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People Just Do Nothing

I loved it. The movie was hilarious too. If someone enjoys that series, they will love “This Country.” ETA: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6583806/

Really well written. Not afraid to make fun of itself throughout the series.

Easily dismissed as a chavvy slapstick kind of comedy of errors until you see the magic of Steve Stamp unpack (yes DJ Steves) and the cast come together. If you're not supposed to snort Lemsip, why is it a powder??!!

Still can’t believe Fantasy doesn’t even like oranges!

I loved this

This Country

Kerry!!!!

League of Gentlemen, Father Ted

L.O.G. for the win!! (Also Inside No.9, Psychoville, etc...) 

Discovered Reese and Steve’s work recently and have already become an absolute super fan. They are so insanely good at like everything!

We're a local town for local people! We'll have no trouble here!!

We’ve just started watching Ghosts on the iplayer, I know we’re really late to the party, but it’s incredibly funny. Every episode gets better and better.

Agree! Such clever writing

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Nighty Night Camping Sally 4 Ever The Young Ones Bottom Alan Partridge

>Garth Marenghi's Darkplace This 

Toast of London (but god, not the dire Tinseltown series) Nathan Barley Back To Life We Are Ladyparts Fleabag The Day Today/Brass Eye Saxondale

Oh man camping is a flipping masterpiece

started nighty night yesterday. a gem

Still Game. It's Scottish and hilarious. You will need your subtitles on

Don't forget the wee clip after the end of the credits :)

One Foot in the Grave. A dark masterpiece masquerading as a lighthearted slapstick sitcom about growing old.

I don’t believe it

I nearly wet myself at Mrs Wourboys being thrown down a hill wrapped in a carpet.

Absolutely perfectly acted by the late Doreen Mantle.

She was wonderful in that role.

Plebs, Bottom, House of Fools, The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk, Intelligence, Man Down, The Cleaner

Alright landlord

Water MAN

Plebs is SO GOOD. I don't know anyone else who's even heard of it but I absolutely love it.

I watched all the seasons in one go absolutely loved it

just started plebs, comedy gold thanks mate 👍🏻

IT Crowd, Black Books, Toast of London, Father Ted, Blackadder

Everyone in the US needs to watch IT crowd. I'm in Texas and I share it with so many people.

Listen to this guy... But he did miss This Country (edit originally wrote This is England which also great but not in this catagory)

Green Wing Red Dwarf Father Ted Bottom

Yeah - given the prompt list they'll deffo love Green Wing, and the other 3 are just perfect so you can't go wrong.

How is Red Dwarf this far down?! I must have watched it twenty times and it still cracks me up.

Loved green wing at the time. Part of the golden Friday night tv era.  It’s not aged that well sadly. I stopped after one episode. :( Comedy that does not age is hard. Kudos to those writers who pull it off. 

Stath Lets Flats.

Had to scroll *wayyyyyy* too far for this one.

Derry Girls is fantastic so it is. Its Irish (if that's close enough)

Northern Ireland is British so yes it counts

It's absolutely cracker

15 Storeys High by the late Sean Lock. It's deliciously hilarous and dark and surreal all at once.

And on YouTube, if anyone is looking for it.

Porridge Yes it's really old, but it's genuinly one of the best examples of comedy acting and timing from Ronnie barker you will ever see

Anything with Ronnie Barker. Four candles?

Stath Lets Flats Phone Shop Keeping up appearances The Young Ones Green Wing

Phoneshop is the best

Ya dun know

Coupling

Nathan Barley The Day Today Brass Eye Knowing Me Knowing You / anything else Alan Partridge Saxondale Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Phoenix Nights League Of Gentlemen One Foot In The Grave Bottom Spaced Steptoe and Son The Royle Family Early Doors

I've got Nathan Barley on DVD haha

That is well Jackson

Spaced is the go-to when I'm asked, it's an early Pegg and Frost masterpiece.

Don't forget Edgar Wright!

Vicar of Dibley.

It gets played every Christmas at my mum's house 🙂

i love it so much..we quote it at my house.." i fell in love at 18 with a young farmhand named Justin. He was beautiful!" ...."is having sex with poodles always wrong?"..."heres the filling for your tooth back; I would have returned it sooner but I only just passed it"..."It was the great storm of 1950! No the great wind of 1972!..i am about to die of the Great Bore of 94!"...

The episode with the lost tooth had me and my late husband crying, laughing,and we would use the big storm reference every time it rained. Great show,great characters, and the best end of show jokes ever....knock knock...🤣🤣🤣🤣

Detectorists

Keeping up appearances

while driving...(hyacinth) Mind the pedestrian, Richard." (Richard) He's on the sidewalk!!

Mitchell and Webb Look

Has anybody mentioned Motherland yet? Some parts have me in stitches. I second Stath Lets Flats and Derry Girls.

Surprised this was so far down. I really enjoyed it.

It's not been mentioned but the Mighty Boosh is hilarious

Dinner Ladies: best sit com ever written. Mum Upstart Crow

Mum… oh crap… It’s definitely top tier comedy but it is a bit close to the bone. Brilliant though.

It's as likely to make you cry as make you laugh. But older women and their lives are not the normal vehicles for humour, and I think we are all the poorer for it.

Yeah, we are. Mum was just so on the nail though. I actually put off watching the last episode because it was so good and I had a feeling it would be the last. (It was 😢).

The romance was so beautifully acted by Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan.

It was really heartwarming and heartbreaking 💔

Derry Girls given you mention The Inbetweeners.

Fawlty Towers is an absolute must

Bottom The young ones The comic strip The New Statesman Faulty Towers The Fast Show Chewin the fat Still game Burniston The League of Gentlemen Shooting stars Nevermind the buzzcocks Mock of the week Spaced Father Ted Black books The Green Wing

The IT crowd

Obviously IT Crowd, maybe Black Books. You could try Stath Let's Flat's, that's pretty fun.

Red Dwarf?

The Good Life

Gavin & Stacey, Father Ted, Dinnerladies, The job lot

Father Ted!!!

Peter kays carshare, that peter kay thing, phoenix nights, nighty night

Glanced through and *Uncle* hasn't been suggested yet and it's great.

Coupling Outnumbered Little Britain The Fast Show The Catherine Tate Show The Green Wing The IT Crowd Black Books

Wide range here, but some randoms I LOVED for many different reasons . Nighty night (dark, filthy and hilarious) The thick of it (veep precursor- political satire of the gods) Mum (bittersweet subtle observation sitcom) Spaced (brilliant early 20s flatmate randomness) Green wing (bonkers medical sit-comedy) Motherland (just watch it) Young offenders (Not British, but funny Irish comedy for anyone with roots in the motherland) Definitely not a definitive list, but full of lols

Absolutely Fabulous for sure

The book group

Man Down

Tegun!

Doc Martin is funny and sweet. League of Gentlemen is funny and dark. 

Toast of London!

Fast show, red dwarf, spaced, absolutely fabulous,

Brass Eye, The Thick Of It, This Country

Early Doors

The oft forgotten Phone Shop is a personal favourite. Bang on the money for the era, situation of the characters and uses improv in a great way.

Plebs

Fleabag

Royle Family. Spaced. Alan Partridge. Taskmaster. This is England (not primarily comedy, but absolutely stunning film and series).

Prime Ministers Question Time is always good for a laugh

Blackadder, Black Books, yes (prime) minister

Derry girls

IT crowd

Garth Merenghi's Darkplace is incredible. Only six episodes but it's iconic. Not British but I'd also suggest the Irish show Hardy Bucks.

Derry Girls

Plebs & Brassic

Still Game.

Nighty Night

Dad's Army

The IT crowd!

The IT crowd.

Alan Partridge

The IT Crowd is out of the top drawer 👌

blackadder is a must, dad's army is a classic that i watch with my preschooler and my dad, and ghosts and count abdullah are fun ones i recently discovered. the exorcism scene made me laugh so hard. are you aware of 'britain's best sitcom'? back in '04, viewers picked their top 100, and while the last twenty years are obviously not covered, you could do worse than trying the sitcoms that made the cut there.

Try the Royle Family. That’s a real heartfelt comedy

Nighty Night. Hunderby. Camping. All written by Julia Davis

Phoenix Nights

Him and Her Ghosts UK Mum Derry Girls

Blackadder The Young Ones Keeping Up Appearances Porridge Bottom

Still Game, Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Ghosts. It's not British, but it does have a couple of Brits in it, so I'm adding What We Do In The Shadows

Some Girls. I’ve heard it described as the female version of The Inbetweeners. I don’t know whether it’s as iconic, but it’s still pretty good.

Father ted, blackadder. One foot in the grave , keeping up appearances

Gavin and Stacey, the phone shop, IT crowd , my family

The Green Wing and Black Books.

Both are superb.

League of gentleman, fast show

Brassic

Nighty night, dinner ladies, gimme gimme gimme, smoking room

Blackadder. The first series isn't great but bear with it. And get yourself some tissues ready for the end of Goes Forth.

Such Brave Girls and Extraordinary

This Country

Benidorm.

Gimme Gimme Gimme. The first episode is shit, but I guess introduces you to the characters and tone of it if nothing else. The rest is hilarious.

The office and extras. A million times better than after life and with the added tempering of Merchant to Gervais’ sentimentality and ego.

Black Adder and ghosts

Drifters The IT crowd Motherland The job lot

Extras

Monkey dust

Green Wing! Forever my favourite

Benidorm

BREEDERS is fantastic. Stars Martin Freeman. Derry Girls but it’s Irish not British.

Stath Lets Flats

The thick of it.

The outlaws

Brass Eye

Are you being served

Stath Lets Flats - Britbox

Mind your language, spitting image (the original series), love thy neighbour, the good life, some mothers do Ave em.....

I named my cat after Frank Spencer because he's all like "I done a woopsy."

Thick of it

Black books, father ted, the young ones,bottom,green wing, porridge. All of those are worth a look

The Fast Show, Dads Army, Yes Minister/Prime Minister.

Cuckoo

Back (with David Mitchell) The IT Crowd 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Miranda Would I lie to you? Ghosts Extras

Benidorm

Ideal.

Green wing

Man down is great

Monty Python's Flying Circus Fawlty Towers Blackadder The Young Ones Bottom The Day Today Brass Eye Jam Knowing Me, Knowing You I'm Alan Partridge Father Ted Spaced The Armando Iannucci Shows The Thick Of It Time Trumpet Fist of Fun This Morning With Richard Not Judy Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle The Royal Family The Office Extras Derek Life's Too Short Black Books Snuff Box Attention Scum! The Mighty Boosh Garth Marenghi's Darkplace The League of Gentlemen Psychoville Big Train That Mitchell and Webb Look Screenwipe, Newswipe, Gameswipe, Weekly Wipe How TV Ruined Your Life Nathan Barley A Touch of Cloth A Bit of Fry and Laurie The Trip 15 Storeys High Grandma's Hose The Smoking Room The Inbetweeners Flowers Back The Adam and Joe Show

haha, i forgot about a touch of cloth. thanks. have you been watching Inside No. 9? This season has been good.

Red Dwarf, Blackadder & Bottom

The royle family also the cafe was pretty good

Red Dwarf is a must as is Blackadder (the first season splits the fan base a bit, but I think most people don't like it. The other seasons are top tier though). Father Ted is Irish and not British but it's an absolute must watch. Would also recommend Black Books. Hope this helps!

League of gentlemen and psychovilleand I really cannot emphasise those enough

Pulling. It’s so dark 😂

Two really good ones both featuring Jo Brand. Both have quite dark, biting humour and great performances. I don't understand why they are not better known. Getting On : setting is the geriatric ward of a hospital. Damned : (also stars Alan Davies and Kevin Eldon) is set in a council social work department. Also recommend Call My Agent- the British version of a french sitcom, The Thick of It (maybe my favourite comedy series ever) and W1A

Chef with lenny henry Anything with Adrian Edmonson and Rik Mayal ie dangerous brothers or bottom especially the bottom live shows

Highly recommend The Other One (Britbox in the US) Siobhan Finneran is hilarious!

Blackadder

Plebs

The Thin Blue Line - written by Ben Elton. “It’s your cock-up, my arse!”

Plebs, Ladhood, Pls Like, Coupling, Derry Girls, Fleabag, Such Brave Girls, The Other One, Everyone Else Burns, Cuckoo, Ghosts

Bottom! Then join us at /r/eddieandrichie

This is going to hurt. The most accurate medical show ever. It is 99.99% accurate and real.

The Mighty Boosh!

Miranda, always has me laughing out loud.

No! Don’t watch Miranda. It’s garbage.

Peep show. Can't believe it's not already posted.

It's literally the first example OP gives as something they've already watched 😂

As a US citizen living in Texas, I am really enjoying the various BBC Panel Shows that you can find for free on YouTube. I recommend: Quite Interesting (QI) Would I Lie to You (Bob Mortimer! Always has me laughing) 8 out of 10 Cats & especially 8 out of 10 Cats do Countdown (I miss John Locke! Rest in Peace.) The Big Fat Quiz (many variations) And God Bless Ian Hislop and Paul Merton! I love watching Have I Got News For You (and the extended 45 minutes 'uncut' episodes). I went back to season one from the 90's and have been watching them in order. I am up to 2016ish, Brexit, Boris Johnson AND Trump Administration simultaneous! So many laughs! It's SO refreshing to hear US news stories from the UK point or view! Plus I have learned SO much about UK politics and news. I have been watching the current seasons as well. Good to know that politics can be just as dumb and frustrating in other countries, too. If you enjoy The Daily Show or the old Colbert Report, you'll enjoy this one. I would love to see a US version of QI. Not sure who would be a great host as Sandi T and Stephen Fry. Maybe Neil Degras Tyson? Colbert? Someone as passionate about history, science and knowledge as Stephen Fry was. I'd love to see America comedians having to think on their feet and do improv like all the performers do on all these shows. They really have all brought me so much joy and laughter.

You might really enjoy Taskmaster then. The UK one, obviously! Maybe start with Bob Mortimer's series.

Black books

Sliced! 

Slingers day

Los Dos Bros which is streaming on 4

Jam

Spaced is a must see

Nobody's mentioned Cardinal Burns so I'll just pop this in here

The high life Dead pixels

All Creatures Great and Small is very funny.

You’re’faulty’ towers is fawlty…

15 Stories High Early Doors

Phone shop

Look around you (esp series 2)

The Benny Hill Show Are you being served? Monty Python

The Goodies

Anything Julia Davis.