When I first moved from England to Czechia in 2009, I always turned to comedy when I felt a little homesick. Maybe it was because watching TV was such a shared experience when I was growing up in the 1980s and '90s, and some of my warmest telly-related memories was sitting around the box with the whole family, howling with laughter at a favorite sitcom. So, I was always grateful when my nan would send over bundles of DVDs that came free with her newspaper, usually double-bills of classic shows like "Porridge," "One Foot in the Grave," and "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em." The blurb on the cardboard sleeve would often refer to them as "timeless classics," but comedy arguably dates quicker than any other genre, and some old favorites are more timeless than others.

I was thinking about this recent

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