All time top five comedy series ever?

[tdr1nka]

Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (Radio 4 Series I & II)
I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue (R4)
Father Ted
Black Adder
Farty Towels
The League Of Gentlemen
Spaced
Black Books

And another vote for just about anything Reeves & Mortimer.

 

[Milo]

Monty python
Peep show
Ideal
The mighty boosh
Richard prior
Alan p7artridge
In no order.

 

[rich p]

There seems to be a heavy TV bias here

True.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is high up on my list

 

[Flying_Monkey]

In chronological order:

Round the Horne
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
The Day Today
Brass Eye
Black Books
Peep Show

and not The #@!>ing Office

 

[Over The Hill]

I would add Kenny Everett's Captain Kremmin to balance the TV bias for sheddy.

Does anyone remember Set of Six starring Rowland Rivron?
It was circa 1990 and he played the parts of sextuplet "Scroat" brothers.
It was way ahead of its time with the fly on the wall docu style comedy. I know he has been crap since but that was really really great.

Glad to see someone own up to liking Benny Hill too!

 

[tdr1nka]

True.
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is high up on my list

PHEW! I thought I was going out on a limb with the R4 selection.

So we also need to include,

The Goons
News Quiz
The Now Show
Just A Minute
Round The Horn
Old Harry's Game
Bleak Expectations
Milton Jones

Lest we forget the shows that started on R4 and transfered to BBC TV:
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy(only series I went to TV)
On The Hour (transfered as The Day Today, giving us Al*n P*rtr*dge)
Little Britain
Dead Ringers
Goodness Gracious Me
The Mary Whitehouse Experience

IMO these shows were all far better on the radio.

 

[simonali]

Anyone remember Radio Active?

 

[tdr1nka]

Anyone remember Radio Active?

I was going to put that in my list but I heard an episode on R7 and found it had really rather dated.
Still it did give me one of my favourite quotes, 'it may be raing outside but deep in my heart, it's p*ssing down.'

 

[Melvil]

PHEW! I thought I was going out on a limb with the R4 selection.

So we also need to include,

The Goons
News Quiz
The Now Show
Just A Minute
Round The Horn
Old Harry's Game
Bleak Expectations
Milton Jones

Lest we forget the shows that started on R4 and transfered to BBC TV:
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy(only series I went to TV)
On The Hour (transfered as The Day Today, giving us Al*n P*rtr*dge)
Little Britain
Dead Ringers
Goodness Gracious Me
The Mary Whitehouse Experience

IMO these shows were all far better on the radio.

I agree totally with Milton Jones. The guy is amazing. Absurdly surreal, or should that be surreally Absurd?

 

[simoncc]

Cheers, Father Ted, Rising Damp, Sykes, Peer Kay's Phoenix nights.

 

[Maz]

No one's mentioned Alan Partridge yet!

This would be in my top 5, most def.

 

[tdr1nka]

I agree totally with Milton Jones. The guy is amazing. Absurdly surreal, or should that be surreally Absurd?

Fingers crossed we have tickets coming for the recordings of the new series!

 

[tdr1nka]

Can't count Count Arthur Strong tho, can't be dealing with 1/2hr of furious and deliberate malapropisms.

 

[simonali]

I was going to put that in my list but I heard an episode on R7 and found it had really rather dated.
Still it did give me one of my favourite quotes, 'it may be raing outside but deep in my heart, it's p*ssing down.'

I haven't heard it since I was at school! The radio-thon one was good, if I remember.

 

[got-to-get-fit]

Taxi
The smell of reeves and mortimer
The fast show
Only fools and 'orses
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