I think you should revisit "sorry" because it is quite a bit better than made out to be here, it isn't top tier or anything but is well written and has genuine pathos, Ronnie Corbett is fantastic in the role also.
I think Citizen Khan, Vicious and All About Me are examples of someone having a progressive idea for a sitcom but not having any real humourous ideas to back it up. In Vicious, Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are such big names it's not made much difference to their reputations in the acting world but I think it's a shame that Jasper Carrott's tail end of his tv career more or less ended with All About Me.
People are forgetting about Home To Roost, The Upper Hand, Duty Free, Brighton Belles and the American version of Fawlty Towers (Payne) all really shocking,
I've always been a huge fan of the British sitcom and agree with you pretty much all the way. I never saw 'Hold the sunset'. I meant to as most men like Alison Steadman, but saw that John Cleese was in it and decided not to bother.
#1 - Only Fools and Horses. ...Hold back the angry mob, put down the pitchforks. I'm not talking about the immortal show we all love. I'm talking about the 2001 revival series which nobody loves. It's merely three episodes, but they destroyed the entire legacy of the show and ruined the historic 1996 finale which was one of the most beloved endings to a series, ever. When something ends on such a high and on completely the right note, you don't come back out for an encore. The audience may demand it, but it'll only disappoint. And boy, did OFAH disappoint in 2001. It felt completely wrong, the reversal of their fortunes was actually depressing. By the third, and now surely final ever instalment, in 2003, it had completely derailed. The last half of that episode even abandons being a sitcom. Most fans cope with the crushing destruction of the show's legacy by ignoring the existence of those three episodes. And you can enjoy the stuff prior, if you do that. But the reality is, they do exist. History was rewritten, those are now the shoddy trilogy of episodes which ended the show, not the iconic 1996 Christmas specials. You can't forget how disappointing they were. For the devastating impact it had, Only Fools and Horses 2001 to 2003 is my clear pick of worst sitcom ever.
Completely agree I was so angry when they bought it back, it was already a shadow of the sitcom it was even in 1996 always good but not in the same league as the first few series, The BBC destroy everything they have eventually.
No mention for Come Back Mrs Noah? A shameful, shameful waste of the talents of the great Molly Sugden, and proof that even Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft could churn out an absolute clunker given a chance.
@@AdjisOutAndAbout The Wikipedia page gives you the flavour. Or there are full episodes on UA-cam - clearly the rghts holders are too ashamed of it to issue a take-down notice!
@@cloudfactory2000 Well, everyone's tastes are different. Although I would point out that even Wikipedia, where NPOV (Neutral Point of View) is sacrosanct, says it "was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made."
To be honest I've seen it before and thought it could be a 5.5 out of 10 it replaced Leonard rossiters version which was apparently even worse than slingers day
When it comes to countdown lists of terrible TV shows I think mentioning ‘Heil Honey I’m Home’ and ‘My Mother the Car’ is almost a cliché at this point.
As time goes by should not only be #1....it should be minus #1 it was so dull. If it had not been advertised as a comedy I doubt I'd have even realised it was supposed be one. Given a choice between watching that dirge or watching paint dry, I'd be reaching for the Dulux paints colour charts.
My Family bland? Quite the opposite, every scene made me laugh, every episode was amazing, not sure what your talking about. It has the most amazing vibe, probably my favourite sitcom
Haven't seen most of these. I thought My Family was okay at first then by the third series I didn't find it that funny anymore, from series 3 onwards they were lucky if they had 3 good episodes per series. Agree on Mrs. Brown's Boys, Hold The Sunset and Sorry. Mrs. Brown and Hold The Sunset are boring and Sorry is so cruel it just makes me feel sad.
Mrs Browns Boys 20th? Shane at 19? Surely this list is back to front. Nothing could be worse than either of these. And sorry to be pedantic , but Timothy Lumsden was 48 when Sorry was binned in 1988 as he couldn't have stayed 41 for seven years
Mrs Brown should be number 1, BTW I haven't heard of 90% of these shows but surely Love thy Neighbour should be on this list, that show was really shyte and probably offensive even in its day, let alone now.
Yes and no .. yes that your eyes have been spared and no that you have never had the experience of having the torture of some of these.. strengthens your character
Ab fab was too funny for you. Your list as would any list be, pure IMO stuff. Wouldn't be surprised to see Faulty Towers here or other middle class stuff like the Good Life.
@normanmeharry58: Are you serious?Both of those are classics as is Sorry, My Hero was aimed at a young audience so it would not appeal to adults necessary.
To be fair to My Family.... You're right that towards the end it turned shite. The two leads, Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker both refused to film two episodes because the writing was so crap. But reading about it's creation is quite interesting. It was the BBC attempting to create an American style show. With a writers room and showrunner. Starting production before the last episode of the series was filmed, which is the standard in America. With an experiment to see how this could work for other genres.... As it turns out. Not great. British tv works best when all episodes are filmed before broadcast.
Wow great bit Of knowledge there didn't know that ... problem with that show is was full of woodentop actors like the younger son the ditzy blond the weird Rodger bloke ... dragged it down even more
I absolutely LOVED Mrs. Brown's Boys, and Sorry, and The Inbetweeners and Gavin and Stacey! There, I've said it (I know the last two don't appear in the list, but they do appear in the comments). Who else remembers Take A Letter Mr. Jones? I liked that too, and Brush Strokes. George and Mildred was sitcom gold. I'm not keen on Steptoe and Son though. Amazing that we're all so different! Isn't Mrs. Brown's Boys Irish, not British, so perhaps it shouldn't be on the list? Thank you for compiling it and giving us something to reminisce about 😍
I have to disagree with one or two of the choices picked in this list. So I think maybe the title of this piece should of been prefixed with the word "My." Enjoyed being reminded of the old shows.
Never watched Shane but anything with Frank Skinner in is bound to be shite. Mrs Brown’s Boys was atrocious. Sorry! was one of the better ones on this list. Not ball-achingly funny but had an 80’s charm and coziness about it.
To be honest ... It includes my opinions but u also backed up the Countdown from online research and the concensus from alot of people was it wasn't good hence why I added it in
Rings on their Fingers should be on your list. It was a middle class sitcom about young professionals with a mortgage living on a modern private estate, written by the same and targeting the same. It was terrible. AbFab was brilliant, Sorry was cringe-makingly funny, and Bottle Boys was good fun. Never watched the rest. All ABout Me was unwatchable politically correct woke before its time shite. One episode was more than enough.
What about "Her Majesty's Pleasure " (1968)? Only ran for one 6-episode season, the first ever sitcom set in a prison (7 years before Porridge!) Made by Granada.
I mainly agree with your selection of the worst sitcoms ever although I have to admit I quite like Sorry and Mrs Brown's Boys. A few of these sitcoms I've never even heard of.
I rather liked Citizen Khan. Certainly not great, but funny enough, five or six laughs per show. And nothing objectionable good while you eat you dinner telly.
The Thin Blue Line Ben Elton said it was his attempt to write an updated version of Dads Army. Bottle Boys was a reboot of a one off 1975 play called Milko in a comedy premier on ITV . It starred Bob Grant Anna karen (Jack & Olive) from on the buses as husband & wife Jim & Rita Wilkins who were basically playing the same characters as they played on OTB . With OTB still being fresh in viewers minds the viewers were confused as they thought it was a OTB spin off where jack & Olive got married .
When Mrs Browns Boys came out at first i really enjoyed it , but it got a bit played out the same thing every week My Family which was good but it ended it ran its course and remember other comedy Romany Jones featuring Jimmy Beck from Dads Army which only went one series he was still the same character as he did in Dads Army the spiv
You lost me a bit with Absolutely Fabulous, but each to their own. It's a bit difficult to have an opinion on something you always turned off though 😂 I don't know many of the ones in this list - a few of the 60s, 70s & 80s ones will be before my time - but this is probably for the better by the sound of it. I vaguely recall "TIme Goes By" being on but it looked dull, like you said. Maybe you needed to be the right age for it. "All About Me" is a show I'd completely forgotten about until this list. I might have to look at some clips to remember it. I don't remember it being that awful, but I can see how it would be a box-ticking exercise. "Vicious" & "Citizen Khan" fall into that category for me too, but worse. Both are more cringe than comedy. "Vicious" particularly annoyed me by being such an outdated cliché of homosexual life and McKellen really should have known better, being one of the founding members of Stonewall. That would probably be my #2 with "Mrs Brown's Boys" at #1 (though it's not really British, so perhaps we can disclaim any ownership of it at all).
Thank you for watching ... yea the jasper Carrott outting was dreadful... as time goes by for me was a old person's sitcom but then I was young when it was on and yes you are right about Ian mckellen
I enjoyed My Family, All About Me, and My Hero. Though I do believe My Family reduced in quality after Nick left, and My Hero shouldn't have subbed Ardal O' Hanlon. Citizen Khan should be much higher on the list. It's humour is outdated and characters unrelatable. I am surprised Mad About Alice starring Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden didn't make it on the list.
i agree with your comments on these - some real stinkers there ! but what about - thats my boy - with mollie sugden. or - mixed blessings - "hilarious" adventures of a white man and his black wife.
Ab Fab lasted 20 years! That says something and most of it was really funny. Ok Curry & Chips was naff but it had a great UK comedy cast including Spike Milligan so why it's at No.2 is just plain bizarre. If we want a real stinker for the list, what the hell happened to 'Queenies Castle'? Dismal viewing beyond compare
Never saw queen's castle but it was mentioned to me. Curry and Chips wasn't brilliant was it .. it was at its time featuring 2 races that people loved to take the pee out of the Irish n the Pakistanis but in my own mind Curry n chips is better than ab fab lol
Okay, a few, like Slinger's Day, Sorry and Don't Drink The Water are fair game, but Ab Fab and My Family? Seriously? Tell me, are you a failed writer or a failed actor? That is all that critics ever are.
Good list glad you said ab fab. Maybe and you said a re watch of as time goes by is on order as I saw some of the earlier episodes recently. I thought the was pretty good.
@@AdjisOutAndAbout Also and it has been said before give a Sorry another go. Once again saw it recently oddly enough on the same Channel BBC 4. But I agree with you on My Family it went on for too long .
2:51 to speak out against the always self-appointed idea of so-called "community leaders", and the racist idea that minority communities have them, has been important ever since the 1985 inner city riots. The media invented them and wanted to portray communities as spoken for by them, as a control and manipulation of how they were heard
Very good video again I remember a few of them Mrs Browns used to be good but it’s had its day and I remember my hero my partner used to like it but I always thought it was rubbish
...I have found Slinger's Day has grown on me over the years, however Frank Skinner is probably best forgotten at the best of times. He is one of the world's unfunniest men! Denise Van Outen equally one of the unfunniest women around! My Family had it's moments but Adil Ray has been living on the woeful Citizen Kahn for far too long, heaven knows how he got a presenting gig on GMB!
I don't mind telling you, if Last of the Summer Wine was on this list I would have gone feral with fury. And I believe that the Inbetweeners should have been no 1. That had precious little humour in the programme. It wun awards why? The scripts were dreadful.
Comedy is subjective. What some people may find funny, others do not. Having said that, I think the majority would agree that "comedies" like Mrs Browns Boys and Citizen Kahn are some of the worst pieces of trash ever to put on British TV. A lot of the later ones I've never even heard of, but then, British comedy just isn't as good as it was in 70s, 80s, 90s and to a lesser extent the early 2000s. I grew up on Ab Fab. One of my favourites. I agree with My Family. I loved S1-5 and yes, it was better with Nick in it. Once he left it definitely went downhill and went on for 5 years too long. My Hero....I remember loving that when it was on. Though I'd probably not find it as funny as I did back then. As Time Goes By is kinda a classic. Not one I'd watch a lot but I remember enjoying what little I saw of it.
@AdjisOutAndAbout true, last of the summer wine, it was the same jokes over and over, yet millions watch it, are you being served..like I said I was young..never understood the jokes..
@dorkbrandon4422 exactly what I said if it finished early qhen he left it wouldn't be in the Countdown it's when they brought all these dizzy characters in
@@AdjisOutAndAboutab fab was alright but only cos of June Whitfield & Christopher Ryan. But not the best. Sorry & Odd Man Out were decent sitcoms. Odd man out imo are very underrated. I like all the David Croft sitcoms personally. With AYBS as my favourite
I agreed with all of these up until As Time Goes By. It's one of my favourite tv shows ever but I understand anyone not liking it. Its target audience is probably mostly retired older people and it's not for everyone it's always described as gentle comedy so that definition rules out a whole mass of people right there. Jefrey Palmer and Judy Dench make it one of the best sitcoms ever in my opinion.
Thanks for your input .. when.i was a young nipper was never in the cool bracket so was avoided but by its reviews Could be worth going back and rewatching
Can't argue with most of your choices - though I actually think 'Sorry!' is really funny. One you have missed out though is Jim Davidson's 'Up The Elephant and Round the Castle' which is so poor and unfunny it should exist in its own separate universe of bad sitcoms.
Ronnie Corbett in sorry 😮 no offence but Ronnie Corbett was poor in this without Ronnie Barker i thought Ronnie Corbett was lost and just not as funny 😊
Mrs Brown's Boys should be no. 1. It's possibly the worst thing I've ever seen on TV
Haven't seen it in years but I'd heard it was bad
@@AdjisOutAndAbout I found it highly embarrassing it made me squirm in my chair. It made me feel very uneasy.
It's not even British. It's from the Republic of Ireland.
@phillwainewright4221 shhhh don't tell everyone... it's like eurovision letting Australia perform .. I'm accepting Republic of Ireland
@@AdjisOutAndAboutit was ok when it first came out but became stale and frankly no longer funny
Mrs Brown definitely awful 😢
Indeed that's why it's in the countdown
I do agree about Mrs brown its utter rubbish ...
Thank you so I've seen
Language Timothy ...sorry was funny in the 1980s when I was a youngster 😂
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With you on Mrs Browns Boys. It was always shite (or SHOITE) as you would call it.
Thank you I try
My Family was one of the best sitcoms ever, it did suffer when Nick left but still held it's head way above a lot of the crap around now.
Was OK. Wouldn't call it a best ever
sorry disagree with SORRY brilliant comedy
I struggled to remember it very well after looking online I found alot of people had slated it ... the feeling of the public I'm afraid
I think you should revisit "sorry" because it is quite a bit better than made out to be here, it isn't top tier or anything but is well written and has genuine pathos, Ronnie Corbett is fantastic in the role also.
OK il give it another go
@@AdjisOutAndAbout pleased to hear that :)
@@AdjisOutAndAbout If you like dark humor check out "monkey dust" incredible will never be repeated on tv again.
Don’t agree with you about Sorry - thought it was funny
Fair enough
I agree with all of these, apart from As Time Goes By, which I actually still like watching.
Thank you
Another one Gavin and Stacey 🤮🤮
I always thought that was OK lol
Ab fab was hilarious ffs 😂 sorry was brilliant
Lol atleast it's low on the Countdown. I was never a fan
How on earth did you not find funny Ab Fab,and Sorry,they were hilarious and made me laugh then and still do today when watching replays.❤
Nah not for me ... but for others mite be ok
@@AdjisOutAndAbout Please learn to spell!
I think Citizen Khan, Vicious and All About Me are examples of someone having a progressive idea for a sitcom but not having any real humourous ideas to back it up. In Vicious, Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are such big names it's not made much difference to their reputations in the acting world but I think it's a shame that Jasper Carrott's tail end of his tv career more or less ended with All About Me.
Completely agree
Can't agree with you about Count Arthur Strong or Vicious- both brilliantly funny and superbly acted.
Each to their own
AdFab was hilarious. One of the best sitcoms ever
That's a bold statement that lol
Sorry it was rubbish.
Ab Fab? Noooooo! It was brilliant.
Not sure about that lol
@@AdjisOutAndAbout it does tend to turn up in a lot of "Best Of" lists e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_TV_100
@@gnu_andrew sadly not mine
Lenny Henry's chef and Desmond's should be on that list. Not count Arthur.
Desmonds was alright
Count Arthur Strong is in the top ten funniest sitcoms ever. It's ace.
Not sure about that
People are forgetting about Home To Roost, The Upper Hand, Duty Free, Brighton Belles and the American version of Fawlty Towers (Payne) all really shocking,
Was duty free that bad I've seen it it had some funny bits .. upper hand was a rip off of a American show
@@AdjisOutAndAbout And Very awful
Home to roost was for me very underrated...
There are some brilliant, very successful shows on your list. This just proves that humour is a matter of taste.
Yea I appreciate that .. it wasn't all my opinion though I did back it up by looking at reviews online to
I've always been a huge fan of the British sitcom and agree with you pretty much all the way. I never saw 'Hold the sunset'. I meant to as most men like Alison Steadman, but saw that John Cleese was in it and decided not to bother.
Thanks for your comment. You dodged a bullet
#1 - Only Fools and Horses.
...Hold back the angry mob, put down the pitchforks. I'm not talking about the immortal show we all love. I'm talking about the 2001 revival series which nobody loves. It's merely three episodes, but they destroyed the entire legacy of the show and ruined the historic 1996 finale which was one of the most beloved endings to a series, ever. When something ends on such a high and on completely the right note, you don't come back out for an encore. The audience may demand it, but it'll only disappoint. And boy, did OFAH disappoint in 2001. It felt completely wrong, the reversal of their fortunes was actually depressing. By the third, and now surely final ever instalment, in 2003, it had completely derailed. The last half of that episode even abandons being a sitcom. Most fans cope with the crushing destruction of the show's legacy by ignoring the existence of those three episodes. And you can enjoy the stuff prior, if you do that. But the reality is, they do exist. History was rewritten, those are now the shoddy trilogy of episodes which ended the show, not the iconic 1996 Christmas specials. You can't forget how disappointing they were. For the devastating impact it had, Only Fools and Horses 2001 to 2003 is my clear pick of worst sitcom ever.
Yea I agree there after 1996 wasn't great but the Gary part is now quite iconic lol
Completely agree I was so angry when they bought it back, it was already a shadow of the sitcom it was even in 1996 always good but not in the same league as the first few series, The BBC destroy everything they have eventually.
@@FurQ69 "I was so angry when they bought it back" Wow, you really don't have many problems do you?
@@andymerrett No I don't life is a breeze :) you struggling with life Andy ? nevermind mate things will get better.
Ever decreasing circles i found more depressing than funny, probably as the characters leading sad lives.
Yea that one pre dates me but I've never actually watched it either
I always wanted to punch Richard Briers, couldn’t stand him in anything.
@@AdjisOutAndAbout How can it predate you when you've got sitcoms on here from the '70s?
@@andymerrett well I've seen a fair few from the 70s
No mention for Come Back Mrs Noah? A shameful, shameful waste of the talents of the great Molly Sugden, and proof that even Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft could churn out an absolute clunker given a chance.
Got to be honest I don't know that one
@@AdjisOutAndAbout The Wikipedia page gives you the flavour. Or there are full episodes on UA-cam - clearly the rghts holders are too ashamed of it to issue a take-down notice!
Saw this recently again for the first time since the 70s,and me and the wife found it hilarious, so im afraid your talking rubbish.
@@cloudfactory2000 Well, everyone's tastes are different. Although I would point out that even Wikipedia, where NPOV (Neutral Point of View) is sacrosanct, says it "was not a success, with some regarding it as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made."
that's my boy was awful as well.
My family is awesome as time goes by is great love it
Was at the start .. after the son left no
Aside from Mrs. Brown's Boys and As Time Goes By, I've never heard of everything else on this list.
There all real lol
Great stuff. I glad to say I never bothered with a single episode of any of them. Never bothered with the soaps either.
Thanks very much 😀
I thought Slingers Day was surprisingly good.
To be honest I've seen it before and thought it could be a 5.5 out of 10 it replaced Leonard rossiters version which was apparently even worse than slingers day
@@AdjisOutAndAboutyes neither were really all that funny
Other rubbish sitcoms 'The Spice of Life' and 'Life without George'. I also never found 'Shelley' funny.
Never actually seen those ones ..I've heard of shelly
@@AdjisOutAndAboutNot Going Out with Lee Mack was rubbish ☺️
Was expecting "Heil Honey, I'm Home" to be number one, but it didn't even get a mention.
I'd heard of that ... was that a British Sitcom?
@@AdjisOutAndAboutYes, only the pilot was ever shown.
When it comes to countdown lists of terrible TV shows I think mentioning ‘Heil Honey I’m Home’ and ‘My Mother the Car’ is almost a cliché at this point.
@@AsherPiesman il have to look those up
@@AdjisOutAndAbout Yes, I think.
As time goes by should not only be #1....it should be minus #1 it was so dull. If it had not been advertised as a comedy I doubt I'd have even realised it was supposed be one. Given a choice between watching that dirge or watching paint dry, I'd be reaching for the Dulux paints colour charts.
Lol thanks for the comment. Yea I remember it being dull
My Family bland? Quite the opposite, every scene made me laugh, every episode was amazing, not sure what your talking about. It has the most amazing vibe, probably my favourite sitcom
I do hope there is some sarcasm and irony in there young michael
It's my third favourite, with Fawlty Towers at 2 and Not Going Out at 1.
1# Mrs. Brown's Boys "I'm even Embarrassed Just Writing it Down"
Popular with many others though still
Haven't seen most of these. I thought My Family was okay at first then by the third series I didn't find it that funny anymore, from series 3 onwards they were lucky if they had 3 good episodes per series. Agree on Mrs. Brown's Boys, Hold The Sunset and Sorry. Mrs. Brown and Hold The Sunset are boring and Sorry is so cruel it just makes me feel sad.
Oh I'm sorry to hear that
I never got AbFAb. It's all lovely darling lovey darling. Joke got boring!
Yes it was tedious wasn't it
I didn't like it either.
@ruthbashford3176 yea no good I always thought . Although Jennifer saunders is meant to be a decent actress you would never have known it
If you didn't get the joke with AbFab, you were probably the target.
@@chrisoneill3999 probably right
I was ready to tear you apart on your choices but apart from as time goes by i wholeheartedly agree with you on the rest....
Appreciate that thank you
Arthur Strong worked on Radio,lousy telly show!
To right
Mrs Browns Boys 20th? Shane at 19? Surely this list is back to front. Nothing could be worse than either of these. And sorry to be pedantic , but Timothy Lumsden was 48 when Sorry was binned in 1988 as he couldn't have stayed 41 for seven years
Thanks for your comment.. all placings are just personal preference
Mrs Brown should be number 1, BTW I haven't heard of 90% of these shows but surely Love thy Neighbour should be on this list, that show was really shyte and probably offensive even in its day, let alone now.
Thanks for your comment
You've given me a few things to watch/rewatch.
At the very least then I've achieved something lol
You were damn right about "Hold The Sunset". I've just checked it out on UA-cam - what a load of old toilet!
Thank you I fully agree
is it a good thing ive never heard ANY of these?
Yes and no .. yes that your eyes have been spared and no that you have never had the experience of having the torture of some of these.. strengthens your character
Don't you own a TV?
@@jonathanhall7334 i think someone is angry that ive not seen something, UH OHHH
Curry And Chips Was Of It's Day,So Get Over Yourselves Lol
I agree, they were all shite
Thank you glad you agree
Ab fab was too funny for you.
Your list as would any list be, pure IMO stuff. Wouldn't be surprised to see Faulty Towers here or other middle class stuff like the Good Life.
Yea it's my countdown
@normanmeharry58: Are you serious?Both of those are classics as is Sorry, My Hero was aimed at a young audience so it would not appeal to adults necessary.
To be fair to My Family.... You're right that towards the end it turned shite. The two leads, Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker both refused to film two episodes because the writing was so crap.
But reading about it's creation is quite interesting. It was the BBC attempting to create an American style show. With a writers room and showrunner. Starting production before the last episode of the series was filmed, which is the standard in America. With an experiment to see how this could work for other genres....
As it turns out. Not great. British tv works best when all episodes are filmed before broadcast.
Wow great bit Of knowledge there didn't know that ... problem with that show is was full of woodentop actors like the younger son the ditzy blond the weird Rodger bloke ... dragged it down even more
It was not funny at all. I can only assume Zoe Wannamaker who is a good actress did it for the money.
I absolutely LOVED Mrs. Brown's Boys, and Sorry, and The Inbetweeners and Gavin and Stacey! There, I've said it (I know the last two don't appear in the list, but they do appear in the comments). Who else remembers Take A Letter Mr. Jones? I liked that too, and Brush Strokes. George and Mildred was sitcom gold. I'm not keen on Steptoe and Son though. Amazing that we're all so different! Isn't Mrs. Brown's Boys Irish, not British, so perhaps it shouldn't be on the list? Thank you for compiling it and giving us something to reminisce about 😍
That's OK... it was a pleasure to do
No mention of Spooner's Patch, which I found to be almost unwatchable at the time, a seriously bad sitcom.
Don't know that one to be honest ilhave to check it our
I have to disagree with one or two of the choices picked in this list. So I think maybe the title of this piece should of been prefixed with the word "My." Enjoyed being reminded of the old shows.
Thank you glad it brought you atleast a little nostalgia
Hold the sunset is a deserved winner in this list of losers. What was Cleese thinking??
Absolutely shite wasn't it
Sorry was funny for its time but definitely hasn't aged well. Vicious was a real Marmite one - I loved it but I have friends who hated it.
Agreed
Never watched Shane but anything with Frank Skinner in is bound to be shite. Mrs Brown’s Boys was atrocious. Sorry! was one of the better ones on this list. Not ball-achingly funny but had an 80’s charm and coziness about it.
Have to agree there
Was going to subscribe but you included Sorry! Sorry but no, it was very underrated
To be honest ... It includes my opinions but u also backed up the Countdown from online research and the concensus from alot of people was it wasn't good hence why I added it in
@@AdjisOutAndAbout fair enough. Its all about personal opinions of course.
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I agree.sorry was classic comedy..TIMOOOTHY!
Sorry’s premise is good for a film but NOT for an ongoing series!
Rings on their Fingers should be on your list. It was a middle class sitcom about young professionals with a mortgage living on a modern private estate, written by the same and targeting the same. It was terrible. AbFab was brilliant, Sorry was cringe-makingly funny, and Bottle Boys was good fun. Never watched the rest. All ABout Me was unwatchable politically correct woke before its time shite. One episode was more than enough.
Thanks for your comment don't remember rings in their fingers
What about "Her Majesty's Pleasure " (1968)? Only ran for one 6-episode season, the first ever sitcom set in a prison (7 years before Porridge!) Made by Granada.
Oh right I've never heard of that one trevor
I mainly agree with your selection of the worst sitcoms ever although I have to admit I quite like Sorry and Mrs Brown's Boys. A few of these sitcoms I've never even heard of.
Atleast this Countdown has opened up a wider audience to crap sitcom lol
Absolutely fabulous, sorry and as time goes by we're hilarious. I'm amazed you didn't have crap like miranda, spaced or fleabag on there.
I wouldn't class miranda as a sitcom it was that unfunny
@@AdjisOutAndAbout isn't it just full of her falling down? Never actually watched it, only seen clips & adverts for it
Appalungly bad
I rather liked Citizen Khan. Certainly not great, but funny enough, five or six laughs per show. And nothing objectionable good while you eat you dinner telly.
Yea was OK in small doses
Most I agree with except I enjoyed 'As time goes by' I enjoyed that one
Thank you
The Thin Blue Line Ben Elton said it was his attempt to write an updated version of Dads Army.
Bottle Boys was a reboot of a one off 1975 play called Milko in a comedy premier on ITV . It starred Bob Grant Anna karen (Jack & Olive) from on the buses as husband & wife Jim & Rita Wilkins who were basically playing the same characters as they played on OTB . With OTB still being fresh in viewers minds the viewers were confused as they thought it was a OTB spin off where jack & Olive got married .
Oh right cool I didn't know that
When Mrs Browns Boys came out at first i really enjoyed it , but it got a bit played out the same thing every week My Family which was good but it ended it ran its course and remember other comedy Romany Jones featuring Jimmy Beck from Dads Army which only went one series he was still the same character as he did in Dads Army the spiv
Alot of people can only play one character .. stephen lewis played blakey on everything .. John inman the extraverted homosexual for example
You lost me a bit with Absolutely Fabulous, but each to their own. It's a bit difficult to have an opinion on something you always turned off though 😂
I don't know many of the ones in this list - a few of the 60s, 70s & 80s ones will be before my time - but this is probably for the better by the sound of it. I vaguely recall "TIme Goes By" being on but it looked dull, like you said. Maybe you needed to be the right age for it. "All About Me" is a show I'd completely forgotten about until this list. I might have to look at some clips to remember it. I don't remember it being that awful, but I can see how it would be a box-ticking exercise. "Vicious" & "Citizen Khan" fall into that category for me too, but worse. Both are more cringe than comedy. "Vicious" particularly annoyed me by being such an outdated cliché of homosexual life and McKellen really should have known better, being one of the founding members of Stonewall.
That would probably be my #2 with "Mrs Brown's Boys" at #1 (though it's not really British, so perhaps we can disclaim any ownership of it at all).
Thank you for watching ... yea the jasper Carrott outting was dreadful... as time goes by for me was a old person's sitcom but then I was young when it was on and yes you are right about Ian mckellen
I enjoyed My Family, All About Me, and My Hero. Though I do believe My Family reduced in quality after Nick left, and My Hero shouldn't have subbed Ardal O' Hanlon.
Citizen Khan should be much higher on the list. It's humour is outdated and characters unrelatable.
I am surprised Mad About Alice starring Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden didn't make it on the list.
I did think about that ..I don't remember it personally but while I was doing my research the name mad about Alice kept coming up
i agree with your comments on these - some real stinkers there ! but what about - thats my boy - with mollie sugden. or - mixed blessings - "hilarious" adventures of a white man and his black wife.
Thank you
Ab Fab lasted 20 years! That says something and most of it was really funny. Ok Curry & Chips was naff but it had a great UK comedy cast including Spike Milligan so why it's at No.2 is just plain bizarre. If we want a real stinker for the list, what the hell happened to 'Queenies Castle'? Dismal viewing beyond compare
Never saw queen's castle but it was mentioned to me. Curry and Chips wasn't brilliant was it .. it was at its time featuring 2 races that people loved to take the pee out of the Irish n the Pakistanis but in my own mind Curry n chips is better than ab fab lol
How about a list of forgotten Sitcoms ?
Stay tuned
Fresh Fields, As Time Goes By and Sorry are fantastic. The rest I agree with.
It's french fields that's in the countdown
Duck patrol with Richard Wilson, im still scared by watching an episode of this turkey.
That one passed me by lol
Count Arthur Strong was ok..Dont remember the Wright way.
Consigned to history
Okay, a few, like Slinger's Day, Sorry and Don't Drink The Water are fair game, but Ab Fab and My Family? Seriously? Tell me, are you a failed writer or a failed actor? That is all that critics ever are.
I could be both
@@AdjisOutAndAbout I am sure you probably are.
Good list glad you said ab fab. Maybe and you said a re watch of as time goes by is on order as I saw some of the earlier episodes recently. I thought the was pretty good.
Yes that's true it was a sitcom that ran right through my childhood but I remember been like a old farts show lol il have to watch it again as a adult
@@AdjisOutAndAbout Also and it has been said before give a Sorry another go. Once again saw it recently oddly enough on the same Channel BBC 4. But I agree with you on My Family it went on for too long .
@@henrysmith4584 thank u
2:51 to speak out against the always self-appointed idea of so-called "community leaders", and the racist idea that minority communities have them, has been important ever since the 1985 inner city riots. The media invented them and wanted to portray communities as spoken for by them, as a control and manipulation of how they were heard
Yes. That's very true that is
Bread was boring too ☺️
I was surprised that Barbara wasn't in the list.
Was that a sitcom or a drama ?
@@AdjisOutAndAbout I got mixed up, I meant to say Barbara.
@misterfischer2177 oh yea I remember that
Mrs Browns Boys and Count Arthur are about as funny as toothache!
Agreed
Very good video again I remember a few of them Mrs Browns used to be good but it’s had its day and I remember my hero my partner used to like it but I always thought it was rubbish
Thank you and thanks for watching
Mrs Browns boys is about as funny as getting endless toothache, how this excuse for a sitcom has run for so long is one of tv's biggest mysteries.
I know very poor
...I have found Slinger's Day has grown on me over the years, however Frank Skinner is probably best forgotten at the best of times. He is one of the world's unfunniest men! Denise Van Outen equally one of the unfunniest women around! My Family had it's moments but Adil Ray has been living on the woeful Citizen Kahn for far too long, heaven knows how he got a presenting gig on GMB!
Trys to portray himself as a serious presenter now
would have to disagree with some, loved Mrs Browns Boys, Absolutrly Fabulous, My Family, Sorry And Citizen Khan.
Arr well each to their own
You remind me of Father Fitzgerald from Father Ted 🤣
Thanks
I had a hunch ' all about me' would appear on the list
Dreadful .. I was like 16 or 17 when that was on .. I've never forgotten it
I don't mind telling you, if Last of the Summer Wine was on this list I would have gone feral with fury. And I believe that the Inbetweeners should have been no 1. That had precious little humour in the programme. It wun awards why? The scripts were dreadful.
Even spawned 2 films
@@AdjisOutAndAbout Would you care to clarify that.
@@charliedrosario999 the inbetweeners had 2 films made off the back of the show
Sam's Game was absymal
Don't remember that one
Comedy is subjective. What some people may find funny, others do not. Having said that, I think the majority would agree that "comedies" like Mrs Browns Boys and Citizen Kahn are some of the worst pieces of trash ever to put on British TV. A lot of the later ones I've never even heard of, but then, British comedy just isn't as good as it was in 70s, 80s, 90s and to a lesser extent the early 2000s. I grew up on Ab Fab. One of my favourites. I agree with My Family. I loved S1-5 and yes, it was better with Nick in it. Once he left it definitely went downhill and went on for 5 years too long. My Hero....I remember loving that when it was on. Though I'd probably not find it as funny as I did back then. As Time Goes By is kinda a classic. Not one I'd watch a lot but I remember enjoying what little I saw of it.
That's true
I never found..last of the summer wine funny...( I was too young ) .but, Are you being served...,now I wait for the backlash,
Each to there own my friend if you don't like it you don't like it
@AdjisOutAndAbout true, last of the summer wine, it was the same jokes over and over, yet millions watch it, are you being served..like I said I was young..never understood the jokes..
My Family was a brilliant comedy. I think you need to re-think your choices
I don't remember it that way . Thank you for your comment
Only good with Nick , crap after that
HI DAD.....CAN YOU LEND US A FIVER!
@dorkbrandon4422 exactly what I said if it finished early qhen he left it wouldn't be in the Countdown it's when they brought all these dizzy characters in
Sorry & odd man out should not be there other than that I ageee
Thanks for your comment. Glad I got most right
@@AdjisOutAndAboutab fab was alright but only cos of June Whitfield & Christopher Ryan. But not the best. Sorry & Odd Man Out were decent sitcoms. Odd man out imo are very underrated. I like all the David Croft sitcoms personally. With AYBS as my favourite
What about bon jour la class school sitcom i think with nigel planer😢but only lasted 1 season,big top what a bleeding circus lol as well
Don't remember them so bad even I don't know them :)
I agreed with all of these up until As Time Goes By. It's one of my favourite tv shows ever but I understand anyone not liking it. Its target audience is probably mostly retired older people and it's not for everyone it's always described as gentle comedy so that definition rules out a whole mass of people right there. Jefrey Palmer and Judy Dench make it one of the best sitcoms ever in my opinion.
Thanks for your input .. when.i was a young nipper was never in the cool bracket so was avoided but by its reviews Could be worth going back and rewatching
Can't argue with most of your choices - though I actually think 'Sorry!' is really funny. One you have missed out though is Jim Davidson's 'Up The Elephant and Round the Castle' which is so poor and unfunny it should exist in its own separate universe of bad sitcoms.
Yea I should of put that in .. my dad told me it was crap
Along with the follow up 'Home James'
Thats the thing about comedy it is subjective.
How true
Agree with all of them mate, bar Sorry. Which I loved
Can't win them all lol . Thank you for your comment
What about Last Of The Summer Wine? 1972-2010 - total crap. How could it run for so long. Hold The Sunset was comedy gold compared to that
Yea it was dire but was classed as a British institution
Mrs browns boys and filthy rich and catflap were awful...top buzzer is a good one if anyone hasn't seen it yet...
Don't remember that one
@@AdjisOutAndAbout give it a watch..
The mrs Browns caracter reminds me of "mrs doubtfire!! (Robin Williams)😮. Very bad indeed!!😮😅
But uglier lol
My fave was achtung mr milk man only did one series
Never heard of that one
Sorry is good. 😅😅😅😅
Lol
What about constant hot water? That was shite!
Don't know that one ... who was in that
You missed green green grass which was a unfunny spin off of only fools and horses
Yea wasn't great that
Should say the actors in every show
I did in most cases
@@AdjisOutAndAbout True!
Ronnie Corbett in sorry 😮 no offence but Ronnie Corbett was poor in this without Ronnie Barker i thought Ronnie Corbett was lost and just not as funny 😊
Agreed
@stephenchecksfield632: Don't agree, you should watch his scene in Extras.