Favourite Sitcoms

[Sussex Nomad]

Good Life was enjoyable, mainly for its chemistry between the lead characters. Briers and Kendal were very believable.

Was expecting a...

"But if they knocked on my door drunk, I'd say oi Briers NOOOO...."

So many good comedies over the years it really is hard to pick and choose, but Farty Owls sits as King of all it surveys.

 

[Murray 17]

Fawlty Towers pretty much ends this thread.

Sorry.

I'm a huge fan of 70s and 80s sitcoms, but I never got why people thought Fawlty Towers was funny. Didn't like Monty Python either though.

 

[Murray 17]

I think the list ends just before Miranda

Couldn't agree more. One of the worst shows every made. That gives me an idea for a new thread...

 

[Bakero]

Anyone seen Community? In the first few episodes it seems like a generic US sitcom but it soon transforms into something quite different. Not my favourite sitcom, but it's well worth a watch.

 

[Randsta]

Anyone seen Community? In the first few episodes it seems like a generic US sitcom but it soon transforms into something quite different. Not my favourite sitcom, but it's well worth a watch.

Community is bloody brilliant .....stick with it, it get's really surreal and so funny the first series all seems very "generic" but then it starts getting good!

 

[Bakero]

Community is bloody brilliant .....stick with it, it get's really surreal and so funny the first series all seems very "generic" but then it starts getting good!

Oh I did. As I said it seems generic to start but develops into something else. Some moments of gold. The Dan Harmon-less season 4 is a bit weak but it really picks up again in 5 and 6 when he returns.

 

[looney]

Plenty of shitcoms in the 21st centry for sure, but nothing that comes close to FT in my opinion.

And for the record, I absolutely adore Partridge, The Thick of It, The Office and Phoenix Nights, but I don't quite classify them as sitcoms. Its a grey area though, granted.

There are some cross overs, situation comedy is a bit like a funny soap. One for me is red dwarf, a comedy and sci-fi, Drop the Dead donkey is another. They dont have to have a Domestic setting.

 

[BadFish]

There are some cross overs, situation comedy is a bit like a funny soap. One for me is red dwarf, a comedy and sci-fi, Drop the Dead donkey is another. They dont have to have a Domestic setting.

The original series of Red Dwarf were brilliant.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Peep Show
The Office
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Nathan Barley
Mighty Boosh
Dad's Army
The Thick of It

and a guilty pleasure- Modern Family

 

[Beardie]

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Anyone seen Community? In the first few episodes it seems like a generic US sitcom but it soon transforms into something quite different. Not my favourite sitcom, but it's well worth a watch.

great call

 

[Randsta]

Oh I did. As I said it seems generic to start but develops into something else. Some moments of gold. The Dan Harmon-less season 4 is a bit weak but it really picks up again in 5 and 6 when he returns.

Yes agreed it went in a weird direction when Dan left ...he had a bit of a run in with Chevy ...imho was the worse character in the show!! so good when he came back some great surreal episodes; the paintball fights are classic!