Okay, this will probably sink like a stone, but I saw a similar thread on the CHUD boards and couldn't resist. My flatmates are obsessed with Peep Show and The Mighty Boosh, and while I don't really get Boosh I will admit to finding Peep Show kind of funny. I think I prefer Spaced and Black Books, personally. And I want to get around to seeing the IT Crowd sometime.

Anyone else?

I saw The Mighty Boosh and it freaked me out. It was funny, but way too weird for me. That's the same people who did Nathan Barley, though, and *that* show was hilarious and SO wrong.

My people! I grew up watching older British comedies on our PBS station - Are You Being Served?, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Red Dwarf. I enjoy the humor so much more than most American shows.

As far as the shows mentioned, I love the Boosh, although I think this last season was not as good as the first two. It is very...different. I always feel like I'm missing something by not being high when I watch it. I agree that Nathan Barley was genius. OMG, that episode with the >>scissors in the cat's head<<? I laughed until I cried, and then I hated myself for laughing, and then I laughed some more. I love Spaced and Black Books (Dylan Moran, please call me) too. I tried the first episode of The IT Crowd a while back and didn't really like it, despite my love for Richard Ayoade, but friends have since told me that it gets better as it goes on, so maybe I'll give it another chance.

One of my favorite British comedies is Coupling. I really hate that it gets compared to Friends because of the cast set-up, because it's a strong and intelligent show. Jack Davenport's rants as Steve were things of beauty.

And technically it's not British, but Irish, but Father Ted has to be on my list of all-time favorites as well. The Eurovision episode will never stop cracking me up.

That was my favorite Nathan Barley episode too! That was one of the...*wrongest* things I have ever seen, and I could not stop laughing.

I love Red Dwarf! I even have the books. I've been rewatching the whole show now that I have Netflix and it's held up really well. Also, I thought I missed a lot of episodes based on watching it on Saturday nights on PBS but apparently I caught most of them.

I also remember watching The Young Ones, I think it was called. I might have to catch up on that one too. Plus, now that it's out in the US I really want to watch Spaced.

Coupling is one of my all-time favorite shows, as is Blackadder. I much prefer Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder than as Mr. Bean. I don't like Mr. Bean.

Blackadder is the funniest thing in the history of ever. I also love The Vicar of Dibley.

IT Crowd is one of my favorite shows. The first episode isn't hee-haw funny but the show does develop and expand. I think one of my favorite episodes is the one where they go and see a musical or the one with the German cannibal.

I really liked The Thick of It. But anything that Armando Iannucci has his hand in I am bound to like. He is so unassuming-looking and has such a hilariously vicious mind.

I love Black Adder, hate Mr. Bean. I think it's because so much of the humor in BA stems from verbal wit, while Mr. Bean is all fart noises and funny faces. I just don't get it.

Fawlty Towers, to me, is a nearly perfect show without a clunker in the bunch. I defy anyone to watch the "Gourmet Night" episode and not laugh their asses off.

As well as being gutbustingly funning, it's amazing just how much history kids my age learnt from Blackadder.

It's also the reason why Hugh Laurie will never reallly be a sex symbol to me - he's the Prince Regent. On the other hand, Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder the Third? Be still my heart!

I guess I just love a conniving, snarky man...

The 'disabled' gay theatre episode of The IT Crowd is some of the funniest television I have ever seen.

I also love The Thick of It. The characters are so perfectly created, brilliantly treading the fine line between caricature and horrifyingly believable.

I'm glad somebody else finds Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder the Third sexy (I like Blackadder the Second as well). He's just such a bastard!

I absolutely adore Blackadder and Black Books.

Totally. House gets referred to "the doctor show with the guy from Blackadder in it" at our place.

I'd totally forgotten about Red Dwarf and the Young Ones, but my brother was a huge fan and made me watch entire videos of it back when we were teenagers. I think I may have even had a crush on Cat, which is a bit weird in retrospect. Oh! And I used to be completely obsessed with Drop the Dead Donkey, which is also weird because I don't think it was even that funny, and I probably didn't get half the jokes. Anyway.

Also: Mitchell and Web, specifically Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. I can take or leave the rest of the show - although Numberwang is pretty funny - but I'd watch an entire series of Sir Digby if they made it.

I'm rather fond of this Mitchell and Webb sketch myself.

I nearly died laughing when I saw that episode.

on The Thick of It, the character who was loosely based on Alistair Campbell was always scary hilarous.