Best British Comedy TV Shows
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Best British Comedy TV Shows
TOP TV Shows: Fleabag (2016), Brassic (2019), Miranda (2009), Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Ted Lasso (2020), Sex Education (2019), The Thick of It (2005), Only Fools and Horses (1981), Catastrophe (2015), Absolutely Fabulous (1992), Friday Night Dinner (2011), Staged (2020), All Creatures Great & Small (2020), The Thin Blue Line (1995), Fawlty Towers (1975), Keeping Up Appearances (1990), Blackadder III (1987), Mr. Bean (1990), Blackadder II (1986), The Office (2001).
List of Best TV Shows
241K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help ...
Style:
funny, dark comedy, sitcom, raunchy comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sexual humor, female protagonist, sexuality, dark humor, promiscuity, women, single woman, bisexual, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, funny, dark comedy ...
Plot:
unemployed, gang, friendship, marijuana, bipolar disorder, escapades, lifestyle, money, youth, friend, scheme, girlfriend ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.
Style:
sitcom, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
comedian, dating, female protagonist, family relations, love and romance, crush, disorder, unsupportive parent, couples, lifestyle, nothing goes right, looking for love ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television.
It ...
Style:
witty, humorous, clever, hilarious, multicultural ...
Plot:
servant, butler, valet, master and servant, master servant relationship, domestic servant, boss and employee, bachelor, friendship between men, aristocracy, mishap, power relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
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433K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, sitcom, sincere ...
Plot:
soccer, football team, american abroad, soccer coach, football player, professional sports, closeted homosexual, friendship, strong female character, coaching, divorce, career change ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
393K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, coming of age, teenage sexuality, lgbt teen, youth, classmate, sex education, teenage life, couples, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
Style:
sitcom, cynical, humorous, semi serious, mockumentary ...
Plot:
politics, political satire, satire, state affairs, stupidity, british politics, british government, workplace, workplace situations, politician, society, government official ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, syria
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story:
The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of “Trotters Independent Traders PLC” who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, hilarious, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
working class, cockney, world war two veteran, grandfather, brother brother relationship, motherless, pub, short man, black market, disorder, eccentric family, veteran ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Style:
sitcom, not serious, entertaining, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
thirtysomething life, couples, life turned upside down, fall in love, dating, unplanned pregnancy, love and romance, pregnancy, couple relations, disorder, marriage proposal, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy ...
Style:
sitcom, laugh out loud, hilarious, funny, biting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
satire, fashion, mother daughter relationship, women, lgbt, best friend, middle aged, magazine editor, promiscuous mother, drug use, friendship, career woman ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family dinner, eccentric family, comedy of errors, parents and children, socially awkward, disorder, couple relations, marriage, family gatherings, grandparent and grandchild, satire, teen angst ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let ...
Style:
ironic, witty, humorous, atmospheric, light ...
Plot:
male male relationship, friendship between men, fame, actor's life, cynic, stage actor, rehearsal, irony, self involved, movie actor, supportive friend, marriage ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
Style:
sweet, funny, sentimental, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
veterinarian, village life, countryside, english countryside, human animal relationship, dog, cow, rural setting, new life, friendship, animal, scotsman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
yorkshire, england
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, detective, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police station, police, sergeant, goofy hero, partners against crime, nothing goes right, workplace, incompetent police, working undercover, sarcasm, cop, acid ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Is relevant?
111K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the ...
Style:
sitcom, hilarious, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, owner, snob, cockney, british, hotel, married couple, tourist, couples, monty python, humour, disorder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
england, britain, europe, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. Centred on the life of eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket, the sitcom follows her obsessive and determined attempts to impress in middle class ...
Style:
sitcom, game show, hilarious, funny, realistic ...
Plot:
snob, englishwoman, working class, humour, social climbing, women, young heroes, satire, sketch, cooking show, young adult, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, period piece, funny, controversial ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
satire, royal family, dandy, humour, robbery, stupidity, duel, assistant, owner, power relations, dark humor, disorder ...
Time:
18th century, regency period, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, france
Is relevant?
149K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.
Style:
humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
stupidity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, fish out of water, love, ruse, sketch, lonely, storytelling, humour, new year's eve ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
london, britain, europe, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Sixty years after the demise of Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Queen Elizabeth I, who's as insane as her ancestors, is England's current leader. Seductive, easy-to-impress, spoiled, and always seeking a husband, "Queenie" has a ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, hilarious, costume drama, funny ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
satire, medieval, royal court, queen elizabeth i, royalty, queen of england, sketch, parents, peplum, humour, queen, heir ...
Time:
middle ages, 16th century, 20th century
Place:
britain, england, europe
Is relevant?
132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office ...
Style:
humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, dark comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, everyday life, office, coworker, boss and employee, job, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, boss, storytelling, humour, sketch ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, seattle
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Style:
surreal, sitcom, semi serious, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
priest, clergy, friendship, catholic priest, bishop, against the odds, family relations, conservative, eccentric family, family life, small town, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, fictional island, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, witty, not serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
bookstore, workplace, friends, workplace situations, uptight character, workplace problem, store, best friend, drunkenness, farce, coworker, weirdo ...
Time:
near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
We follow two sisters contending with the recent zombie apocalypse.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, ex boyfriend, best friend, undead, sister, zombie apocalypse, swearing, zombie survival, walking dead, zombie violence, zombie outbreak, society ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. ITV originally broadcast the programme from 1974 through 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play The Banana Box The series ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty
Audience:
kids
Plot:
womanizer, racist, conservative, liberal, social differences, couples, social misfits, wooing, bachelor, slum, roommate, landlord ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, africa, northern england, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
Style:
funny, sitcom, humorous, not serious, satirical ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, english countryside, friendship, archaeologist, partner, obsessive quest, buddies, treasure, escapades, odd couple, fortune, hidden treasure ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A cash-strapped young couple inherit a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
Style:
sitcom, surreal, funny, captivating, light ...
Plot:
supernatural, couples, dead, haunted house, supernatural power, eternity, ghost, trapped, husband wife relationship, inheritance, mansion, able to see the dead ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set principally in the private office of a British Cabinet minister in the Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to ...
Style:
sitcom, political, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot:
satire, british politics, minister, government official, secretary, workplace situations, british government, politician, power relations, state affairs, boss and employee, political satire ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
england, united kingdom, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC 1 period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, hilarious, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
medieval, witch, inheritance, british history, queen, parents and children, state affairs, politics, royalty, battles, stupidity, war ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, 20th century, 16th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, scotland, seattle
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Bottom is a British anarchic sitcom that originally aired on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by and starring comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates who live on the dole in Hammersmith, London. The ...
Style:
sitcom, hilarious, dark comedy, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
unemployment, sketch, humour, unemployed, scam, boredom, bachelor, alcoholic, sexual humor, fight, partner, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, england, britain, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
Style:
funny, sitcom, entertaining, light, not serious ...
Plot:
family life, children, mother, parents, working mom, parenthood, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, problem solving, kids and family, women, family relations ...
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