This show is so funny and brilliant! I thinks it's one of the funniest British TV series I've ever seen.
Hopefully there'll be a season 5!
Do you know anymore funny TV series? (I think "Black Books" is quite funny too, and of course the "Mr. Bean".)
The one show I haven't seen posted yet is Snuff Box. Only six episodes, but very funny. You have to have an odd/dark sense of humor though.
shareDefinitely Father Ted. Its from the same guy that made The IT Crowd and Black Books so I'm sure you'll like this.
Also Not Going Out is quite similar.
Some other great British comedies are - Spaced, Green Wing, Gavin & Stacey, I'm Alan Partridge and Peep Show
Are you being served?
Mrr. Rummbolld..
Are you free?...(looking) Yes, I,m free.
I love this show!
Mighty Boosh and Spaced!
shareFather Ted
The Vicar of Dibley
The Inbetweeners
I have just looked through and I don't think "Armstrong and Miller" was mentioned. The WWII pilots sketches never fail to make me laugh.
Another dark one is Human Remains.
I also love Green Wing, which I did see mentioned and many of the other shows that have been listed.
What good is suffering if we can't enjoy it? Roger Collins
Nobody has mentioned a sitcom called 'Game on' does anyone remember this? One of my favorites of all time especially the first series with Ben Chaplin in but the rest are good too. That's well worth a watch
Also don't think anyone mentioned the time travelling sit com 'Goodnight Sweetheart' with Nicholas Lyndhurst in of Only fools and horses fame, thats a great show in my opinion but may not translate well to america as half of it is based in Wartime London
Some of my other favourites that may have been said:-
Only fools and horses
Blackadder
Red Dwarf (My personal favourite)
Men Behaving Badly
HAS ANYONE MENTIONED 'Porridge'!? That's a classic
One foot in the grave
I always like the Likely Lads aswell
The Thin Blue Line - Police sitcom with Rowan Atkinson in
I'm Alan Partridge
The Brittas Empire
Black Books
The Inbetweeners
Gavin and Stacey
How not to live your life
You can't go wrong with any of these
I saw Game On, but wasn't that crazy about it. Absolutely LOVED Goodnight Sweetheart though
What good is suffering if we can't enjoy it? Roger Collins
I've been watching 2.4 children recently, very good show
shareblack books
blackadder (from season 2 on)
the mighty boosh
fawlty towers
extras
Yeah "Fawlty Towers" is one of my favorite tv shows ever. John Cleese just never fails to impress me. Shame it only had 12 episodes but I'd rather it be 12 strong episodes rather then 30 mediocre rushed episodes, just for the sake of making episodes.
I've went through all the pages and I can't believe nobody has mentioned "the two ronnies" yet?
Early 70's sketch show that ran for 12 seasons (I think?) and then they made another show in 2005-2006, around that time, called the "two ronnies sketchbook" which was a lookback at their best sketches and some modern sketches so I'd check that out and if you like it then watch the original series.
One of the great all-time british comedy series in terms of the writing, tv gold.
Also I think "Outnumbered" is worth a mention, the earlier episodes I liked a lot, not really watched the newer ones.
Also, someone mentioned "Mock the week", that has me in stitches everytime, one of the funniest panel shows... and also "shooting stars", the older series, it's not for everyone though, a bit crazy.
I don't wanna give you more answers because most people have named most of them. Just watch them, maybe look at someones other works i.e. rowan atkinson, john cleese, ronnie barker etc. and watch other stuff they've wrote and acted in and you might come across something else.
(The 70's are really good for british comedy as well as the early 90's...)
this has turned into quite a list - it's been a lot of fun being reminded of all these shows.
One still not mentioned I think is 'Nightingales'. it came and went quietly on CH4 in the early nineties but is available on DVD. It is similar to IT Crowd in its structure and has a very famous (in the UK) cast including 'Frank Gallagher' from Shameless in his younger days.
If you liked IT Crowd, I'm sure you'll like Nightingales.
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BS! First season of black adder is great, too. Brian Blessed as the king is reason enough, so funny when he forgets about his second son. Or his wife... It's worth watching in any case.
shareI'm from the U.S., so I have not been able to catch any of these shows on their initial runs, but I was a big fan of Python in the 70s, and Fawlty Towers and The Young Ones shortly thereafter. However, I have not seen anyone mention The Goodies. When I saw The Goodies and The Beanstalk back in the mid-70s, I about laughed myself hoarse.
I prefer British TV because the humor/humour is character-based instead of joke-based. I find character-driven humor to be far superior. I have my own collection of of the entire Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Spaced, Black Books and The Mighty Boosh series (the British TV version, not the highly-edited American distilled episodes) and I am searching for some more excellent British TV - which I will start anon with The IT Crowd.
Thanks for all of the input provided here in this thread. I have quite the project list ahead of me.
only fools and horses end of!!
shareNo one has mentioned Spy (2011) yet?
The sad thing about Yes Minister/ Prime Minister is that they would work equally well as documentaries.
Of that era, Good Neighbors.
League of Gentlemen is in a class all its own. I've been watching Steve Pemberton on Whitechapel and it is hard to believe he was ever Tubbs. And the scene with Ross and Pauline is permanently etched in my brian, you know the one.