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What comedy makes you laugh out loud?

161 replies

Sparrowlegs248 · 17/05/2019 20:29

I need more laughter in my life! I rarely watch tv, but I have Netflix and obviously access to internet and freeview. What do you recommend that will make me laugh?

I don't think I'm too fussy in the way of comedy. Although can't stand things like Mrs Brown's Boys.

OP posts:
AnneLovesGilbert · 17/05/2019 20:31

Fawlty towers
Alan Partridge
The thick of it
Veep

ShakeYourTailFeathers · 17/05/2019 20:33

Anything with Victoria Wood in

Petalflowers · 17/05/2019 20:35

Miranda
Mrs Brown Boys
Michael McIntyre

Watsername · 17/05/2019 20:41

The IT Crowd

WhiteDust · 17/05/2019 20:41

Outnumbered, Afterlife on Netflix
Not going out on IPlayer

Chancewouldbeafinethlng · 17/05/2019 20:42

What sort of humour do you have? I love a podcast, some of them are so funny I have to listen at home or I get looked at weird for laughing out loud.

WhiteDust · 17/05/2019 20:42

'Mum' Series 1,2 & 3 on iPlayer

MissClareRemembers · 17/05/2019 20:43

Dinner ladies
Blackadder
Jeeves & Wooster

On radio...

Cabin Pressure (this will make you weep with laughter)
Gloomsbury
Ed Reardon’s Week
Clare in the Community

Mummyh2016 · 17/05/2019 20:43

Alan partridge
Inbetweeners
Friday night dinner

MrTumblesSpottyHag · 17/05/2019 20:44

Afterlife made me LOL

UnderTheSeaWithMe · 17/05/2019 20:45

Peter Kay's car share
Benidorm
Semi pro
Rising Damp (not very PC but very funny)
Fraiser

Dogparty · 17/05/2019 20:45

The Inbetweeners definitely! Not Going Out was brilliant the first few series but I haven’t seen any recent ones.

JellySlice · 17/05/2019 20:46

Victoria Wood
Blackadder (tho not series 1)
Allo Allo

(I think I'm stuck in the 80s 😂)

Monty Python
Taskmaster

DorothyZbornak · 17/05/2019 20:46

One foot in the grave
Blackadder
Dinnerladies
Frankie Boyle on Mock the Week.

FiremanKing · 17/05/2019 20:46

Fawlty Towers.
Steptoe and Son
One foot in the grave.
Keeping up appearances.
All of the now not politically correct 1970s tv comedy shows.
Harry Enfield.
The IT crowd.
My husband is American and loves Curb your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld. I like Malcolm in the Middle.

Pinkarsedfly · 17/05/2019 20:46

Friends
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
I’m Alan Partridge
Derry Girls
Ghosts
Blackadder
The Young Ones

PlinkPlink · 17/05/2019 20:46

Fleabag made me laugh out loud.

I haven't done that in a long time. Not because I'm depressed or anything but because TV just seems to me shite these days 😂😂

IT Crowd
The Good Place
Bonding was a good one (BDSM orientated though - thought I might advise you of that one 😂)

BadHairDyeDay · 17/05/2019 20:46

Derry Girls

BelfortGabbz · 17/05/2019 20:47

Would I Lie To You?
Love the Lee and David dynamic.

EskeewdBeef · 17/05/2019 20:47

Father Ted
Friday Night Dinner
Flowers (not quite a sitcom, but different and funny)
Stath Lets Flats

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 17/05/2019 20:48

The thing that made me laugh the most was the radio series Cabin Pressure.

I find some comedians hilarious and so I watch/listen to them. Dara O'Briain or John Robins (some of his stuff is available here) are both the sort of self-deprecating, clever humour that I like.

Olliphant · 17/05/2019 20:48

Father Ted, the IT crowd, Park and Recreation, Ghosts.....Friends...Blackadder, Miranda..

Catname · 17/05/2019 20:48

Nobody has mentioned Two Doors Down. It is Scottish humour and quite wonderful 🤣

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 17/05/2019 20:49

Curb Your Enthusiasm ^^
Seinfeld
Inbetweeners
OFAH
Fawlty Towers
Alan Partridge

NuffSaidSam · 17/05/2019 20:49

Taskmaster.

There's a new series on at the moment and you can watch all the old ones on UKTV play.