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Now it may or may not be common knowledge but I abhor British sit-coms / comedy series apart from the odd one like PLEBS or Friday Night Dinner .

Some of the ones I’ve been dipping into recently include

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Schitts creek is my favourite American/Canadian Sitcom. Fr. Ted is my favourite Irish Sitcom.

Would you consider The Office or afterlife as sitcoms? If so those are my favourite of the British
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Yeah, really not my cup of tea either.

Not sure if you'd class Resident Alien as a Sitcom either (probably not) but it's hilarious as well

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Only Fools leaves me cold as does Father fecking Ted …

Life’s too short to be honest .. even worse that they seem to be on REPEAT … FOREVER


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2 doors down is a very funny current sit-com

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Can the mods amend the thread title slightly to ..

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I just feel that the yanks write funnier stuff , the acting is better .. better all round really

I guess they have a massive population though and logically they will have far more excellent writers / actors …


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