Worst British Sitcoms of all time!

[Babygirl66]

In your opinion what is the worst British sitcom of all time.

My definition of Sitcom, is a comedy that prime purpose is to be “funny”. For Example shows such as Being Human, Fleabag, my mad fat dairy, Brasic and Jonathan Creek don’t count as whilst they contain humour they are not what most would consider a sitcom as they contain to much of a serious undertone. (Not saying these are bad shows, I just see them refer to as sitcoms a lot when they technically are not)

Miranda- far too twee and faux middle class. Plus it’s just not funny.

I love most of these!

Sorry
Are you being served
On the buses
Fawlty Towers
Miranda

And givecme some Benny Hill and The Two Ronnies and I'm a happy woman!

Mrs Browns Boys
I used to like Miranda but watched again recently and god it’s dire .
Last of the Summer Wine.

Any prime time BBC sitcoms of the past decade. Mrs Brown's Boys, Miranda, that one with the flatmates. They are all so middle of the road.

I think that the Mrs Brown’s Boys audience is made up entirely of the over 70s.

I watched it once. Not a single laugh. I’ve been to see comedy plays In the past and sat incredulously watching people busting a gut laughing at really unfunny stuff. It is a weird feeling.

Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps. Absolutely fecking dire.

MBB. we get it on 2 channels in Ireland. BBC and our own channels.
Thanks for that.
Grim.

I loved Don't Wait Up! I was 6 or 7 when it was on, and it started my lifelong crush on Nigel Havers. I bet it wouldn't hold up to viewing again now.

Bread was a cool thing to watch among my school friends circa 1990, but I rewatched a couple later and they were dreadful.

My prize for the worst ever sitcom would be All Night Long, starring Keith Barron and Dinah Sheridan, about an all-night bakery. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Night_Long_(TV_series) It was dire! Wikipedia tells me it was only on for 6 episodes- not surprised.

There was another one a few years later called All About Me, starring Jasper Carrott, where the narration was supposedly the inner monologue of a non-verbal kid with CP. I doubt that would be made now.

I am obviously in the minority here, bit I own "Duty Free: the full package" on DVD.
Every episode plus the Christmas special!
It's a tradition in our house to watch the special every Christmas Eve. My husband is Spanish and absolutely hated it to begin with but now occasionally drops the odd quote 😂

Hold the Sunset is terrible. Great cast, but just embarrassingly bad. I only managed one episode, after my mum challenged me to watch it to see how bad it was. I nearly cringed myself inside out. Astonished it got a second series (although it could be that they got a deal upfront to do two series, based on the cast?). That said, I’m not a fan of John Cleese at all. (Love Peter Egan though!)

I loved The Young Ones when it came out (I was 16, so I was completely the target market), but when I rewatched it recently, I thought it hadn’t aged well at all. So that is a difficult one, I remember it fondly because of how much I loved it growing up, but it’s not something I will watch again. Ditto most of Monty Python.

Faulty tower, hate it.
Only fools and horses.Haven’t watched any since 30 years ago.

Bottom, League of Gentlemen. Both make me feel sick.
Gavin and Stacey, ridiculous characters and just unfunny nonsense.

I wish they’d repeat Black Books. I remember it as being brilliant.

Two Pints of Lager was indeed dire. Especially when they decided that Janet (Sheridan Smith) should switch from a normal speaking voice to a stupid one. Sheridan Smith certainly had to slog through some crap roles to get where she is today.

I quite liked Little Britain, mainly because of Vicky Pollard, until a reviewer claimed that the theme was “aren’t women disgusting?” The next time I watched it, I realised that reviewer was spot on. And this was before they introduced the character of the sweet old lady with urinary incontinence.

Matt Lucas later said that he based the Vicky Pollard character on a teenage boy he heard speaking super-fast, then “turned it into a girl”. Why did he turn it into a girl? I think I can guess.

Black Books is all available on All4

Only when I Laugh. Entire sitcom focused round a hospital bay with 3 men in bed. Really crap.

I wouldn't bother to watch Bread, Duty Free, Man About The House, Goodnight Sweetheart etc now, but when I watched them years ago I found them funny, so I wouldn't say any of them were the worst sitcoms of all time.

I watched Miranda soon after it was made and found it painfully bad, so it probably gets my vote for worst ever.

It's quite rate for a sitcom to date and be funny decades later, which is why I think OFAH is an absolute classic.

Mrs Brown boys
The office
Thin blue line
Black adder the later ones
Any thing that involves slap stick

There is loads more but I can't think of them right now

Aww don't say Mr bean!

Mrs browns boys.
Keeping up appearances.
Last of the summer wine.

MrsBsBs was funny to start with imv. I'm not sure why it seems to be so disliked. It was ridiculous but still funny. But like all sitcoms runs out of ideas!

Alma's not Normal has just started on BBC 2 and I found it v funny.

Mrs Brown’s Boys (can’t say it too many times)
It ain’t half hot mum ( of its time, yes, but even as a child I felt guilty laughing because it just didn’t quite feel right)

Liverbird77 I'm a Duty Free fan. I like it now because it's so very 80s and nostalgic, and I still think it's funny. The characters were well-drawn - working class David attracted to middle-class Linda's sophistication and Linda reciprocating because her husband was a boorish bigot, while Amy who had ten times Linda's intelligence and character saw through the whole thing.

glummy have you ever actually watched OFAH or are you thinking of another program??

@Pelleas I thought I was the only one! It is hilarious, isn't it? Although watching as an adult, I do feel sorry for Any and, to a lesser extent, Robert.

It's bizarre that so many of these things that people don't like seem to have either had very long series - such as Only Fools and Horses or feature in most popular comedies such as Fawlty Towers

Just goes to show that comedy is subjective

I think every British sitcom has been mentioned on this thread now