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The top 20 21st century comedies

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford

According to some Radio Times critics and the British Film Institute. The the public voted on the shortlist.....

1 - Mrs Brown's Boys, BBC One (started 2011)

2 - The Office, BBC Two (2001)

3 - Peter Kay's Car Share, BBC One (2015)

4 - Count Arthur Strong, BBC Two (2013)

5 - The IT Crowd, C4 (2006)

6 - The Thick Of It, BBC Four (2005)

7 - Gavin & Stacey, BBC Three (2007)

8 - Miranda, BBC Two (2009)

9 - Raised By Wolves, C4 (2015)

10 - Outnumbered, BBC One (2007)

11 - Peep Show, C4 (2003)

12 - Black Books, C4 (2000)

13 - Green Wing, C4 (2003)

14 - The Inbetweeners, C4 (2008)

15 - Bad Education, BBC Three (2012)

16 - Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, C4 (2001)

17 - Yonderland, Sky1 (2013)

18 - Twenty Twelve/W1A, BBC Two (2011)

19 - Benidorm, ITV (2007)

20 - Detectorists, BBC Four (2014)

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford

I would have put Black books into the top 3

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

Whoever voted for Miranda deserves a good beating with their own shoes.

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

Pheonix nights was 10x better then car share.

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

It just shows how out of step I am with the voting general public.

P.S. Who got to vote?

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"

P.S. Who got to vote?"

Looks like Radio Times readers

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


"

P.S. Who got to vote?

Looks like Radio Times readers"

Ah, a balanced view ...

Do you know anyone who buys the Radio Times? I thought most of us relied on online guides and smart TVs these days.

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"

P.S. Who got to vote?

Looks like Radio Times readers

Ah, a balanced view ...

Do you know anyone who buys the Radio Times? I thought most of us relied on online guides and smart TVs these days."

I do..... at Christmas

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


"

P.S. Who got to vote?

Looks like Radio Times readers

Ah, a balanced view ...

Do you know anyone who buys the Radio Times? I thought most of us relied on online guides and smart TVs these days.

I do..... at Christmas "

I would have guessed Only Fools and One Foot In The Grave ... But who knows?

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

Mrs Brown's Boys being at the top of that list makes me want to weep for mankind

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown


"According to some Radio Times critics and the British Film Institute. The the public voted on the shortlist.....

1 - Mrs Brown's Boys, BBC One (started 2011)

2 - The Office, BBC Two (2001)

3 - Peter Kay's Car Share, BBC One (2015)

4 - Count Arthur Strong, BBC Two (2013)

5 - The IT Crowd, C4 (2006)

6 - The Thick Of It, BBC Four (2005)

7 - Gavin & Stacey, BBC Three (2007)

8 - Miranda, BBC Two (2009)

9 - Raised By Wolves, C4 (2015)

10 - Outnumbered, BBC One (2007)

11 - Peep Show, C4 (2003)

12 - Black Books, C4 (2000)

13 - Green Wing, C4 (2003)

14 - The Inbetweeners, C4 (2008)

15 - Bad Education, BBC Three (2012)

16 - Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, C4 (2001)

17 - Yonderland, Sky1 (2013)

18 - Twenty Twelve/W1A, BBC Two (2011)

19 - Benidorm, ITV (2007)

20 - Detectorists, BBC Four (2014)"

4, 6 and 12 for me

The funfair episode of Phoenix Nights though

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


"Pheonix nights was 10x better then car share."

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton


"Mrs Brown's Boys being at the top of that list makes me want to weep for mankind "

We never quite got it either.

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

Phoenix nights should be top.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

I might have found Mrs Brown mildly amusing when I was around 10 or 11, but really - wtf!! The most low brow dire drivel it has ever been my misfortune to have seen.

I despair for humanity

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


"Mrs Brown's Boys being at the top of that list makes me want to weep for mankind "

stereotypical shite, hate it.

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

Apart from Phoenix Nights it's a bit meh....I'm actually stunned reading this x

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

Phoenix Nights is genius. Gavin and Stacey if you watch them back have some genuinely great moments. But as with any poll it will always divide opinion.

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

I never got what was so funny about Mrs browns boys.

It crowd tops the list for me

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

Mrs Brown's Boys is criminally unfunny. It's not only not humourous, but it sucks humour out of the room. Like a black hole.

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


"I never got what was so funny about Mrs browns boys.

It crowd tops the list for me"

A+, good shout

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

What no early doors, probably the best sit com done by the beeb in decades!.

What about I'm Alan partridge.. Smell my cheese muttherrr fu..

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By *arkyandFiCouple
over a year ago

lowestoft

Love Detectorists and The Office. Cant believe Extras and Derek didn't make the list.

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Miranda?!

Seeing it's inclusion on this list actually made me laugh...which is a first for Miranda

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

Best of these 20 is definitely the detectorists. These ones voting are obviously the same oned pleased to see Are you being served and Till death us do part being resurrected

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

Nope. Total recount needed if Father Ted isn't in there.

Is this thread tiny or far away?

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


"Nope. Total recount needed if Father Ted isn't in there.

Is this thread tiny or far away? "

Father Ted only ran till 1998. Otherwise it would be a total travesty.

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

I don't, and will never, get Mrs Brown's Boys. I feel like I'm missing the part of my brain that makes that funny.

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


"Nope. Total recount needed if Father Ted isn't in there.

Is this thread tiny or far away?

Father Ted only ran till 1998. Otherwise it would be a total travesty."

You know I don't do dates. Or facts.

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


"Mrs Brown's Boys being at the top of that list makes me want to weep for mankind

stereotypical shite, hate it."

that's nice !!

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Th e best comedies seem to be those that make you think "I know, or know of, somebody like that"

Fawlty towers, Dads Army,One foot, Inbetweeners, Peep Show, to name a few.

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


"Mrs Brown's Boys being at the top of that list makes me want to weep for mankind

stereotypical shite, hate it. that's nice !! "

It is, true though! As an Irishmman that is.

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