For thousand UK Gold viewers were asked to pick their favourite one liners from a shortlist of 50.
Kay's line from Phoenix Nights topped the poll, reports Sky News.
Mrs Merton's classic question to Debbie McGee took second place: "So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"
The Office was third. "If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn't say Einstein, Newton... I'd go Milligan, Cleese, Everett, Sessions", says David Brent.
Father Ted took fourth. "I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest", says Ted. "Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do. Whereas priests... more drink?"
In at number five, Rowan Atkinson's Edmund Blackadder: "He's mad! He's mad. He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of this year's Mr Madman competition."
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Sky News, Mon 14 Aug 2006 at 9:53am
