Best comedy sitcoms

[Donegal Hibby]

I've been watching a few episodes of ' Only fools and horses ' and after all these years they still make me laugh , I do have many more I like though for me this one's my favourite and is comedy at its best . What comedy sitcoms do you enjoy?

[Smartie]

Father Ted.

Peerless.

The "Song for Europe" episode is the best 30 minutes of television ever made.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

Peep show, end the thread


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[Mikey_1875]

Frasier is probably my pick, “The Innkeepers” episode where they takeover a restaurant is a particular favourite. Outside of that I watch Phoenix Nights back quite often and more recently I like ‘It’s always sunny in Philadelphia’.

[Bridge hibs]

Only Fools n Horses
Porridge
Phoenix Nights
Father Ted
Friday Night Dinner
Two Doors Down (Most recent)

[McSwanky]

Another vote for Father Ted here.

Fawlty Towers was good. A moustache to bring it back though I'd say.

I also enjoyed Car Share more recently.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Always sunny
Nighty night
Peep show
The thick of it
Curb your enthusiasm
This country
Alan Partridge
People just do nothing

[Santa Cruz]

I'd add another vote for Car Share. More recent faves are Motherland, Two Doors Down, This Country and Outnumbered. Older shows I liked were Some Mothers Do Av Em, Cheers, Golden Girls, Friends and Still Game.

[Bridge hibs]

Always sunny
Nighty night
Peep show
The thick of it
Curb your enthusiasm
This country
Alan Partridge
People just do nothingAnother shout for This Country, would love them to do another few episodes

[Jim44]

The Office
Fawlty Tours
Detectorists (maybe not a comedy sitcom as such, but subtle comedy and great characters)

[Hibrandenburg]

The Young Ones. The grotesque exaggeration of 4 different kinds of personality living under one roof but still held together with common interests was genius. Add to that a mix of great guests from the comedy scene, great bands and subliminal messaging and you had cult television. After each episode the countdown started immediately to the next eagerly awaited episode.

[marinello59]

Seinfeld.

The Inbetweeners

[Jones28]

So many good ones.

Friends and Father Ted are my 90’s picks.

Scrubs was great but it jumped the shark after the end of the original series.

The Inbetweeners, Peep Show, Fresh Meat and Motherland all worth a mention. Peep Show probably gets special mention because of the way it’s filmed.

[O'Rourke3]

Norsemen on Netflix. Not for everyone but my current favourite. Finally catching up with The Detectorists. Brilliant writing and performances.

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[HUTCHYHIBBY]

OF&H is head and shoulders above everything else, Early Doors is vastly underrated though.

[Scouse Hibee]

The two that have me laughing every time I watch them, even though I have watched every episode so often that I even remember the words are:
Still Game
Only Fools and Horses

Nothing else comes close for me.

[Scouse Hibee]

Another vote for Father Ted here.

Fawlty Towers was good. A moustache to bring it back though I'd say.

I also enjoyed Car Share more recently.

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You like John Cleese with a moustache? 😉

[pollution]

Mind your language. ( Teenage humour ! )

[Scouse Hibee]

Love Thy Neighbour

[Santa Cruz]

So many good ones.

Friends and Father Ted are my 90’s picks.

Scrubs was great but it jumped the shark after the end of the original series.

The Inbetweeners, Peep Show, Fresh Meat and Motherland all worth a mention. Peep Show probably gets special mention because of the way it’s filmed.

Forgot about this. Loved the TV series, both films were really shan though.

[McSwanky]

You like John Cleese with a moustache? [emoji6]Haha, quality autocorrect by my phone. What a moustache-a to make-a...

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[AFKA5814_Hibs]

Forgot about this. Loved the TV series, both films were really shan though.

The movies were not great, should have left it after the TV series finished. However, the movies were brilliant compared to the US version of the Inbetweeners. Only lasted one season and was awful, watered down p***. The US really cannot replicate that kind of humour.

[J-C]

Fawlty Towers
Father Ted
Car Share

[BS44]

Cheers
The Big Bang Theory

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

The movies were not great, should have left it after the TV series finished. However, the movies were brilliant compared to the US version of the Inbetweeners. Only lasted one season and was awful, watered down p***. The US really cannot replicate that kind of humour.

Nah the first film was decent tbf, probably should’ve been left after the series though


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[marinello59]

Nah the first film was decent tbf, probably should’ve been left after the series though


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The first film was more than decent and it loved the second film as well. I’m glad they made them both.

[WeeRussell]

Fawlty Towers
Only fools
Porridge
The office
Cheers
Friends
Father Ted
The Royle Family
Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em
Peep Show

[AFKA5814_Hibs]

Nah the first film was decent tbf, probably should’ve been left after the series though


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I'm not a great fan of the movies tbh. The original series was just so good, so original, I loved it. The movies were OK, just nothing compared to the C4 series.

[Mibbes Aye]

Father Ted and bits of Big Train for clever, silly laugh out loud.

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister and The Thick of It for characters interacting with one another laugh out loud

The Larry Sanders Show, it’s very funny but it is so, so much more than just that. Can also rightfully call itself the daddy of many, many comedies that followed.

Interestingly, most of those used the ‘three very different people stuck in a specific environment’ model. I don’t want to analyse it though, just enjoy it.

[WeeRussell]

Father Ted and bits of Big Train for clever, silly laugh out loud.

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister and The Thick of It for characters interacting with one another laugh out loud

The Larry Sanders Show, it’s very funny but it is so, so much more than just that. Can also rightfully call itself the daddy of many, many comedies that followed.

Interestingly, most of those used the ‘three very different people stuck in a specific environment’ model. I don’t want to analyse it though, just enjoy it.

Wasn’t ‘Big Train’ a sketch show? I remember it being on TV around the same time as the office.

[Mibbes Aye]

Wasn’t ‘Big Train’ a sketch show? I remember it being on TV around the same time as the office.

Yeah fair cop. It had some recurring characters but it wasn't a sitcom.

[Hibby70]

I'm not a great fan of the movies tbh. The original series was just so good, so original, I loved it. The movies were OK, just nothing compared to the C4 series.

Movies are never as good when they do them based on a series. But that dancing scene in the club is one of the funniest things I've seen in a cinema.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

Movies are never as good when they do them based on a series. But that dancing scene in the club is one of the funniest things I've seen in a cinema.

Neil dry humping the lassie at the boat party was funny as well


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[Donegal Hibby]

Surprised nobody's mentioned ' Dad's Army ' really good imo .

[Bridge hibs]

Enjoyed Vicar of Dibley too

[danhibees1875]

Friends is the quintessential sitcom for me. I can watch a few episodes every night and when finished just start it from the beginning again. I know all the lines but they still make me laugh every time.

Trying to avoid ones already mentioned... Modern Family and How I Met your mother from America. There's a lot of good British stuff too, I don't think I've seen Cuckoo or Not Going Out mentioned yet which are 2 I've enjoyed.

[Mr Grieves]

Father Ted
I'm Alan partridge
The league of gentlemen

[Jones28]

Forgot about this. Loved the TV series, both films were really shan though.

I enjoyed the films. The way they’d all been chucked by their summer flings by the time the second movie started was hilarious.

[easty]

Always Sunny, Curb, and The Office (the American one) are the 3 I watch over and over again.

Honourable mentions for

The IT Crowd
Nathan Barley
Garth Merenghis Darkplace
Peep Show

[Pretty Boy]

Always Sunny, Curb, and The Office (the American one) are the 3 I watch over and over again.

Honourable mentions for

The IT Crowd
Nathan Barley
Garth Merenghis Darkplace
Peep Show

Nathan Barley and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace are under appreciated classics. The broccoli episode of the latter is 30 minutes of comedy gold.

[Hibby70]

Can't believe nobody has suggested Mrs Brown's Boys and Miranda....

I used to work beside someone who actually thought both were hilarious. He was a strange sort who once boasted that he saved $20 by booking a room in Niagara that overlooked the car park rather than the falls.

[Jones28]

Can't believe nobody has suggested Mrs Brown's Boys and Miranda....

I used to work beside someone who actually thought both were hilarious. He was a strange sort who once boasted that he saved $20 by booking a room in Niagara that overlooked the car park rather than the falls.

I watched Mrs Browns Boys once and it helped me understand why we voted to leave the EU and Boris Johnson’s popularity.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

Don’t hug me I’m scared anyone?


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[The Modfather]

Friends is the quintessential sitcom for me. I can watch a few episodes every night and when finished just start it from the beginning again. I know all the lines but they still make me laugh every time.

Trying to avoid ones already mentioned... Modern Family and How I Met your mother from America. There's a lot of good British stuff too, I don't think I've seen Cuckoo or Not Going Out mentioned yet which are 2 I've enjoyed.

I’ve not watched Friends in a long time, but seen the odd scene in passing. It surprised me that it appeared to have aged badly and was all a bit silly. To be fair the scenes mainly featured Joey. Loved it at the time, but maybe I’m just old and boring now.

My list has already been covered by most others (Frasier - my favourite, The Office (UK), Only Fools, Always Sunny, Seinfeld etc).

One not mentioned that I think has aged ok is The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. Still quite funny and tackled series issues. They don’t make them like that anymore.

[WeeRussell]

I watched Mrs Browns Boys once and it helped me understand why we voted to leave the EU and Boris Johnson’s popularity.

Miranda far worse for me. I genuinely had to leave the room when someone had it on in my presence as it was giving me a sore heid.

[Santa Cruz]

Miranda far worse for me. I genuinely had to leave the room when someone had it on in my presence as it was giving me a sore heid.

Think maybe the only thing worse than Miranda and MBB is Officer Karen in Scotsquad.

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

Think maybe the only thing worse than Miranda and MBB is Officer Karen in Scotsquad.

Naw the teuchter polis are worse in Scotsquad, that fella does my box in


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[Oscar T Grouch]

M*A*S*H*
The Young Ones
Blackadder
Flight of the conchords
Bottom
Porridge
Frazier

[Onceinawhile]

Brooklyn 99
Scrubs
Iasip

[Dalianwanda]

Father Ted
Hardy Bucks
People Just Do Nothing
Only Fools
The IT Crowd
Phoenix Nights
Mighty Boosh
In The Thick of It
I’m Alan Partridge

These are ones i’ve gone back to watch multiple times.

[He's here!]

Seinfeld.

The Inbetweeners

Loved Seinfeld at the time. A number of episodes remain magnificent but I was actually quite surprised by how poorly some of it has dated. The last couple of seasons without Larry David really slide off a cliff. The quality he maintained throughout Curb Your Enthusiasm was impressive.

[WeeRussell]

M*A*S*H*
The Young Ones
Blackadder
Flight of the conchords
Bottom
Porridge
Frazier

Completely forgot about blackadder on my list. Goes Fourth means it would get in my top 10. Without the 4th season maybe not.

[SaulGoodman]

Red Dwarf.

[Santa Cruz]

Taxi - forgot all about that one.

and Ab Fab

[heretoday]

The Larry Sanders Show. I have them all on dvd and watch occasionally to remind myself how shallow and desperate people in the public eye can be.

[Jones28]

Brooklyn 99
Scrubs
Iasip

3 belters, IASIP is some of the weirdest, funniest most bizarre TV I've every watched.

[McD]

Whatever happened to the likely lads

the early seasons of new tricks had some very funny moments, albeit not a sitcom as such

[Donegal Hibby]

Whatever happened to the likely lads

the early seasons of new tricks had some very funny moments, albeit not a sitcom as such
Good shout on "whatever happened to the likely lads" btw . Another one I watch now and again is "only when I laugh " which i find funny .

[overdrive]

Brooklyn 99
Scrubs
Iasip

Love Brooklyn 99.

My ex-sister-in-law and her husband are doctors and they used to claim that Scrubs is the most realistic fictional medical TV show, more so than any drama.

Most of my favourites have been covered already, but I can’t recall anyone mentioning The Vicar of Dibley (then I notice it a little further up the page after I posted that).

[WeeRussell]

Whatever happened to the likely lads

Like it! Been a good few years since I seen that.

I’m going to have to go against the grain here and admit I really hated scrubs.

[Hibbyradge]

Like it! Been a good few years since I seen that.

I’m going to have to go against the grain here and admit I really hated scrubs.

Don't you oppress me!

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

I’m going to have to go against the grain here and admit I really hated scrubs.

I'm going to say the same re Vicar of Dibley.

[WeeRussell]

Don't you oppress me!

I’m not oppressing you, Stan, you don’t know what a sitcom is!

[Hibbyradge]

I’m not oppressing you, Stan, you don’t know what a sitcom is!

That's symbolic of your struggle against reality television.

[WeeRussell]

That's symbolic of your struggle against reality television.

From now on I want you all to call me Rosell.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

The Royle Family.

[matty_f]

Some classics already on this thread, for me:

The Office (UK is the gold standard with the US just behind it, both fantastic)
The IT Crowd
What We Do in the Shadows
Toast of London
Father Ted
The Inbetweeners
Police Squad
House of Fools
Catterick (not sure if this falls into sitcom territory but I'm recommending it anyway)
Thick of It
People Like Us (though I think one of them might have been a wrong 'un)
Alan Partridge
The Detectorists