Best TV comedy moment....

[mistergixer]

Inspired by a couple of posts in this thread, I wondered what BCF thought was the best TV comedy moment of ever*?

It's a tough and tricky choice, but for me 1st place has to be awarded to:

Fawlty Towers - The Germans

Maybe it's just me, but whenever I'm with any Germans, I find myself constantly biting my lip and thinking 'Don't mention the war.....don't mention the war....don't mention the war......'

By a very narrow margin, the runner up is:

Alan Partridge has lunch with Tony Hayers (aka smell my cheese you mother!)
(2nd part of the scene here

This just shows Alan at his cringe-worthy best, slimy, obsequious, yet completely devoid of any social skills. The way he shrugs when he's introduced to one of Tony's colleagues is just pure Partridge gold, as are his ideas for new TV programmes.


So come on BCFers, post your 1st place and runner ups here....

*Note: TV shows only, no films, even if they've been shown on TV.
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[Nick 50]

I'll throw in an obvious contender:

Del Boy falls through the bar - Only Fools and Horses
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[Rogerborg]

The [SPOILER!] punchline scene [SPOILER!] from the Red Dwarf Queeg episode just cracked me up.
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[ThoughtContro...]

Nah, it has to be the Court room scene in the Bilko episode "The Court Martial" where they're trying a chimp they mistakenly enlisted in the army as Private Harry Speakup. The whole episode is a hoot, but the court scene is a total blast. They recorded it live, and Silvers does a great ad lib when the chimp wanders off and plays with the phone, "I think he's calling for another lawyer sir". The show had great writing and acting talent, and Silvers always does the patter to a tee, but the above episode steals it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Zqi1I6JrU

They don't make em like that any more
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[BigJoe78]

Spaced "what a prick"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwpbe&v=hUkCJDkG3fg&NR=1
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[MarJay]

The Dictionary scene in Blackadder III.

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."
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[Fawbish]

A lot of shows have utterly hilarious moments but requires time with the show to fully appreciate. Adds a little 50/50 factor in to whether it should be judged highly.

Friends was and still is one of my highest rated comedy shows of all time, but close runners are New Girl, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Green Wing, Scrubs etc

I've seen a lot of the older generation stuff too, the end of Blackadder gets me emotional still. I think Im a british lad with a very american sense of humour. Horrible thing to admit really.

One of the scenes I was crying with laughter at that sticks out in my mind:

Ross and Joey "Sorry"
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[angryjonny]

Potentially an acquired taste (particularly the second) but...

Spinmaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZAtp157KI

Would you rather:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WGGupQ8ng

[killa]

[doggone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEIjXU7baSc
Bishop Brennan kick up the arse

[dodgydog]

Early doors, almost any scene with Phil and Nige in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHi4nXNyG08&feature=relmfu
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[MarJay]

Or perhaps that bit in Robot Chicken Star Wars episode where Vader phones the Emperor to tell him the death star has been destroyed!
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[Suntan Sid]

Rowley Birkin QC !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJVGuxj7AWQ&NR=1&feature=endscreen
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[pinkyfloyd]

I'm with Gixxer on the German scene but another one that has to be up the top end of the table is this gem:

Mrs Browns Waxing
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[Suntan Sid]

To the uninitiated this is an episode from "Still Game", don't think the first series was shown outside Scotland.

Watch this from 22:22 to 25:16.
First time I saw this I was, really, crying with laughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV34URhPeJU

If you've not seen "Still Game" it is very funny, although if you're not tuned into the Scottish vernacular you might find it a bit confusing!
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[hellbound]

No youtube at work but

Gavin and Smithy running down the hospital corridor and both sliding over on the wet floor and getting up and continuing like nothing happened.

Victor Meldrew Answering the dog instead of the phone in One foot in the grave

Dr Alan Stathem battering the dwarf with a heron in Greenwing
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[Hetzer]

Can't believe I found it (that it's out there at all). It had me in stitches. He always had me in stitches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcXkyOOe6k

And Secundo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlmFYR7BDw&feature=related


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[andym]

There's far too many to list, but this had me crying with laughter...

Chewin' the fat - Stauner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIQg1ZP3lqE

[keggyhander]

The bit on Partridge where Michael is telling Alan about his army days:

"When I was stationed in Belize I had a pet macaque, but it ate all me fags so I threw it in the sea!"

[daemonoid]

[daemonoid]

And one more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIEc5ySEy40&feature=related
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[yaigi]

For me, it HAS to be this, I chuckle even just thinking about it every now and then when it pops into my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRW-Gc8EQlk

Green Wing is genius comedy TV.

EDIT: Although Stathom is a VERY close contender. Good picks guys
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[hellkat]

Bus wankers!

(there are many many others, but this is the most recent one which brought me to tears of laughter)

Side note: the other day my bloke said that when I do my "funny Cockney accent" I sound like Ronnie Corbett in the "Fork handles" sketch ... wtf
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[hellbound]

Fellow green wing fans...WOOHOO


I may have to watch the whole lot all over again now.
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