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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"The Office (original)
Parks and Recreation
Anything with Alan Partridge in.
Parks and recs is in my list. Yet to watch "
Parks and recs is brilliant when you get round to it! Also stick “community” on that list….
If you want some under the radar ones that brits might not be familiar with… it’s always sunny in Philadelphia is a riot!
Me… the IT crowd, Derry Girls, will and grace, curb your enthusiasm ect…..
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"The Office (original)
Parks and Recreation
Anything with Alan Partridge in.
Parks and recs is in my list. Yet to watch
Parks and recs is brilliant when you get round to it! Also stick “community” on that list….
If you want some under the radar ones that brits might not be familiar with… it’s always sunny in Philadelphia is a riot!
Me… the IT crowd, Derry Girls, will and grace, curb your enthusiasm ect…..
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It's always sunny in Philadelphia is also in my list. I prefer binging series on entirety. So waiting for it to end  |
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"But a great sit com can be ruined by canned laughter."
Agree, I can't watch anything with canned laughter. Already mentioned but:
Parks and Recreation (obviously)
Brooklyn 99
for me. I also love other comedy shows but they aren't categorised as sitcoms. |
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By *apnDomMan
over a year ago
London |
"But a great sit com can be ruined by canned laughter.
Agree, I can't watch anything with canned laughter. Already mentioned but:
Parks and Recreation (obviously)
Brooklyn 99
for me. I also love other comedy shows but they aren't categorised as sitcoms."
If canned laughter ruins a show for you, then you are too easily influenced by other people.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sitcoms is my thing!!!!
Only fools and horses
Big bang theory
Fraisure- not sure on the spelling!!
King of queens
Everybody loves Raymond
Two and a half men!! |
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"But a great sit com can be ruined by canned laughter.
Agree, I can't watch anything with canned laughter. Already mentioned but:
Parks and Recreation (obviously)
Brooklyn 99
for me. I also love other comedy shows but they aren't categorised as sitcoms.
If canned laughter ruins a show for you, then you are too easily influenced by other people. "
How do other people come into the picture? This is not laughter I don't like, but a very specific kind. For example, I love British panel shows (WILTY, 8ooTCDC, etc.) and they have plenty of real people laughing in the audience. I just don't like it as part of scripted shows. |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
Only Fools and Horses is still my all time favourite comedy programme.I also liked Steptoe & Son there is a classic episode call The Desperate Hours with Leonard Rossister which is considered as a act off between Leonard & Harry H Corbett which most called a draw as the timing was of a excellent standard by both actors. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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- Porridge.
- Man about the house.
- Only Fools and Horses.
- Some Mother's Do have them.
- Minder.
- Inbetweeners.
- Some people do nothing.
- White Gold. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"- Porridge.
- Man about the house.
- Only Fools and Horses.
- Some Mother's Do have them.
- Minder.
- Inbetweeners.
- Some people do nothing.
- White Gold. "
- Happy Days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Enjoying bless this house sydney james makes my early mornings..
I used to enjoy
Benny Hill
Victoria wood in dinner ladies
Fools and horses
Hinge and bracket |
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By *trideMan
over a year ago
Plymouth |
In my collection:
Absolutely Fabulous 1992 to 2012
'Allo 'Allo! 1982 to 1992
Coupling 2000 to 2004
Dad's Army 1968 to 1977
Fawlty Towers 1975 to 1979
Hi-De-Hi 1980 to 1988
Men Behaving Badly 1992 to 1998
Mr.Bean 1990 to 2007
Open All Hours 1973 to 1985
Peep Show 2003 to 2015
Please Sir 1968 to 1972
Rising Damp 1974 to 1978
Smack The Pony 1999 to 2003
The Fenn Street Gang 1971 to 1973
The Good Life 1975 to 1978
The Likely Lads & Whatever Happened To 1964 to 1974
The Liver Birds 1969 to 1996
The Lovers 1970 to 1971
Tony Hancock (BBC, ITV & Australian) 1954 to 1972
Yes Minister 1980 to 1984
Yes Prime Minister 1986 to 1987
I have no HDD room for:
And Now For Something Completely Different
Benny Hill
Black Adder
Last Of The Summer Wine
Only Fools & Horses
Steptoe & Son
The Alf Garnett Saga
Till Death Us Do Part
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"I love Seinfeld. Friends too, though it's cool to hate it these days. Arrested development could have made it to the top if only Netflix didn't screw it up.
How about you?"
Frasier probably.. Its worn well.
Father ted...
It crowd..
Liking modern family a bit too
Porridge takes some beating
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
Rising Damp
Only when I laugh
Ever Decreasing Circles
The Good Life
To the Manor Born
As time goes by
Vicar of Dibley
Last of the Summer Wine (this mostly because my Nan and gramp loved it and it reminds me of them)
Also Allo (but only because I fancied the Policeman with the ropey accent)
Hi de Hi
It ain’t half hot mum
Dad’s Army
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By *ragsterMan
over a year ago
Blackburn |
"New Frasier is awful…"
Havnt seen any of the new Frasier but I've heard the reviews aren't good..
I cant understand why they felt the need to bring it back when a lot of the main and funny characters from the original series aren't appearing.
The original series was just brilliant...
Should've just left us with great memories .... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"New Frasier is awful…
Havnt seen any of the new Frasier but I've heard the reviews aren't good..
I cant understand why they felt the need to bring it back when a lot of the main and funny characters from the original series aren't appearing.
The original series was just brilliant...
Should've just left us with great memories ...."
Without Niles, it’s just a disaster.
Although, I’m wondering is that what people thought when it was first launched and there was no Sam, Norm or Cliff? |
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Depends on your age, and some of the ones from the late 60s and early 70s may be considered acceptable today (although frankly I don’t care).
In no particular order:
Please Sir (great theme tune too)
On the Busses
Young Ones
Cuckoo
Doctor in the House
Blackadder
Faulty Towers
Prospects (not quite a sitcom, but brilliant tragi comedy)
Only Fools and Horses
Till Death Us Do Part |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
Married With Children
Black Books
Black Adder
What We Do In The Shadows
The IT Crowd
Ghosts (UK)
Yonderland
This Is Jinsy
WKRP in Cincinatti (A nostalgic pick that isn't actually very good, but I loved as an uncritical 11 year old)
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"The Office (original)
Parks and Recreation
Anything with Alan Partridge in.
Parks and recs is in my list. Yet to watch
Parks and recs is brilliant when you get round to it! Also stick “community” on that list….
If you want some under the radar ones that brits might not be familiar with… it’s always sunny in Philadelphia is a riot!
Me… the IT crowd, Derry Girls, will and grace, curb your enthusiasm ect…..
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Love community just lost it's way at the end wasn't the same after Donald Glover left. |
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I like lots of the old ones, only fools and horses, keeping up appearences, allo allo, good life, one foot in the grave, the vicar of dimbley, faulty towers, father ted, last of the summer wine, open all hours etc.. lots of proper belly laughs |
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The office
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia
Brooklyn 99
Schitts creek
Superstore
Are the ones that I’ll watch over and over
Though I rediscovered only fools and horses and fawlty towers during lockdown and that just just a delight!  |
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Tony Hancock
Curb your Enthusiasm
Big Bang Theory
The Office (UK)
I T. Crowd (excluding a couple of episodes)
I really loved The Royle Family and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but I find them a bit painful to watch these days. |
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"So many of my favourites already mentioned, but haven't seen 'The Royle Family', which is also high on my list.
It never gets old."
I mentioned Royle Family, but I disagree. I think it's aged and not well. |
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"So many of my favourites already mentioned, but haven't seen 'The Royle Family', which is also high on my list.
It never gets old.
I mentioned Royle Family, but I disagree. I think it's aged and not well."
Oh sorry, I missed your mention. I still love it, but I guess that's the point with humour - it's pretty personal. |
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"So many of my favourites already mentioned, but haven't seen 'The Royle Family', which is also high on my list.
It never gets old.
I mentioned Royle Family, but I disagree. I think it's aged and not well.
Oh sorry, I missed your mention. I still love it, but I guess that's the point with humour - it's pretty personal."
Yeah, annoyingly, I still love it. The writing is great and the acting is flawless. But some of the jokes (e.g. homophobic mockery) feel a bit different to when I first watched it. |
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"Frasier
Scrubs
Friends
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
How I Met Your Mother
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Modern Family
The IT Crowd
The Office
Nine-nine! How could I forget? "
Scrubs is a great shout. I'd forgotten. From laughter to tears in one scene. |
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"Gavin and Stacey. Wish they'd make more.
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Gavin and Stacey and The Royle Family.. are they actually sitcoms?
If they are, I'd put them in!
I've always loved Last of the Summer Wine. And Open All Hours! Slow love.
My fave sitcom star as a kid was Leonard Rossiter (Rising Damp and Reginald Perrin). Were The Young Ones and Blackadder sitcoms? If they were they were huge.
I get the feeling that some really great British sitcoms can come and go now without notice these days, partly due to the BBC ballsing up the way they program comedy.
Not seen much American stuff since Arrested Development, but I definitely preferred Larry Sanders to Seinfeld (RIP Garry Shandling) back in the day. Cheers was always the best value as a kid, I think Friends picked up a lot of its writers. pt |
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"Only Fools and Horses is still my all time favourite comedy programme.I also liked Steptoe & Son there is a classic episode call The Desperate Hours with Leonard Rossister which is considered as a act off between Leonard & Harry H Corbett which most called a draw as the timing was of a excellent standard by both actors.
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Steptoe and Son So sad they actually lost a number of them (simply thrown away after airing as they did in those days.) pt |
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