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Fools, Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo, Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, The IT Crowd, Father Ted, The Office, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, The Young Ones, The Thic
by radicalbyte 1y ago
Fools, Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo, Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, The IT Crowd, Father Ted, The Office, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, The Young Ones, The Thick Of It, Alan Partridge, Some Mothers Do Have 'em, Mr Bean, Yes Minister, The Inbetweeners... British (and Irish) comedy was the best in the world for three decades.
- rasz 1y agoGirls on Top, Absolutely Fabulous
- petepete 1y agoFlebag, Toast, This Country, Detectorists, People Just Do Nothing, After Life. Maybe four.
- walthamstow 1y agoI'd add Peep Show to that list of 2010s. Even the funniest American show of the current decade, Succession, was written by an Englishman.
- rwmj 1y agoThere's definitely some indefinable quality of Peep Show lurking in Succession.
- walthamstow 1y agoI enjoyed this panel at the BFI with Armstrong, Bain, Mitchell and Webb, filmed around the time the Succession finale was on TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwO1HP7ZS-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwO1HP7ZS-c
- switch007 1y agoBecause Jesse Armstrong co created Peep Show too
- petepete 1y agoPeep Show started in 2003! Now I feel old.
- wrboyce 1y agoMonty Python, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, League of Gentlemen, Royle Family, Phoenix Nights, Peep Show, Extras, Brass Eye, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Bang Bang It’s Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars, Spaced, Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, One Foot in the Grave, Ali G, Whose Line is it Anyway, HIGNFY, Idiot Abroad, Life’s Too Short, Fast Show, Black Books, Porridge… We could do this forever, I’m sure there’s a load still missing!
- parkaboy 1y agoSnuff box, Mitchell and Webb Look, Toast of London, Spaced...
- robin_reala 1y agoSlowing down, but let’s add Friday Night Dinner and Green Wing.
- card_zero 1y agoThis Morning With Richard Not Judy, Look Around You, Absolutely*, Ghosts, Not Only... But Also. *The sketch show, not Ab Fab. Alright, Ab Fab too.
- radicalbyte 1y agoHorrible Histories and Murder So Horrid. The Tory Party, that was the biggest long running joke ever, I never thought that they'd be able to top the hilarious Boris Johnson but then Liz Truss came out of nowhere and PORK MARKETS'd her way into infamy!
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoI've heard that Liz Truss is upset that a lettuce is launching a rival social media site to hers
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- CarRamrod 1y ago>Alan Partridge Let's not forget that the Alan Partridge character was borne on Chris Morris' absolutely genius radio show "On The Hour", and made it onto tv on Morris' televised successor "The Day Today". Which reminds me of the actual high water mark of British comedy, which was Chris Morris' third and final series "Brass Eye". He rustled too many feathers with that one. It's a damn shame that those shows have been wiped from YouTube. For my money, Chris Morris is the most unappreciated creator of the 90s/00s, limey or not.
- radicalbyte 1y agoThat Brass Eye they they had Phil Collins talking "nonce sense"... brilliance. Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci are national treasures.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoDon't forget "Jam" and "Nathan Barley"
- secondcoming 1y agoYes Minister is timeless. I still watch it on YouTube occasionally
- AsmaraHolding 1y agoYou can't forget Peep Show. One of the longest-running British comedies, with 54 episodes.