Giving a whole lot of heart to an otherwise gloomy council-flat lifestyle, Only Fools and Horses revolves around the Trotter family, all of whom are kind enough to indulge its patriarch, cheekily named Del Boy, with his various “get rich quick” schemes as a Cockney shop trader - even if his schemes mostly turn out to be a whole load of bollocks. Arrange your queues accordingly, and maybe whip up a Pimm’s Cup if you’re feeling feisty, because we have a lot of ground to cover. Feel free to think of your own! But do you know what actually is funny? So funny, in fact, that it’s guaranteed to make your stomach clench so hard that it basically doubles as doing crunches? Comedies from across the pond, which have consistently been in a flourishing state even after the supposed “golden era” ended with Monty Python taking its last bow in 1974 or Fawlty Towers cursing out its final customer in 1979.Īs a means of putting together a guide to the finest telly the Brits have to offer, Vulture has compiled what we consider to be 25 of the best comedies that have premiered since Basil Fawlty’s farewell - paying special attention to their influence, innovation, and critical acclaim in the evolution of modern comedy as we know it. That opening sentence wasn’t too witty of a quip. The British are coming, and they want to invade your television. For +1 channels, one hour should be added to the start and closing times.Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture Broadcast hours are for the HD and SD only.The HD version of the channel does not appear on the EPG of SD boxes. On HD boxes HD channels are generally given prominence over the SD counterpart (though it does not apply in all regions of the UK in some cases).

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