Fawlty Towers has just topped a poll of the best British sitcoms, as revealed in Monday's Mirror.
But many of you wondered why your own favourite show had not made the Top 20, reminding us of some cracking gags from the comedy classics.
So we decided to take a look at the best, and worst, humour from other sitcoms here and abroad.
HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR
1954 -1961
Tony Hancock on donating blood: “A pint? Why, that’s very nearly an armful!”
FRASIER 1993-2004
Frasier: “Niles, I would shave my head for you.”
Niles: “A gesture which becomes less significant with each passing year.”
STEPTOE AND SON
1962-1965, 1970-1974
Harold: “I’m afraid our paths have now grown too diverse for any possibility of a reconciliation. Not to put to fine a point upon it, Dad, your very presence tends to impinge upon my aesthetic moments, my little bits of relaxation.”
Albert: “In other words, I get on your t**s?”
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THE GOLDEN GIRLS
1985-1992
Blanche: “Do you know what I hate doing most after a party?
Rose: “Trying to find your underwear in the big pile?
WILL & GRACE
1998-2006. 2018-PRESENT
Karen on modesty: “You know, I had a dream once: to be rich and beautiful and have a great body. Oh look, my dream came true.”
30 ROCK. 2006-2013
Jack: “Factories provide three things this country desperately needs: jobs, pride, and material for Bruce Springsteen songs.”
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BIG BANG THEORY
2007-PRESENT
Leonard: “I love cheesecake.”
Sheldon: “You’re lactose intolerant.”
Leonard: “I don’t eat it. I just think it’s a good idea.”
THE YOUNG ONES. 1982-1984
Rick, reading his ode to Cliff Richard: “Oh Cliff / Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if / You really are a cliff / when fascists keep trying to push you over it! / Are they the lemmings / Or are you, Cliff? / Or are you, Cliff?”
TILL DEATH US DO PART
1965-1975
Alf Garnett: “I don’t believe you should have your women in Parliament, except at your all-night sittings, cos then they can hand out the blankets.”
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES 1990-1995
Hyacinth: [on the phone] “No, you cannot have a number 24, nor a double portion of 37. This isn’t the Chinese take-away. This is a private slimline white telephone with no connection whatsoever to any business or trade – especially not one of foreign extraction.”
ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE 1990-2000
Margaret Meldrew: “Any joy?”
Victor Meldrew: “I’ve had a very good day. In the morning, I turned some water into wine, then I healed a few lepers and, after lunch, I popped over and parted the waters of the Red Sea.”
Margaret: “Did the man come about the roof?”
Victor: “No, but you can’t expect miracles.
IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM
1974-1981
Gunner Graham (having been ordered to fight and defy the sun): “But the sun isn’t an anatomical entity, it’s an inanimate object. How can we fight it, Sergeant-Major?”
BSM Williams: “How can we possibly fight it, Sergeant-Major? Let me tell you, Mr La-De-Dah Gunner Graham, the British Army can fight anything! Intimate or not!”
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RED DWARF. 1988-1999
Rimmer: “I submitted a discourse on porous circuitry that was too... radical, too unconventional, too mould-breaking for the examiners.”
Lister: “Yeah. You said you were a fish!”
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
Hawkeye: A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it’s also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.”
CHEERS. 1982-1993
Sam: “What are you up to, Norm?”
Norm: “My ideal weight... if I were 11 feet tall.”
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HAPPY DAYS. 1974-1984
The Fonz: “You’re dreaming about a girl you’ve never met?”
Richie Cunningham: “Come on, Fonz, haven’t you ever dreamed?”
The Fonz: “Heyyy... I’m not the dreamer! I’m the dreamee!”
RISING DAMP. 1974-1978
Ruth Jones, discussing young love: “Just because they’re taking the pill, doesn’t mean they’re doing anything wrong. It's a precaution – you pay fire insurance but don’t expect the house to burn down.”
Rigsby: “Yes, but you are supposed to try and extinguish the blaze, Miss Jones – not lie back and enjoy it.”
