my first memory of comedy and what got me hooked was watching Jeremy hotz (funny man) and Lee Evans in 1994 this is when i started actually noticing and liking comedy and writing it, who or what started you out on the road of comedy? (for you that can remember) 
Hmm..Pinky & The Brain...
Seriously speaking..thinking back to the programmes I liked when I was younger it was mainly The Harry Enfield Television Programme and Men Behaving Badly and old tapes of Fawlty Towers, so I've always loved comedy from a young age, it was after I saw stuff like The Day Today and Alan Partridge that I wanted to start writing comedy.
Butterflies. Well that was my first sample of a good funny sitcom.
i can't rmember butterflies, i suppose that shows that i'm either to young or to old, and i can remember pinky & the brain now that shows my mental age
Oh No!! Mr Lewisroberts i will have to spank you!
Butterflies with Geoffrey Palmer,Wendy Craig and Nicholas Lyndhurst.
It was a gentle amusing sitcom. Written by a woman too. Carla Lane. It was a 70's sitcom and i watched it with my mummy & daddy. I was almost a feotus myself. Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Its made me all nostalgic now. Off to get a dvd of it, cuddle up on the sofa with my dummy and my nunu blanket.
no it still isn't ringing any bells but this spanking you talk of? that rings some bells, anyway i'm going to look it up on here in a moment
Python for me. Holy Grail to be more precise. NI! to be completely honest about it
Oh oh!
Steptoe and son. Whatever happened to the L Lads? Auf Wiedersehen Pet
Of course I should mention that I invented a time machine so only saw these first time round because I happened to be visiting the seventies amd early eighties.
Im afraid to say that the first comedy show I remeber really loving and simply had to watch was The Russ Abbot Show. I was very young. My apologies . . .
Bilko, I Love Lucy, I Married Joan, The Burns and Allen Show all stuff that we watched Sunday afternoons on my Uncle Joe's TV. I heard it all perfectly although it was a job to make out actual people on his primitive set. TVs had only been available for about a fortnight and he got his second hand. I was about 7 and while I didn't actually start writing then I did start storing up punchlines.
Yes forgot about Bilko. I used to watch it on the Beeb late on Saturday nights in, I think, the late sixties.
Still brilliant now and I wish it was shown more often. It appears the odd time on BBC 2 weekday mornings.
I really think that Bilko, Hancock etc etc would be so much more enjoyable than the diet of reality / makeover /this is Max and Jocasta, who have a fortune to spend on two houses and would like to rub the ordinary bloke’s nose in the dirt type guff, which plagues our terrestrial TV channels at present.
Oh dear I appear to be coming over all grumpy. Bah! Psshaw!
....I also have to shamefully admit to Russ Abbott being one of my earliest comedy memories!
I can redeem the situation however by mentioning the two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.
I agree about Butterflies, it was (and still is) stunning.
I can remember the first time I experienced hysterical laughter from a TV show. It was the Monkees (bear with me - I was very young)and I'm sure it hasn't stood the test of time as well as Carla Lane's masterpiece, but there it is nonetheless.
I can join the Russ Abbott cult of shame, too. I used to love Cooperman, his stupid superhero.
I'd probably say The Two Ronnies.
What made we want to write was Scrubs.
My Dad got me in to Monty Python and then Fawlty Towers and they are my earliest memories of enjoying comedy. I remember falling off the sofa laughing at the dead parrot/lumberjack sketch - still makes me laugh to this day.
The Monkees also cracked me up. They showed it during school holidays and it was the sort of show that was aimed at kids but your parents could watch it with you.
Off my own back, Woody Allen doing stand up, The Young Ones, early Only Fools and Horses and shows that got me in to US comedy, such as Cheers and Happy Days.