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- Marc Chacksfield
- Only Fools And Horses - Del Boy Falls Through The Bar. Watch now on YouTube. Episode: ‘Yuppy Love’ (Series 6, Episode 1, 1989) Written by: John Sullivan.
- Blackadder - A Bout Of ‘Insanity’ Watch now on YouTube. Episode: ‘Goodbyeee’ (Series 4, Episode 6, 1989) Written by: Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. This scene perfectly encapsulates how this season of Blackadder dealt with difficult topics like death and war-related mental illness.
- Fawlty Towers - “Don’t Mention The War!” Watch now on YouTube. Episode: ’The Germans’ (Series 1, Episode 6, 1975) Written by: John Cleese and Connie Booth.
- Father Ted. Watch on YouTube now. Episode: ’A Christmassy Ted’ (Christmas Special, 1996) Written by: Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. Again another Irish sitcom on the list made by a British company (hence its inclusion), Father Ted always ranks high in the 'best sitcoms of all time' list - and for good reason, it's a joy (as long as you can separate creator from creation)!
- Oliver Lyttelton
- “Broad City” (2014 – present) It could have been taken, at first glance, as a cheap cash-in on the thinkpiece-inspiring success of “Girls.”
- “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” (2005 – present) The slow-burning success of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” has almost no precedent in TV history.
- “Silicon Valley” (2014 – present) He was an animation king thanks to “Beavis And Butt-Head” and “King Of The Hill,” but live-action success long eluded Mike Judge, with films like “Office Space” and “Idiocracy” failing to find audiences despite their obvious brilliance.
- “Everybody Hates Chris” (2005-2008) Chris Rock was hardly the first stand-up to put out a show drawing on his own experiences growing up, but the utterly charming “Everybody Hates Chris” wasn’t quite what anyone was expecting — owing more to “The Wonder Years” than to most family shows, it saw the young Chris (Tyler James Williams) growing up in Bed-Stuy, with an authentically working-class vibe that’s too hard to find on TV, then or now; a nicely nostalgic reconstruction of the 1980s; and a pleasingly functional, if often bickering, family (including a breakout turn by Terry Crews as his dad).
- “Corporate”
- “Casual”
- “American Vandal”
- “Will & Grace”
- “Glow”
- “Superstore”
- “Pen15”
- “Everybody Loves Raymond”
- “Detroiters”
- “Catastrophe”
“Corporate” is the best-case scenario for a show that feels like a fever dream. Writers and creators Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson, and Jake Weisman were able to build a three-season long protest against the manipulations of capitalism, all without the show itself feeling like a commodity. It transformed office life drudgery — namely the exploits of...
There’s not really a plot synopsis that can capture what’s great about “Casual.” Yes, there’s the cross-generational looks at complicated romances. But what made this an early Hulu series standard-bearer is that it understood its characters deeply. There was a confidence that it was worth it to hang out with Valerie (Michaela Watkins), Alex (Tommy ...
With Netflix cranking out true-crime documentaries at an unprecedented rate, it was only a matter of time until the streaming service catering to everyone and everything would satirize its own subscribers’ favored genre. But no one could’ve expected such a comedy to be this good. Created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, “American Vandal” is at-onc...
Winner of 18 Emmy Awards, nominated for 83, and with memorabilia from the series featured at the Smithsonian, it’s hard to overstate “Will & Grace’s” impact on American culture, queer culture, and the culture at large. (Heck, even its 2017 revival sparked copycats.) Set in New York, the NBC sitcom (shot in front of a live studio audience) follows b...
Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch’s Netflix original series about the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling had no business being as sharp, funny, and eminently entertaining as it was — and for that we can all be thankful. Set in Southern California in the 1980s, the half-hour comedy puts an undeniably layered and feminist lens on female wrestling with its multi...
NBC once again struck workplace comedy gold with Justin Spitzer’s long-running series about employees in a Walmart-esque megastore in the suburbs of St. Louis. Most of “Superstore” takes place inside the walls of Cloud Nine, where employee relations, eccentric customers, and squabbles with corporate headquarters provide endless fodder for comedy an...
A cringe-comedy with a healthy dose of horror, “PEN15” takes viewers back to the most cursed time of all: middle school. Creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star as 13-year-old versions of themselves going through preteen hell in the early 2000s — surrounded by actual preteen costars, which dials the awkwardness up to the max. Anna and Maya navig...
Ostensibly, “Everybody Loves Raymond” embodies many of the sitcom stereotypes that tend to turn off more modern audiences. The CBS comedy follows a working husband and stay-at-home wife, the former of whom avoids any domestic responsibilities and the latter of which is often reduced to nagging him about helping out. Add in a mother-in-law who const...
“Detroiters” might be the purest depiction of friendship from any TV show of the last decade. Over two seasons, Tim Cramblin (Tim Robinson) and Sam Duvet (Sam Richardson) poured every last bit of goofiness and heart into their Detroit-area ad business. They helped sell wigs and tried to use local stars to help make new ones. They embraced the weird...
When “Catastrophe” arrived in 2015, most comedies came laced with either arsenic or sugar. Combining the two wasn’t a novel concept, but Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney landed on a spirit that switched from one to the other with ease. Whether in Rob or Sharon’s early semi-romance or the marriage that would eventually bloom from a messy one-night stan...
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Aug 22, 2023 · The 50 best TV comedies since 2000 From mega-hits like How I Met Your Mother to cult favorites like The IT Crowd, we're counting down the shows that made us laugh the most so far this century
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Jan 12, 2021 · In this must-have collection, Louis Barfe has selected the very best of British television's comedy classics. Unforgettable moments from Dad's Army, Blackadder and Fawlty Towers rub shoulders with classic sketches including Monty Python's 'Dead Parrot' and The Two Ronnies' 'From Handles'.
