Fawlty Towers

the Major recalling the day he lost his wallet

Hiding the body in the wardrobe

Mrs Richards episode is the best.

'What is witnit?'

Being rerun currently, sat down to watch but got bored after 5 minutes.
Was funny in it's day but, for me, I watched it too often.

"mother Johnson mother Johnson came out wherever you are"
only 12 but very one a gem, and what have we got now? p00p!

what have we got now?


Mrs Brown's Boys! The pendulum swings both ways.

that oddly is the best of a bad bunch,i like a bit of slapstick

I can't stand Mrs Brown! Am I the only one?

John Cleese wrote an episode of the Doctor series that was based in a small hotel with a henpecked proprietor.

Wandering off-topic but the Doctor series did have some high-profile writers such as Cleese, Chapman, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

Google finds this:
This episode inspired writer John Cleese to write the epic Fawlty Towers; it is based on a real-life hotel owner who hosted the Monty Python team.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/doctor_at_large/episodes/1/14/

Youtube has the episode at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT37KT9QZy8

''Ah, a satisfied guest,we should have him stuffed''..

far from it mini,but you tell me of something funny on tv at the moment that's meant to be funny cos I bleedin cant

Would I Lie To You?

Featuring the comic genius, Lee Mack.

The hotel was in fact Woburn Grange Country Club. Emile , the owner at that time, was said to have won it in a card game. I don't know if the story is true but he was definitely a gambler and bookmaker.

Would I lie to you rarely lets you down for a right good belly laugh.
David Mitchell excellent as is Lee Mack.
Mrs Brown leaves me cold.

Agree with all praise for WILTY. Mitchell and Mack are excellent, as is Rob Brydon. Guests Bob Mortimer and Rhod Gilbert are also worth their fees. Lots of clips on Youtube.

Bob Mortimer splitting the apple with his bare hands was quality.

Spoiler alert

So it was Ramruna but unintentional. I should have said claiming to be able to.
That's it well and truly spoiled now but still worth a look.

@akabula is right though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRhcE7TZgY

akabula  • August 13, 2016 5:59 PM BST 
Being rerun currently, sat down to watch but got bored after 5 minutes.
Was funny in it's day but, for me, I watched it too often.

That is because we can only watch the same joke so many times, however funny it was to start with.
Comedy has to keep reinventing itself akabula.

The only thing I would question now was the treatment of Manuel(Andrew Sachs), not sure it would be quite PC today,
I even thought it was a bit cruel at the time, but very funny at the time.

Does not seem the comedy like we used to have now, perhaps tastes have changed, and I am older?

Are Dad never use to watch much TV but Fawlty Towers was one programme the whole family would watch every week, it was so funny and he always had a good laugh watching it. Been 15 years now since he died and still miss him. And still have days and weeks when it’s just as painful as it was 15 years ago. And Fawlty Towers is one of those things which always trigger memories of Dad.

I think a lot of it why it was so good and compared to comedy shows today. The amount of thought that Cleese particularly put into the series. If you listen to him being interviewed he clearly gave every aspect of the show so much consideration. It was not just thrown together, and Cleese had many years experience in comedy which he put into F.T. I agree with some comments above it's a bit dated now and how many times is the same joke funny, but it still stands up pretty well. A masterpiece of TV comedy.

Only 2 series and 12 episodes and no Christmas Special, and not like today if someone gets a good idea they usually milk it to death.

talking of mother Johnson that one is on right now on gold--maybe the best of the lot

You are right Tell Dell, Cleese put a lot into it.

It probably only stood the two series.

We saw that with 'the Office' only two series.

One of my all time favourites 'The League of Gentlemen', I thought that only stood two series and a good Christmas special,

after that not quite the same

Dads Army still makes me laugh. nearly as funny as Desmonds

That was a classic as well, Dads Army

Father Ted was another classic. 3 series and 2 specials (I think).

Whereas Last Of The Summer Wine was absolute shoite yet ran for 247 series

The 1st 2 series of The League Of Gentlemen took some beating but the single best episode of a comedy since Fawlty Towers was when Count Arthur Strong went up in that plane, it was called The Day the Clocks went Back , that was the funniest thing ive seen in years.

Dads Army, Don't fence me in, very funny episode. especially,the scene where Godfrey speaks Italian at the POW camp

I agree Akabula Father Ted was always funny.

Last Of the Summer Wine was a much gentler comedy with a nice atmosphere. Was good in the early days, probably went on too long.

Dads Army not bad, perhaps repeated too often

Steptoe and Son the best UK sitcom. Galton and Simpson were geniuses.

Bilko the greatest tv comedy ever produced.,

Steptoe and Son forgot all about that.
Good comedy in Glasgow tonight mac.

hello Dave!

Private Harry Speak Up, all time classic

I don't agree that it's outdated. The **** is timeless.
I think they should have done a few more.
12 wasn't enough.