...to think Father Ted is funnier than IT Crowd

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www.chortle.co.uk/news/2020/11/12/47282/the_it_crowd_named_britains_funniest_sitcom

Nice to see a MNer doing well.

Don't get me wrong, IT Crowd is brilliant, but every syllable and shot of Father Ted is deranged perfection.

I can watch those Priests trapped in a lingerie department a thousand times and not be bored.

Nice to see a MNer doing well 😂
Well, there’s no need to put Mr L on a pedal stool, and you seem to be implying IT Crowd is a damp squid in comparison to Father Ted. 😉
Seriously though, they’re both genius and I couldn’t choose between them. Luckily I don’t have to as DDs have them on almost constant rotation.

You definitely should have enabled voting OP, you might have had the first ever MN 100% YANBU!!

For me, it's a bit like saying a lamb dinner is better than a cooked breakfast. They aren't the same thing, but they are both my joint favourite meals. You can't 'compare' comedy other than subjectively. I love a bit of Father Ted, but the IT crowd is spot on too. I also have just started re- watching the early episodes of the Royle Family - again, a completely different type of comedy, but brilliantly written and acted. Just depends what mood you are in, and what you've watched recently. How can Black Adder not be right up there ?

Yet, comedy is subjective - there are a few highly acclaimed sitcoms I never found funny at all - Ab Fab and The Young Ones to name two. My Mum never found Black Adder funny, when me and my sister were rolling around, when it first came out.

Stop putting GL on a pedal stool, OP.

The IT crowd makes me laugh like a drain every time. I still love Jen's presentation of The Internet

Oops just saw Judas got there before me. That'll teach me to RTFT

I think they are as funny as each other.

Definitely Father Ted!

I told my 8 year old the other day that the box in the corner is the internet. I give it about a year before he figures out that has as much truth in it as my other story of the moon/cheese 🤪

Those cows are far away....

you seem to be implying IT Crowd is a damp squid in comparison to Father Ted.

Oh good god no. It's an utter joy - the box with the internet in is one of the great moments of TV; but is it as good as kicking bishop Brennan up the arse?

Well, there’s no need to put Mr L on a pedal stool

:-)

For me, it's a bit like saying a lamb dinner is better than a cooked breakfast. They aren't the same thing, but they are both my joint favourite meals.

Fair point. They should have had joint winners.

This should have been the winner...

implying IT Crowd is a damp squid

Ha, just realised I missed that one.

Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse will never be bettered.

Escaping from the largest lingerie department in Ireland.

G.A.Y the Musical was masterful

A fire in a sea parks and Jen's Italian translation

My lovely horse running through the....field 😂

G'wan g'wan g'wan.

I love them both but Father Ted is one of the funniest comedies ever in my opinion. I made the mistake of watching it once whilst my child was wandering about. It was awful. He spoke of nothing else but kicking bishop Brennan up the arse for days. He was only 6 .

Yanbu Father Ted is a perfect universe

He spoke of nothing else but kicking bishop Brennan up the arse for days. He was only 6

What are you talking about? I would be so proud.

Before my Nephew could say 50 words he could say drink, girls, feck and arse. My DSis found out what I was doing before he mastered 'that would be an ecumenical matter'.

Both are sublime. I cannot choose as it depends on my humour on the day.

For me though, it is Partridge all the way.

We have a thing at our very serious work where we fit in an Alanism in our calls. It really never gets old.

I am desperate to have a situation where I can try and use ‘Lynn these are sex people’ but it is unlikely to ever happen. And Lynn went to work in a nursery so that makes it even more unlikely.

But we all do the Father Jack being sorry so maybe Ted wins for that

I was in studio audience for an episode of Fr Ted many years ago. Love love love Fr Ted!

I like I.T crowd but Father Ted is my favourite. Now got my lovely horse in my stuck head.

I guess Ted would get top spot on any best Irish sitcom list, although it was made by channel 4.