What Is Your Most Favorite Comedy Show?

[CDNBear]

My "exiting" daughter-in-law loves it. She watches all the time and I have never understood how she finds it funny. We've watched shows just for her benefit but we just don't find it funny. However, the kids at work watch some silly show - not British)that I think might be called Family Guy. They kill themselves laughing and I fail to see anything funny about it at all. It doesn't even bring a smile to my face.

That's because it's immature and puerile VI.

It's also a cartoon, and I do find it funny as hell. Along with the Simpson's on occasion.

Long live Stewie!!!

YouTube - Family Guy - Breast Feeding

Kinky Cows...

Not to mention the great songs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxn38bX7w0&NR=1

 

[El Barto]

I remember coming home from school and watch mash three times back to back from different networks.
tho I am limited to one english cahannel, Global.
I did enjoy Sienfeld , will and grace , that 70's show, but my box set favorite is Denis Leary's the job .....

 

[El Barto]

D'Oh forgot the Simpsons

 

[Cannuck]

I don't get the family guy but my twelve year olds think it's hilarious. I think that alone kind of explains it.

 

[CDNBear]

I don't get the family guy but my twelve year olds think it's hilarious. I think that alone kind of explains it.

Yep, sh!t, fart and puke jokes galore. The closeted gay humour is hilarious too. The songs are priceless.

If you're looking to turn your brain off for half an hour, Family Guy can't be beat.;-)

 

[SirJosephPorter]

D'Oh forgot the Simpsons

I did not consider adult cartoons in this thread, only sitcoms. I am not much into adult cartoons, though I do watch Simpsons occasionally. I do love Bugs Bunny though.

Another category I completely omitted was black oriented comedies, such as Give Me a Break. There have been several of those. Again, not my cup of tea.

 

[mt_pockets1000]

My "exiting" daughter-in-law loves it. She watches all the time and I have never understood how she finds it funny. We've watched shows just for her benefit but we just don't find it funny. However, the kids at work watch some silly show - not British)that I think might be called Family Guy. They kill themselves laughing and I fail to see anything funny about it at all. It doesn't even bring a smile to my face.

VI, you should see the episode where Peter goes for a prostate examination. I nearly fell oughta my chair when he ran naked down the street after the doc touched his poop chute. He was sobbing, running and mumbling that he'd been violated....haha. Any man in their middle age will tell you it's not a pleasant experience having this examination. I'm sure most of us feel like running out of that office during that humiliating ordeal.

There's no doubt today's kids have a different sense of humour than our generation. But if you look past the violence and foul language you will find the comedy very funny and refreshing. Like you, I looked at Family Guy, The Simpsons and other cartoons like the devil's spawn, until I took a serious look at a few episodes. Now I'm hooked.

My favorite sitcom of all time: All In The Family

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I'm an HBO guy, but I would say that there was a sitcom I did find funny and was ahead of it's time for acceptance. It was a sitcom called TITUS with comedian Christopher Titus and Stacy Keach as his highly dysfunctional Father. I thought it was pretty funny.

 

[Nuggler]

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SOB beat me to it................again.....:angry3what a revoltin development this is, Ollie.

 

[Nuggler]

..........Faulty Towers.........

 

[Cannuck]

I forgot about Fawlty Towers. I could add that to my list. My favorite episode


YouTube - Fawlty Towers - The Germans ( Dont Mention The War )

 

[miniboss]

Where do I start. Comedy is my thing, so there are alot of shows past and present that I like(d). Starting from early on. "The Honey Mooners", "Maude", "Mork and Mindy", "All in the Family", "Lavern and Shirley", "Happy Days", "The Muppet Show", "The Flinstones", `Three`s Company, Growing Pains, Whos`the Boss, Newhart, Wayne and Shuster, The Mercer Report, "Married With Children", "Titus", Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Wings, Home Improvment, The Cosby Show, and M*A*S*H*. I also love British humor, a they can be crude, and still be classy about it. British shows I like are: Coupling, Faulty Towers, `Allo Allo, Dad`s Army, and Are you Being Served. There are some shows that were funny, but got canceled too early. Stark Raving Mad, with Neil Patrick Harris, and Tony Shaloub, Dweebs, with Cory Feldman, and The Naked Truth, with Tea Leoni. That`s all that comes to mind, off the top of my head, yes I do watch alot of T.V., but what else is there to do

 

[hermite]

What, no Trailer Park Boys fans here? Sheesh, and you call yerselfs Canadians. pfffft :roll:

I did like darkbeaver's answer though.

 

[#juan]

Seinfeld is the defining comedy of the sitcom persuasion. thats all you need to know

Hardly a defining comedy. For me it got old in two or three episodes.

 

[Colpy]

Fawlty Towers

Did you know Basil was based on a real person? I saw an interview....John Cleese was talking about staying in a cheap hotel somewhere, before Monty Python really took off.....and the owner, for some reason, threw Eric Idle's suitcase out the window.........his explanation? "There might have been a bomb in it"

Frasier

Third Rock from the Sun

Couldn't stand Sienfield.......if I knew George I'd beat him to a pulp.

Oh My! I almost forgot.....The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin...the first 13 episodes. Pure genius.

 

[Colpy]

GUBA - 101.the.fall.and.rise.of.reginald.perrin.hippopotamus.avi

GENIUS!!!! and it gets MUCH better...

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Fawlty Towers

Did you know Basil was based on a real person? I saw an interview....John Cleese was talking about staying in a cheap hotel somewhere, before Monty Python really took off.....and the owner, for some reason, threw Eric Idle's suitcase out the window.........his explanation? "There might have been a bomb in it"

Frasier

Third Rock from the Sun

Couldn't stand Sienfield.......if I knew George I'd beat him to a pulp.

Oh My! I almost forgot.....The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin...the first 13 episodes. Pure genius.

Colpy, I have you in ignore, but I decided to read this one post, I was interested in your favorite comedy.

If you look at the official Fawlty Towers website I have given a link to, it does say that John Cleese got the idea from a hotel he had lived at a while ago. In the show, Basil Fawlty is a very rude landlord, so BBC radio once organized a contest (it may have been 10 years after the show ended, but I am not sure) to find the rudest landlord in Britain. They asked the listeners to write in their experiences and there were some really bizarre cases. Basil Fawlty is (or at least was) more common in Britain than one would imagine.

 

[Colpy]

Colpy, I have you in ignore, but I decided to read this one post, I was interested in your favorite comedy.

If you look at the official Fawlty Towers website I have given a link to, it does say that John Cleese got the idea from a hotel he had lived at a while ago. In the show, Basil Fawlty is a very rude landlord, so BBC radio once organized a contest (it may have been 10 years after the show ended, but I am not sure) to find the rudest landlord in Britain. They asked the listeners to write in their experiences and there were some really bizarre cases. Basil Fawlty is (or at least was) more common in Britain than one would imagine.

That's hilarious!

Fawlty Towers is such a part of the lexicon around here....if my wife is being a little snippy, I call her "my little nest of vipers", which always gets a smile....physical expressions of frustration or anger are called "having a Basil'.....clarification of misunderstood instructions are done with a "que???" (sp)....and I have oft quoted "Whatever you do, don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it'....."RIGHT!!!!! I'm going to count to three! One.....Two.....three! RIGHT!" And I do a marvelous goose-step!!!

Check out The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

I might even put it above Fawlty.....but it is very understated....dry.