What is the most British comedy ever made?

[MuteBanana]

Americans don't get Bottom do they? I think I've watched the odd reaction video and it just seems to startle them.

Men Behaving Badly is a simple idea that should've easily translated but I don't think the US version had any success.

[Jockice]

The American version of The Inbetweeners flopped horribly, didn't it? Although I did watch a couple of episodes and didn't think it was quite as bad as it was made out to be. Just not very good though.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Last of the Summer Wine ran between 1973 and 2010 so surely that's the 'most' British comedy ever made

[McChesney Duntz]

It may just be the circles I run in, but Alan Partridge has a pretty huge cult following in the States from what I can see. (I would posit that his closest American equivalent is actually Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show.)

Bottom didn't take in the States, true (though it got a domestic DVD release, despite it never airing on US television from what I can see), but there are rabid Young Ones fanatics still running about (mostly due to its long run Sunday late nights on MTV in the eighties), for whatever that's worth. (They tried doing a US version of that, too, importing Planer and adding Chris Elliott and Jackie Earle Haley, which never got past pilot stage - apparently, it's wretched, but I'm deeply curious to see it.)

[Natnar]

Most of the stuff Victoria Wood wrote. I'd love to know what the Americans thought of her stuff.