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I have long held the view, that we British are a nation with "Funny bones" Our Comedy is soooo good, and as if to further prove my point, I have a list(In no particular order) of my definitve list of Britsh situation comedies, with a couple of Irish contributions also..

 

British Sitcoms

Fawlty Towers

Dad's Army

Porridge

Agony

Only fools and horses

One foot in the grave(Thanks Cinds)

The Brittas Empire

Alan B'stard(Can't remember the title)

Rising damp

Drop the dead Donkey

Father Ted(Irish yes, but bloody funny)

Black books

Desmonds

On the buses

Bless this house

Love thy nieghbour

Keeping up appearances

Miranda

The young ones

Not the nine o'clock news

Blackadder

The Royle Family

Absolutely fabulous

The Vicar of Dibley

Gavin and Stacey

Game on

Val and someone not going out(Dawn French and Alfred Molina)

Are you being served

The Liverbirds

Early Doors

Mrs Brown's boys(Another Irish comedy, and again very funny)

Pheonix nights

The IT crowd

Phoneshop

 

American Sitcoms

Frasier

Lillyhammer(new on BBC4, brilliant)

Northern exposure

Arrested development

Curb your enthusiasm

Family guy

American Dad

Cleveland show

MASH

 

What has made you split your sides?

 

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Many of those did.  But also One Foot In The Grave.  

 

The one when he came back in to the house wearing a dead hedgehog as a slipper.  

 

The one when he ordered a taxi and rang the toy store by mistake and they delivered a corgi sized black cab to his door.

 

The one where he got buried up to his neck in the back garden.

 

I could go on and on.

Cinds
Originally Posted by Cinds:

I loved Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 

Have you watched any Modern Family?  Oh my god it's brilliant.  New series starts tonight on Sky 1. (8pm)

Curb your enthusiasm is hilarious! I'm currently loving Ronna and Beverley on Sky, but my faves of the past were Monty Python and Spile Milligan's Q series. I watched them first with my dad who still has a ridiculous Goon Show sense of humour.

suzybean
Originally Posted by Cinds:

I loved Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 

Have you watched any Modern Family?  Oh my god it's brilliant.  New series starts tonight on Sky 1. (8pm)

I just can't get into Modern Family   but then I don't really find US comedies very funny 

 

I've recently enjoyed Open all hours, 'Allo 'Allo, Steptoe and son, Red Dwarf (did anyone watch the new series on Dave last night?) brilliant   Rising Damp, The Young ones, The League of Gentlemen, George and Mildred (most of mine are from the 70s)   Mind your language 

FM
Originally Posted by Senora Reyes:
Originally Posted by Skylark24:

Bless you Senora, x
My faves are Royle Family , Rising Damp, and Still Game (Scottish and hilarious) Love a few more but cant think at the moment  

Rising damp absolute classic, gonna ammend ma list.

Didnt even notice it wasnt there! How very dare you, glad you are amending!  

FM

A water Bed in a German furniture store. Note that the sign says NOT to get on the bed, but oh well..the best way to

motivate people to do something is to put up a sign saying 

"Don't........!" 


Turn on speakers and watch people trying out the water bed. 


It's in German, but that only makes it funnier. 

Watch for the last two ladies !     

 
 
 

 
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Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2437/5250 - Release Date: 09/05/12

Soozy Woo
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:

A water Bed in a German furniture store. Note that the sign says NOT to get on the bed, but oh well..the best way to

motivate people to do something is to put up a sign saying 

"Don't........!" 


Turn on speakers and watch people trying out the water bed. 


It's in German, but that only makes it funnier. 

Watch for the last two ladies !     

 
 
 

 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/9wm-Ge8LL7o?rel=0
Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2437/5250 - Release Date: 09/05/12

OMG, I'm in tears. Just to be typically German pedantic. The sign says: Don't have anything sharp likes keys etc. on you when trying the bed. It looks like something like Candid Camera.

cologne 1
Originally Posted by Cinds:

I loved Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 

Have you watched any Modern Family?  Oh my god it's brilliant.  New series starts tonight on Sky 1. (8pm)

Love both those. 

 

I'm in big trouble with my daughter, this morning, as I forgot to record Modern Family. She is now watching Big Bang Theory, which is also quite good.

Blizz'ard

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