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    Best comedy sitcoms

    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?


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    Father Ted.

    Peerless.

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

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    Peep show, end the thread


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    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’.

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

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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stairway 2 7 View Post
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    Always sunny
    Nighty night
    Peep show
    The thick of it
    Curb your enthusiasm
    This country
    Alan Partridge
    People just do nothing
    Another shout for This Country, would love them to do another few episodes

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

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    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.

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    Seinfeld.

    The Inbetweeners
    Every gimmick hungry yob,
    Digging gold from rock and roll
    Grabs the mic to tell us,
    He'll die before he's sold.

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

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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McSwanky View Post
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    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? 😉

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    Mind your language. ( Teenage humour ! )

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    Love Thy Neighbour

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jones28 View Post
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee View Post
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    You like John Cleese with a moustache?
    Haha, quality autocorrect by my phone. What a moustache-a to make-a...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santa Cruz View Post
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    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.

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    Fawlty Towers
    Father Ted
    Car Share

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    Quote Originally Posted by AFKA5814_Hibs View Post
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC View Post
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    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.
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    Fawlty Towers
    Only fools
    Porridge
    The office
    Cheers
    Friends
    Father Ted
    The Royle Family
    Some mothers do ‘ave ‘em
    Peep Show

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    Quote Originally Posted by ErinGoBraghHFC View Post
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    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.

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    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.
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    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.

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