fizzygoodmakefeelnice has the right idea:
bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…bernard…look, bernard…bernard…bernard look, bernard…
(47 seconds)
i love black books 
curlybacon, give me back my Black Books DVD!
Smeghead, don’t forget that in order to play UK (and I think most European) DVDs, you not only need a multiregion DVD player, but the player must also have a PAL to NTSC converter built in.
I think, though, that it is possible to change the region on a computer DVD player, although I don’t know how easy that is. I imagine you wouldn’t have to worry about the PAL - NTSC thing then.
Not sure if it counts as comedy, but At Home with the Braithwaites makes me giggle…
Is Bargain Hunt considered comedy? Why not?
Faves:
Keeping Up Appearances
Coupling
Manchild
Ab Fab
Waffled on:
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Never Could Appreciate:
The Office
Men Behaving Badly
Thanks Tapioca Dextrin, but I just found out that a friend of mine has a copy. A very generous offer, though!
No one’s mentioned As Time Goes By: not big belly-laughs, but excellent writing and superb acting. I think we all need a Mrs. Bale in our lives.
I’ve gotten a bit tired of Keeping Up Appearances, though I always enjoy checking out what Onslow is reading in bed (in at least a couple of episodes, it’s been a textbook titled Principles of Condensed Matter Physics!). And it’s made me realize what I really want: a Mercedes, a sauna, and room for a pony.
Oh, and how about Last of the Summer Wine, particularly during the Foggy Dewhirst years (rounding out the best threesome, IMO).
That’s The Brittas Empire, which I included in my favourites.
It was Shelley, not Shelly. Despite being an ITV sitcon it was actually pretty good as I remember. It starred Hywel Bennet as an over-educated layabout.
Red Dwarf
League of Gentlemen (Not the third series, that sucked.)
Damn! I thought i was going to be the first person to mention this show. I loooooove it!
All of my favorites have already been mentioned, i think:
Blackadder (esp. The Third)
Monty Python
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
League of Gentlemen (esp. the first season)
Mr. Bean (some more than others)
Ab Fab
Fawlty Towers
Porridge
Actually, one that no-one has mentioned yet is Drop the Dead Donkey. Fantastic satire, extremely topical (generally written on the day before it aired), and very funny.
Hmm. And here I thought, mhendo, that I was going to get to be the first to mention Drop the Dead Donkey. I don’t know how well it would translate over here, since a lot of the things being satirized didn’t get much press over here (or at least, not that I recall), but it was definitely brilliant.
Nomination for best line from Last of the Summer Wine: Nora Batty, on the subject of Marina’s attire: “If her skirts were any shorter, she’d have to wash behind her ears.”
For fans of Blackadder there is a treat for them on BBC radio this Saturday in the form of a documentery about the programme . Called " I have a Cunning Plan " it tells the story of the programme with contributions from Rowan Atkinson , Tony Robinson ,Richard Curtis and Steven Fry. This programme can be heard on demand for the next seven days after the original broadcast via the BBC web site . just go to www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 and follow the links to the "listen again " section.
On the Buses…god, it was so awful that you just HAD to watch it.
Yes Minister
Absolutely Fabulous
The Good Life
Fawlty Towers
Porridge.
Is anyone else old enough to remember The Goodies? Brilliant stuff. It was on while I lived in England in the mid-70s. (I’m in the US now, but my heart is forever in North Yorkshire.)
From the same time period -
Well, Anyway
Ripping Yarns
Billy Liar
Dave Allen at Large
(Obscure stuff, haven’t seen them for donkey’s ages, but I have fond memories of them all.)
My other favo(u)rites that I’ve caught on the US telly, and most already mentioned are:
Red Dwarf
Monty Python
Blackadder
The Good Life
To the Manor Born
You Must be the Husband
Chef (1st season)
British Humour Rules OK!