My favorites are:
Sugar Rush
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Dwarf

All of them are insanely good comedies.

The IT Crowd and 'Allo, 'Allo are also well done. Being Human is good until it reaches 3rd season.

Mr. Bean? Seriously, he's a poor ripoff of Buster Keaton and the rest of the silent era actors.

+1 to Misfits, I only saw the first series, but that was brilliant. I'd recommend using the subtitles for the first few episodes as some of the accents are really hard to understand, and I've been into British programming for years. Just not the contemporary stuff.

I'll add My Hero to the list, it's got the actor that played Dougal on Father Ted, and it was quite good in the episodes I saw.

The Last Train

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195471/


Outcasts

Absoluetely
and a spin off from one of the sketches:
Mr.Don and Mr.George

On that topic, you can't afford to miss The Thick of It.

Everything done in the same style is not a ripoff though. And this was just revisitting a style of physical comedy. If you actually went by your standard Buster Keaton etc were all ripping off the type of comedy already done long before the silent movie actors came about (they weren't though, that is not how it works).

Whether it is poor or not is personal opinion, I think it is much superior to a lot of the old era movies, and at least as good as any other, but that is just me and everyone will have a different view.

No, but they bothered to actually get it right. In Bean's case, it's derivative, not as good as the previous iteration and brings little to nothing new.

Hence the ripoff. If you've seen the source material for that series, you'd know just how bad it is. I've tried watching it and I always wind up falling asleep. Something that was never a problem when I was watching the silent era stars.

He's capable of being funny, I've seen Blackadder, but Bean is just a waste of time, I can only assume that he was able to get away with that because the British public wasn't as aware of American cinema of the silent era.

Zen. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(TV_series]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(TV_series[/url])

Or it is a cultural difference and that is why you don't understand or see what is good about it. Other cultures can be different and not be inferior, even if you don't believe this. What you think is the way to do things, or the better way to do things, is not a fact.

I have seen huge amounts of American film from that era (not anywhere near all of it obviously) as I am actually a fan, but I still find it mainly inferior if I compare it to a lot of Mr Bean material - but I attributed this to the cultural differences in filming, writing and content and time period as well as just personal opinion.

You are free to hate it of course, I just think the attempts to make it a universal fact (with empty sentences that don't really say anything) instead of your opinion is a bit over the top - and the attempt to make it sound like the US is obviously better and the British public are just ignorant is just . . well, ignorant and petty.

2 more that just
The New Statesman
Men Behaving Badly

A vote for Snuff Box here. Strong language, but very funny imo.

LOL

Ignorant must mean something different in the UK, because lacking knowledge and exposure is ignorant. And it seems to fit the bill here.

This is an art form that was inspired in part by British comedians a century ago, but it really came into it's own in the US as far as the films go. There are conventions involved and the conventions as a whole were developed because they worked. Much of it was the result of trial and error, but if you watch things like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or later works from folks like the Marx Brothers, much of it held true throughout that entire era. Some of it even pops up from time in contemporary TV and movies.

For example, if you look at characters like Chaplin's Tramp, he's pretty stupid on one level, but he's also very clever on another. He's likeable even though he's a cast off in society and his antics aren't random or senseless, they're a criticism of various institutions or the result of a lack of book smarts. They make an effort in various places to make him into a real person that you might actually meet.

Mr. Bean isn't a real person the way that those other characters are. I don't recall any effort being made to make him a real person. He's basically just a puppet. So, it's really hard to care about whether or not he succeeds. Likewise it just underscores the fact that a lot of this is quite pointless.


You don't have to agree with me, but it's always rather amusing when the Brits get upset because there's something that we do better than them.
That ones brilliant. I thought somebody had mentioned it, but definitely worth a watch.

One I forgot:

Black Mirror

It means the same everywhere, informal usage meaning discourteous or rude so fits the bill perfectly as I used it.

That is exactly what the character was supposed to be, they were not going for the same type of character. So it is a little clearer now what is happening, you don't understand and/or like what the show did so it is below you and those who like it below you. If someone disagrees it is because they could not possibly understand why they are wrong.

Tells anyone everything they need to know.

I wish you the best anyway, we all have to learn who we can and can't talk to on forums like this so at least we now know to not bother responding to each other. Have a good one :)