Last Updated on 18 September 2023

I found 23 different lists of the “best” or “funniest” British TV comedies or sitcoms and I averaged them in Excel to create this master ranked list of 150 British TV comedies. Below is the complete spreadsheet I used, followed by the ranked list.

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  1. Fawlty Towers
  2. Only Fools and Horses
  3. Blackadder
  4. The Office
  5. The Inbetweeners
  6. The IT Crowd
  7. Peep Show
  8. Mr. Bean
  9. Father Ted
  10. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  11. Dad’s Army
  12. The Vicar of Dibley
  13. Red Dwarf
  14. Porridge
  15. Ghosts
  16. Keeping Up Appearances
  17. Gavin & Stacey
  18. The Royle Family
  19. The Thick of It
  20. Are You Being Served?
  21. Absolutely Fabulous
  22. Derry Girls
  23. The Young Ones
  24. Outnumbered
  25. Fleabag
  26. Open All Hours
  27. Yes Minister
  28. I’m Alan Partridge
  29. Black Books
  30. This Country
  31. The Good Life
  32. Spaced
  33. Bottom
  34. Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights
  35. One Foot in the Grave
  36. Friday Night Dinner
  37. ‘Allo ‘Allo!
  38. Bad Education
  39. Last of the Summer Wine
  40. Detectorists
  41. My Family
  42. The League of Gentlemen
  43. Men Behaving Badly
  44. The Thin Blue Line
  45. Steptoe and Son
  46. Peter Kay’s Car Share
  47. Extras
  48. After Life
  49. Dinnerladies
  50. The Fast Show
  51. The Goes Wrong Show
  52. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  53. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
  54. Yes, Prime Minister
  55. W1A
  56. Miranda
  57. Rising Damp
  58. Mrs. Brown’s Boys
  59. Chewing Gum
  60. Inside No. 9
  61. The Two Ronnies
  62. The Detectives
  63. Count Arthur Strong
  64. Yonderland
  65. To the Manor Born
  66. Catastrophe
  67. Hancock’s Half Hour
  68. Birds of a Feather
  69. Benidorm
  70. Bread
  71. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
  72. Goodnight Sweetheart
  73. Drop the Dead Donkey
  74. Twenty Twelve
  75. Butterflies
  76. As Time Goes By
  77. Motherland
  78. 2point4 children
  79. Man Like Mobeen
  80. Brass Eye
  81. Little Britain
  82. The Likely Lads
  83. Flowers
  84. Hi-De-Hi!
  85. The Goodies
  86. Raised by Wolves
  87. Hale and Pace
  88. The Mighty Boosh
  89. Not Going Out
  90. Till Death Us Do Part
  91. Chef!
  92. KYTV
  93. Taskmaster
  94. The Brittas Empire
  95. Green Wing
  96. Still Game
  97. It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
  98. Misfits
  99. Sorry, I’ve Got No Head
  100. Fresh Meat
  101. The End of the F***ing World
  102. Just Good Friends
  103. At Last the 1948 Show
  104. Stath Lets Flats
  105. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
  106. Good Omens
  107. This Time with Alan Partridge
  108. The New Statesman
  109. Crashing
  110. Rab C. Nesbitt
  111. Murder in Successville
  112. Goodness Gracious Me
  113. Psychoville
  114. Alma’s Not Normal
  115. Horrible Histories
  116. Lovesick
  117. Spitting Image
  118. Drifters
  119. Nighty Night
  120. Chelmsford 123
  121. Mind Your Language
  122. Rev.
  123. Not the Nine O’Clock News
  124. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  125. George & Mildred
  126. The Benny Hill Show
  127. A Bit of Fry and Laurie
  128. Waiting for God
  129. Jeeves and Wooster
  130. Hebburn
  131. Come Fly with Me
  132. French and Saunders
  133. The Morecambe & Wise Show
  134. Desmond’s
  135. Gimme Gimme Gimme
  136. Ripping Yarns
  137. Doc Martin
  138. Harry Enfield’s Television Programme
  139. Toast of London
  140. Alas Smith and Jones
  141. Still Open All Hours
  142. All Creatures Great and Small
  143. An Idiot Abroad
  144. Coupling
  145. Minder
  146. The Catherine Tate Show
  147. Man Down
  148. New Tricks
  149. The Graham Norton Show
  150. The Cleaner

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