The votes are in, the ballots cast; if you are still in line, please turn around and meekly walk home. That’s right, the nation has had its say on the best comedy TV show of the modern era (post-2010). And the winner is, erm, Ricky Gervais’s After Life.
If you’re scratching your head and thinking, “wait, what?”, that’s entirely fair. Here’s a brief and entirely non-exhaustive list of some of the great UK comedies to have emerged over the past 16 years: The Trip, The Detectorists, Fleabag, Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters, This Country, Derry Girls, Stath Lets Flats, Ghosts, Catastrophe, Here We Go and Chewing Gum. That’s a lot of good television. Only some of these feature on Radio Times’ poll of our best modern comedies, but even those that do received far fewer votes than After Life.
