BBC comedy?

Cabin Pressure is great, annodomini. It also has the wonderful voice of Roger Allam!

Upstart Crow is very clever and I just love Two Doors Down.

I also like Lee Mack. Loved Dad's Army, Porridge,Eric Sykes and Rising Damp. Some of the American series are good too eg Cheers and Frasier, also Soap and Roseanne. I was eventually persuaded to watch Big Bang Theory, and I must admit, I do laugh often. ( Jim Parsons is so convincing ). I've watched bits of Live from the Apollo, and often wonder why the audience are laughing.

Do you remember a Radio 4 sitcom, 'Cabin Pressure' about a very budget airline? My DS played the CD in the car when we went to France and the GC adored it. Fast forward a few years and I find that my nephew has done the same for his two sons and they love it too. Oh and I must admit that it made long car journeys quite bearable. It featured (among others) a young Benedict Cumberbach.

Radio Four and the Beeb generally are dire due to the political correctness which sucks the life out of humour, That said, ‘1AA’ was brilliant and ‘This Country’ most amusing. On the other channels ‘Derry Girls’ is actually funny.

The Vicar of Dibley too

Anyone remember Steptoe & Son. The two Ronnie’s, Handcocks halfhour or the wonderful Morcombe & Wise !!!
Oh how I miss those laughs & not an F word in sight

Better Things
Cunk on Britain
Upstart Crow
Fleabag
Mum
Two Doors Down
Room 101
Still Game
Would I lie to You
Man like Mobeen
Insert Name Here
This Country
Not Going Out

Enjoyed all of these last year. Better Things, Two Dorrs Down , Still Game and Would I Lie to You , Fleabag were/are favourites.

It wasn’t Sue from Urmston it was Babs.

Can I add still open all hours ? Love it x

I quite like the odd episode of Miranda. She is amusing and some of the cast are good. I watched 5 minutes of Fleabag and I depaired about what we have become.

Victoria wood was a absolute icon. Couldn't believe how she was taken so young.her talent was amazing saw her at Newcastle city hall and laughed till I cried! Dinner ladies best comedy ever!

No comedy for me. Many comics rely on repetition once they get a laugh and half their patter is boring and offensive.
I don't rate any of them.

BBC just don’t do comedy anymore - apart from ‘Open all Hours’. ,which I do still find funny. Watched the first ‘Warren ‘ but won’t be watching it again. Not remotely funny and Martin Clunes is capable of so much more!
I enjoy ‘Would I Lie to You? ,but Lee Mack often spoils it by butting in and being too fond of himself.

I loved the Royale Family and Early Doors with Craig Cash. I watched the first of Warren and thought it was alright. I put Derry Girls on last week but couldn't understand what they were saying so changed channels. Love anything with Lee Mack. There's nothing in comedy worth watching these days. I used to love George and Mildred, Open all Hours, Rising Damp, On the Buses, In Loving Memory, Hi De-Hi.

Oh yes! The Royale Family!!! Hilarious! Remember the Christmas edition where the turkey was still frozen? And all they got were carrots!

Yep, loved Two Doors Down as well - poor put upon Beth with the neighbour from hell, Cathy .....

Two Doors Down is quite funny, I think it may be BBC Scotland too. I’ve binge watched the first series of Fleabag and did enjoy it, DH, not so much, he doesn’t like ladies who swear.
My all time favourites are The Royale Family and the other one with Craig Cash in (so good I’ve forgotten it’s name!)
Open Door I think.
Dinner Ladies is a classic, like others I could watch it over and over. I always wonder if Urmstongran knows Sue, played by Kate Robbins.

I really like Fleabag, even though I find some of the humour too graphic for my own taste, ditto Catastrophe. I just think they are such original comedies and the actors are so good. I started to watch the Derry Girls at the beginning of the last series but didn't really get into it. I think I'll give it another go.

I don't like Mrs Brown's Boys and didn't like Monty Python or The Goons.

Some of the old comedies that I used to like are rather disappointing to me now.

There was a comedy programme on R4 that used to make me howl with laughter - I think it was called Craig something's diary. I also like the News Quiz - especially the newspaper items sent in by listeners.

It all goes to show we are all different and what amuses one person won't amuse another.

There’s obviously something wrong with me - love Warren, very disappointed with Alan Partridge. Love Would I Lie To You? HIGNFY, Upstart Crow, Outnumbered, Derry Girls. The radio shows were the best though, Beyond Our Ken, Round The Horn, Take It From Here, who can ever forget Eth and the gormless Ron??

Oh Hinge and Bracket! The dear ladies. They were terrific.

Round the Horn and Beyond our Ken really made me laugh especially Jules and Sandy but I suspect the PC brigade would say it was homophobic now, which I don’t think it was. I never realised some of the phrases such ‘it’s good to varda your old eek’ (it’s good to see you) was part of gay language in the 1960s.

I loved Hinge and Bracket too. My trans cousin who knew one of the actors had his/her voice on her answerphone.

I think the programmes reflect the audience. If a certain type of comedy attracts a large audience, the programme makers will assume that it's what people want and continue in the same vein. Just as travel programmes are obviously popular, because there are so many being made. If audience numbers drop, that sort of programme will no longer be made.

'Men behaving Badly'.What a classic was that one.
I enjoyed Martin Clunes in his recent portrayal of a cop on the trail of a killer however apart from that, comedy, like MBHB is really what he excels in.

@GrannyIris5. Another vote for Still Game here.
We only discovered it by accident whilst living in England via a dvd gift from a friend. Thankfully, we can get BBC Scotland on satellite so I’m glad they brought it back but sad that this is the last ever series.
Channel 4 has been instrumental in developing good writing talent too. Father Ted was brilliant. Such a tragedy when Dermot Morgan died so young as he was brilliant in it and it was a formula that could have gone on much longer, I think.