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My favourite Sitcoms would have to be Only Fool And Horses and Fawlty Towers but what is your favourite.

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Hmmmmmmmm I'd have to say - My Family and The Royle Family

and I agree about Fawlty Tower's

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Cheers, Frasier, Spaced, Fawlty Towers, Malcolm in the Middle, Blackadder, The Young Ones, The Vicar of Dibley, Married... With Children, Will & Grace, Simpsons, Family Guy, Yes Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister), Men Behaving Badly, Red Dwarf (the first couple of series), Drop the Dead Donkey, Butterflies, Bottom, Goodnight Sweetheart.

I have a lot of favourites.....

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Many of the same Hugh listed ... Fawlty Towers is right up there for me, as is Spaced and Father Ted. I'm really quite enjoying PhoneShop at the moment as well. It has something of the old-fashioned slapstick and farce about it that is often missing from a lot of modern so-called comedy.

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Yes you do have a lot of favourites but it is so hard to pick a even a couple of them when there are so many great past, recent and present series.

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Yes l am not that much a fan of some of the present day comedy.

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My Family is well past its sell-by date, for example. Goodness only knows how it has kept going for so long ... a house full of characters that are still utterly two-dimensional after so many years on-screen is unforgivable, even in a sitcom. And its writers have still not twigged that if you derive all your comedy from making your characters irritating and unsympathetic, you make your entire programme irritating and unengaging.

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Yes a wonderful sitcom with so many excellent characters in it.

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Yes l would class My Family as a average sitcom compared to a lot of others.

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Frasier and Father Ted definately...

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You forgot to put Will and Grace! :D but i voted Friends.

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It was an appalling show when it was first aired.It was racist,sexist,ageist,
homophobic and totally unfunny. I cringe at the reruns.:mad:

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Till Death Us Do Part.

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But you have to look at it and take it for what it is and thats with a pinch of salt as its not meant to offend anyone.

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l could have put 60 in the poll but there is only space for 30

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It wasn't funny.If it had been the rest wouldn't matter.

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I liked Miked Your Language. and that indian guy that said "oh bloody hell"

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Oh, and Love Thy Neighbour.

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If we're doing 70s-style race relations, let's not forget Spike Milligan in Curry & Chips:

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Yes the legendary Spike Milligan who despite his severe bipolar disorder which he suffered for most of his life is one of the greatest comedians this country has ever known.

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I don't think I've watched that one. I've just found all the 'Mind Your Language' ones on youtube!

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Only Fools & Horses
One Foot In The Grave
Fraiser
Father Ted
Vicar Of Dibley
Family Guy

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I know it only by reputation, but I imagine it would be right up your street.

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The Good Life
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Ohhh!.. felicity, felicity, you fill me with electricity. But that does not mean you are shocking!

Butterflies

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As Time Goes By.

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It's not half as bad as people like to think. especially those who have never watched it and base their assumption on hear say.

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This speaks volumes, it really does.

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I know.
Some of them people don't really know whether the characters in the show were the victims or the aggressors.

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Most of these aren't in the poll unfortunately:

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld
Frasier
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
The Office (US)
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners
The IT Crowd
3rd Rock From The Sun
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The King of Queens

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Still nice to know what people like though.

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Racking the brain a bit here, I used to enjoy Only when I Laugh, The New Statesman and The Young Ones and Duty Free, Just Good Friends, plus the other classics mentioned

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Yes some good ones there.

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I forgot Home to Roost.

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Was not the late great John Thaw in that.

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Yes, and it was probably his first comedy role as up till then was type cast as the great Jack Reagan From the Sweeney. Reece Dinsdale played the son.

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Another very unfunny sitcom.

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I think that My Family is average comedy at best. I also think that the reason it's still going is simply because we have very little home produced comedy on TV now.

The only terrestrial channels I can think of who produce even a little comedy are the BBC and Channel 4. Of those two, only Channel 4 appears to be investing in a lot of new comedy series. The BBC is investing in 1 or 2, but that's it.

ITV and Channel 5, for their part, appear to be investing nothing in comedy at the moment.

ITV have apparently said that when Coronation Street moves back to Wednesdays next year, they are hoping to use the prime-time slot that it's vacating to introduce new comedies, so hopefully that will happen, and hopefully whatever they produce will be funny and successful.

I also hope that if the comedy produced is good, and not successful, that ITV stick with it for more than one series. Some shows do take a series or two to really get the formula right. Look at Only Fools and Horses (the first series wasn't that good, but future series have produced what are arguably some of the funniest storylines in comedy) and Men Behaving Badly, which didn't really take off until they paired up Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey.

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Do you have any favourite sitcoms you would like to list Maggy?

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Outnumbered :rofl:
Dinner Ladies
Just Good Friends
Keeping Up Appearances
Open All Hours

Scrubs

To name but a few.

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Nice to see someone mention these two in particular as they are my two favourite current comedies.
Other favs of mine (Most of which have ended) include....
The young ones
Bottom
Father Ted
Black Books
Arrested Development
Green Wing
30 Rock
Friends
Game on
Garth Marenghis Dark Place.
Modern Family
Phoenix Nights
Scrubs
Red Dwarf
Spaced
The IT Crowd

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Sorry l could not list a lot of sitcoms in the poll but it is so difficult but yes some real gems in your list.

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Yes Maggy tell us something you like.;)

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Only fools and Red Dwarf.

I have liked many over the years but frankly after you have seen some of them repeated endlessly they do lose their charm.

My Family has to be one of the very worst of the modern offerings. Well I thought so until I saw an episode of Outnumbered and realised that it could get worse.One could let the kids write the lines...:rolleyes:

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Yes there were some classic episodes in OFAH like Del-boy when he is standing by the bar,The chanderliers, Batman and Robin and the inflatable dolls just to name but a few.

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Not a great lover of Sitcoms and never watched an episode of Only fools and horse and only one episode of Dad's Army... but the three that I most enjoyed was

Open all hours
Red Dwarf

and the best one of the lot...

THE BRITTAS EMPIRE

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Open All Hours was a favourite of mine with the legendary Ronnie Barker as Arkwright and David Jason as Granville.

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Am I right in thinking the first series of Men behaving badly was on itv, then it moved to bbc

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Just Good Friends was another one. My mum got me into that show :)

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Yes it starred Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis and was underrated in my mind.

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Yes you are right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Behaving_Badly

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Harry Enfield in the first series, would never have thought Neil Morrisey could improve on him, and Jan Francis very tasty then.

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Yes she was not a bad Femme Fatale was she.;):D;)

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Red Dwarf
Allo Allo
Brittas Empire
Spaced
Goodnight Sweetheart
The Good life
The high life - Scottish comedy about a flight crew. Starred Alan Cummings.
Rab C Nesbitt
Still Game
Gary Tank Commander

I still love a lot of British sitcoms from the 70s, 80s and 90s they are still miles better than the rubbish made now. Although BBC Scotland have some great ones these days.

Some from the poll I still love watching are on the buses, hi-de-hi, only fools and horses, some mothers do have em and father ted.

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Some lovely ones there Stephen and as you say they really do not make many like they used to.

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You should see my edited post as added some more lol.

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For me the best sitcom's have to Blackadder and also Father Ted as they are comic genius?

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Yes l have just ordered Father Ted on Amazon and at a bargain to boot.

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Drink, Feck, Arse ( Father jack ) I love the series I wish that Ted was alive to make a lot more:(

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Yes most definitely and another series l love is Rising damp starring the legendary Leonard Rossiter and of course the lovely Miss Jones and Vienna the cat.

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RJ Berger, new series on MTV next week

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Love Thy Neighbour, you never see any re-runs of this one?

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Go figure......

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Hard to pick a favourite..

Anyhow,

BlackAdder (series 2-4, didn't like 1)
Only Fools and Horses
Just Good Friends
Citizen smith.
Men Behaving Badly
One Foot In the Grave
Fawlty Towers
Yes (Prime) Minister
Red Dwarf
Till Death Do Us Part/In Sickness And In Health.
Father Ted
Outnumbered
Drop The Dead Donkey
The Royle Family

I particularly like the way that some of those comedies (OFAH and One Foot particularly, and to some extent The Royle Family) could go from comedy to drama and back to comedy again without missing a beat.

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In your opinion maybe. Mine differs. Same for On the Buses.

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As to favourites.

One Foot in the Grave & Brittas Empire spring to mind. :)

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love thy neighbour,only fools and horses,steptoe and son,porridge,open all hours,till death us do part,faulty towers,goodnight sweetheart,on the buses,my family,bless this house,rising damp,mr. bean....As you can see i have many! Throw in a few american sit coms i.e frazier,cheers,bewitched,bilko too.