Favorite BBC Comedy

iamica
iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
edited August 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Mine's The Young Ones (and Monty Python, of course!).
What's yours?
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    AHHH...
    Mr. Bean was great...

    Fawlty Towers...

    obviously Monty Python!!

    Benny Hill is rad!! I loved the Young Ones too - but I have to go with ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!

    ohhh, Patsy and Edina are just freakin' wonderful.
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  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    i've got the whole father ted box set. that show cracks me up.

    "they've got a spider baby!"
    and like that... he's gone.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Hancock's Half-Hour


    Tony Hancock was the most skilled comedian who ever lived, by several hundred million light years. Pity the drink ruined him.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    hartamh wrote:
    Benny Hill - I think it was bbc

    ITV Thames
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catch22 wrote:
    i've got the whole father ted box set. that show cracks me up.

    "they've got a spider baby!"


    Channel Four
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    failedpersephone wrote:
    AHHH...
    Mr. Bean was great...


    ITV ...
  • catch22
    catch22 Posts: 1,081
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Channel Four

    meaning not the bbc? the box says bbc?
    and like that... he's gone.
  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    yes prime minister and yes minister. hands down.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    catch22 wrote:
    meaning not the bbc? the box says bbc?

    Ah, I get you. Maybe BBC America handles the exports. It wasn't a BBC programme though. It was on Channel Four.
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    ITV ...
    ???

    they show them over Stateside as "BBC"
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  • westsidepie
    westsidepie Posts: 627
    IndianSummer wrote:
    yes prime minister and yes minister. hands down.

    Those two definitely, but I also love Red Dwarf. Cryton, the Cat, Rimmer, and Lister are the best comedic characters.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I'm Alan Partridge and The Day Today.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Ah, I get you. Maybe BBC America handles the exports. It wasn't a BBC programme though. It was on Channel Four.
    Ahh, I always wondered that...I have BBC America...and I know from watching Monty Python (their running gag about BBC and Channel 4) that there are other channels, but are they all state-run?

    I mean, not the cable type shows...I guess what I am asking is - is BBC like our PBS? public TV? and if so - then why the hell does our PBS show so much of your programming? :D

    when i was a kid my brothers used to watch a lot of PBS/BBC shows and I always thought it was one channel...as if you all only had ONE channel.

    of course, on my own TV we only had 2, 4, & 7 and the local channels of 5,9, & 11...oh and the PBS channels.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The BBC is the oldest (and biggest) corporation in the world. It first started broadcasting on the radio in 1922, and TV in 1932. It's been publicly funded since 1927, and since 1949 the British public has financed it by TV licence fees. You don't get ads on the BBC. You might do on BBC America though.

    ITV is, as the name suggests, Independent Television. It's commercial TV, and it was set up in direct competition against the BBC. It first started braodcasting in 1955. When I was a kid in the seventies, there were only three channels on TV: BBC One, BBC Two (started up in 1964) and ITV. Channel Four started in 1982 (owned by the IBA, tied with ITV), and Channel Five started in 1997. Those are the terrestrial channels. There are hundreds of satellite stations too, owned by this or that company.
  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    Only Fools and Horses...no question
    Pearl Jam - London Astoria 20/4/06....One hell of a night :)

    Reading 2006 - WOOOOW!!!!!

    Paris 2006 - Fucking amazing

    Wembley 2007 :D
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,842
    I love Benny Hill, The Office, Peep Show, Torchwood and Father Ted.

    I'm a Yank, so my access to all of the BBC shows is limited.
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    fawlty towers followed very closely by father ted
  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    Bottom, special mention to Fawlty Towers and Only Fools an Horses.
  • Gold 26
    Gold 26 Posts: 676
    Monty Python, Young Ones, Bottom, Red Dwarf & The Office.
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • Somnium
    Somnium Posts: 85
    Coupling

    Jeff is hilarious.
    fuck the public

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