If art imitates life and vice versa, then surely we are allowed to integrate some parts of our leisure into our daily lives, and in more ways then just putting a low resolution copy of Van Gogh’s Starry Night onto our mobile for wallpaper.

I suppose we all take some facet of ourselves from what we admire, and it helps to have a reason to do so. Enter Basil Fawlty… (more…)

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A recent online poll has declared Fawlty Towers the most iconic comedy show of all time.

The show, which starred John Cleese as on-the-edge hotel owner Basil Fawlty, Prunella Scales as his wife Sybil, Connie Booth as waitress Polly and Andrew Sachs as Spanish waiter Manuel, received almost a third of the 3,000 votes cast in the recent poll by MSN Entertainment.

The poll was organised by MSN in order to coincide with the Bafta TV Awards, to be held in London on Sunday.

“We wanted to give voters a chance to honour the cream of British television favourites,” said the website’s entertainment editor Mike Lok.

The word “iconic” has some interesting connotations, however, laughing directly in the face of the bottle-out BBC poll a few years ago that saw Only Fools and Horses beat Blackadder and Fawlty Towers.

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Fawlty Towers – Communication Problems:

Mrs Richards: I asked for a room with a view!

Basil: [muttering to Manuel] Deaf, mad, and blind…

[He goes to the window and peers through it.]

Basil: Ah, this is the view as far as I can remember, madam… yes, yes, this is it.

Mrs Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that.

Basil: That is Torquay, madam.

Mrs Richards: Well, it’s not good enough. (more…)

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A vast list of the best put-downs on television has been compiled by the Radio Times in the UK, and it includes countless BBC comedy series.

• Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: “Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmm? Or did you have to talk to all your friends for so long that you didn’t have time to perm your ears?”
• Mrs Merton - The Mrs Merton Show. To Debbie McGee: “So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”
• Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder II. To Lord Percy: “The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn’t he, Percy?”
• Father Jack Hackett - Father Ted. “Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!”
• Carla - Cheers. Cliff: “I’m ashamed God made me a man.” Carla: “I don’t think God’s doing a lot of bragging about it either.”
• Patsy Stone - Absolutely Fabulous. “One more facelift on this one and she’ll have a beard.”
• Jim Royle - The Royle Family. Nana: “Is this hat too far forward?” Jim: “No. We can still see your face.”
• Malcolm Tucker - The Thick Of It. To a junior minister: “All these hands all over the place! You were like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra! It was like watching John Leslie at work!”
• Statler and Waldorf - The Muppet Show. Statler: “Wake up, you old fool, you slept through the show.” Waldorf: “Who’s a fool? You watched it.”
• Inspector Monkfish - The Fast Show. To a bereaved woman: “I realise this must be a very difficult time for you, so put your knickers on and go and make me a cup of tea.”
• Rupert Rigsby - Rising Damp. To lodger Alan, who complains his room is too cold to study in: “The only thing you study is your navel. You even shave lying down.”
• Nan - The Catherine Tate Show. Describing an encounter with an overweight hospital volunteer: “She said to me last time, ‘You look bored, Mrs Taylor. I’ve got three words for you: Barbara Taylor Bradford.’ So I said, ‘Yeah? I’ve got three words for you too: calorie controlled diet.”‘
• The Professor - The Mary Whitehouse Experience. “I have here a copy of your book, Origins of the Crimean War. It smells of poo.” “That’s because it’s been inside your mum’s bra.”
• Alf Garnett - Till Death Us Do Part. “You Scouse git!”
• Gary Strang - Men Behaving Badly. “Let’s face it, Tony, the only way you’re gonna be in there is if you’re both marooned on a desert island and she eats a poisonous berry or a nut which makes her temporarily deaf, dumb, stupid, forgetful and desperate for sex.”
• Arnold Rimmer - Red Dwarf. “Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence.”
• Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm. “Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.”
• Captain Mainwaring - Dad’s Army. “You stupid boy!”

I’ve even been so kind as to let a couple of US entries remain from those comedy-oriented ones (no way is any line from Dynasty getting listed here…) but I have to say that I can think of better examples from almost all of the UK comedy examples.  The Mary Whitehouse Experience’s entry in particular is very poor and doesn’t touch upon the genius of History Today

Still, nothing from Gervais!