It's true that Spike Milligan set the trend which Python followed, but this probably precedes his Q shows. Perhaps the real roots of Python lie in The Goon Show (which the young Pythons would probably have grown up listening to).
How come there are no books on this list, anyway? British humour started long before television, you know! Henry Fielding's novels are a great laugh (anyone who calls one of his lead characters 'Lady Booby' has won my vote already).
Hey! Fawlty Towers and Men Behaving Badly aren't even options?
Monty Python is still the winner, of course. Aside of being very amusing their program has been the most influential, and what I particularly like, part of the revolution that started in 60s but was never completed.
Btw, for some reason the Fast Show is quite popular here. It's a bit annoying to know people who find extremly amusing to say "black".
Monty Python hugely influential and still very funny.
Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (original), New Statesman, Only Fools and Horses, The Young Ones, Bottom, Fawlty Towers, Jeeves and Wooster etc etc
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