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The Sixties were surreal, satirical and surreal. But was it the greatest ever decade for British comedy?

I'm a bit too young to remember the sixties TV comedy when it was first broadcast. From what I've seen of the re-runs and short clips from that period, it is quite funny, but it is very different to whats on the box today. You've got to see humour in Harold Steptoe having horse dung on his boots, and Tony Hancock putting some strange words to the German National Anthem in the Blood Donor Clinic. You also need to take Alf Garnetts words of wisdom for what they really were, a social comment on what many people really thought at that time.

Anyway. Not much more to say about the sixties really, other than I'd rather watch a re-run of a sixties TV comedy than the offensive rubbish that is on offer in the noughties.

My preference is undoubtedly the comedy that I grew up with in my formative teenage years, which I suspect is how most people will ultimately vote - if anybody bothers to look at that side of it scientifically. For me then, its the 70's.

I wasn't alive in the 60's... But I still believe they were the funniest. They had the Beatles films and The Monkees Tv show and many more. They barely repeat any of the 60's so I barely know much about their comedy but from what I've seen they were the best.