Channel 4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows

[Wolf Pac]

These are shows that only aired on Channel 4, and C4 decided not to put US comedies in this.

30. Paul Merton - The Series
29. The World Of Lee Evans
28. The Jack Dee Show
27. Star Stories
26. Saturday Night Live / Friday Night Live
25. Desmond's
24. Harry Hill
23. PhoneShop
22. The Armstrong & Miller Show
21. Friday Night Dinner
20. Smack The Pony
19. Bo' Selecta!
18. The Adam & Joe Show
17. The Comic Strip Presents...
16. Drop The Dead Donkey
15. Absolutely
14. Vic Reeves Big Night Out
13. Fonejacker
12. Trigger Happy TV
11. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
10. Da Ali G Show
9. Phoenix Nights
8. Brass Eye
7. Green Wing
6. Spaced
5. The Inbetweeners
4. Black Books
3. The IT Crowd
2. Peep Show
1. Father Ted

Thoughts?

 

[Diet Soda]

Personally, I'd nudge the Inbetweeners down a few places, but otherwise a decent top 10.

 

[Alex]

Could never get into Phoneshop, but that's just me

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Father Ted being number 1 isn't something I can disagree with. If the top 5 had been Ted, Peep Show, Black Books, Spaced and The Inbetweeners then I would have been very happy. IT Crowd just had to ruin it.

 

[Wolf Pac]

Could never get into Phoneshop, but that's just me

Yeah, something like Balls Of Steel, Teachers or Shameless should've been in there instead.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Give or take, anything above 11th is trash.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Comedy Academy should have featured somewhere.

 

[.]

Black Books should've been no. 2

 

[Daniel]

Black Books, The IT Crowd and Father Ted in the top four? Too much Graham Linehan for my liking.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

Why isn't Shameless in there. The first few series were absolutely brilliant

 

[Miko]

Brass Eye should be in the top three, at least

 

[Chess]

Brass Eye should be in the top three, at least

It was a fantastic comedy as was 'The Day Today' that is not even mentioned.

Father Ted being number 1 isn't something I can disagree with. If the top 5 had been Ted, Peep Show, Black Books, Spaced and The Inbetweeners then I would have been very happy. IT Crowd just had to ruin it.

The IT crowd is far superior to the inbetweeners in my opinion.

 

[Lee]

It was a fantastic comedy as was 'The Day Today' that is not even mentioned.

Because the list is Channel 4 comedies.

 

[FitFinlay4Life]

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C4 is 30 years old in November? ... damn, I'm getting old! Oh well, onto topic -

No 'Whose Line Is It Anyway'? This was one of Channel4's first original comedies and so successful that it spawned it's own American version hosted by WWe HoFer (sic) Drew Carey.

My other major quibble would be the lowly ranking of 'Drop The Dead Donkey' which was a brilliant satire on the news biz.

No complaints about the number1 though, 'Father Ted' was truly inspired - "Down with this sort of thing!" "Careful now" will forever be etched in my memory from doing security at Oxegen as one of my fellow guards spent a good part of the weekend full and spent the whole of the last night saying "Careful now" to every punter who walked through the entrance/ exit to see if he'd get the required response (and threw it in himself on many occasions too).

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