Popular old Sitcoms that weren't funny...

rising damp

only joking :D

I should hope you were

i'm afraid i didn't get rising damp. Only ever seen a very few small clips really. Would have to watch a whole episode I think - I know everyone on here seems to rate it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9UMvfKBaZI&feature=related

tommy cooper not funny any comedians today can only dream of being half as good as he was

any sitcoms you like HRH. yes blackadder should be on the list of top sitcoms. especially blackadder goes forth.

Married with Children. (UBER NAP)

delz is spot on..best sitcom ever imo

kelly bundy :x

jack dee funnier than tommy cooper imo. know i'll get shot down for saying it.

Very Good
Rising Damp
Are You Being Served
Dad's Army
Man About The House
Steptoe And Son
Fawlty Towers
Likely Lads (including Whatever Happened To..)


Good
Open All hours
Last Of The Summer Wine (with Foggy and Compo)
George And Mildred
Porridge
Sykes
'Allo 'Allo!
Mind Your Language


Poor
The Good Life
On The Buses
Bread
Butterflies
Alf Garnett (all of it)
Birds Of A Feather
Terry And June
Love Thy Neighbour
Keeping Up Appearances
One Foot In The Grave
Doctor In The House (and spin offs)
Duty Free
Hi De Hi
Vicar Of Dibley
Blackadder
Come Back Mrs Noah
Bless This House

think a lot depends on your age the last thing i found funny was red dwarf everything since has been utter drivel

a good list Gallivanter apart from Blackadder. Maybe the first series belongs in the poor list but the other 3 were excellent.

Are you being served? Very good?

ffs. The show was utter drivel from start to finish. A truly awful programme.

only fools and horses

preparing to get shot down in flames here but i think i must be the only person in the country who didn't find it partcularly funny...one or two mildly amusing bits but certainly not deserving all the adulation it gets imho

ok fire away...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gdtZlt_DY

jack dee live and uncut part 1.

shergarburger...

you are not remotely alone. There are loads of people who seemingly never tire of telling us, no doubt in a w.anky student tone of voice.....

"Well actually I didn't think Only Fools and Horses was actually that funny actually".

You're not even the first person on this fking thread.

OFAH not perfect imo, when the women turned up it went a bit sh.tty, but still pretty damn good i think. Some of the best moments were grandad and uncle albert if you ask me.

Sitcom I never liked were:

The Good Life
Bread
Ever decreasing circles
Just good friends
Duty Free

I found all the rest humourous at some point.

Open all hours was very funny imo. No-one did a stammer quite like Ronnie.

"That'll be thir...thir...thir...thir....oh just gve us 20p" Magic :D

Fools and Horses lost a lot when the women were brought in on a permanent basis. Marlene was ok but not the other two. Albert was never as funny as Grandad and Rodney was better as a plonker than a computer expert. Del moved from a**ey**ney to a caricature. They should have stopped it when Grandad died.

about right there galivanter. but uncle albert was the equal of grandad i think

Open all hours was very funny imo. No-one did a stammer quite like Ronnie.

He loved to mock the afflicted to annoy the PC BBC people. Remember him in Clarence?

mr bean

I can't believe no-one has mentioned The Royle Family.
Not even amusing, imo.

Oh and Gavin and Stacey - even worse.

Was the Royle Family supposed to be funny?

i like gavin and stacey and the royle family was ok but then the novelty wore off pretty quick

rob - what do you think of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (and The Likely Lads)?

I feel a list coming on :)

wasn't too keen on it max i'm afraid. Haven't seen too much of them either tbh, didn't really make me laugh out loud though.

In that case, I am afraid you are a bit simple.

Study spot on about the Royle Family. I will get slaughtered, but I quite use to like Brush Strokes!

tell me something i don't know max

That Claptrap rubbish with Ricky Mail abd Nigel Planer.

Apparently, you don't know that Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads is one of the best comedies of all time.

MUST be a northern thing

i would have liked to have shared a room with sally thomsett in man about the house

z cars was poor
liver birds
softly softly
bread
butterflys

perhaps i just dont get the scouse humour

liver birds, bread and butterflies were all written by the same woman.

Thought Steptoe was good for its time and that was about it.

Early on Sunday (?) Morning I watched 3 back-to-back Steptoes and the acting by Harry H.Corbett and Wilf Brambell was immense.
They really were very funny..

whit aboot rab c nessbit

Don't forrget Rab C.Nesbitt

The Young Ones, Men Behaving Badly. Utter drivel.

I dont mind having Hancock's Half Hour or Dad's Army on BBC i-player in the background while I work, but haven't been interested in The Goon Show for a long time

Dads' Army non-fan here too. I've seen the actors stumble over lines a few times ,and I know it was a more innocent time ,but to cream your knickers over 'you stupid boy' is being pleased terribly easily.

I forgot Bread was popular so that's the clear winner for me. Facking actually hated that show.

I saw an old episode of Please Sir not long ago out of curiosity to see how it had aged, my God that was as dire as it gets.

Bread was facking dire.

I enjoyed bread at the time, but I was just a kid. It is a god awful programme

trouble with Dad's Army was the writing imo. Shouldn't be over reliant on catchphrases and slapstick and jones running round in his undergarments etc not with such good actors and characters. It was still v.good, but far from faultless.

top 100 from wiki
vicar of dibley at no 3 and early doors at 91, tells all you need to know about the british public's sense of humour.

1. Only Fools and Horses

top 100 from wiki
vicar of dibley at no 3 and early doors at 91, tells all you need to know about the british public's sense of humour.

1. Only Fools and Horses

That is a very worrying list. Care in the community is clearly failing if Last Of The Summer Wine, Dinner Ladies, The poxy Royle Family and The Office are above Partridge.

Anyone remember High and Dry with Bernard Cribbens?

all these lists and choices only add up to 1 thing and that is that all people have different tastes and opinions, some off these programmes listed make me cringe whereas others were top notch. I for example think, [ now its my turn to get shot} think peter kay is not very funny at all. yet tommy cooper and benny hill were hilarious all about taste imho.

never saw early doors so cant comment the office to me was utter pish where as red dwarf absolutely hilarious,.but red dwarf did'nt take off until the second series and it wasnt something you could turn on and find funny unless you knew the history/background of the characters and from what i saw of the office it seemed the same sort of thing that you needed to know the history

as time goes by

shelley a notable absentee

evening terry

The strange world of Gurney Slade was very quirky for the early 60's

The Strange World of Gurney Slade Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_eItvS6JFk

evening wits,how things in essex tonite?

i'm alan partridge series 1 is the no.1 greatest ever imo.

a little bit of rain but otherwise very quiet, how's about where you are terry?

marriage lines was with richard briers and prunella scales circa 1964

same here m8 to be honest

watching the footy tonight then up early for work
hope this bad weather stays away it plays havoc with the signals

talking about trains wits,what the cheapest way to book tickets 1st class to perth?

go into the local station and be prepared to stay 15-20 mins or if you let me know the dates and time you
would like to travel,how many of you i can have a look a work tomorrow if you wish

thinly veiled need to test out my lock picking skills

thanks very much wits but no worries,its just a thought at the moment,but i like perth and i like train travel but in your own time there would be just me and her indoors

How can neither Reginald Perrin nor Alan Partridge make the top 30? It makes me feel that most of the British public are imbeciles, it truly does.

if you are going to book it cheapest to do it six to eight weeks in advance and be prepared to go/catch set times/trains

great way to see the countryside for sure,a fine meal with lots of wine,love it.

yes terry and have a good journey if you do go

cheers and thanks for the advice

Why are some people on here so critical of the choices of others? One mans meat etc etc.

These list are making me feel old!!! I remember most of the ones mentioned. Dear John wasn't particularly funny as I remember, but starred Ralph Bates playing a character completely the opposite of the character who made his name, which was of course, George Warleggan in Poldark. The theme tune though was very catchy and I've never forgotten it (lool, how sad)

Does anyone remember one from the early 70s called No Strings, I believe David Jason may have been in it?

plaza patrol starring cannon and ball holding the fort matthew kelly and patricia hodge dire

I'm glad to see that Dear John has escaped most of your attentions. I believe it was John Sullivan's finest moment. It was not even in wiki's top 100 comedies (probably a good thing). So, yes it was full of of melancholy and sarcasm but I've never seen a better acted sitcom and such a star turn as the unforgettable Kirk st Moritz.

I liked Dear John! I remember the disco when the only record they had was Shakin Stevens Green Door!

Yes, Ralph was a pretty good DJ!

Boogaloo!

Dear John, by the time you read these lines, I'll be gone...........

None of them were really funny. It's just a few moments. OFAH a classic example of an overated comedy

bad
fresh fields
french fields
bread
all usa cak
summer wine after michael bates
nelsons column



good


wish itv had not withdrawn the wackers after the first episode broadcast. still in the vaults somewhere.
no body mention secret life of edgar briggs?
the squirrels ok and cuckoo waltz, my god i fancied diane keen.
scully
horace with ian mckellen. not sure if that was supposed to be funny but i laughed.
i didnt know you cared.
trippers day both series
what was the one with a brain damaged richard briers?
hugh and i
the merry widow
rather liked the one with barrymore as newspaper editor, but can't remember title
sykes
pc penrose
dustbinmen
dear john

how the fcuk is the vicar of dibley at number 3 it is about as funny as toothache

the cuckoo waltz-with that sas bloke.
omg!!

then he was in the proffesionals, tipped as james bond

suprised it took 15 posts before Allo Allo was mentioned

OFAH had its moments but was a very flawed sit-com

why don't the satelite channels take a chance and repeat some possibly dodgy
sitcoms instead of the same few over over over and over.



anyone remember bowler? a spin off from fenn st gang. itself a spin off from please sir.

vicar of dibley nap

You know the made 9..yes 9 series of Terry and June..how mnay sitcoms could EVER muster that these days.

People forget Terry Scott was a great comic talent and Whitfield a decent actress herself.Im not bigging it up but for that type of comedy was v v much of its time,so a tad harsh methinks.

Last of the summer wine is the longest running and is indeed carp
The good life
Vicar of dibley

Open all hours with 2 of our best ever tv comic actors was v v good,probs lost on this lot thogh

MASH is absolutely awful.

Dads Army

Aint half hot mum.

CBA to read the thread, but Keeping Up Appearances has to be number one on this list

i found steptoe and son unfunny, or am i wrong?

what was the undertakers one with the bloke from bootsie and snudge.
seen the film but series was never shown in yorkshire.
oh i remember thats your funeral



quite liked in loving memory.
george and the dragon
up the elephant and round the castle jim davisons finest hour
spring and autumn

nobody mention meet the wife, with the marvelous freddie frinton.



hancock did 2 series in australia , never shown here, so probably
dreadful.

bad
for the love of ada


would love to see sid james series from sixties, which have never
been repeated
citizen james
taxi
two in clover

Keeping Up Appearances was brilliant imo !

you want goddamn awful so called sit-com then you would have to go a long way to beat that Jim Davidson cr@p on a few years back, 'up the Elephant' or summat i seem to remember, utter sh!te.

never heard of up the elephant, yet 2 of the last 3 posters mentioned it, one saying awful, one saying Jim Davidsons finest hour!

Father Ted, Early Doors and Phoenix Nights all excellant.