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BEST BRITISH COMEDY SERIES': My Top 100 Pom-Coms
... Follows four friends and their ... (particularly amongst the "Young Adult" demographic) are undoubtedly BLACK BOOKS, THE IT CROWD, LITTLE BRITAIN, THE OFFICE and a very risque series about a foursome of randy teenage lads that ...
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Britain's Best Sitcom - Wikipedia
September 15, 2025 - After the programme's conclusion, the BBC published a ranked list of all 100 sitcoms on their website, along with the official vote tally for the top 10. ^ BBC One transmitted "Sleepless in Peckham", the 2003 Christmas special and final episode of Only Fools and Horses, between the first and final rounds of voting. ^ Britain's Best Sitcom preceded the Vicar of Dibley Christmas and New Year specials transmitted by BBC One in 2004–2007. ^ The first round of voting preceded series 25–31 of Last of the Summer Wine.
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r/BritishTV on Reddit: Top 10 UK Comedy Series
June 17, 2025 -
EDIT - this should have been sitcoms, not comedy series.
Another post set me thinking - what would be my top 10 UK comedy series? So here goes....
Fawlty Towers - secretly, everyone's a bit Basil. Just don't mention the war.
Blackadder (series 2 onwards) - in particular the Third, but the final episode of Goes Forth is probably the best single episode of British comedy ever made, and I will die on that hill.
Father Ted - amazingly silly as well as brilliantly satirical.
The Royle Family - moving, emotional, realistic, and brilliantly written - Jim and Twiggy, "Mambo No.5" and wallpaper.
Dad's Army - lovingly sends up a group of men trying to do their best, but also deals with the class system in the UK at the time
Absolutely Fabulous - of its time, but stands up better than many others (unlike Patsy.)
Derry Girls - poking fun at what was a tense period in Northern Ireland
The Office - in my mind, much superior to its US version. And David Brent.
Only Fools and Horses.... - Script, timing and great acting - how else could you do both the bar fall and the chandelier?
Inside No. 9 - not exactly a sitcom, and a bit obscure, but bleakly funny. Especially if you want A Quiet Night In...
Comedy
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Top 50 TV Sitcoms - British Comedy Guide
A list of the best British comedy Sitcoms on TV.
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The Best British TV Comedies (of all time)
The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.StarsRik MayallAdrian EdmondsonNigel Planer ... Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.StarsDermot MorganArdal O'HanlonFrank Kelly · Technically Irish but couldn't leave it off the list ... A spoof of the British style of news broadcasting - including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors.StarsChristopher MorrisSteve CooganPatrick Marber
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Want a Good Laugh? These Are the 10 Best and Greatest British Comedy Shows, Ranked
May 18, 2025 - The best British comedy shows promise endless laughs and a unique brand of humor, as seen in series like The Office UK, Fleabag, and Mr. Bean.
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16 best British comedy series to learn about British culture | Evan Evans Tours
Side note, this is one – if not the most – popular show ever produced in Britain in 2000, the British Film Institute (BFI) ranked it first amongst the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes and more recently, in 2019, Radio Times comedy experts named it the greatest ever British TV sitcom. Fawlty Towers is a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay on the English Riviera between the rude owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, the practical maid Polly and the unlucky Spanish waiter Manuel. They all show their attempts to run the hotel and end up in silly situations with highly demanding guests. Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag is a multi-acclaimed comedy-drama television series based on the author’s one-woman show performed in 2013.
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The 190 Best British Comedy TV Shows, Ranked
November 1, 2024 - Over 7K TV viewers have voted on the 190 Best British Comedy TV Shows, Ranked. Current Top 3: Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Only Fools and Horses
TV Insider
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10 Best British Comedy Series
April 27, 2025 - First comes baby, and then comes marriage and maybe even love in this disarming comedy about a British woman and an American man who realize they’ll be in each other’s lives long after their one-off fling. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney are the stars and creators, and they own every scene. ... And now for something completely different! The in-development Saturday Night Live UK has a hard act to follow with this sketch-comedy series, which shows the same zany, farcical, outrageous humor the titular comedy troupe displayed in their beloved movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Best British TV Comedies of the 21st Century | Den of Geek
September 4, 2023 - First things first – if you love ... series Mum. It didn’t quite make the vote quota for this list, perhaps because it’s more heart-breaking than belly-laugh funny, but Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan and Lisa McGrillis are brilliant in it. Him & Her is a top British slacker comedy about a couple ...
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Best of Britcoms / British Comedy TV Series
Too bad it was only one series... ... Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.CreatorsConnie BoothJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew Sachs ... Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional area of Craiglang, Glasgow.StarsFord KiernanGreg HemphillPaul Riley
Vulture
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The Definitive Guide to British Comedy TV Since Fawlty Towers
November 21, 2018 - Even if you have only the faintest understanding of British comedy, you’d know that David Mitchell and Robert Webb have reigned — completely reigned — over the small screen with their never-ending supply of witticisms and cheek since the early aughts. While we could argue that their That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch series could also be included on this list, Peep Show won out because of how the duo managed to elevate the simple “opposites attract” sitcom trope into something far more innovative, whether with their internal narration or literal “peeping” point-of-view filming style.
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The British TV Comedies You Need to See and Where to Watch Them - CNET
April 16, 2025 - I have an encyclopedic knowledge ... (except series 6, which sucked) and I still enjoy frequent rewatches of Gilmore Girls, Modern Family and Flight of the Conchords. That's to say nothing of more recent shows like What We Do in the Shadows, Parks and Recreation and Schitt's Creek, all of which I love. But British TV comedy will always be where my heart truly lies and if any of my above choices are on your own list of TV faves, then I urge you to try any or all of my top picks of Brit ...
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The 10 Best British TV Comedies Of All Time, Ranked - Looper
December 6, 2024 - As Will and his pals navigate the ... darker topics. A big part of the cult show's charm is its nostalgia for viewers who experienced teen life in the U.K., so it's no surprise the series won a BAFTA Audience Award for TV in 2010. ... "Blackadder," originally called "The Black Adder," is in many ways the series responsible for giving the world some of its finest British comedians...
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British sitcom - Wikipedia
1 week ago - A 2004 poll by the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 in the 12-episode documentary series Britain's Best Sitcom, produced a list topped by traditional sitcoms with Only Fools and Horses holding the first place, and included favourites such as David Croft's Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, and Hi-de-Hi!. It was not until The Royle Family (1998–2000) in place 19 that a show without a live studio audience was featured. British Christmas TV programming has a long-standing tradition of heavily featuring comedy and sitcoms in the schedules, often with episodes that capture holiday spirit, and sometimes emotional moments.
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British Comedies to Binge Watch - Life with Dee
November 18, 2024 - Good choices all! We’ve watched Keeping Up several times. It never gets old. We also loved Miranda, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Death in Paradise (comedy/drama), Vicar of Dibley and Pie in the Sky.
Freely
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The Best of British Comedy | Freely
Discover the best British comedies to stream. From Peep Show to Miranda here's all the the funniest shows plus where to watch!
Reddit
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r/CasualUK on Reddit: If you had to do a top 5 best British sitcoms (+ sketch comedy and that) of all time what would you pick?
October 15, 2021 -
Been watching Fawlty towers and enjoyed the episode "the anniversary" in a way I haven't before. It's like seeing basil Fawlty from the point of view of the guests. I'd always thought it was the weakest episode of the series but that's really made me appreciate it much more.
If I had to go first with this list I'd go like this
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Fawlty Towers
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The Young Ones
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Peep Show
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The Ricky Gervais Show (I don't actually like Ricky Gervais but Karl pilkington makes it all worth it)
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I'm Alan Partridge
I could probably go to top 30 before getting into ones I'm really not keen on, what about yourselves?
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The 10 Best British TV Comedies of the 21st Century, Ranked
April 28, 2024 - The best British TV comedies of the 21st century include Ricky Gervais' original The Office and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's acclaimed Fleabag.
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The List of British Comedy Shows - BritishTV.com
February 27, 2019 - Good Neighbors (aka The Good Life) – 1975 to 1978 – Richard Briers (of Monarch of the Glen) and Penelope Keith (of the Hidden Villages travel series) star in this delightful comedy about suburban self-sufficiency and the things most people take for granted. Series 1-3 DVD | Series 4 DVD | Assorted Series DVDs on eBay | Streaming on Amazon ... Last of the Summer Wine – 1973 to 2010 – Elderly Yorkshire residents refuse to grow old quietly or gracefully. As a result, they live out a sort of second childhood. Series 1 & 2 DVD | Series 3 & 4 DVD | Series 5 & 6 DVD | Series 7 & 8 DVD | Series 9 & 10 | Series 11 & 12 | Series 13 & 14 | Series 15 & 16 | Series 17 & 18 | Series 19 & 20 | Series 21 & 22 | Series 23 & 24 | Series 25 & 26 | Series 27 & 28 | Series 29 & 30 | Series 31 & 32