What's you favourite comedy classic UK comedy.?

Question

There are so many to choose from, I love the bit in Only Fools when Del is in the Yuppie bar and falls over, but does anyone remember the Two Ronnies classic 4 candles sketch, no not 4 candles, fork handles, handles for forks, I think that is pure comedy.

Answer 1

I love all the old comedies Only fools and horses, steptoe and son, rising damp, I used to watch them when I was little with my dad so they bring back nice memories.

Answer 2

We lived in the UK 20 years ago and we liked the two Ronnies too and Benny Hill, and also The Good Life with Felicity Kendal and the pigs, they were all just hysterical. Of course, Monty Python is still a classic, I don't know if that counts, but we all still love the parrot sketch. We also love Wallace and Gromit, and I like Fresh Fields too.

Answer 3

I remember the two Ronnie's four candles sketch, priceless. Two sacks of phones!!!! I think only fools and horses has to be the best UK comedy ever. Also Fawlty Towers, I love the episode where the name of the hotel is Flowery Twats!!!!



By the way the questions is being asked on Yahoo UK and Ireland answers, it is also obvious that the question invites people from UK who know UK comedy to answer. Please do not tell us how to spell HUMOUR!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

There is only one god and he be Ronnie Barker!!



Worship him well. I love open all hours. Porridge. Two Ronnie's. (got any O's?) rofl



Oh i also like Vicar of Dibly. And ab fab actually.



Why are Americans so pompous? Not all of them but i mean come on? Humour? dude! get a life. It's just a word. You spanner. (that's what you would call a wrench by the way)

Answer 5

British comedy, best in the world, I always enjoyed Morecombe and Wise, brilliant comedy.

Answer 6

I'm from Canada but I loove British humour! It's different. I know some don't care for it. I think it's great cause the humour is dry and sarcastic so you have to think a bit when the jokes are delivered. North American humour is more in your face. Either you find it funny or you don't. I love "Keeping Up Appearances"! There is another one but the name isn't coming to me. It's funny as he**! lol! The man who used to play Mr. Peacock on "Are You Being Served" is in it. (He died last week)

Answer 7

As much as I love Monty Python and even more so Fawlty Towers, as many times as that bit you mentioned from Only Fools and Horses continues to crack me up, my all time favorite British comedy has to be ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.

I will never tire of the trials and tribulations of Edina and Patsy (and the brilliant writing of Jennifer Saunders).

It's simply fabulous, darling!

Answer 8

James Whale on Talksport (10pm - 1am Sunday - Thursday) - this guy would desire to run for Primeminister! Chris Moyles on Radio a million - wakes me up each morning Scott turbines on Radio a million - the sweetness Years on a Friday night get me interior the temper for the weekend Goon tutor repeats on BBC 7 - classic comedy at its ultimate. the father of all of them

Answer 9

only fools and horses,I love the episode with the chandelier,(a touch of glass),the two Ronnie's sketch book,I love the morris dance and song they did.faulty towers(basil and the rat episode)open all hours(that's were he lives.who he who? her fancy man.her fffffff,her boyfriend!)keeping up appearance's(Mrs bucket,slams the door in the gas mans face,he rings the doorbell,Mrs bouquet,yes,take your shoes off,and try not to damage my expensive wallpaper.porridge(the episode where fletch,and David Jason's character are playing monopoly,and they cheat.)stepstoe and son(the episode when two escapees force their way in the house,and they're discusing what to do next.)are you being served(when a customer looses a valueable ring,and the rush is on to find it>sadly john inman is no longer withus,as he died recently)

Answer 10

That Two Ronnies sketch is an absolute classic, but I don't think anything can beat Fawlty Towers for consistent humour - the Ronnies could be a bit hit or miss.

Answer 11

I loved that show. My husband, always, says about the fork handles. Then, there's the Good Life, Porridge, Open all Hours, Are you being Served. They don't, do, shows like that anymore.

Answer 12

anything from the Pythons, Faulty Towers, 2 ronnies.



Wallace and Gromit

Answer 13

On the Buses,And Stepto and son.They were true British classics from the 60,s and 70 ,s

Answer 14

There are loads that's also my favourite Only fools and horses clip i also love Faulty Towers and Keeping up Appearances they are classics

Answer 15

Benny Hill rocks

Answer 16

Open All Hours and Only Fools and Horses

Answer 17

I liked Coupling



And to the Doughnut who can't spell in English, the correct spelling is HUMOUR! We speak English and not Americanese! What a numpty!

Answer 18

Coupling

One Foot in The Grave

Answer 19

Coupling and Benny Hill.

Answer 20

Birds of a Feather!!!



The one with the 2 sisters (complete opposites) whose husbands are both in jail and they have a nosy and nympho aging neighbour who is having affairs behind her husbands back.

Answer 21

yes both of them are impregnated in my mind !!!! its only fools and horses for me because of the characters and how funny they are in their own right !!!!

the two Ronnie's was great for the word play !! "how" they did those sketches i will never know "genius" (especially Ronnie barker)

Answer 22

yes i love the fork candles sketch.I was sadend when ronnie barker died A true comedian

Answer 23

It has to be Fawltey Towers.

"that view out of my window is not good enough!"

"but it's Torquay woman! What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? The hanging gardens of Babylon perhaps? Herds of wildebeast sweeping majestically across the plain????"

Answer 24

Black Adder

I like the ww1 series episode where baldrick used his dandruff for sugar and mud to make coffee for the the major.

Answer 25

Keeping up appearances

Answer 26

Steptoe and Son, Porridge and Open all Hours.

Answer 27

Red Dwarf Rules!

High life was really good

Answer 28

Mr Bean.

Answer 29

I'll go for Fawlty Towers.

Answer 30

No contest for me. Fawlty Towers.

Answer 31

Mr. Bean, Who's Line is it Anyway?, and Are You Being Served

Answer 32

'Allo 'Allo



Keeping up Appearances. I have a friend just like Mrs. Bucket.

Answer 33

Fawlty Towers and the Germans. I still watch it on video and still split my sides laughting at John Cleese doing the goose step across the dining room. :)

Answer 34

I loved The Goodies!



We spell it humour, just like we spell it colour, doughnut!

Answer 35

does anyone remember The Young ones + Bottom, they were both very funny. my favourite is Two pints of lager........

Answer 36

not sure if mr bean is a classic or what

but i only like to watch mr bean

Answer 37

only fools and horses, batman and robin episode or when the shandler falls

Answer 38

Some Mothers do Have em. i can watch it over and over again

Answer 39

Benny Hill was my all time fave.

Answer 40

I agree, but my favourite all time would be forty towels, i mean faulty towers.

manwell and mr faulty made that show

John Cleese is a comic genius

Answer 41

Hancocks Half Hour.





PS Can we assume doughnut is American. If so shouldn't it be "donut" (which they also can't spell)

Answer 42

I used to love "At home with the Barnes-Wallaces", hilarious!

Answer 43

I like the good life. It's really funny

Answer 44

dads army - and fawlty towers.



classic comedy :-)

Answer 45

benny hill and monty python, of course. happy day:)

Answer 46

dads army, particualry as they capture the (welsh!) German, "Vots your name, dont tell him Pike!"

Answer 47

absolutely fabulous is my fav joanna lumley is ace

Answer 48

I LOVED watching "Are you being served" Sadley, they no longer show it here in Michigan.....

Answer 49

Keeping Up Appearances is so funny...

Answer 50

monty python, benny hill

Answer 51

fawlty towers - john cleese.......genious

Answer 52

mr. beans

Answer 53

it has to be ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES and DADS ARMY

Answer 54

roy chubby brown

Answer 55

yes all over played to hell though!

Answer 56

i think it HAS too be FAWLTY TOWERS :)