We were lucky in Australia to get so much British comedy here. Absolutely brilliant comedy. You can watch it over and over and still crack up laughing 😂

The Fawlty Towers episode was called “The Germans. In the episode, while suffering the effects of concussion, Basil Fawlty repeatedly offends some German guests. Despite warning his staff "Don't mention the war", he keeps ignoring his own advice.

Most tv in the UK only do 6 to 8 episodes per season and usually don't flog them to death over endless episodes and seasons. You are right 'leave them wanting more' is the prevailing thought

One of Fawlty Towers' jokes was how the letters on the sign at the start were never arranged correctly so it always spelled something unique and stupid to get us laughing immediately.

I wish they would have continued the clip about the pet shop owner insisting that the parrot was not dead, when the buyer says, "He would be pushing up the daisies by now if you hadn't nailed his feet to the perch," Fifty years later, and it's still hilarious!

Every politician said "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Primeminister" (the sequel) was so on the nose it was scary, yet it was hilarious... Well worth watching....

I loved Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. The scripts were so clever and funny. It's well worth trying to find whole episodes, it's hilarious. Fawlty Towers was brilliant too especially the episode about Manuel's pet rat and the health inspector. Australia has had a lot of British TV series.

One of the interesting things about Fawlty Towers is that John Cleese wrote a very condensed script which made each episode almost a double episode (so 12 episodes with 24 episodes worth of content) each holding on average 2 intertwined storys which usually collide. It was based on a hotel and owner who the monty python team stayed with. The reason for the short run was that Cleese was exploring themes of British sociatal taboos but didnt want to start repeating plots and ideas so he finished the show and went onto a new project. Yes Minister became Yes Prime Minister when the character became PM, the other famous Show that satired the Government and famous people was Spitting Image, there are a number of comedies and shows which poke fun at politics and also poke fun at religion

Basil sees Manuel carrying three trays Basil: Manuel, there's too much food on those trays Manuel: Qué? Basil becomes irritated pointing at the trays in turn Basil: There is too much food ON... THOSE... TRAYS Manual responds repeating the pointing gesture at the trays Manuel: No, no, no Mr Fawlty it is 'uno, dos, tres'

Blackadder,Red Dwarf,Fawlty Towers,Porridge & Monty Python Flying Circus are THE all time greatest British comedies and I will die on this hill

Monty Python the dead parrot sketch is still hilarious.

I can’t believe you’ve never seen any of the Classic British Comedy’s , we have them all the time here in Australia we never get tired of the it’s full of laughter even if you’d seen it before , “Keeping up Appearances “ “ Vicar of Dibley “ “A fine Romance “ “The good life “the list goes on Tyler have a trial watch for a belly laugh🤣🤷‍♀️

“The Office” The actor on the right was McKenzie Crook from “Pirates of the Caribbean” The one on the left was Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins in the 3 “Hobbit” movies

Try Allo allo.....set in a French Cafe during WW2. All Nations had the piss taken (incl' us Brits) out of them! Took a few episodes to get going, but turned into an absolute Classic. You'd have to know at least some of British humour to get the jokes and situations etc.

Yes Minister then became Yes Prime Minister. It's a very clever comedy.

With no commercial breaks on the BBC a programme can develop and flow smoothly with no annoying interruptions, unlike American tv. In fact some of the greatest BBC shows were slow starters in terms of audience figures, Only Fools And Horses, being a prime example. The first series didn't have massive audiences, but the BBC could see its potential and stuck with it, and it became one of the most popular comedy shows ever. I doubt an American network would do the same because without big audiences from the start there'd be a lack of interest from advertisers and the programme would be scrapped.

In the Graham Norton show they have great interactions lasting almost an hour and being on the BBC are never interrupted by commercials. On the political comedies, some script writers recently said that the reality (e.g. Trump & Johnson) is so bananas that whatever they might come up with would end up more tame than actual events.

Fawlty Towers should be at the top of anyone's list of 'Comedy Shows I Haven't Watched, But Need To'. (Unless, of course they have already seen it.) Not only is it a small body of work, but it is comedy so good that there is no way that it could be made now, given how easily some people are offended. Do yourself a huge favour, dude, and watch it. You'll not only laugh, you'll learn more about the British psyche than 100 episodes of anything else would teach you.

Personally I absolutely HATE The Office. But loved Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister

“Still Game” is hilarious

5.18 the goose-stepping clip from Fawlty Towers is one of the most famous of all TV comedy routines now, especially the turn.

It is amazing how few episodes need to be made to create a classic show. "The Office" (which I never liked personally) in UK 2 seasons of 6 shows with 2 Christmas specials so 14 shows total. In US 9 season with total of 201 episodes. There are always exceptions, but it is amazing when you look back as some of the great comedy shows just how few episodes were actually made. Also, a lot of the comedy shows would have ONLY been 30-minutes long.

UK TV leaves American TV in the dust! Twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers has been on repeats for decades and we never get tired of watching those twelve episodes! The cop series, The Bill, ran for 27 years, and Coronation Street, which began in 1960, is still running to this day!

Love watching Faulty Towers...soo..ridiculously funny😂

Note: The predecessors to Monty Python, "Do Not Adjust You Set" and "At Last The 1948 Show", were both on ITV. BUT the predecessor to the predecessors, "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", was on BBC radio. Detail on Wikipedia. Radio was a huge force in comedy in the UK.

Graham Norton is the most popular talk show host today, and over the past decade or more. Before him, and perhaps even more popular, often equally funny, and also attracting top celebrities (eg Muhammed Ali several times, Helen Mirren, Orson Wells, Meg Ryan, the Beckhams, Billy Connolly) for a total of 50 years up to 2007, was Michael Parkinson.

British sense of humour here. Half way through a Top 10, Tyler asks how many have been done. I assume we've done 5.

I would call Monty Python's Flying Circus the absolute legend of British comedy. There were a lot of other good shows, but nothing quite like Monty Python. And its no coincidence that one of the Python guys, John Cleese, is also the main man in Fawlty Towers.. But of course there are also other famous examples of British comedy shows, like the Rowan Atkinson shows - Mr Bean, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line are the best examples. And also some other ones like Only Fools and Horses and Allo, Allo are legend. I'm sure we will see some of them in part 2 of the video. You should really search YT for those shows, there is plenty of clips around and its great fun.

You could make an entire video reacting to Monty Python's sketches.

I like how you recognised Mackenzie Crook from The Office, but failed to notice the incredible Martin Freeman! 😂What a ledge.

Fawlty Towers is a masterpiece. Here in Canada, we had access to many BBC productions. Mr. Bean is also a true classic.

Only Fools And Horses must be in the top 5

I watched Fawltey Towers decades ago and can still repeat dozens of its classic lines. Very few comedy series ever made had the characters so fully developed and their lines were pure genius. John Cleese was a comedic genius. He was the same in real life. When it was over it was almost as bad as giving up an addiction. Watch it for real,and you will understand. Yes, it was at Seinfeld level but different. ❤

Faulty Towers was classic. Still laugh hysterically, even though I know what's coming.

Graham Norton (real name Walker) comes from County Cork, IE. He went to the Grammar School in my town, a fee paying boarding and day school and has a riverside walk named in his honour. He is the voice of the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest TV coverage taking over from the late Sir Terry Wogan.

UK TV shows are normally written by one writer - for dramas and typically two for comedies. - The comedies benefit from having two people who can bounce ideas and jokes off each other. There are writers of both genres who have repeated successes. Because of the shorter runs of TV series in the UK and the amount of work a single or pair of writers can out out is limited so 6-12 per season would be normal. It's also normal for a TV drama to vary between 3 and 6 episodes only. In the US, even on a comedy series "created" by one or two writers, its entirely normal for them to have a "team" and its also quite normal for the creator to leave the show after a season or two and just receive money for a show that is entirely written by a team. These shows typically run for far too long and aren't taken off air until every penny can be wrung out of them. Partly because of the shorter seasons and the importance of the writers, and partly because of Fawlty Towers, many writers work to the 6 shows per season, 2 seasons and out. John Cleese who wrote Fawlty Towers with his wife was adamant that the show should stop before it ran out of ideas and just became a "product". You will hear many younger show creators referring ti this rule - Ricky Gervais is an example, McKenzie Crook (of the Office) did a show more recently called Detectorists, again, same rule, 6 episodes, two series and out - he was finally persuaded by public demand to do a third. He has done no more. This rule of not diluting shows by doing to many series is s much part of British culture, that often if a show that was loved announces its making another season, people will get upset. In the case of shows like Fleabag, people - myself included - were upset that a second season was announced. It had been such a perfect piece of art, it needed no followup. As it turned out, the second season was brilliant too, but people were nervous about it when it went to air. People just accept that a story is over, or characters have moved on.

I think it's fair to say there were more misses than hits with Monty Python, but some of it was very funny.

Monty Python movies:, Life of Brian, The Holy Grail, etc.. Monty Python adopted their style of humour from The Goons radio series, team members being Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine.

Top Ten BBC shows for me: To the Manor Born Starring Penelope Keith (story of a rich woman who loses her house and land) Doctor who (1963 - 1989) (Time Travel - Peter Davison was the best Doctor) The Good Life - Starring Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith (four people living in a posh London suburb) Allo Allo (comedy set in France during WWII, makes fun of the English, the French and the Germans) Oh, Doctor Beaching (Comedy set in a railway station) Hi-De-Hi (same cast as Oh, Doctor Beaching, set in holiday camp) Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister - Paul Eddington (et in Whitehall and later number 10 Downing Street) The Two Ronnies (comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Corbet and Ronnie Barker) The Adventure Game (celebrity game set in space) All Creatures Great and Small Based on the vetenarian books by James Herriot. Talking about the oringinal starrting Peter Davison, ignore the remake).

Re the Office… when you said you recognised the guy on the right…. Well the guy on the left went on to become The Hobbit!

Yes Minister looks at the inner workings of UK government and the struggles between the MPs given departments to oversee, and the civil servants who have worked in those departments forever, know what they're talking about, and try to keep the status quo. Each episode ends with either a 'win' by the MP Jim Hacker, or by Permanent Secretary (civil servant in charge of a government department)Sir Humphrey Appleby, and also ended with Sir Humphrey agreeing to Jim's final order with 'Yes, Minister', sometimes through gritted teeth following a 'loss'. The political party is never mentioned, and is cleverly written so that we see right and left elements in the show. Civil servant Bernard Woolley was appointed as Jim's personal secretary, mainly to keep an eye on him by the civil service. Most times he sat quietly throughout the scene and ended up with the best line at the end. Yes, Minister ran for three series. It ended with a Christmas special where the civil service persuades him to run for party leadership and, therefore, become Prime Minister. Thus a natural sequel continued as Yes, Prime Minister with all of the main characters. The writers had MPs and civil servants advising them (anonymously), which made it extremely authentic. Paul Eddington (Jim Hacker, MP) was so good at showing thought processes on his face that some parts of dialogue were highlighted so Paul could do this rather than the characters have a short conversation. The result was funny, probably funnier than the dialogue. Nigel Hawthorne (Sir Humphrey Appleby) learnt many had many long-winded pieces of dialogue which he said as one unedited take. As as his character was a master of manipulation and obfuscation, using technical jorgon and circumlocations to baffle opponents, these were usually very convoluted. Derek Fowlds (Bernard Woolley) has said he would just sit there in awe watching the verbal sparring match between Paul and Nigel.

I'm 32 and was raised on many good old BBC comedy shows just not all of them! My favourites would be.. 1.Only fools & horses 2. One foot in the Grave 3. Keeping up appearances/ two ronnies. Harry Enfield and chums. Little Britain too if that was BBC? Panel show... mock the week definitely! Also Live at the Apollo for stand up! Lenny Henry was good too I thought! Best shows in general.. i would say Luther, Line of Duty, Sherlock. Graham Norton show. Jeckyll & Hyde was good little series back in around 06?

Aussies grew up watching all these shows on our television. Didn't realise they weren't shown in America. I have watched Fawlty Towers about 100 times!! Yes, Minister was followed by Yes, Prime Minister.

It's not so much that British shows are so short. Rather it is that American shows are so long, and it's due to the pressure to get a show to 100 episodes so that it can be licensed out for syndication, which is where the really money is to be made in American television.

I know much of your channel is geared toward the UK and I am english myself but I think you could throw in some Australian references now and again and still maintain your audience or even expand it. Many things about Australian or NZ humour for example english people laugh at too, and its all in the same language. Just a thought for your future.

The best sitcoms are all about disparate people that are essentially forced to be together and unable to get away from each other e.g families ,workplace, neighbours etc... Porridge is probably the ultimate example 😄

@Tyler Rumple We had "Steptoe & Son", which you dragged over the pond as "Sanford & Son". Our "Man About the House" became your "Three's Company". Our "Please Sir" became "Welcome Back Kotter".

I love Fawlty Towers, only 12 episodes and they're all such classics.

«Fawlty Towers» is fantastic. I love it. I live in Norway and it was shown alot in the 80s and 90s.

Weird I have only just found you today and subscribed and watched many videos and was about to suggest you make this video! 😜🥰

Our state-supported PBS network (UNC-TV) aired all of these wonderful BBC comedies, and many other great BBC shows, as early as the 60s, and continues to carry many British productions. I wonder that you have not encountered the PBS network's great programming. Every state has its own methods of supporting public TV. Meanwhile, some of these can be found on KZfaq. One of my oldie favorites, "The Vicar of Dibley".

I have many American friends that I visit to play music with once a year. It seem that fans of 1960/70s music over there know of British comedy having started off with Monty Python and followed on to the modern day. They know of Blackadder, The Young Ones, Bottom etc

I love “upstairs downstairs” the original tv series. And “to serve them all my days.” Sooooo good!!!!!!!!! And of course “are you being served?”

Blackadder (4 seasons), Fawlty Towers (2 seasons), The Young Ones, Mr Bean are all amazing BBC shows, Yes Minister and the seqial Yes Primeminister were political satire, Monty Python did at least 3 movies

What is it that makes Graham Norton able to be so cheeky, and spicy, yet he avoids getting cancelled or offending anyone? It is ingenious!

"Fawlty Towers" is based on a real hotel (The Hotel Gleneagles) and hotel owner (Donald Sinclair) in my hometown (Torquay) that the Monty Python gang stayed in when they were filming in the area. The Gleneagles fell into disrepair and was demolished over a decade ago, but a senior living facility was built on the site, and named after the actor (Andrew Sachs) who played the waiter, Manuel, in the series. How beloved is "Fawlty Towers"? The character of Basil Fawlty is practically a patron saint, almost like unto a god for everyone who has ever worked in the service sector of our tourist-trap home borough. Like a lot of British sitcoms, they tried to adapt it for American television, but they made three attempts over the decades, and all of them flopped. The most recent version was "Payne," starring John Larroquette, and it got the closest to nailing the feel of the original. As for "Monty Python's Flying Circus," it was heavily influenced by "The Goon Show," a radio comedy show featuring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Ray Ellington, Max Geldray, Michael Bentine, and occasional guest stars. "The Goon Show" could get even more surreal than Monty Python because they were on the radio and didn't actually have to show anything, like treasure being buried six feet ABOVE the desert sands.

One of the great characters in Yes Minister is the senior civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne, whose job is to look after minister Jim Hacker. He lives on in common speech, "the Sir Humphreys" is used to refer to the cabal of senior civil servants who really rule the country.

Graham Norton appeared in 'Father Ted' and... you should watch it. the handful of times he appeared were hilarious!! he also commentates on the Eurovision Song Contest - he just needs to be a little more cutting to match up to the late great Terry Wogan.

Fawlty Towers: the basic premise is that Basil Fawlty is insane. The best episodes that i remember are the ones with the Inspector of Hotels, and the one with the psychiatrist guest.

Tyler sees a show started in 2001. Tyler sees a second show started in 2005. Tyler says the second show came before the first show. OMG

Heard an interview on BBC radio of a longtime BBC producer (name forgotten) who said that the hallmark of the 'classic Britcom' is 'if it weren't funny, it would be tragic.' Fawlty Towers, Steptoe and Son, even The Office fall into this category.

Graham Norton is brilliant and he also writes wonderful books

The US has Veep. Similar premise to Yes Minister. It was also written by Armando Iannucci as an adaption of his (far superior) The Thick of It, which itself is basically a more modern Yes Minister, but with a LOT more swears.

Graham Norton was originally an actor and comedian from County Cork in Ireland. He eventually started his own tslk show on British TV and it's become huge.

Terry Wogan was the king of the talk show. He was also the voice of The Eurovision Song Contest, both of which Graham has ably proved himself to be Wogan's worthy successor.

you absolutely have to watch Fawlty Towers and Luther, both brilliant in different ways.

TYLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That tall guy throwing the dead parrot on the floor in Monty Python WAS the same Guy as The Hotel Owner in Fawlty Towers: JOHN CLEESE..😀 You were spot on, my friend in that FAWLTY TOWERS like THE OFFICE AND EXTRAS(Ricky Gervais's Second Sitcom Series) all went on, deliberately,for just TWO SERIES to leave the public wanting more and FAWLTY TOWERS is coming back soon after a 40+ absence with John Cleese once again at the helm. Most older viewers would have The Office/Monty Python and Fawlty Towers in their Top 5 so heaven knows what the Top 4 are as we can see "Luther" was Number 5. Only Fools and Horses will be one of the 4 but the others?

"Fawlty Towers" is the best and funniest ever British TV comedy. Only 12 episodes, but all excellent. Don't rely on clips or brief extracts (that would spoil it). Watch full episodes properly.

The episode when Fawlty beats his car with a tiny branch from a tree is hilarious 🤣

The premise of a good sitcom is a group of disparate people thrown together into a close-knit situation they are not equipped for and cannot easily escape from. This is why you get work environments, military units, prisons, single family homes, even space ships. Monty Python was so popular that at school, if you missed it the night before, you could quote it word for word by the end of the day just by listening to your mates.

Faulty Towers is hilarious. An era of physical comedy and witty lines. British humor as you say has a lot of irony but is also a bit raunchy. Many of these comedies were made at a time when they didn’t have to worry about Woke police. Luther is more modern and a fairly dark drama.

BBC not so popular now, people do not want to pay a tv license any more. Martin Freeman of Office also in The Hobbit. Extras was after The Office. We loved Monty Python when I was at School. We had so many phrases like "No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition".

Fawlty towers, Yes minster and Montey Python's flying Circus are pure masterpieces! "I know English very well I learned it from a book"

If you haven't watched 'Fawlty Towers', watch it! John Cleese was due to stay at a hotel in Torquay (south coast town in England), but the manager was so rude, they all decided to leave...except for John Cleese, who was fascinated by the guy! Cleese then came up with Fawlty Towers

Monty Python was extraordinary, but it was the heir of radio shows like The Goon Show and I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (also featuring John Cleese, and others who starred in another oddball comedy show of the period, The Goodies).

Fawlty Towers is a work of absolute genius. Fawlty a man with pretensions to social eminence, is a nervous wreck, falling apart before our eyes.....the comedy of embarrassment and compulsive disinhibition of an uptight manager is the hilarious focus. Cleese is "everyman" at these moments.....just f-king up big time. This tradition is given a more naturalistic - less surreal - take in The Office. Gervase is a supreme comic genius. The surreality of Fawlty Towers is a strain coming through from the earlier Monty Python...Yes Minister turns on the contrast between the elected politicians (Ministers) and their bright ideas and a permanent Civil Service (who have seen it all before, government after government!). These classics are rooted in Britain live theatre tradition which is hundreds of years in the making!

Tyler have alook at After life. It's very very dark but really, really funny at times, just brilliant

You should definitely do a reaction series to Fawlty Towers - it’s fantastic!

I remember several years ago working with someone who stayed in a hotel that normally has German guests. He old me one day the hotel showed the Fawlty Towers episode !The Germans". When he saw this come up. He buried his head in his hands and thought "oh s**t. He did say he was surprised as the German guests started laughing.

You most certainly need to watch Fawlty Towers and Yes Minister (subsequently Yes Prime Minister). Fawlty Towers would, in its opening titles, show the sign outside the hotel with the letters rearranged into things like Watery Fowls or - one which did raise a few eyebrows - Flowery Twats.

Speaking as a 44 year old English guy, who particularly loves British comedy, 9 of my favourite 10 BBC shows are comedies: 10 The Peter Principle 9 Would I Lie To You 8 Not Going Out 7 Doctor Who 6 QI 5 Fawlty Towers 4 The Royle Family 3 Gavin and Stacey 2 Two Doors Down 1 Coupling

Yes minister is so good. Such an amazing and clever show.

Everyone and his dog, except for my wife, love/d Fawlty Towers. The BBC wanted to write a 3rd series. John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, who played the Maid "Polly", co wrote the first two series. John declined to let the BBC write a 3rd series because, in his own words (which you can find on YT), "It would be crap!" 🤨

What made Yes Minster and then Yes Prime Minister (same characters in both) so amazing was that it was about the Main character who is (or at least starts as) a smart, hardworking, honest and earnest man whose goal is to represent the British people. He wants to bring in more modernisation and liberal changes to the establishment and truly believe in trying to make life better for the public who voted him and his promises in to office. AND a story about all the permanent behind-the-scenes staff who are very traditional and resistant to changing ‘how things are done’ and who truly have the real power in day-to-day government. They just view the ever-rotating door of Ministers who are voted in and out by the public as a necessary annoyance, to be humoured and babysat until they are listed out and the next one arrives. All while they get on with the actual running of the country run ‘properly’ despite how the Ministers and the public think it should be. The tension as you watch both battle over every tiny little thing is brilliant and amusing to watch. The sharp and witty script paired with perfect casting just made the show incredibly smart yet funny.

Not related to BBC, but related to Ricky Gervais, Karl pilkington and Stephen Marchent . It's really classy comedy ,you may have heard of , as at one time or maybe more . It was aired on sky TV. Take a look at Idiot Abroad. If you cannot find any funny moments in this , you must be an alien 😂 Loved all your reactive videos I've watched ,and it's lots. But you remind me of a character out of two comedies ,that spring to mind. Screech from "saved by the bell" Or the second eldest male in " third rock from the sun" , oh and it ain't made as an insult. Coz the work actors do ,is from I've seen , exhausting !! Top job ,keep the videos coming !!

Great channel, Tyler! You may not have realised but the comedian in Fawlty Towers that you thought you recognised was an older incarnation of the same John Cleese (of earlier Monty Python fame) who appeared a bit later in the dead parrot sketch. The unabashed favourite comedy of mine has to be the very intelligent Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister, though, with one of its innumerable comic highlights being the slightly risqué but timeless scene in one YPM episode about 'Who reads the papers?"... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opxjlKxymMuRhJc.html

I loved Fawlty Towers when I was growing up in the UK. Great cast, great plots and wonderful silliness.

Absolutely Fabulous! LOL! OMG! That show was a riot!

The first series of 'Yes Minister' Hacker was an MP, in the second series he he became Prime Minister.

Looking forward to the 2nd video

Graham Norton is the G.O.A.T. of Tv chat show hosts.

Not forgetting The Young Ones 👍🇬🇧

They better include the Archers, its a soap that has neem running since the 1950s and they have made over 20,000 episodes.

17:50 - that sounded almost like a quote of Kenny Everett - "all done in the best possible taste!"

the two things most other countries know the BBC for are Dr Who and documentaries in particular those World class series of nature documentaries presented by David Attenborough

A BBC show which is still running after 60 odd years is Blue Peter a kids magazine show which used to be twice weekly and the Early presenters like John Noakes are Legends Noakes was the programmes daredevil and its worth looking at his exploits. Including his sign out with Lulu the Baby Elephant on the live show. Also his Ascent of the ornate India Mills chimney in Darwen Lancashire, just down the road from where we lived when we were very young. And he had no protection unlike in the modern generation including being insured for the task! Another show which had us in stitches but not on the BBC was Drop the Dead Donkey about a fictional TV news channel with a talented cast... And on the same channel Father Ted which rolled out a few years later Lastly the BBC had People like Frank Spencer, Alf Garnett, Morecambe & Wise and the Early Dr Who episodes guaranteed to swipe the Audience figures from the ITV network wholesale! So there's a tiny bit of homework for you Tyler. You'll enjoy what those names lead to. 😊

Best thing about the bbc is the lack of ads - you have to pay for a tv license (until you’re a senior citizen) but if you’re watching the bbc there’s no ads - title run cards between shows/trailers for their own shows yes - but ads for products weren’t on bbc channels There were a bunch of things they had to agree to to maintain an semi-monopoly on British tv and most of it meant you got a good range of shows The quality of some of the props etc was poor but it usually meant that the concept for the show had to be solid and the script well paced and the characters well written/played. Prefer a scruffy but good show to a gold plated turd.

Faulty Towers was one of my favourite shows as a kid.

"The United States should have a comedy based on the government" - the government in usa IS the comedy 😂 If this list doesn't have "Keeping up appearances", "Only Fools and Horses", "Goodnight Sweetheart", "One Foot in the Grave", "Mr Bean", "Birds of a Feather", "Vicar of Dibley", "Some mother's do have 'em", "The Young Ones", "Red Dwarf" ... I'm not sure how many of those are BBC based, but they are WAY more famous than The Office or Luther, and a staple of British television. I highly recommend checking them out!

Faulty Towers may seem over the top but I stayed in a hotel in Aberdeenshire and no one would believe just how crazy it was. The husband and wife were inexperience in that trade, he had been a cook on a trawler and he couldnt cook a damn thing. On one occassion they served sausages that were off. The wife would come down to the bar in her curlers and nightdress and tell the husband it was time for the guests and him to go bed, the kids weren't much better. There was a very posh lady who was a permanent guest but what lead to us and her leaving was the husband actually went totally insane and chased his wife shouting he was going to eat out her heart with his teeth. The posh lady we found hiding behind a dressing table terrified out of her wits, the village doctor was called to subdue the husband, luckily my husband was a big man and helped out. Several years later we met the daughter in our own town, small world really at times, she told us that her dad had committed suicide. The hotel had been sold, it was a beautiful building with lovely grounds and in an affulent county, it had the only bar in that village so was an important part of that community