Comedy You Rewatch

[Vidor06]

Reading the old 'books you read and reread' thread got me thinking about comedy that I can watch and rewatch.
Thanks to Netflix, iPlayer and All4 I have been introducing my teenage daughter to the comedy shows of my youth. We started with Spaced and Black Books which she loved. We then tried Chelmsford 123 and thoroughly enjoyed the first couple of episodes but quickly tired of the theme. Then we tried Drop the Dead Donkey which I had forgotten was filmed in the week it was shown which was quite novel at the time but its a bit of a struggle now as all the references need context.
But the one I go back to time and again is Blackadder. Its just perfect comedy as far as I am concerned.
So what comedy shows from the past, recent or not do you revisit? What ones have I forgotten about which might be worth trying again? Are there any particular episodes which you have watched again and again?
Absolutely? Game On? The New Statesman?

 

[Cubist]

Chez Cube we all quite happily rewatch Fawlty Towers, Father Ted and the Young Ones. Phoenix Nights gets a mention occasionally.

 

[MichaelW2]

The IT Crowd and Red Dwarf seem to last. Tony Hancock and Two Ronnies soldier on. Even The Good Life can still deliver giggles.

 

[nickyboy]

Modern Family

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

M*A*S*H (is it really comedy though?)
Bottom
Father Ted
BlackAdder (all incarnations)

 

[tyred]

Dad's Army
Faulty Towers
Only Fools and Horses
Old Laurel and Hardy films

 

[Markymark]

Father Ted seems to be the only one for me that hasn't dated horribly.

 

[accountantpete]

IT Crowd
Big Bang Theory (first 4 series until it went crap)
The Green Wing

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Game On
Ripping Yarns
Spaced
House of Fools
League of Gentlemen
Psychoville

...are the usual gotos

Currently re-watching Apartment 23

I'd like re-watch Friday Night Dinner soon too

 

[ianrauk]

Father Ted
The Office
Toast of London
Fawlty Towers
Porridge
Alan Partridge
Tony Hancock

And another shout for Laurel and Hardy... when I'm feeling a bit down... one of their DVD's goes on.

 

[Drago]

Police Squad! And the Naked Gun moves.

 

[derrick]

Red Dwarf.

 

[Oldbloke]

Porridge
Blackadder
Alan Partridge
New Statesman

Have not seen "Soap" re-run and wonder if it would still be good?

 

[pplpilot]

Porridge
Blackadder
Alan Partridge
New Statesman

Same here. And another obscure one from the 90's

Dream on.-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_On_(TV_series)

 

[Over The Hill]

Not much. A comedy repeat is basically a bit like when a bloke down the pub starts telling you a joke you have already heard.


But - sometimes the repeating of a joke can make it into a bit of a catchphrase and so have a bit of a life of its own. That is perhaps more with the Naked Gun or Austen Powers type comedy.

Python is now really just a string of catchphrases.

But then it can be a bit of nostalgia and ,as stuff like the young ones is 30 years old, forgetting what is about to happen next.