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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

From the lounge

What’s the funniest ever ?

For me hard to beat peep show . Special mention to Game On

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

Schitts Creek makes me laugh out loud, good show

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Office US must have watched it 10 times over and one of the best one liners "that's what she said"

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

Big bang theory

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Blackadder

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By *mmmm300Woman
over a year ago

cork

"Big bang theory "

Ooh good one too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Peep show, the office (us), the good place

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Some mothers do ave em as a kid

Only fools and Horses

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

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By *aywhatnowMan
over a year ago

North County

Only fools best ever, Curb your enthusiasm best currently.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The best comedy series of all time, that beats the others hands down, for the quality of acting, writing and direction was Bilko, aka The Phil Silvers Show, aka You'll never get rich.

Although first broadcast in the US in the mid-50s, almost seventy years ago, it has been voted the best on multiple occasions, and used a formulae that other shows have tried to copy, usually unsuccessfully!

The film of the same name was quite frankly garbage.

I think it starred, and I use that euphemistically, Steve Martin.

If you have never seen an episode, the very best is when a chimpanzee becomes a recruit into the US army

The tall recruit in line next to this monkey was its full-time trainer.

Most of the dialogue was spontaneous and unscripted

Silvers capitalised on the monkey's actions, which were recorded live, in front of an audience.

There are a total of 150 episodes and the best are available online.

Nat Hiken was principal scriptwriter with a team as the series developed.

Nothing comes close to Bilko; as a case study it is well worth studying-how to orchestrate all of the elements of a comedy into an enduring and successful investment package that has endured for 70 years.

Mrs Brown's Boys does not hold a candle to Sgt Bilko

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

Best Fr ted

Special mention trailer park boys

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By *ally cumMan
over a year ago

tubbercurry

Can't forget Fawlty Towers, the rise and fall of Reggie Perrin, or Fr. Ted

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Modern family

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fr Ted a classic was only watching the Christmas special last night

The IT Crowd it's funny because it's so relatable "Have you tried turning it off and on again"

What we do in the Shadows. My kids tried to convince me to watch this for years but I kept saying wasn't interested in a Mockumentary about vampires turns out they were right it's just so cleverly written

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

Anyone remember! The End'on rte years ago with sean moncreif and Barry Murphy. Weird stuff

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Bizarrely, I can't recall ever having watched Reggie Perrin in the 70s, but I saw a few re-runs recently and it is excellent as an observational comedy about the idiosyncracies and hypocrisy of British life, in business and suburbia.

Tony Hancock's 1961 film, The Rebel, also pokes fun, in a similar fashion, at the business life and the hypocrisy of modern art.

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By *otownkid1967Man
over a year ago

Portlaoise

The 70s/80sproduced some great shows, Dad's army,it ain't half hot mum, love thy neighbour but for me it has to be Shameless, UK version.

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

"Anyone remember! The End'on rte years ago with sean moncreif and Barry Murphy. Weird stuff

Yip...wierd...but funny

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"The 70s/80sproduced some great shows, Dad's army,it ain't half hot mum, love thy neighbour but for me it has to be Shameless, UK version."

Love thy neighbour is on youtube to watch

Its amazing what was acceptable back then and considered family entertainment

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

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Political-correctness is now frequently taken to a ridiculous extreme on many channels, especially TPTV, when audiences are warned that programmes reflect the prevailing attitudes of the time; Love thy Neighbour is humorous, but for racism in a US context watch In the Heat of the Night, with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger from 1967, or in a British (English) context the 1950's film called Sapphire.

Of course, comedy of that era reflects the attitudes then: Johnny Sleight's satire, Till death us do part, was pervasively misunderstood and its principal actor, Warren Mitchell was often abused and assaulted in public about his onscreen racist Conservative persona.

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland.

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By *onster-ManMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Rediscovering The Golden Girls on Disney+ and the cleverness of the writing, the performances of the main cast and the sheer hit rate of the jokes is astonishing. Comedy rarely ages so well.

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By *scouple07Couple
over a year ago

louth, Ireland

Porridge or open all hours (original)

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

Curb your enthusiasm is one of my favourites, and most of Ricky Gervais's stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Political-correctness is now frequently taken to a ridiculous extreme on many channels, especially TPTV, when audiences are warned that programmes reflect the prevailing attitudes of the time; Love thy Neighbour is humorous, but for racism in a US context watch In the Heat of the Night, with Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger from 1967, or in a British (English) context the 1950's film called Sapphire.

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland. "

How is a 5second flash card at the start of a TV show a ridiculous extreme though?

If anything it seems like a very reasonable and moderate measure?

It's one of those headline grabbers in a culture war. "THE LIBERALS ARE CENSORING BELOVED BRITISH COMEDYS" and no content is even changed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolute best for me is Yes, Minister/Prime Minister. The script is so sharp.

Blackadder, Fr Ted, The IT Crowd, Black Books, Peep Show, Green Wing also. Absolutely Fabulous was so good considering one single person wrote it all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only fools & fr ted are my top two

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

Casual. Netflix.

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By *ulu00Woman
over a year ago

Donegal

How has black books not had a mention?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How has black books not had a mention?! "

It has

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By *ulu00Woman
over a year ago

Donegal

Damn, missed that post!

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland.

How is a 5second flash card at the start of a TV show a ridiculous extreme though?

If anything it seems like a very reasonable and moderate measure?

It's one of those headline grabbers in a culture war. "THE LIBERALS ARE CENSORING BELOVED BRITISH COMEDYS" and no content is even changed "
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In the famous flag-waving film, The Dam Busters, the content has been changed, I think unnecessarily.

Gibson's dog has been renamed and revoiced as Trigger, in place of the original N word.

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By *on Draper2.0Man
over a year ago

Maynooth

Naming just one as the best feels like betraying the others. How do you choose between

Faulty towers

Only fools and horses

Red Dwarf

Preacher

Any Blackadder

The Young Ones

Spitting Image

Benny Hill

Father Ted

Oireachtas report

The list goes on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland.

How is a 5second flash card at the start of a TV show a ridiculous extreme though?

If anything it seems like a very reasonable and moderate measure?

It's one of those headline grabbers in a culture war. "THE LIBERALS ARE CENSORING BELOVED BRITISH COMEDYS" and no content is even changed .

In the famous flag-waving film, The Dam Busters, the content has been changed, I think unnecessarily.

Gibson's dog has been renamed and revoiced as Trigger, in place of the original N word. "

Does that really affect your enjoyment of the film?

Is it a ridicules measure?

And also the original cut is also still shown just depends on the network.

Again storm in a tea cup blown out of proportion by people who want you to believe some perceived freedoms are being lost

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By *on Draper2.0Man
over a year ago

Maynooth

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland.

How is a 5second flash card at the start of a TV show a ridiculous extreme though?

If anything it seems like a very reasonable and moderate measure?

It's one of those headline grabbers in a culture war. "THE LIBERALS ARE CENSORING BELOVED BRITISH COMEDYS" and no content is even changed .

In the famous flag-waving film, The Dam Busters, the content has been changed, I think unnecessarily.

Gibson's dog has been renamed and revoiced as Trigger, in place of the original N word.

Does that really affect your enjoyment of the film?

Is it a ridicules measure?

And also the original cut is also still shown just depends on the network.

Again storm in a tea cup blown out of proportion by people who want you to believe some perceived freedoms are being lost "

If that was factually the digs name, it shouldn't be changed. In some ways, the dogs name highlighted the less than ideal social attitudes of those times. What is thought of as highly racist now may not have been seen that way 80 years ago.

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By *B 4099Man
over a year ago

North West, Outer Letterkenny area

"Bizarrely, I can't recall ever having watched Reggie Perrin in the 70s, but I saw a few re-runs recently and it is excellent as an observational comedy about the idiosyncracies and hypocrisy of British life, in business and suburbia.

Tony Hancock's 1961 film, The Rebel, also pokes fun, in a similar fashion, at the business life and the hypocrisy of modern art.

Leonard Rossiter was a very talented actor, and understood intimately the hypocrisy of bureaucracy; he had previously worked as an insurance company administrator, so Reggie Perrin, heading for a complete nervousbreakdown, was perfect for him. "
absolutely loved the Fall and rise of Reginald Perrin and Rising damp. Spot on Rossiter was a bit of a genius.

It's always sunny in Philadelphia for me is up there, greatly underappreciated, the fact the whole show is based on sociatal issues which they covered way before anyone else, and all done by having 5 of the most unlikeable people. It goes way over some heads. Prime example Lethal weapon 5 episode. Been removed from Netflix for using BF when that was the entire point of the episode, that using BF was not cool.

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Friday night dinner has me in stitches every time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The program poked fun in order to educate and reduce violent interracial intolerance, that was not then evident in Ireland.

How is a 5second flash card at the start of a TV show a ridiculous extreme though?

If anything it seems like a very reasonable and moderate measure?

It's one of those headline grabbers in a culture war. "THE LIBERALS ARE CENSORING BELOVED BRITISH COMEDYS" and no content is even changed .

In the famous flag-waving film, The Dam Busters, the content has been changed, I think unnecessarily.

Gibson's dog has been renamed and revoiced as Trigger, in place of the original N word.

Does that really affect your enjoyment of the film?

Is it a ridicules measure?

And also the original cut is also still shown just depends on the network.

Again storm in a tea cup blown out of proportion by people who want you to believe some perceived freedoms are being lost

It was racist then too it was just accepted.

And as I said it's still aired by plenty networks in its original.

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"Casual. Netflix. "

I am not on Netflix

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By *ndqtMan
over a year ago

The Wild West

From the oldies I would have to say Fr Ted.

But from current stuff. Ted Lasso is excellent. So funny

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By *ay_Gatsby_D4Man
over a year ago

Ballsbridge, City Centre

First two series of Arrested Development were brilliant

Father Ted also hard to beat, you know all the jokes and exactly when they’re coming but still laugh

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Father Ted is akin to a very good vintage

; to be enjoyed infrequently

It is now probably being broadcast too often, and has lost its lustre.

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