sometimes dry sometimes satirical and
always quirky these Brit comms are our
cup of tea do sex in knickers I don’t
have fancy you welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 British TV comedies it’s
going to be hilarious
sometimes I could kiss your mind Roy
number 10 the IT Crowd at OIG have you
tried turning it off and on again
created and written by Irish writer
Graham Linehan who had previously
co-created father Ted and black books
the it crowd proved there was still life
in the traditional multicam sitcom
format this gen is the internet rife
with pop cultural references and news
items the show follows two endlessly
goofy yet strangely believable nerds in
their attempts to interact with help and
avoid the rest of the world it’s almost
as if she doesn’t know anything about
computers walks out and why that’s why
white might take cups of tea number nine
father Ted have you been reading those
rowdy dial box again doing
I have yet had your big gobshite set on
a fictional Irish island this series is
packed to the gills with lovable
cartoony oddballs who could never make
it on the mainland I’m fine for cake
mrs. Doyle is your father there’s
cocaine in it this includes the titular
Ted his dim-witted sidekick father
Dougal Maguire and the perpetually
drunken father Jack given to moments of
outright surrealism and pure silliness
the show initially set out to be a
parody of sitcoms but eventually it
became the gold standard of the form
number eight mr. bean
as much a sketch show as it is a sitcom
this is arguably Rowan Atkinson’s
best-known work internationally popular
due to its limited dialogue mr. bean
copes with minor setbacks in everyday
life through unnecessarily difficult and
sometimes plain mean-spirited methods
although the later animated series
implied that bean is an alien we prefer
to see him as just a weird weird weird
little man number seven red dwarf Rimmer
these date day everybody is dead
everybody is dead diamond wait are you
trying to tell me everybody’s dead part
Odd Couple part lost in space this
series takes place three million years
in the future following an accident that
killed a mining ship’s crew and it
traces the last living humans trip back
to earth this slobs accompanied on his
quest by a hologram of a long-dead
annoying co-worker the humanoid
descendant of his cat a senile computer
and an emotional mechanoid named being a
dwarf remains experiencing zany sci-fi
situations and laps from even the
simplest of exchanges chicken soup
yep that’s working number six are you
being served what so person’s gonna buy
him well possibly someone who’s going to
a dance tonight at the social club and
wishes to create a stir
you don’t mean this long-lasting BBC
favorite plowed through ten series and
delivered a solid 69 episodes
wink wink yeah I did Bally once it’s not
keep fit to music and you have to put
your leg up on the bar Oh obviously
slogans already trained for that level
often banking on innuendo and double
entendre z’ and frequently breaking the
fourth wall served was anything but
highbrow set in a la-dee-da department
store the series like Python before it
mind the rich British class system from
the lowly cockney to the supposed
gentile officer classes shall I tell
them of the latest developments
oh yes you’d better I’ll make a mess of
it oh I wish you’d get on my legs gone
to sleep number five
Only Fools and Horses a fool like you
boy you promised it an idiot will work
it yes yes yes that’s right yes Rodney
who doesn’t love a good get-rich-quick
scheme running a shady Enterprise out of
their van del boy and Rodney try
anything to make a few quid from selling
glowing paint to sex dolls filled with
explosive gas and all of this of course
happens well under the table failed
plans of the week aside much of the
series humor comes from del boys various
folk paws and a pinch of slapstick
number four the office always aligned
she left you yet yeah I see that she has
left him I forgot about that there are
game changers and there are game
changers and this friends is the latter
the staff letting them know that they
are our most important commodity and if
they’ve got a problem it’s my problem
adopting a mockumentary style approach
Ricky Gervais and crew assured out the
laugh track and ushered in a new era of
sitcom making influencing American shows
like Modern Family and Parks and
Recreation a critical hit in its own
right the office UK also spawned
international remakes including but not
limited to the Steve Carell led US
version pop my stapler inside the jetty
again that’s the third time he’s done it
wasn’t even funny the first time why is
he gonna told him one side don’t like
jelly and trust way it moves
number three Black Adder oh good show
whoa thank you for originally expensive
and not hugely funny this Rowan Atkinson
period comedy wasn’t exactly a hit out
of the gate all that changed with the
second series Blackadder – which
included a shift in characterization a
switch in time period and a switch in
writers in the form of Ben Elton come on
Avon you must be able to think about
another best man well I suppose I could
ask Percy Percy Boone can you think of
another best man the show also
benefitted majorly from the come and go
editions of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
that story are the prints on the
porpoise and the pauper
prints on the pulp us on the pulp ah
massive change it seems is a very good
thing you recognize me I’m the one that
says ready aim fire
can I ask you to leave a pause between
the word aim and the word fire thirty or
forty years
number two Fawlty Towers I hate to
trespass further along your valuable
time but my title for the wine list now
yes please say we are created as a
showpiece for John Cleese and his wife
at the time Connie booth this classic
almost didn’t happen
as few at the BBC found it funny ooh boy
playing a bombastic and rude hotel
manager who sees something to hate in
every one Cleese stood head and
shoulders above his comedy peers
literally throw it away no please later
said each episode took six weeks to
write which perhaps explains why he
bowed out after just two series we just
stop talking about them all me you
started it we did not start it
yes you did you invaded puns before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions hi people day like my
little Thunderbird poppet thunderbirds
are go yes come on let’s just again
yeah daddy ill how will is it of a
severity necessary to cancel my candle
light supper what I’m seeing is the late
doctor says proper jobs you know what
put a gun till then the one did you know
Lawrence from broken homes just a noise
you’re the one seeing someone else
you know I’ve got a gun with my own life
in it I’m sorry for upset she was just
the way it is you can’t dangle the bogus
carrot of possible reconciliation in
front of my face Wells riding some other
donkey yeah you’re a posh spaz oh really
well I’d love to know in what way I am a
posh spam in the way that you’re always
doing posh spazzy things like tidying up
and ironing your socks
I do not iron my socks socks shirt
whatever fish and chips do it fish and
chips didn’t I forget Matthew thumbs
little dish that we don’t get over here
don’t get on there there are snipers
down there don’t go down there – snipers
down there what you’re doing the accent
I was good good I’ll do it
we don’t mind you having girls up here
but you’ve got to leave the door open
yeah so that we don’t miss any the good
stuff Jesus number one Monty Python’s
Flying Circus not something completely
different
a man with a tape recorder up his nose
taking our top spot and proving you
should always expect the Spanish
Inquisition is the sketch show that
changed it all nobody expects the
Spanish Inquisition
our chief weapon is surprise surprise
and fear fear but two weapons are fear
and surprise the Python sketch troupe
featured a highly educated cast of
veteran comedy writers and performers is
your wife
Ogawa hi not I mean not I mean that’s
not that’s not and whether they were
avoiding standard sketch trappings like
punch lines and endings or pushing them
to the absurdist limits the Pythons
broke every rule they knew and they knew
a lot of rules Polly parrot wake up
Polly do you agree with our list what
what’s your favorite British comedy very
big Woodstock for more brilliant top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com yes
that’s nuts nap snap ring ring wait wait
sign Amal
always quirky these Brit comms are our
cup of tea do sex in knickers I don’t
have fancy you welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 British TV comedies it’s
going to be hilarious
sometimes I could kiss your mind Roy
number 10 the IT Crowd at OIG have you
tried turning it off and on again
created and written by Irish writer
Graham Linehan who had previously
co-created father Ted and black books
the it crowd proved there was still life
in the traditional multicam sitcom
format this gen is the internet rife
with pop cultural references and news
items the show follows two endlessly
goofy yet strangely believable nerds in
their attempts to interact with help and
avoid the rest of the world it’s almost
as if she doesn’t know anything about
computers walks out and why that’s why
white might take cups of tea number nine
father Ted have you been reading those
rowdy dial box again doing
I have yet had your big gobshite set on
a fictional Irish island this series is
packed to the gills with lovable
cartoony oddballs who could never make
it on the mainland I’m fine for cake
mrs. Doyle is your father there’s
cocaine in it this includes the titular
Ted his dim-witted sidekick father
Dougal Maguire and the perpetually
drunken father Jack given to moments of
outright surrealism and pure silliness
the show initially set out to be a
parody of sitcoms but eventually it
became the gold standard of the form
number eight mr. bean
as much a sketch show as it is a sitcom
this is arguably Rowan Atkinson’s
best-known work internationally popular
due to its limited dialogue mr. bean
copes with minor setbacks in everyday
life through unnecessarily difficult and
sometimes plain mean-spirited methods
although the later animated series
implied that bean is an alien we prefer
to see him as just a weird weird weird
little man number seven red dwarf Rimmer
these date day everybody is dead
everybody is dead diamond wait are you
trying to tell me everybody’s dead part
Odd Couple part lost in space this
series takes place three million years
in the future following an accident that
killed a mining ship’s crew and it
traces the last living humans trip back
to earth this slobs accompanied on his
quest by a hologram of a long-dead
annoying co-worker the humanoid
descendant of his cat a senile computer
and an emotional mechanoid named being a
dwarf remains experiencing zany sci-fi
situations and laps from even the
simplest of exchanges chicken soup
yep that’s working number six are you
being served what so person’s gonna buy
him well possibly someone who’s going to
a dance tonight at the social club and
wishes to create a stir
you don’t mean this long-lasting BBC
favorite plowed through ten series and
delivered a solid 69 episodes
wink wink yeah I did Bally once it’s not
keep fit to music and you have to put
your leg up on the bar Oh obviously
slogans already trained for that level
often banking on innuendo and double
entendre z’ and frequently breaking the
fourth wall served was anything but
highbrow set in a la-dee-da department
store the series like Python before it
mind the rich British class system from
the lowly cockney to the supposed
gentile officer classes shall I tell
them of the latest developments
oh yes you’d better I’ll make a mess of
it oh I wish you’d get on my legs gone
to sleep number five
Only Fools and Horses a fool like you
boy you promised it an idiot will work
it yes yes yes that’s right yes Rodney
who doesn’t love a good get-rich-quick
scheme running a shady Enterprise out of
their van del boy and Rodney try
anything to make a few quid from selling
glowing paint to sex dolls filled with
explosive gas and all of this of course
happens well under the table failed
plans of the week aside much of the
series humor comes from del boys various
folk paws and a pinch of slapstick
number four the office always aligned
she left you yet yeah I see that she has
left him I forgot about that there are
game changers and there are game
changers and this friends is the latter
the staff letting them know that they
are our most important commodity and if
they’ve got a problem it’s my problem
adopting a mockumentary style approach
Ricky Gervais and crew assured out the
laugh track and ushered in a new era of
sitcom making influencing American shows
like Modern Family and Parks and
Recreation a critical hit in its own
right the office UK also spawned
international remakes including but not
limited to the Steve Carell led US
version pop my stapler inside the jetty
again that’s the third time he’s done it
wasn’t even funny the first time why is
he gonna told him one side don’t like
jelly and trust way it moves
number three Black Adder oh good show
whoa thank you for originally expensive
and not hugely funny this Rowan Atkinson
period comedy wasn’t exactly a hit out
of the gate all that changed with the
second series Blackadder – which
included a shift in characterization a
switch in time period and a switch in
writers in the form of Ben Elton come on
Avon you must be able to think about
another best man well I suppose I could
ask Percy Percy Boone can you think of
another best man the show also
benefitted majorly from the come and go
editions of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
that story are the prints on the
porpoise and the pauper
prints on the pulp us on the pulp ah
massive change it seems is a very good
thing you recognize me I’m the one that
says ready aim fire
can I ask you to leave a pause between
the word aim and the word fire thirty or
forty years
number two Fawlty Towers I hate to
trespass further along your valuable
time but my title for the wine list now
yes please say we are created as a
showpiece for John Cleese and his wife
at the time Connie booth this classic
almost didn’t happen
as few at the BBC found it funny ooh boy
playing a bombastic and rude hotel
manager who sees something to hate in
every one Cleese stood head and
shoulders above his comedy peers
literally throw it away no please later
said each episode took six weeks to
write which perhaps explains why he
bowed out after just two series we just
stop talking about them all me you
started it we did not start it
yes you did you invaded puns before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions hi people day like my
little Thunderbird poppet thunderbirds
are go yes come on let’s just again
yeah daddy ill how will is it of a
severity necessary to cancel my candle
light supper what I’m seeing is the late
doctor says proper jobs you know what
put a gun till then the one did you know
Lawrence from broken homes just a noise
you’re the one seeing someone else
you know I’ve got a gun with my own life
in it I’m sorry for upset she was just
the way it is you can’t dangle the bogus
carrot of possible reconciliation in
front of my face Wells riding some other
donkey yeah you’re a posh spaz oh really
well I’d love to know in what way I am a
posh spam in the way that you’re always
doing posh spazzy things like tidying up
and ironing your socks
I do not iron my socks socks shirt
whatever fish and chips do it fish and
chips didn’t I forget Matthew thumbs
little dish that we don’t get over here
don’t get on there there are snipers
down there don’t go down there – snipers
down there what you’re doing the accent
I was good good I’ll do it
we don’t mind you having girls up here
but you’ve got to leave the door open
yeah so that we don’t miss any the good
stuff Jesus number one Monty Python’s
Flying Circus not something completely
different
a man with a tape recorder up his nose
taking our top spot and proving you
should always expect the Spanish
Inquisition is the sketch show that
changed it all nobody expects the
Spanish Inquisition
our chief weapon is surprise surprise
and fear fear but two weapons are fear
and surprise the Python sketch troupe
featured a highly educated cast of
veteran comedy writers and performers is
your wife
Ogawa hi not I mean not I mean that’s
not that’s not and whether they were
avoiding standard sketch trappings like
punch lines and endings or pushing them
to the absurdist limits the Pythons
broke every rule they knew and they knew
a lot of rules Polly parrot wake up
Polly do you agree with our list what
what’s your favorite British comedy very
big Woodstock for more brilliant top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com yes
that’s nuts nap snap ring ring wait wait
sign Amal
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