Cushty

This charmer is Delboy Trotter, salesman extraordinaire! He is the Cockney hustler that populates Britain's most popular sitcom ever, Only Fools and Horses. He was played by Sir David Jason, a former electrician turned actor. It was truly an iconic role, so much so that Steve Carell has made it known that he would love to reprise the role in an American version (after all, British tele has been good to him!).
The plot of this brilliant show revolves around two brothers trying to make a living conning "punters" in South London. Delboy is the eldest, having raised his younger brother, Rodney, on his own. Delboy is the mastermind ("this time next year we will be millionaires"), and Rodney does his best to provide a conscience to the madness. The show ran from 1981 through 2002 (the latter years were Christmas specials only). In those years the Trotters rose and fell without fail, but never lost their sense of family. Rodney and Dell were funny enough, but they had more help. For the first few seasons, their grandfather served as straight man. After his death, Uncle Albert moved in, providing the perfect understated foil (see the link below).
The brothers lives revolve around a local pub that furnishes a colorful cast of supporting miscreants. There is Boycie (the sleazy car salesman), Trigger (the hapless street sweeper), Roy Slater (Delboy's lifelong nemesis, now a police officer), Denzil (Delboy's number one dupe), and Marlene (Boycie's over-available spouse). These folk get drug in and through countless Trotter propositions, occasionally prevailing themselves. It was a brilliant cast in a small, slowly popular show. Jim Broadbent (Roy Slater) has gone on to play roles in two Harry Potter films and Gangs of New York. Roger Lloyd-Pack (Trigger, whose birth certificate under father states "some soldiers"), has also appeared in a Harry Potter film, Vanity Fair, and the Vicar of Dibley series. Sir David Jason (who barely won the lead role in 1981) followed his success in this role with an 18 year run as DI Frost, in A Touch of Frost, a very popular British crime drama.
This show has probably supplanted all my previous favorite television shows in a very short time. I have picked it up on the Internet, years after it ceased production. A friend recommended it to me, and I gave it a chance. From the very start, it felt like home. A bizarre twist on the working man formula, it is a story about a family dreaming, scheming, and living through life's capricous ironies. There is witty writing, madcap slapstick, French malapropisms, and profound poignancy at times. It is a gentler All in the Family, and a smarter Beverly Hillbillies. Their travails give me hope, as I can relate to my own sense of fortune being mediated by my own folly. No matter what happens to this family, at the end of the day, everything is just cushty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NoW08CHNRs