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As a science nerd I think BBT is very funny, even when the writers make such glaring errors as having Sheldon stop his self-destruct device just before its countdown reached zero - even though he modeled it after Star Trek, specifically referenced a TOS episode the self-destruct was featured in, and even used the same password. Any true Trek fan knows the Enterprise self-destruct was unstoppable after the countdown reached 5 seconds - a fact that comes up in the very episode Sheldon mentioned. A deplorable writing error, to be sure, but I think such things are amusing in their own way.
The only remotely objective measurement I know is that enough people enjoyed the show to make it last 12 seasons. Y'all are welcome to your own opinions, but all the absolutist pontificating is pretty silly. There's no Kelvin scale of funny.
IT Crowd is hysterically funny as well, but it's written differently (not correctly or wrongly, just different) and was written and performed for a different audience, in a different country. There's really no point arguing which was funnier.