📺 How Good Was it Really? Megathread 4: UK Comedies 📺

Entertainment!
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Current comedy standings:

1 I’m Alan Partridge 4.79
2 Brass Eye 4.78
3 The Day Today 4.74
4 The Thick of It 4.69
5 Father Ted 4.65
6 Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace 4.6
7 Peep Show 4.58
8 Shooting Stars 4.28
9 Early Doors 4.25
10 The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer 4.22
11 Frasier 4.17
12 Big Night Out 4.14
13 Nathan for You 4.13
14 Spaced 4.13
15 Seinfeld 4.09
16 The Office UK 4.07
17 Flight of the Conchords 4
18 Futurama 3.97
19 Jam 3.97
20 Bang Bang! It’s Reeves and Mortimer 3.94
21 Nathan Barley 3.94
22 Big Train 3.94
23 The Royle Family 3.91
24 Fawlty Towers 3.89
25 Knowing Me, Knowing You 3.84
26 Parks and Recreation 3.81
27 Mid Morning Matters 3.8
28 Limmy’s Show 3.77
29 Catterick 3.76
30 The Larry Sanders Show 3.71
31 Red Dwarf 3.66
32 The League of Gentlemen 3.64
33 Veep 3.63
34 The Young Ones 3.59
35 Cheers 3.56
36 Bottom 3.51
37 House of Fools 3.51
38 30 Rock 3.49
39 The Office US 3.48
40 Party Down 3.4
41 Community 3.38
42 Cheers 3.35
43 The Weekenders 3.24
44 Monty Python’s Flying Circus 3.22
45 Malcolm in the Middle 3.18
46 Man to Man with Dean Learner 3.13
47 The Mrs Merton Show 3.1
48 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.09
49 Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show 3.07
50 Psychoville 3.01
51 Friends 2.98
52 Fresh Meat 2.98
53 Mr. Bean 2.94
54 Only Fools and Horses 2.94
55 That Mitchell and Webb Look 2.9
56 Scrubs 2.85
57 The Mighty Boosh 2.73
58 Rock Profile 2.67
59 Louie 2.65
60 Mrs Merton & Malcolm 2.44
61 Goodnight Sweetheart 2.11
62 Will & Grace 1.96
63 How I Met Your Mother 1.86
64 Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy 1.63
R Miranda 1.49
R Little Britain 1.27
R Come Fly With Me 1.13

Absolutely Fabulous

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Black Books

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Blackadder

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Coupling

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Da Ali G Show

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Him & Her

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Men Behaving Badly

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

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Porridge

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Little and Large

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Monkey Dust

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The Vicar of Dibley

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The Inbetweeners

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The IT Crowd

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Fleabag

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Green Wing

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Smack the Pony

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Gavin & Stacey

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Horne & Corden

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Harry Enfield & Chums

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Harry & Paul

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Catastrophe

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Pulling

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Extras

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Life’s Too Short

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Derek

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The Ricky Gervais Show

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Nighty Night

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Human Remains

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Phoenix Nights

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Max & Paddy’s Road to Nowhere

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The Adam & Joe Show

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Adam Buxton’s BUG

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Adam & Joe Go Tokyo

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The Fast Show

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Swiss Tony

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TV Burp

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Grandma’s House

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The Harry Hill Show

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Look Around You

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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

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If you have any other suggestions post them in here and I’ll hoover them up and post them in the final HGWIR thread next week.

:tv: How Good Was it Really: Little Britain :tv:
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Nope, think that’s all the UK comedy shows. Thanks joke

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woah. that’s a lot of 2s

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Love that little and large are in this.

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That really is a lot of comedies.

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Someone requested it, can’t remember who

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Think I’d havr given more 5s without Monkey Dust setting the bar too high. Think about this quite a lot on my commute.

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What’s that one that had Samantha Janus in where the guy who wouldn’t leave the flat then went on to be famous and so they changed the actor? Also had a ginger guy in?

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Game On?

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Ali G is something I still go back to

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Oh yes! Add that one @AQOS

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Will do!

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more votes pls

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“you know what a farm is?”

“well it’s a rubbish zoo, obviously”

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Need some for:

Getting On
The Brittas Empire

Edit: just clocked this is just for UK

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UK…

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Lead Balloon

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I thought it was, then looked at the list in the first post and saw US comedies. Should have checked the title, etc.

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No worries, I’m gonna do a thread right at the end with all the other suggestions, doesn’t matter where they’re from. I’ll do Lead Balloon then too @wizardlizard :slight_smile:

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Aha sorry didn’t mean to tread on your toes Joke :slightly_smiling_face:

Please could we also do Dinnerladies, Open All Hours and The Thin Blue Line? Ta!