Best Old School Comedies

Also Starring LeVar Burton

What were your favourite sitcoms/comedies back in the day?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

You also gotta love shows like 'Happy Days', 'Mork & Mindy', 'Married... With Children' and '3rd Rock From The Sun'!

Kojak

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show?? I just never found Bill Cosby funny, for some reason

From the list, I'd go with Married with Children, fresh prince (up to about the time that the mothers were changed) and Father Ted.

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Kojak wrote:

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show?? I just never found Bill Cosby funny, for some reason

Bill Cosby is legendary! You gotta love Cosby, same way you gotta love Gary Coleman!

Sandwich

Poll is a little flawed - The Cosby Show and Different Strokes werent comedies - twee featherweight family dramas.
And : Father Ted, a comedy alright, but looks out of place in a list of Amercana. If you are inluding recent English stuff, then where's Blackaddar, Bottom etc

And : By old school I was expected George and Mildred, Dads Army etc.

homah_7ft

CaptainNegative wrote:

Bill Cosby is legendary! You gotta love Cosby, same way you gotta love Gary Coleman!

What'you talkin' 'bout Captain.

mike65

Hopless poll. Pesky kids.

Mike.

Wishbone Ash

mike65 wrote:

Hopless poll. Pesky kids.

Mike.

Yes :rolleyes:

What about Are You being Served, Faulty Towers, Open All Hours, The Liver Birds, The Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses, etc.

emeraldstar

"Are You Being Served?" !!!!! The best

^^^ oh, didn't notice you got there before me Wishbone

theone

don't forget Porridge probably the best old school comedy of them all

Nightwish

Wheres Only Fools and Horses? Surely thats the finest!

Ruu_Old

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em would be in there also.

Jesus Wept

Fawlty Towers?!

Wishbone Ash

The poll is ridiculous. Fr Ted is the only one of those that I've seen. :eek:

purplegeko

I drove my parents mad watching boy meets world and fresh prince but i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls every weekend on living its my guilty pleasure and as was mentioned before i love Happy Days too

Jesus Wept

purplegeko wrote:

I drove my parents mad watching boy meets world and fresh prince but i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls every weekend on living its my guilty pleasure and as was mentioned before i love Happy Days too

aaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Wishbone Ash

purplegeko wrote:

i still have a soft spot for Golden Girls ... ..... i love Happy Days too

IMO British comedy is streets ahead of American comedy. I find a lot of it very bland and even unfunny.

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Whoa, hold the phone! There's only space for 10 options in the poll and I just put in the first 9 that came into my head plus the other option. The whole threads about discussing any old school comedies you want, doesn't just have to be the ones in the poll.
Old school is basically any comedy that isn't still making new episodes, by the way.

Jesus Wept

qwertplaywert

70s show ftw........btw topher grace totally steals the show in spidey-3

Pride Fighter

In one word, Bottom.

Cork

Comedys:

Family Ties
Murphy Brown (very under rated)
Famous Teddy Z
The Young Ones
Cheers

Schism

Not surprised Father Ted is topping the poll, my fave comedy.

Pigman II

Dust off the cobwebs for these ones......

Ever Decreasing Circles
It's Your Move
Mr. Belvedere
Head of the Class
Sledge Hammer!
Married with Children
Desmond's
Major Dad

darkskol

Allo Allo
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
Only fools and horses
The Phil Silvers show
Father Ted

Daemonic

Yes Minister and The Good Life...classics.

BendiBus

Daemonic,

I was going to say The Good Life & Yes Minister! Can't believe you sneaked in just ahead of me with both my faves.

We must be of a similar vintage.

Rollo Tamasi

Are you being served is one of the best comedies ever.
Ridiculously hilarious for its time.

User45701

Mr Been!!!

Mossy Monk

Worst poll ever!!!

Fawlty Towers for me.

Zaph

Kojak wrote:

Am I the only one who hated the Cosby show??

No, I hated it too. About as funny as a dose of the clap.

Fawlty Towers and Yes, Minister/Prime Minister are streets ahead of anything else. Two funniest shows ever, IMO.

Bubs101

I'm Alan Partridge. Amazing


The crosby show was crap

Marshy

Bubs101 wrote:

I'm Alan Partridge. Amazing

Yeah, I second that. Best comedy in long time.

Fawlty towers next. Father Teds the best on the poll.

slipss

From the ones on the poll I'd say Father Ted, then That 70's show, thought the rest were crap. Not on the poll I'd say Fools and Horses, Faulty Towers and The Thin Blue Line, anyone remember that, with Rowan Atkinson in it?

Mossy Monk

slipss wrote:

The Thin Blue Line, anyone remember that, with Rowan Atkinson in it?

I thought it was horrendous myself.

Basq

Whoa whoa whoa whoa!

One word.......

.... "Blackadder"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTm7Z_6Dcs

"No.. i mean get inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back!"

Genius.. i don't think Blackadder ever be matched in my mind!

Nordie

Monty Phytons Flying Circus...........d best

darkskol

basquille wrote:

Genius.. i don't think Blackadder ever be matched in my mind!

Yes forgot about this, now this was brilliant.

Nordie

Cant be beaten Darkskol:)

I'm a lumerjack & I don't care

Creamy Goodness

Pride Fighter wrote:

In one word, Bottom.

bottom was ****ing awesome, never laughed so hard before in my life.

also red dwarf anyone?