Comedy, Drama. 45 min (It doesn’t hurt that the shows share the same leading straight guy, either.) They live together and lead a slightly surreal life, annoying their snobby next-door neighbour Mr Brown and getting into frequent trouble with the ... See full summary », Stars: | Deryck Guyler, Master Sergeant Bilko, regularly helped by the soldiers at Fort Baxter's motor pool, spends little time performing his duties by constantly trying to obtain money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions. But mind you, I’m Alan Partridge’s protagonist doesn’t even have that much fame — as we find out in the premiere, he’s banished by the BBC due to a medley of offences and is forced to set up shop in the dull city of Norwich, barely hanging on to his sanity with his (1) graveyard time slot and (2) lack of listeners. | Don't watch it with any Labour voting social workers from Islington or they'll have you up in front of the race relations board. Richard Dixon, (Their velvety-voiced boss sometimes finds his way in there, too.) Stars: Frank Windsor, Comedian Sean Hughes is plucked from obscurity and trapped in a TV reconstruction of his Muswell Hill flat, where his everyday bumblings are exposed to the gaze of a studio audience, Stars: René Artois, proprietor of Café René in Nazi-occupied France, struggles to keep the business running whilst keeping the… Eileen Way, Comedy. Comedy. Shazad Latif, 21 min Atkinson portrays a clever grouch named Edmund Blackadder, who, while maintaining the same cynical and opportunistic personality, changes era and social status every season by means of being a familial descendant — a prince in the Middle Ages, an Elizabethan lord, a royal attendant in the Regency, and an army captain during World War I. Comedy, Drama. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. 28 min Sorry.) Tim Buckland. Glynn Edwards, Robert Powell, Alf must now do battle with the Social Security system. It’s easier said than done, but at the end of the day our quartet of protagonists — boys of varying degrees of silliness — just want to shout “Bus wankers!” at random people and maybe even seduce a “bird” or two if they’re lucky. | Christopher Ryan. A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II. Stars: Martin Freeman, 90 min On this page you can: | But do you know what actually is funny? Brigit Forsyth, Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be. On the surface, they appear just like American comedies – at least to American audiences – but there is something inherently different about the best British TV comedies. | Serving time in prison never seemed funnier than when it was portrayed on the BBC1 comedy show Porridge. Stars: Such is the quality of the best British shows that the likes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sherlock, and The I.T. John Cleese, Jason Freeman, Stephen Lewis, Vicki Michelle, Let us repeat: paper company! Sid James is there to bring him back to earth. The crux of Ab Fab is that Edina, a PR rep, and Patsy, a floating fashion director of some sort, just want to evade responsibilities and have a bloody good time with their elite circle of London enablers, much to the chagrin of Edina’s increasingly bitter daughter. Clive Dunn, The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system. Alan Partridge, a failed television presenter, is now presenting a programme on local radio in Norwich. Comedy. Only Fools and Horses.... (1981–2003) 3. Stars: Marcus Bentley, Davina McCall, … We love a spontaneous man! (Frankly? Now, if only he can find some legal goods to make those dreams a reality. Comedy, The Pub Landlord is a small-minded, bullet headed Little Englander whose prejudices mask a surprisingly sensitive, vulnerable and confused man. Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away. | Red Dwarf (1988– ) His attempt for a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend and former bandmate was denied the same day Pink attended the January 6 Trump rally. The British are coming, and they want to invade your television. Pages in category "1980s British sitcoms" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. Streaming online 24/7 on two great channels, BritCom 1 & 2. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind. Tim Marriott, TV-PG From the mind of Steven Moffat — who later went on to spearhead Doctor Who and Sherlock — the sitcom depicts the lurid sexual shenanigans and dating lives of a group of six friends, who are all at the point in their lives when they maybe want to start dialing it down with the trysts and “couple” with a partner for life. Dennis Waterman, Keeping Up Appearances uses the classic scenario of a character’s hopeless and relentless... 14 Extras. Simon Bird, Before James Corden moved Stateside to shepherd The Late Late Show into its newest iteration, he co-wrote and starred in what’s arguably the most popular rom-com to ever emerge from the U.K’s television screens: Gavin & Stacey. Sean Hughes, Craig Charles, Britain doesn’t come off looking so hot, but that’s not really the point, innit? Comedy, Crime, Drama, Arthur Daley, a small-time conman, hires former boxer Terry McCann to be his "minder", so Terry can protect him from other small-time crooks. Su Pollard, The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf. TV-14 Katherine Parkinson, Danny John-Jules, Steve Coogan, See also Hi-de-hi and Oh Dr Beeching, all pretty good fun. (Remember the “I’m old Gregg” sound bite from a few years ago? TV-PG Tracy Keating. He insults and belittles almost all of his guests and is humiliated by the rest. Justin Hartley and Chrishell Stause’s Divorce Is Finally Final, It Makes Total Sense We’re All Into Sea Shanties Now, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion Keep You Up All Night With Ari’s ‘34+35’ Remix, Emma Thompson to Hurl You Over the Fence in Netflix’s. Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy series commissioned by David Attenborough, created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. A British sitcom about a family going through everyday life in the Royle family house. They’re harmless, but their terrible decision-making skills might give you flashbacks of your own youth. Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Tell us what you think about this feature. Elizabeth Carling. But mostly, you’ll emerge sexually confused about spin doctors. Stars: 10,909 views made by Helen Slape. Richard Marner. Kevin Whately. Shakespeare incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play The Comedy of Errors.The quarrelsome couple Punch and Judy made their first recorded appearance in Britain in 1662, when Samuel Pepys noted a “pretty” puppet play being performed in Covent Garden, London. 30 min The best British TV comedies you can watch online right now. Kevin Eldon, Bob Grant, Paul Ritter, Caroline Quentin, Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants. (The show’s building block is that two best friends of opposite Myers-Briggs personalities share an apartment.) Roy Heather. Gary Webster, 45 min Alec Bregonzi. Matt Berry, TV-PG | Felicity Montagu, 45 min Comedy. | Cable news and late-night TV have their work cut out for them. What Will TV’s Next Four Years Look Like? Wentworth, B.A. Almost always mute, a lover of buffoonery, and incapable of walking down a street without difficulty, Bean is more reminiscent of a 3-year-old experiencing the joys of the outside world for the first time as opposed to a fully developed 30-something man with shit to do — but the folks around him sure don’t seem to mind his antics. Matthew Holness, Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he's around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen. Stars: Oh, and they’re pretty good at their jobs, if you care about that sort of thing. Not that the man himself would ever admit to that. Roger Lloyd Pack, Owen Brenman, TV-14 Stars: Arthur English, The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama and tragedy. Stars: Its most popular shows though are its 1970s shows - 'The Good Life', 'To The Manor Born', 'Citizen Smith', 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads', 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em', 'Steptoe and Son' and 'Dad's Army' amongst others. When the Church of England finally entered the modern age in 1992 by allowing female ministers to be ordained, the BBC smartly found a way to capitalize on humor that could emerge from such a situation: by creating The Vicar of Dibley, a sitcom that finds a rambunctious lady vicar with a penchant for chocolate (Dawn French, a true comedy icon) taking up shop in a rural village that appears, at first, to be the worst possible village for her personality and holy talents. Dave Spikey, Stars: Stars: Look, we get it. Comedy, History, War. Her new dark comedy co-stars Dianne Wiest, Chris Messina, and more. Prior to the concept of “satirical news program” picking up steam in America, The Day Today served as a six-episode master class on how a show could create an effective template for parodying, well, just about everything going on in the news. Cardi B Lands Her First Lead Movie Role in Comedy, Ariel Pink Accused of Physical and Sexual Abuse in Court Filings. Hugh Laurie, The terrible, no good, very bad decisions of Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) might make you feel better about your sporadically ill-advised life choices, especially since the duo makes all of those amphetamine cocktails and cigarettes, look, well, simply fabulous. With … laughter. The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain. Stars: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. | The best written and acted show of all time. Peter Kay, Wilfrid Brambell, Steptoe and Son (1962–1974) TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy. Neil Morrissey, 70 min Hattie Jacques, Stewart Lee, Or maybe not. A spoof of the well known This Morning With Richard & Judy, by Lee and Herring. Patrick Marber, Richard Beckinsale, 60 min Prunella Scales, Stars: Michael Troughton, Adrian Edmondson, Phil Cornwell, TV-MA In France during World War II, Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene. Stars: British Comedy Radio plays the very best British radio comedy shows from the past 75 years. But through all her fourth-wall-breaking narrations and nods is someone using the noirest of black humor to cope with a profound loss, the loss of which, however voyeuristically, we get to reap the comedic rewards of in its aftermath. Reduced to working as an extra with a useless agent, Andy's attempts to boost his career invariably end in failure and embarrassment. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager David Brent as they continue their daily lives. Stars: Helen Atkinson Wood. Richard Ayoade, A list of the greatest British comedy TV shows ever. I'm Alan Partridge (1997–2002) 4. While their girlfriends try to help them take on more responsibilities the boys seldom respond well and usually end up drinking together. This goes for all the Blackadders, I'd just say this is the best series. 50 min Comedy. Votes: 5,913 | Stars: Adventures and misadventures of Lord Meldrum, his family and their servants. Banished to this extremely Irish locale for various unpriestly reasons — don’t go to Vegas on parish funds, you seminary students! Richard Wattis. Stars: 180 min Robert Webb, Daisy May Cooper, Barry Evans, British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid. John Le Mesurier, 24 min Simon Bird, Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong. Comedy. Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi. We can’t blame her at times.) Alan Partridge hosts his own chat show on the BBC. Mark and Jez are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are anything but normal. | type to search. © 2021 Vox Media, LLC. Arrange your queues accordingly, and maybe whip up a Pimm’s Cup if you’re feeling feisty, because we have a lot of ground to cover. Comedy. Come for what eventually became Gervais’s most iconic character, and stay for a young Martin Freeman giving googly-eyes to the receptionist. Unlike other late-night programs that went on to critique legitimate current affairs, though, Day Today’s whole shtick was that it would weave absurd, fictional stories around actual news footage for the surrealist narrative they wanted to create, on top of segments that just flat-out mocked the country. Stephen Merchant, (Our favorite? Doon Mackichan, TV-PG Tamsin Greig, With Little Britain, the duo rides a carousel of off-kilter characters who “best” represent the country’s faces in this postmodern time, ranging from a quintessentially chavvy teenage girl to a lazy guy in a wheelchair who doesn’t actually need a wheelchair. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979) TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy. Comedy, Steven Toast, an eccentric middle aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it, Stars: | These dames might be in their 40s, but they could drink a pack of bushy-tailed frat boys to their deaths. John Inman, Richard Herring, Joanna Scanlan, TV-PG Ken Campbell, Not Rated Still, Del Boy’s unwavering dedication to one day becoming a member of the millionaire club to support his family keeps his younger brother, grandfather, and later uncle from turning their backs, the occasional black-market scuffle be damned. | Log in or link your magazine subscription, Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture, A Definitive Guide to British Comedy TV Since, Ray Fisher Confirms That He’s Been Removed From the Cast of. Mar 12, 2020 - Explore jon romankiw's board "Classic British Sitcoms /Sitcom charactors" on Pinterest. | Matt Berry, British Comedy UK is the best comedy channel on Youtube. Anna Karen, Rebecca Front, (A thick-skinned servant named Baldrick is the other constant throughout the series, and a nice foil.) At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks. Go ahead and diagnose her, viewers! Comedy. Joe Thomas, TV-PG Is this a sitcom or a drama? The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Kevin Eldon, However, if his wife finds out he’s cheating on her with the café’s waitresses, his main problem might not even be war-related at all. Revolving around two socially inept technology support workers and their ill-equipped “relationship manager” — calling her understanding of tech “rudimentary” would be polite — the trio form a camaraderie thanks to their equal passion for avoiding various aspects of work, which often lead to some memorable outings beyond the confines of their depressing basement office. Either way very funny and with touching moments. Doon Mackichan, Frank Thornton, Hyacinth’s husband, bless his heart, somehow deals with all of this nonsense, even if that means conceding to this new surname pronunciation or indulging her frequent dinner parties to impress the neighbors. 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. | Not British, but it's so good it could be! TV-MA | George Cole, The requisite high jinks ensue when the two try to hide their non-romantic status from their landlady, but the most fun comes from those surreal, acid-trip diversions, one of which will make you look at The A-Team in a completely different light. Michael Troughton, And a side of Marlboros! Allan Melvin. Stars: Fulton Mackay, Zara Nutley. Ardal O'Hanlon, Bertram Wooster, a well-intentioned, wealthy layabout, has a habit of getting himself into trouble and it's up to his brilliant valet, Jeeves, to get him out. Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) is an actor with ambition and a script. Craig Cash, 410 min Comedy. Comedy. Timothy Spall, Reg Varney, 26 min | avg. Stars: Ricky Gervais, type to search. 29 min Rowan Atkinson’s reign as a British comedy scion officially began with Blackadder, a four-season sitcom woven together as a bizarro “historical” anthology. | Comedy exploring the lives of young people in modern rural Britain, focusing on cousins Kerry and Kurtan and their lives in the Cotswolds. Controversal spoof of current affairs television, and the role of celebrity in the UK. Consider rumors of Gomez’s upcoming Spanish-language music confirmed. The Mavis Bramston Show (satire/sketch comedy) (1964–1988) The Micallef Program (satire/sketch comedy) (2001–2003) (Series 2 was known as The Micallef Programme; series 3 was known as The Micallef Pogram, without the first "r" and the "-me") Minty (Australian/British production) (1998) The Money or the Gun (1989–1994) Ricky Tomlinson, Brian Wilde, Dermot Morgan, Doreen Mantle, Bottom (1991–1995) 3. Stars: The terrible Scottish side-kick almost ruins the whole show, but Stephen Merchant is the key and is exceptional, second series much better. Let the power of Atkinson continue to compel you with Mr. Bean, a character who’s pretty much the complete antithesis of that Blackadder fellow. Hilarity ensues as guests try to get value for their Euros. Stars: Stars: Jeffrey Holland, Peter Capaldi, score: 31 of 61 (51%) required scores: 1, 11, 24, 40, 51 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. 30 min James Smith, Alisha Weir will play the titular telekinetic kid in the streamer’s adaptation of the Broadway musical. Carmen Silvera, About Face (TV series) Affairs of the Heart (TV series) After Henry (TV series) Agony (TV series) All at No 20; You’d think creating chaos out of simple situations would exercise its appeal after a few episodes, but clearly you’ve never seen Atkinson use an escalator. Blake Harrison, The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie. (There aren’t that many, but still.) 55 min | Comedy. Nicholas Lyndhurst, Giving a whole lot of heart to an otherwise gloomy council-flat lifestyle, Only Fools and Horses revolves around the Trotter family, all of whom are kind enough to indulge its patriarch, cheekily named Del Boy, with his various “get rich quick” schemes as a Cockney shop trader — even if his schemes mostly turn out to be a whole load of bollocks. Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school. Ashley Jensen, Stars: | Tony Hancock, 30 min Sidney James, Comedy, Crime. Nigel Planer, 10,909 views made by Helen Slape. Two early thirties best friends live together while having completely different personalities. Crowd – all phenomenal in their own right – failed to make this list. The shows were... more on Wikipedia 6 277 Ivy Woodcock, Terry and Bob from The Likely Lads (1964) continue their life after Terry arrives home from serving in the Army to discover that Bob is about to marry his girlfriend Thelma. Stars: | 25 min Comedy. | Dad's Army is a BBC sitcom about the British militia called the Home Guard during the Second World War.It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977.The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. Olivia Colman, TV-14 Anything with Hattie Jacques in must be good! British sitcom about a father and son rag-and-bone business in London. Despite rarely making a sale in his envy-inducing London bookshop — à la Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, but with 50 percent more grime — Black Books’ misanthropic lead Bernard Black comfortably manages to keep to his daily routine of smoking, drinking, and berating customers with limited interruption, eschewing unnecessary contact with anyone who isn’t his two friends. Harvey Lembeck, Joanne Rogers, Widow of Fred Rogers, Dies at the Age of 92. James Buckley, A. A.J. Simon Greenall, Chris Barrie, Perhaps we’d see a vast uptick in Roman Catholic devotees if all priests were as delightful as the ones in Father Ted, who roam the fictional Craggy Island with iron-silly fists and even sillier backstories. Steve Coogan, 95 min Just as Terry Gilliam’s animation was integral for Monty Python, so is Barratt’s “crimp” music for Boosh. Harry H. Corbett, With pleasure! Not as good as everyone makes out but still ok. TV-G This list may not reflect recent changes . Kelly Clarkson Reaches New Texan Heights With the Chicks’ ‘Sin Wagon’ Cover, “It’s not fake; it’s not a story line — find something else.”. Stars: Rik Mayall, Pauline McLynn, TV-MA A diverse group of immigrants and foreigners learn English at an adult education school in London. Leslie Ash, Updates on all of the celebrities, politicians, and more who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus. | Stars: | How many classic British comedies have you watched? The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. | The series may maintain a melancholic aura, but Bernard is mostly a goofy dude who invites Jehovah’s Witnesses into his home to avoid doing taxes. (She also, somehow, manages a café.) TV-PG 30 min *Sorry, there was a problem signing you up. 30 min Robert Daws. The Office walked so all the other TV mockumentaries could run. Christopher Ettridge, 30 min Richard Ayoade, 60 min Comedies from across the pond, which have consistently been in a flourishing state even after the supposed “golden era” ended with Monty Python taking its last bow in 1974 or Fawlty Towers cursing out its final customer in 1979. Paul Shane, Shaun Williamson. | Phil Daniels, The pair were married for fifty years prior to the television legend’s death in 2003. 30 min Lucy Davis, TV-14 Marsha Fitzalan, No Mrs Browns boys or Ab Fab, democracy -pah!). Ronnie Barker, Stars: If Friends is the innocent girl next door who pops in every now and then for lemonade and crush-talk, Coupling is her older, experienced sister who comes over to dish about all the blow jobs she’s given while buzzed on Smirnoff. (It would be three friends, but we don’t consider “books” as people. 45 min Stars: James Bolam, Tim Healy, The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions. Victor McGuire, The daily lives of three London flatmates. | Paddy McGuinness, Not Rated Robert Bathurst, Lucy Montgomery. 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. Comedy. Funny enough, the further these Blackadders progress in the millennium, the weaker their prominence becomes in society. Stars: Stars: Nicholas Lyndhurst, Rodney Bewes, Johnny Vyvyan, As a means of putting together a guide to the finest telly the Brits have to offer, Vulture has compiled what we consider to be 25 of the best comedies that have premiered since Basil Fawlty’s farewell — paying special attention to their influence, innovation, and critical acclaim in the evolution of modern comedy as we know it. Your Rolodex of colorful insults will increase threefold, at the minimum, after watching Peter Capaldi swagger around with his Blackberry in The Thick of It. Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Düsseldorf. That opening sentence wasn’t too witty of a quip. Stars: Jack-the-lad bus driver and conductor Stan and Jack enjoy the female employees more than their work and Inspector Blake is relentless in his attempts to make their lives a misery. Eric Sykes, Stars: | Paul Ford, The fake-news snowflakes might go nuts if this type of thing aired in 2018, but who are we to judge. | (It should come as no surprise that the show’s creator, The Day Today’s Armando Iannucci, later went on to create Veep.) Rik Mayall, Comedy, Crime, In the never ending, high tech war against crime, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... ... See full summary », Stars: | All you need to know is that they play two aspiring musicians living on another universe with an alien and gorilla as pals, with sonic-defying musical vignettes woven in for good measure. On a surface level, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is about a self-professed “greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt” woman trying to shag and drink her way through London as she lives out her remaining youngish years with maximum enjoyment, however destructive it might be. This comedy sketch show is responsible for making former Cambridge University mates Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie household names. Anything to make an honest dollar, so the saying goes! Big brother is a television show made in the UK, where contestants take part in a challenge to see who will last the longest in the Big brother house, The winner will take home a large cash prize while the losers take home nothing. Utterly brilliant. In this first part of a new mini series, I give you guys some recommendations of classic British comedy! Of course, everybody starts to warm to the arrangement in due time, and before they know it, Dibley without her is simply unfathomable. 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