Ricky Gervais's Top 10 Comedy Picks
As After Life is voted the Best Modern Comedy in our RT poll, Ricky Gervais shares his own Top 10 Comedies — and reveals how they influenced his own work
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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 results
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1969
Comedy
PG
Comedy sketch series featuring John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and the team.
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1975
Sitcom
Comedy
PG
British sitcom starring John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, a social-climbing hotelier, working alongside his wife, Sybil, Spanish waiter Manuel, and chambermaid Polly at his hotel in Torquay.
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1982
Sitcom
Comedy
PG
Classic American sitcom set in a Boston bar where a group of regulars meet to drink and chat. Sam Malone (Ted Danson) takes centre stage as the bartender with an eye for the ladies.
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1989
Animation
Comedy
PG
Animated sitcom set in the fictional town of Springfield. It parodies aspects of American life through the eyes of a blue-collar family - Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
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2000
Sitcom
Comedy
PG
Comedy, starring Seinfeld co-creator and producer Larry David, playing an extreme version of himself, who spends most of the saga living a childfree life in Los Angeles with his wife.
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1984
Comedy
Music
15
Spoof documentary that follows the exciting comeback tour of Britain's most punctual heavy rockers, Spinal Tap, as they launch their provocative new album Smell the Glove before literally dozens of indifferent fans.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
1976
Sitcom
Comedy
12
Sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter as an executive who stops caring about the marketing campaigns he is expected to administer and starts dictating condescending replies to customers.
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1964
Sitcom
Comedy
PG
British sitcom following the adventures of Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), a pair of long-time working class friends in their early twenties.
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Comedy from the 1950s starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko, who runs the motor pool at a small Kansas US Army Camp. Bilko spends most of his time coming up with money-making schemes.
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1974
Sitcom
Comedy
12
This sitcom stars Ronnie Barker as habitual criminal ‘Fletch', serving time in prison. Taking younger cell-mate Godber under his wing, he seeks out little victories against the system.
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