So what did the public vote the best TV comedy of all time? No cheating now, don't click on the link until you've decided on an answer. Got it?
Well, in third place in the YouGov poll for the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival was Blackadder with 10% of the votes. In second place was Fawlty Towers, with 13%, which means the winner must have been... Mind Your Language. No, of course it wasn't, it was Only Fools and Horses of course with a whopping 27% of the vote.
The panel looked a bit unimpressed, probably because it was so predictable. So what's the best current TV comedy? Because so many people watch it, I guessed My Family. Wrong!
In third place, the Catherine Tate Show, in second place the Royle Family (it returned last year for a one-off special) and in first place.... The Vicar of Dibley.
Cue more unimpressed faces on the panel, which included Frank Skinner, Jessica Hynes (formerly Stevenson), Office producer and managing director of Roughcut TV Ash Attala and Andrew Newman, head of entertainment and comedy at Channel 4.
Skinner said his favourite sitcom of the moment was Jack Dee's Lead Balloon. A surprising choice, perhaps, because it had more of an impact on BBC4 than it did when it transferred to BBC2, and suffered from comparisons with Curb Your Enthusiasm. Nonsense, said Skinner.
"It's the best sitcom that anyone from the comedy circuit has done," said Skinner. "Obviously I was hoping it would be shit."
Former Spaced star Hynes chose Bo' Selecta as her favourite current comedy, a choice that was totally lost on session chair Paul Jackson, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy. A straw poll of the audience revealed around two-thirds of delegates agreed with him. A third in support? Avid Merrion would probably be happy with that.
Jackson is more of a fan of the Larry Sanders Show - and in particular Jim Carrey's apperance in the very last episode - which begs the question why it is scheduled in the early hours on ITV4. Perhaps we should be grateful the show is on TV at all.
Atalla's favourite sitcoms were Seinfeld ("because there is so much of it") and The Thick Of It ("brutal, relentless").
Newman said the best show he had been involved in was Chris Morris's Brass Eye, but remembered an unfortunate moment with Reggie Kray when it involved him in a spoof campaign to help an elephant with its trunk stuck up its arse.
"We rang up the prison where Reggie was and it was surprisingly easy to get through to him. Someone told him he was being wound up and then sent someone round to the production offices. It was pretty terrifying."
