not afraid to admit that I quite fancy Martin Clunes. He’s not a classic beauty but there’s something about him!
@Leanne1986 I quite fancy Philip Glenister in Life on Mars, so authoritative
I’ve seen one Morse, I think. I rather like A Touch of Frost, too.
One more.
There used to be a show with 7 or 8 impressionists, called KopyKats.
Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, and a lot of very talented people redoing famous scenes, or mocking different actors. Very funny, but only lasted one summer.
@Seek_Kolinahr The second series of Broadchurch is planned for next year, no idea when though.
Brace yourself, David Tennant may not show up, rumoured the cast will be overhauled.
@Leanne1986 There really is something about Martin Clunes! I’ve just found a bunch of behind the scenes clips from Doc Martin on Youtube, like This One. I think you might enjoy watching them, because Martin Clunes is actually smiling and laughing.
Married with Children, and Invader Zim.( I still have my squeally spooch ).
@Leanne1986 and @Kardamom I agree!! I’ve always found him incredibly attractive. Not in the traditional sense, but there’s definitely something about him that makes him very desirable (for lack of a better term).
@Kardamom Thank you for that, he really is lovely!
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