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Mar 22, 2019 · Latest additions: Brassic, The Change, Changing Ends. Most divisive: Shameless. Over 6.3K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 190 Best British Comedy TV Shows, Ranked. Diving into the world of television, there's a certain brilliance found in British comedies that’s unmatched anywhere else.
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- 'Fawlty Towers'
- 'Only Fools and Horses'
- 'The Office'
- 'Absolutely Fabulous'
- 'Derry Girls'
- 'The Thick of It'
- 'The Inbetweeners'
- 'Motherland'
- 'The Royle Family'
- 'The It Crowd'
What's it about? Widely regarded as the finest British sitcom of all time, Fawlty Towersfollows the farcical misadventures and countless humiliations of pompous, social-climbing hotelier Basil Fawlty and his feisty but charming wife, Sybil. Helping the couple - who spend so much time trading acerbic insults you wonder how they ever got married - ru...
What's it about? Set in Peckham, South London, the show focuses on the numerous and nearly always disastrous, money-making missions of cheeky market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter (Sir David Jason) and his younger brother, Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Perennially hopeful, wheeler-dealer Del is determined to achieve his dream of becoming a rich yupp...
What's it about? Anyone who's ever found themselves stuck in a dead-end job won't help but feel a shuddering sense of reality watching this mockumentary based on the mundane lives of colleagues at Slough-based paper merchant, Wernham-Hogg. In charge at the office is David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais in his breakout role) - the deluded and social...
What's it about? Prepare yourselves for the outrageous, hedonistic antics of PR agent Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and her BFF, magazine fashion editor Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley). This pair of high-powered selfish divas drink, smoke, and drug-take their way through life in London, chasing any fads in a desperate attempt to remain young and on...
What's it about? Set in 1990's Northern Ireland, Derry Girls follows five school friends - leader of the pack Erin, eccentric Orla, goody-two-shoes Clare (played by Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan), rebel Michelle and her cousin from England, James - as they navigate the trials and tribulations of being an adolescent against a backdrop of political...
What's it about? Savagely satirising the British government (during the Blair, Brown, and Cameron years), this sitcom is based in the fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship - or DoSAC for short. In charge is hopeless minister Hugh Abbott, who tries to implement new policies, but predictably ends up making a mess of it all and needs ...
What's it about? Get ready to cringe watching a gang of four sexually inexperienced sixth-form boys and their doomed attempts to be the kind of guys girls go crazy for. Neither part of the cool 'in crowd' or total nerds, the inbetweeners comprise of lead character and show narrator Will Mackenzie, a briefcase-carrying boffin forced to leave his for...
What's it about? The juggle is real for middle-class London mum Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), who's trying to hold down a demanding job and look after the kids, whilst getting zero help from her useless husband Paul. But when her ageing mother declares she's had enough of being an unpaid babysitter, Julia's forced to make friends with the other mums...
What's it about? The show centres on the lives of Mancunian family, The Royles, who love nothing better than watching television in their living room. Head of the family is couch potato Jim, a workshy slob who spends most of his life sitting in his armchair and is prone to outbursts, frequently using his catchphrase "my arse". Barbara is Jim's long...
What's it about? Another comedy set in an office - this time the IT department of fictional Reynholm Industries in London. The series revolves around three staff members. First up is computer programming geek Maurice Moss, who's uber-intelligent, but painfully shy and socially awkward. Working alongside him is idle Irish technician Roy Trenneman (p...
- After Life. Ricky Gervais comedies seem to fall into one of two camps: toe-curlingly awkward (see The Office, below) or hits-you-right-in-the-feels. After Life falls squarely in the latter: Gervais plays Tony, journalist at his local newspaper, who is struggling to cope with life after the death of his wife, who is played (via video messages) by Kerry Godliman, who was also a key part of Gervais comedy, Derek.
- Black Books. Everybody’s met a Bernard Black, Dylan Moran’s misanthropic, alcoholic, shambolic Black Books character. The public-facing-people-hater is now every bit a comedy archetype as Basil Fawlty or Hyacinth Bucket.
- Bottom. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson’s most celebrated comedy series might be The Young Ones (also available to stream on NOW) but Bottom holds a special place in fans’ hearts.
- Brass Eye. Chris Morris and co. followed up brilliantly observed news satire The Day Today with this spoof investigative journalism series, which tackled the issues of the day with characteristic absurdity.
- Peep Show. Tell me, who is the greatest British comedy character of the 21 century, and why is it Super Hans? Matt King’s stringy counter-culture hedonist is just one of flat-share comedy Peep Show’s many highlights.
- Fleabag. There’s a reason why this show created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge adapted from her play of the same name won multiple awards (and tops this list).
- Derry Girls. Lisa McGee’s 1990s-set Northern Irish sitcom is an energetic blast of nostalgia and comedic joy about five 16-year-old schoolfriends in Derry.
- The Office. A list of the comedy series influenced by Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais’ The Office would be almost as long as this one. At least a few on this list – W1A, This Country and People Just Do Nothing, maybe even Detectorists in a roundabout way – probably wouldn’t have happened without it, and that’s not to mention all the US comedies that owe their existence to the workplace mockumentary, from Parks & Rec to Party Down, of course, the long-running American remake.
2. The Royle Family. 1998–2012 25 eps. 8.2 (9.3K) Rate. TV Series. A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering. Stars Caroline Aherne Craig Cash Sue Johnston. 3.
1. Only Fools And Horses. Sitcom about two market traders, Del Boy and his brother Rodney. Like this. 2. Blackadder. The Blackadder dynasty has run through English history since time immemorial, seemingly always hampered by a Baldrick, and often a Percy and Melchett. Like this. 3.
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