Battle of the Sitcoms - Round One (Heat 1)

[BLUEBLOOD]

Whats your favourite ??

The League of Gentlemen (Uxbridge Shrimper) or Men Behaving Badly (Einstein)

 

[Uncle Leo]

Come on Dave, you know you want to vote for Papa Lazarou....

 

[Mad Cyril]

Where is the poll?

 

[Uncle Leo]

Where is the poll?

It's there now. We'll have no trouble here....

 

[Uncle Leo]

Come on, League of Gentlemen should have at least twelfteen votes by now...

 

[number11]

Come on, League of Gentlemen should have at least twelfteen votes by now...

Sorry James, just never 'got' the League of Gentleman. MBB would probably seem quite dated now, but at the time it was something I would make an effort to watch.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Sorry James, just never 'got' the League of Gentleman. MBB would probably seem quite dated now, but at the time it was something I would make an effort to watch.

To be fair, there are worse ones LOG could lose to. I think MBB was very much of its time and has dated terribly, but back in the 90s I did like it.

LOG may just be a bit too nice to do well in this competition. A bit like my nomination in the previous competition:

 

[Firestorm]

Vs

 

[Uncle Leo]

vs

Separated at birth?

 

[duncan bulgaria]

MBB just pips it for me , whoever wins will get knocked out in the next round me thinks.

 

[seany t]

This is a tough one. I do love LOG, but the 3rd series just got that bit too dark for me, and stopped actually being funny. Although, that revelation at the end is absolute genius. However, in my mind this show was essentially responsible for giving us Little Britain.

MBB was indeed terrible at time. Series 1 & 2 sucked whilst half of 3 & 6 were average. BUT series 4 and 5 are absolute comedy gold, and even now stand up really well. In fact, its amazing how all the themes in them are still relevant.

So LOG gets the artistic vote, but MBB the actual funnier one. And thats the one that counts here methinks...

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Never watched LOG, so has to be MBB for me. (Sorry James)

 

[Einstein]

Having never really found the attraction for LOG, this one should be a walkover for MBB. Always used to try to catch UK Gold as the repeats were always just as good second, third or however many times again!

 

[Napster]

Tough. I have the complete series of both. But...

MBB inches it, for the pure class line of

"Bed? Bed's for sleepy people! Let's get a kebab and go to a disco!"

 

[Tinks]

Have never watched LOG as it is this new modern age comedy.

Have gone with MBB as for it's time it was regarded at very near the mark and was quite funny in places

 

[SUFCEssex]

MBB for me although i'm not much of a fan of either.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Men Behaving Badly easily for me, sorry James, don't get a lot of these so called "comedy" programmes. Besides which, I thought Caroline Quentin was triffic and there were some real laugh out loud moments with Gary and Tony - and they were fixated by Kylie as well so that'll please Cricko!

 

[loz]

LOG for me by a longshot. I did enjoy MBB but it's dated really badly and was ultimately based on about 2 jokes. LOG takes some effort and will probably lose here (it's very difficult to put up a clip that makes much sense in isolation, for example) but the quality of some of the writing and ideas was fantastic- even if they did take the gloss off of it by making a crappy film.

I'm putting this up anyway- although not the best Pop clip (that would be '3.. Maverick bars')

 

[Napster]

LOG for me by a longshot. I did enjoy MBB but it's dated really badly and was ultimately based on about 2 jokes. LOG takes some effort and will probably lose here (it's very difficult to put up a clip that makes much sense in isolation, for example) but the quality of some of the writing and ideas was fantastic- even if they did take the gloss off of it by making a crappy film.

LOG is one of my top ten comedies. Alas, so is MBB. This was the toughest of draws.

If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I will take you in my German mouth.

 

[Beefy]

I don't think Men Behaving Badly has dated that badly. The ITV years don't hold up well but they never did really.