No, I find it unfunny too, although not as unfunny as Last Of The Summer Wine.
I like
Last of the Summer Wine, but it really isn't funny, or at least it doesn't stay that way after you've seen a few episodes. They're all pretty similar, after all. And it probably has gone on far too long. I doubt anyone's watched it every week for all the years it's been running. But it's sweet, and the Yorkshire accents and countryside are lovely.
It's really hard to make a list of favourite British comedies because there are so many fine ones to choose from. A list of my favourite American comedies would be much simpler (
M.A.S.H). But here we go. These are the ones that bear a lot of re-watching (I find that
Fawlty Towers and
The Young Ones don't):
Men Behaving Badly
Whose Line is it Anyway? (the US Drew Carrey version simply doesn't hold a candle. It looks rehearsed, and it's toothless because of the censorship. And the lack of Tony Slattery.)
Yes Minister
Yes Prime Minister
Do
Goodnight Sweetheart and
May to December count as comedies?
Red Dwarf
Black Books gets a vote just for the episode "Manny's First Day"
Game On (Matthew's speech about the evils of the outside!)
Chef (They had Lenny Henry do some adverts in character for New Zealand butter which were pretty good too.)
'Allo 'Allo (one of my best friends in high school used to do a great impression of the Englishman Who Thinks He Can Speak French. It always began "I was passing by the window ... " with the wrong vowel on "pass".
Oh, and I'll confess to a bit of a soft spot for
To the Manor Born.