Nah, black adder is acted and written better. Subjective as you say.

( mongychops, Thu 26 Feb 2026, 22:36, archived)

I reckon you could make a case for both being generally better-than-average sitcoms, but canned laughter has really aged badly

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 27 Feb 2026, 1:00, archived)

I like the anecdote told by Sir Patrick Stewart
about when he was idly watching TV one night and Red Dwarf came on, and he was halfway out of his chair on the way to phone his lawyer and sue them for defamation because he thought they were taking the piss out of Star Trek, but then something happened on screen that made him laugh and he sat back down and decided against it.
( .Yeti., Fri 27 Feb 2026, 1:10, archived)

I don’t think anecdotes are Sir Patrick Stewart’s forte.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 27 Feb 2026, 8:06, archived)

That's true. It's on shows even as relatively recent as The League of Gentlemen, which takes away from it a bit.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Fri 27 Feb 2026, 9:48, archived)