Your go-to TV comedies

[Sketi]

Inspired by the go-to movies thread.

What are your top tier, tried and true TV comedies? The ones you keep returning to over the years, and were there for you through the good times and the bad?

My top 5 is:

Seinfeld
Peep Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Brooklyn 99
Bojack Horseman

May have cooked Seinfeld for life sadly, with easily 10+ full watch throughs. The others still have a little bit of juice in them.

What makes your TV comedy hall of fame?

 

[Shell]

In no particular order

Seinfeld
The Office UK- the original and the best. By a mile
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
Extras
Frontline
Summer Heights High.

 

[akkaps]

Fawlty Tower. Episode 6. The Germans

 

[Carbine Chaos]

M*A*S*H
Scrubs
Peep Show
Fawlty Towers
The Office (US)

 

[burge13]

Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Inbetweeners (possibly best comedy ever)
Office (both)
Ricky Gervais show (cartoon of their pod)
Idiot Abroad
Derek a little bit
Seinfeld but way less now
Probably forgot some

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Fawlty Towers

{Daylight}

The Late Show (D-Gen Variety)
Seinfeld
Mr. Bean

Fawlty Tower. Episode 6. The Germans

 

[akkaps]

Don’t mention the war. I said it once, and I think I got away with it.

AND

“She kept referring to the Indians as n*****s. 'No, no, no,' I said, 'the fellows are the West Indians. These people (Indians) are wogs.

 

[Falconista]

Of those not mentioned, The IT Crowd (particularly the first three series), Frasier and Archer.

 

[Faz 2000]

Brooklyn 99, Black Adder and Red Dwarf.

Animated ones I enjoy rewatching Archer, Rick and Morty and The Venture Brothers.

 

[DEVO]

QI
Mock The Week
Frasier

 

[Seeds]

Coupling

large gap

seinfeld

rick and morty

thats the top 3. Others that dont make the top 3 include blackadder, seasons 2-6 of the Simpsons.

seriously coupling is the funniest sitcom ever made. its as if the british did seinfeld.

 

[dumb]

archer
first ~5 seasons are a bit of a magnet for rewatching, later seasons not as enthused but some good in there. last couple of seasons haven't even been on my radar but hopefully get a look at eventually. some of the running gags are great (ray being paralysed end of each season), some wear thin eventually. favourite episode which i always rewatch would be 'man from jupiter', the one with burt reynolds dating archer's mum.

red dwarf
another which i don't have the time of day to have watched completely but have thrashed the early seasons. can't remember the name of my favourite episode, the backwards one, very much reminiscent of the fun i had reading one of the adapted books, 'better than life'.

life's too short
ricky gervais/office documentary on warwick davis.
any awkward british stuff is great (coupling, other stephen merchant)



seinfeld/cye

 

[WireHawk]

Elite
1: I'm Alan Partridge
2: The Larry Sanders Show
3: The Office(UK)
4: Fawlty Towers
5: The League Of Gentlemen

Honourable Mentions
Seinfeld
Taxi
Knowing Me, Knowing You(Alan Partridge)

Underrated
Life's Too Short

 

[Rod Stroker]

Arrested Development. Easily the best comedy written. Layers of jokes upon jokes and gets funnier with every watch.

Fawlty Towers and Seinfeld would round out my top 3.

 

[jabba5114]

Young ones,bottom,Kingswood country. Simpsons seasons 1 to 10

The office (us), i.t crowd and arrested development are some of the more modern ones I'll go to.

There's more just way too many to type

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[Xtreme]

Seinfeld
Cheers
Married with Children
Frasier
30 Rock

And many others

 

[cleanhands]

Boston Legal
21/2 men (Charlie Sheen)

 

[Plugger35]

UK TV comedies

Fawlty Towers
Peep Show
Blackadder
Bottom
The Office
Extras
The Mighty Boosh
The League of Gentlemen


US TV comedies

Seinfeld
Cheers
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Diff'rent Strokes
Family Ties


Australian TV comedies

The Adventures of Lano and Woodley
Kath and Kim
Prisoner
Wilfred


New Zealand TV comedies

Flight of the Conchords
Shortland Street

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Here's a couple that I love, which I haven't seen anyone mention yet -

Psychoville, by the British comedy group the League of Gentlemen. This is basically the same as the League of Gentlemen, but even darker and even funnier which takes some doing.

And Corner Gas, a Canadian sitcom about a middle-aged bloke running a petrol station in a remote Canadian town, and his gang of oddball friends.

Both of them are brilliant, and I can highly recommend them!

 

[Sketi]

Watched the first season of The Inbetweeners based on some comments in here. Has aged pretty badly with the constant gay jokes but a good easy watch (and basically how we spoke in high school to be fair).

Also if I did this exercise 15 years ago my top 5 would probably read something like this:

South Park Seasons 3-13
Seinfeld
Community
Simpsons 3-8 (still classic)
Party Down
The Mighty Boosh

Still have love for these shows but you can only watch so many times

 

[SnakeMan86]

As montioned
Elite tier:

Seinfeld
Brooklyn 99
The Office US
Scrubs
Honorable mention to Parks and Rec. It took me forever to watch it and thought it was hilarious.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

No particular order…

Office both UK and US
Curb
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Larry Sanders
Partridge
Parks & Rec
Fawlty
Blackadder
South Park

 

[AdelaideGT]

Fawlty Towers
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Open All Hours
Mother & Son (original)
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
Spaced
The Lucy Show
Coupling
Catastrophe
Get Smart!
There She Goes

Oh... and any Dame Edna TV show...

 

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Love this show

 

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Myles Barlow
GOAT comedy