Your Best and Worst Comedy Shows/Comedians

Best:
BlackAdder
Rowan Atkinson
Stephen Fry
Ronnie Barker

Worst
Ronnie Corbett- huge confidence on stage but terribly  over rated

Best
BILKO
STEPTOE AND SON
TONY HANCOCK
JACK BENNY
CAR 54
THE ODD COUPLE

Worst
Michael McIntyre (Nap)
Ab Fab

Fawlty Towers
Steptoe
Til Death Us Do Part
Phoenix Nights
Sgt Bilko
Round The Horne

Max Miller
Bernard Manning       

All brilliant.

Best....it ain't half hot mum, sadly never to be seen on British telly again.

Worst..Thin Blue Line....truly awful

Too many 'bests' to pick just one but the worst is without doubt Citizen Khan.

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BEST

Love Thy Neighbour
Till Death Us Do Part
The Black and White Minstrel Show

Excellent call, Mac!

Al Bundy
Frasier

Christina Applegate

Early Doors


Terrible omission

Best Phil Silvers Show, worst Never the Twain. Actually Never the Twain was probably not as bad as all those shows that were so pants we forgot them because they were either cancelled after 3 episodes or never ran to a second series.

Ever Decreasing Circles  was excellent too.

The Office is comedy genious, imo.

Agreed

Black adder goes forth series

best..only fools\porridge\the office\rising damp\blackadder(nap)\3rd rock from the sun\big bang theory\bill burr\George carlin(nb)....................worst.......last of the summer wine(nap)\Michael McIntyre(double nap)\friends\fawlty towers(overated)

add to best..........dads army

Nobody said father ted? You guys have no taste. Bunch of feck'n eejits.

Add to best "Gimme Gimme Gimme"

Worst: Labour Party Conference.

being serious - id go in no particular order...

Fools & Horses
Fawlty Towers
The Office
Royal Family
Bottom

Best

Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Rising Damp
Porridge
Early Doors
Minder

Worst

Last of the Summer Wine
On The Buses

Best

I'm Alan Partridge
The thick of it
The office
The first 10 series of the Simpsons - absolute genius. The new ones are a total disgrace.
Blackadder goes forth
The league of gentlemen


Worst -

Citizen Khan
Mrs Browns boys
Anything with Michael Mcintyre in

I really liked the first series of Game On where Ben Chaplin played Matt.

Best in no particular order:

Partridge,
The Office,
Curb your Enthusiasm,
Royle Family,
Porridge,
Rising Damp,
Blackadder Goes Forth... all Blackadder apart from first series tbh,
Reginald Perrin,
Fawlty Towers,
Bilko,
Father Ted.

Worst:

Birds of a Fevva,
My Family,
Citizen Khan,
Red Dwarf.

imo

Forgot to put Extras in the best list.

Best

Agree with

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Blackadder Goes Forth ( esp. final episode)

Worst

Agee with

Citizen Khan ( truly dire)

Cant agree with red dwarf being in the worst Clouseau

Best
Still Game - reborn and coming to the whole of the UK
Father Ted
Porridge
The office
Only Fools - although they milked it to death

Worst
Anything American

Facts was you a Bernard Manning fan ?

Cant agree with red dwarf being in the worst Clouseau

tbh never really watched it and just put it in for badness...

it is ROYLE family ,not  Royal or Royale  . Royal wouldn' t make any sense anyway !
It was called that for a reason 

Bilko the oldest - and still as good as any.

bodil...phil silvers not fit to be in the same room as the wonderful Laurel and Hardy.

Well, yes he just about makes the same room - but they were pre-TV.  They were true giants.  I'm told I was taken to see them on the 1953 tour - when they were out of fashion.  Wish I could remember something/anything.  Blackpool Tower Circus/Zoo is the first 'entertainment' I can recall - not them.

Best: Rising Damp. Leonard Rossiter was a fantastic actor.
      George & Mildred.
      Alan Partridge.
      Laurel & Hardy.
      Fawlty Towers.

Worst: Mrs Browns Boys,. and anything else produced in the last 10 years...

@Imfao.The best for myself from your choices would be Red Dwarf and Dads Army.Terrible acting in Dads Army you say? Arthur Lowes performance in that was brilliant and IMO the acting of the entire cast was top notch comedy acting and the scripts were most definetely not terrible.Never really watched Fools and Horses but i remember the "chandelier falling" episode,that was very funny.Never seen vicar of dibley or Ab fab.Allo Allo? No fawlty towers but you would choose Allo Allo.I would say The Office was the funniest thing on british television since Fawlty towers.Likes,dislikes i suppose its all about what tickles your own little boat.

Chance In A Million with Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn.

saw Lenny Henry,had to tell jokes to myself it was that bad

Agree with a lot of the best choices, Still Game box set my favourite.

Miranda is as funny as Polio.

Most of the usual suspects so far but I'll give a shout to Hi De Hi, great characters and writing, especially the first 5 or 6 series.

Miranda is as funny as Polio.

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Women simply don't work well in situation comediess unless they are foil .  Partdridge in the end was totally ruined by that Ukranian woman (why ?????) and same could be said  of  Fools and Horses  to a lesser extent

So

No-one liked The Good Life then....

Best !  How easily we forget

Who was in How easily we forget? If it was on Channel 5 I won't have seen it.

Off the top of my head here's some of mine.BEST.Faulty Towers,Steptoe,Dads Army,Monty Python,Till death do us part,The Freddie star show from the early/mid 70s and the Office.I also liked It ain't half hot mum because it made me feel kinda warm.WORST.Bread.A comedy about dole scrongers in Liverpool written by a liverpool writer carla lane.She also wrote the dreadfull Liver birds.On the buses was ugly and depressing.LOVE thy neighbour was funny but for all the wrong reasons.Mind your language I seem to remember had a good theme and the very Wonderfully sexy Francoise Pascal but it was as comedy shows go pretty dire.Not purposely a comedy but I thought at the time that Brookside,because it was so terrible, was the funniest thing on TV.As regards Yankee shows,I like the old ones Bilko,Car 54,Munsters,etc

Billy Connolly - great stand up. His comedy sitcoms are dire.

your lists are all british? prefer us comedy.

love the I.T. crowd. - amazing.
mighty boosh. - good songs too.
father ted
chris morris shows.


recent comedy i liked was US show the superhero mansion - animation like family guy.

Only fools-Porridge-Faulty Towers....I cant split them.....The Tracy Ullman show not that long ago was probably the unfunnyest Sketch Show i have ever seen in my life...And i used to think she was funny back in the day before she went to The States.

absolute worse one - surgical spirit. (tory wet dream show)

they bring this back to view only in tory years.

And Of Course Steptoe And Son...I cant leave them out.

Billy Connolly - great stand up. His comedy sitcoms are dire.

What sitcoms Zen?

And of course Blackadder goes forth....Fackin Hilarious.

I can't believe I forgot about Father Ted,a very,very funny show.The chris morris Brass Eye episodes also very,very funny.

Best Mike & Bernie Winters a shocking omission

However....I would put these right up there

Drop the dead donkey
Dream on
Coupling

Best

Bottom
Father Ted
Married With Children
Rab C Nesbitt
Blackadder (first series dreadful)
Rising Damp
Cheers
Sledgehammer
Paul Calf
Harry Enfield's Television Show, The Slobs, The Scousers etc


Worst

Vicious has to be the worse 'comedy' ever made
Miranda
Butterflies
Last of The Summer Wine (bar the stunts)
Gimme Gimme Gimme

I thought Seinfeld was a load of cack

I recall that Bernie winters included a dog in his act whose name was,i have a memory for nonsense like this,Snorebitz.The mention of the mike and bernie winters show recalls to me other equally bad pairings,,,Im sorry to torment your mammories ChitChatters but i give to you Cannon and Ball and i'm truely sorry to torment possibly even further but i must also give,,,The Sid little and eddie large show.

billy connolly in - billy(1992) US tv show - lead balloon.

pearl (1996) - same - they feed him lines that are just poor.

not his own material.

no edgy humour - safe pc writing.

The League Of Gentlemen is the best comedy/dark humour ive ever seen
Nighty Night was good as well
Count Arthur Strong - the plane episode was just genius

don't really like American Humour but theres a prog on early morning called Everyone Loves Raymond which is brilliant.

plane episode was hilarious.

As a kid,I loved Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii.

As a kid I also absolutely loved The Benny Hill Show.I don't believe he's been mentioned here yet.

The Dick Emery show was also hilarious to my 10/11 year old self.

Remembered another BAD UN,Bless this house,I loved the lovely sally Gleeson though and the sound of the doorbell in the theme.Never had a doorbell,always just a knocker.I think I'll buy one tomorrow.A Beautiful Chiming Doorbell.

best.
not in any particular order..
Only fools
Dads' Army
Porrige
Bilko
Till Death
Ain't Half Hot
Father Ted
Young Ones

worst...
The Office
The Office
The Office...
Watched one episode of the office to see what all the fuss was about. Don't think I managed even a smile throughout!
I think it only appealed to office workers though?

It's quite strange how people can either love/like the office or hate/dislike it.I Loved It.

Anybody have any love for Terry and June?

culvin... I didn't hate The Office, like some, I just didn't see the funny side of it. Like I said, it probably appealed more to office workers who maybe had situations like that at work. Same goes for Auf Wiedersehen Pet which could possibly appeal more to contractors and building workers, situations they could relate to.

Terry and June

Anyone remember Charlie Drake? I'm trying to think of his catch phrase.I just asked my father and as always,despite being 84 years young,he always on the ball and his answer was "Hello My Little Darlings"

Charlie Drake....Well Done Culvin i forgot all about him...He was funny.

Charlie Drake catch phrase was 'hello my darlings'.

Apologies I didn't read the end of Culvin's sentence.

lovegod.Your probably right about his catchphrase being Hello my darlings rather than Hello my Little Darlings.

Spin city
Peep show
Prince of bel air
Kevin hart
Micky Flanagan
Lee Evans
Greg giraldo
Jeff ross

Early Doors along with Fawlty Towers had only 12 episodes each and both will take some beating for sheer comedy excellence.

I've enjoyed a few US sitcoms over the years but my favourite has been Arrested Development.

The young ones.
The office.
Bottom. (Nap)
Steptoe and son.
Faulty towers

Worst and most overrated. Shouts mavintire.

Charlie Drake (Drunk) in Panto with Jim Davidson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iovn33lMDts

Thanks Zen. I think I read something about 'Billy' being dire but never saw it.

Another favourite. Dick Emery and "I got it wrong again Dad".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8HjDRrHt0

couple for the old timers
George and the dragon with the late great sid james
bootsy and smudge,old but not forgotten

Charlie drake I loved as a kid "the worker" was so funny,co starred henry mcgeeclassic stuff

Nearly forgotten, it was Bootsie & Snudge

Best
Dad's Army
Father Ted
Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em
The Office
Absolutely Fabulous

Worst
The Big Bang Theory
Friends
The Office (USA)

NO forgetting Frankie And Josie...Very funny show north of the border.

Francie And Josie even.

kincsem.Some Mothers do Ave Em.As a kid,How funny was that,it was Hilarious.

that's what happens when I don't look em up lee,still you know who I meant

charlie drake song/ catch phrase

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=charlie+drake+hello+my+darlings+song&view=detail&mid=CEDD4541E90D5451DFCBCEDD4541E90D5451DFCB&FORM=VIRE

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=charlie+drake+hello+my+darlings+song&&view=detail&mid=F045FEC3A895C7DAED9DF045FEC3A895C7DAED9D&rvsmid=CEDD4541E90D5451DFCBCEDD4541E90D5451DFCB&fsscr=0&FORM=VDFSRV

The Worker