Funniest and Unfunniest Comedy Series' Of All Time - Page 10

**John C. Holmes** · January 13th, 2012, 10:42 PM

Funniest: SCTV (Pre NBC era.)

Unfunniest: SNL post 1980 and Friends

**Greenman** · January 13th, 2012, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Greenman

I think you can add 'The Royal Bodyguard' to the unfunniest comedies with Sir David Jason(BBC1 Boxing Day debut) it was fitfully unfunny which is not a slur on Sir David but it reminded me more of Clouseau(which originally inspired Sir David as a young man) but woefully miscast. It looked good but it wasn't.

I meant to make a comparison with this with another spy comedy, which was a lot funnier back in the early 70s that Sir David was in. I doubt anyone will remember it but stuck in my mind and came to the fore when I saw him in this. I recall a London Weekend Television comedy he was in called 'The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs' 1974
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071068/

**otokonomidori** · January 13th, 2012, 11:15 PM

I laughed at "Bottom"

I hated shit like "Dad's Army"

heehoo · January 14th, 2012, 04:54 AM

Funniest show - Father Ted

Least Funny show - Friends

hystick · March 18th, 2012, 10:25 PM

I find it odd that Coach wasn't on anyones list.
True, some of the episodes were a little lame as any sitcom will have it's share.
However, Coach consistantly had me laughing the hardest. There was always a great gut buster either in the opening or ending scene that didn't have anything at all to do with that episode's main subject. It was a great hook that had me tuning in every week. You never knew if the gut buster was going to be at the beginning or the end.
There were also plenty of seriously heart attack inducing episodes that had me litterally on the floor. I seriously thought I was going to laugh myself to death during the episode Haden and Luther got stuck up in the fire watch tower. Another one was the spackled wedding dress episode. I could go on and on.
I guess everyone laughed so hard and suffered brain damage that they forgot about Coach.

Oh, one episode was so funny (the one where Haden had the snoring problem) that it was mentioned on the local news channel. All throughout the news broadcast, they kept busting into giggles. It's darkly funny when your local news lady is reporting a deadly car accident while noticably trying to stifle her laughter. At the end of the news broadcast, the anchors apologized to the viewers and explained about that night's episode of Coach.

Booji Boy · March 29th, 2012, 12:22 PM

Funniest: Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Unfunniest: Friends

Most Overrated: Only Fools & Horses

**Jason-X** · March 29th, 2012, 01:09 PM

Funniest (IMO)
Beavis And Butt Head
Everybody Loves Raymond
Home Improvement
M*A*S*H (First three Seasons/some of season 4&5!)
Monty Python
Night Chourt
You Can't Do That On Television
WKRP In Cincinnati

Unfunniest (IMO)
Seinfeld

**vo1v0d** · October 11th, 2012, 06:05 AM

Instead of a list here are the two that stuck fast in my memory for different reasons
Need more episodes of:-
Nathan Barley (the rise of the idiot) good piss-take of what is hip and happening

should never have been written/comissioned/made
My dead Dad :- the only reason I can thik for this being shown is as a poison chalice from a program comissioner as a legacy to whoever got his job after he was let go

**GailFan** · October 18th, 2012, 09:23 PM

I won't comment on "funny" and "unfunniest" comedies, but I will say I'm absolutely bewildered by the success of "Three And A Half Men".

March 18th, 2012, 10:25 PM	#95
hystick Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 14 Thanks: 5 Thanked 70 Times in 10 Posts	I find it odd that Coach wasn't on anyones list. True, some of the episodes were a little lame as any sitcom will have it's share. However, Coach consistantly had me laughing the hardest. There was always a great gut buster either in the opening or ending scene that didn't have anything at all to do with that episode's main subject. It was a great hook that had me tuning in every week. You never knew if the gut buster was going to be at the beginning or the end. There were also plenty of seriously heart attack inducing episodes that had me litterally on the floor. I seriously thought I was going to laugh myself to death during the episode Haden and Luther got stuck up in the fire watch tower. Another one was the spackled wedding dress episode. I could go on and on. I guess everyone laughed so hard and suffered brain damage that they forgot about Coach. Oh, one episode was so funny (the one where Haden had the snoring problem) that it was mentioned on the local news channel. All throughout the news broadcast, they kept busting into giggles. It's darkly funny when your local news lady is reporting a deadly car accident while noticably trying to stifle her laughter. At the end of the news broadcast, the anchors apologized to the viewers and explained about that night's episode of Coach. Last edited by hystick; March 18th, 2012 at 11:14 PM..

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January 13th, 2012, 10:42 PM	#91
John C. Holmes Vintage Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 710 Thanks: 14,637 Thanked 7,446 Times in 682 Posts	Funniest: SCTV (Pre NBC era.) Unfunniest: SNL post 1980 and Friends

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heehoo Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 45 Thanks: 502 Thanked 457 Times in 44 Posts	Funniest show - Father Ted Least Funny show - Friends

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vo1v0d Hideous By Nature Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: sarf eeeest lunden Posts: 8,225 Thanks: 42,174 Thanked 60,526 Times in 7,439 Posts	Instead of a list here are the two that stuck fast in my memory for different reasons Need more episodes of:- Nathan Barley (the rise of the idiot) good piss-take of what is hip and happening should never have been written/comissioned/made My dead Dad :- the only reason I can thik for this being shown is as a poison chalice from a program comissioner as a legacy to whoever got his job after he was let go