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Just for the record Mrs Browns Boys is Irish not British but for some inexplicable reason the BBC see fit to inflict it on the rest of us.
Its sort of a sitcom version of Patrick Kielty.
Just wikied it and its worse than I thought:
Its opening in the UK won 16.4% of the ratings in its Monday night slot and was received well by viewers.[23] Despite the critical reviews, 2.9 million viewers had tuned in by the third episode.[24][25][26] The 2011 Christmas Special achieved 6.61 million viewers, winning in its 10 pm time-slot.[27][28] Consolidated figures revealed the 2012 Christmas specials were the most watched programmes on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day respectively. "Mammy Christmas" gained 11.68m (41.3%) and "The Virgin Mammy" gained 10.72m (38.7%). [29]
Not many shows get 11 million these days. Its already had more episodes than Fawlty Towers and The Office and series 3 started the other week. Looks like its here to stay. Give yourseleves a pat on the back the retarded Great British public.
I'll leave this open for now but technically... You know the drill. ;-)
-The King of Queens
-Home Improvement
-Everybody Loves Raymond
-Malcolm In The Middle
British Sitcoms
-Mr. Bean
-The Inbetweeners
-As Time Goes By
-Keeping Up Appearances
-Fawlty Towers
I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of any.
As to to other comedies
Spaced (2 series of pure gold and hugely influential)
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place (one series of comedy gold, Ayoade, Holness and Berry just magnificent)
Father Ted (Comedy Genius)
Blackadder I-IV (Hilarious even now)
Seen a bit of Father Ted and could never get into it for some reason. I found it a little too "silly" for my liking.
Blackadder I agree with though. Comedy gold.
Have to say I'm with Bain when it comes to Father Ted but other than that damn fine list Shardlake.
Seinfeld
The Wonder Years
Threes Company
Mr. Bean
2. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
3. Boy Meets World
4. King of Queens
5. Happy Days
6. Saved by the Bell
Oh, you like me, you really like me! ;;)
It's probably not to everyone's liking personally it has me in tears regularly even after all these years.
Just finished the first 6 episodes of The Thick of It, what can I say just comic genius, interestingly enough Chris Langley said a few lines that would have likely come back to bite him considering his future actions in real life.
How could I forget Alan Partridge, pretty much all of his shows even the most recent ones shown on Sky, more genius from the man Iannuci, on the subject of U.S shows I really like his new show Veep, while not as biting as TTOI it's still very sharp and Julia Dreyfuss is cringely brilliant. Although TTOI is still the better program, they rightly don't try to replicate Malcolm Tucker who could Capaldi is just a force of nature, must see In The Loop soon.
I love Father Ted but I think that Channel 4 list was pretty dodgy. Blackbooks and the IT crowd ahead of The Inbetweeners and Spaced? No thanks.
To be honest the people who are embracing Mrs Brown's Boys are the same who made The Inbetweeners such a phenomenon and both shows will not be looked at the same way in a decades time, IT Crowd is so much better than it.
No way it will have the longevity Partridge, Blackadder or Spaced or Father Ted will have.
I think the film wasn't needed though and now they're talking about doing a sequel? I reckon they're dragging it on too long. I am looking forward to the announced Alan Partridge movie though, that should be good.
The IT Crowd is funny but I don't think it's brilliant.
I like The Inbetweeners but I agree. It will probably be put in the same category as Men Behaving Badly. Funny programme but very much "of the period" and, in all honesty, too crude to be seen as a "classic".
Personally I'd still take both those programmes over Father Ted though. A friend of mine once showed me a few episodes of Father Ted and it just left me cold - much to his astonishment. I just don't find a boozing priest who says "drink" a lot very funny.
In regard to Alan Partridge I LOVED Kim-Ker-Wap and "I'm Alan Partridge". His recent stuff was good too but didn't reach the heights of Knowing.