How has no one mentioned “Spaced” yet?
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All good choices, and I have nothing new to add.
I have Red Dwarf and the IT Crowd on disc, so at least I can watch them when I want.
I liked Black Books.
Are You Being Served (with all those wonderful characters) was always on the air back in the day - late night on PBS, they’d show a block of them, Served, Fawlty, and others.
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Black Books. I was very much like Bernard minus the smoking plus the drinking times the drinking.
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I did! 
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Fawlty Towers gets quoted quite a bit in MST3K too, usually Crow doing his Cleese - “Yes, dear, I’m doing it dear!”, “My god you’re ugly…”, and so forth.
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“Look just smile and nod your head when the big guy is talking but do as I say.”
“Actually, it’s the opposite.”
Underrated comedy duo.
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Mustn’t forget, then, A Bit of Fry and Laurie
…and At Last the 1948 Show
(memorable not least for Marty Feldman in drag… it needs to be seen to be believed!)
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D’oh. And of course the original British Whose Line is it Anyway?
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And rightly so. I didn’t mention Fawlty Towers in my post higher up, probably because it’s a given that it’s the greatest sitcom ever.
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So it could get darker than WWI.
I love all of Black Adder. I overstand that we sometimes do worse every generation even though our ancestors tried to leave achievements as self absorbed as their achievements were. I think Blackadder and Red Dwarf taught me the most about life of any of these shows.
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Well if sketch shows are included, I shall have to update my list.
I recently got a DVD of At Last the 1948 Show, but it’s the inferior U.S. release with only four compilation episodes on it. I really need to get a region-free player.
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Amazon has some pre-Python Do Not Adjust Your Set, which is incredible. And while I was looking for that, I found Still Open All Hours which is an update of an older show Open All Hours. Corner shop humor that is very old fashioned but I have loved David Jason since Count Duckula so I wanted to see him in live action and in both of these his timing is perfect.
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If we can throw the floor open to panel games as well as sketch/variety shows, I’d add Mock the Week, Would I Lie To You?, If I Ruled the World, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and of course QI.
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So much great stuff here. I’m another big fan of The IT Crowd, as well as Fawlty Towers and Ab Fab. I discovered Toast of London a couple years ago and it’s terrific, just wonderfully bonkers:
I also discovered The Royle Family, quite the gem of a little-known show:
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You don’t know me, you don’t know what I got!
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Of course DM - “he’s the strongest, he’s the quickest, he’s the best!”
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I have so little to add here because Fawlty Towers and a Flying Circus are what I grew up watching & now IT Crowd is now one of my main go-to’s. There are a few shows you all have mentioned that I haven’t heard of, and that’s both terrible and exciting 
Although it doesn’t quite fit in this category as it’s a bit more of a drama, I’ve got to mention Doc Martin… the timing and utter dryness that Martin Clumes delivers is amazing
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