To ask you for your top 3 sitcom characters ever?

[CheapSausagesAndSpam]

3 isn't many is it?

Here's mine

Jill Tyrell-Nighty Night
David Brent even though he annoys me so much
Basil Fawlty

Now people will come along with theirs and I'll think I've chosen the wrong ones!

Doug Heffernan from King of Queens
Jack MacFarlane from Will and Grace
Jim Royle from the Royle Family

Also love most of the characters already mentioned!

Did my male characters, my female characters:
Mrs Doyle
Margot Leadbetter
Dr Pippa Moore ( Vicki Pepperdine Getting On)

Malcolm Tucker! How could I forget. I loved that show.
And Lesley Knope. In fact all of the characters in Parks and Rec. and I've just remembered that Tammi (1 or 2) is also brilliant Karen Walker on will and Grace.

So many brilliant British sitcoms here that I'd forgotten about.

The vicar of dibley
Father ted
Basil fawlty

In no particular order:
Beverley Goldberg
Amy Farrah-Fowler
Mildred Roper - something about her just makes me laugh and feel a little bit sad at the same time.
If I could have a fourth, it'd be Margot Leadbetter!

Father Noel Furlong from Father Ted
Miss Jones from Rising Damp (shows age)
Rodney from only Fools and Horses

@LittleTinyPig I guess there's a few too many apocalypses in Buffy for it to be a sitcom! I'll swap to Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec then 🙂

Ian Fletcher from w1A. 'So that's all good then.

Sister Michael in Derry girls 'if you have any worries, please, please, please don't come to me'

Dan in Man Down - fabulous man.

Jim ignatowski (Christopher Lloyd) -Taxi
Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman) - the Mary Tyler Moor Show
Any character by Laurie Metcalf :)

Eleanor and Michael - The Good Place - philosophy based puns! (Got to be Ted Danson's best role)!
Sybil from Fawlty Towers.
Bernard Black - Black Books

Mrs Brown - Mrs Brown's Boys - make me cry with laughter
Robert Lindsay as Ben in My Family - surely no man can be that stupid
Basil Fawlty

Entire ensemble of Parks and Recreation! Three faves are Ben, Ron and Andy, but also everyone else.

Also, Chandler from friends.

Ron Swanson
Lord Percy
Niles

But will probably change my mind as I hit post...

Because.... Mrs Doyle... and Trigger...

Can't narrow it down to just three.
So 3 female, Karen Walker, Lois from malcom in the middle, and Sheldon's mom from tbbt.
3 male, Cam and Phil from modern family, and Basil Fawlty

@fellOutOfBed2wice
I think that's my list. OP...agree with Nighty Night.

Honorable mentions to

Jeff League of Gentlemen

Toast out of Toast of London

Garth Merenghi Darkplace

Shirley Ghostman (sorry thats 4)

Margo from The Good Life ("Take that peevish expression off your face, Jerry!", "You can't see my face!", "I can tell by your feet, Jerry!")
Another one for Basil Fawlty.
Miranda... from Miranda!

Moss - The IT Crowd
Buster Bluth - Arrested Development
Charlie - It’s Always Sunny...

Such a hard question! So many excellent choices!

George Costanza - Seinfeld
Bernard Black - Black Books
Lord Flashheart - Blackadder

Nessa- Gavin and Stacey
Jeremy- peepshow
And I can’t decide between del-boy or Linda from gimme gimme gimme.

Dr Cox and the janitor in Scrubs!

Margot
Nessa
Darleen from Roseanne

Chandler from Friends, Nessa from Gavin and Stacey and Neil from the Inbetweeners

Oh I can't have just 3 - really not BUT I am rather partial to all of the above with special mentions for

Malcolm Tucker
Martin 'shit on it' from Friday Night Dinner
Howard Moon

and on the female side of things

Dorothy from Men Behaving Badly
Selina Meyer - VEEP
Mrs Doyle