Favorite Comedy TV Series

When you need a good laugh or a charming break from your real-world problems, very few things compare to a good television comedy series. Like a true friend, you know they'll always be there to deliver a laugh and even a little love. From classics like The Cosby Show, Cheers, and Seinfeld to more modern sitcoms like The Big Bang Theory, Arrested Development and The Office, there are plenty of great television comedy series to rank, rate and recommend here on Favslist. So, get started ranking your favorites right now and then share your list on social to see which series tickle your friends funny bone!

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    South Park
    Ranked by 31 users
    182 +47
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    The Simpsons
    Ranked by 27 users
    139 -24
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    Futurama
    Ranked by 29 users
    136 -97
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    Arrested Development
    Ranked by 25 users
    136 -94
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    Seinfeld
    Ranked by 26 users
    128 +72
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
    Ranked by 13 users
    83 -19
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    Parks and Recreation
    Ranked by 11 users
    73 +65
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    Friends
    Ranked by 15 users
    73 -67
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    Whose Line Is It Anyway?
    Ranked by 16 users
    70 -51
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    How I Met Your Mother
    Ranked by 16 users
    69 -68
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    Scrubs
    Ranked by 17 users
    68 -9
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    The Office
    Ranked by 17 users
    64 +98
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    Frasier
    Ranked by 11 users
    61 -62
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    Community
    Ranked by 10 users
    58 -36
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    Blackadder
    Ranked by 9 users
    56 +62
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    The Big Bang Theory
    Ranked by 14 users
    54 +65
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    Ranked by 11 users
    51 +84
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    Tom and Jerry
    Ranked by 12 users
    44 -40
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    The IT Crowd
    Ranked by 11 users
    41 -89
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    Malcolm in the Middle
    Ranked by 8 users
    41 -87

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  • 9 years ago
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    I've been thinking about this list and I'm still not completely sure on how to tackle it. I've basically been treating it as "Funniest TV Shows" but is it actually supposed to be "Favourite TV shows that are primarily comedy"?

    The reason I ask is because there are TV shows that are certainly very funny / should have the comedy genre tag but comedy is by no means the main focus of the show. (#Stargate SG-1 for example is very funny and often has entire sections just dedicated to getting a laugh but that is not what the show is about as a whole.)

    What is the actual goal for this one / do you think we would benefit from limiting the list to only TV shows with a comedy genre as the 'primary' genre? @Pape Badiane
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … If the show has "strong" elements of comedy, it should be eligible.
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … That seems a little vague, people could have entirely different interpretations of what a "strong" element of comedy is. I'm going to take that as 'If one of the main reasons I enjoy the show is because it is funny.'
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    • Papissama
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      Editing … In this case, let's just limit it to the main genre to keep things clear. That way we might have a list that says "Funniest Episodes" where we can label "comedy" to each episode. What about this?
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … Well if it was actually called "Funniest" that would be entirely subjective so you wouldn't need a tag. My idea of a perfect solution would be to list categories in order of importance and split TV Show genre categories into Primary and Secondary. So using SG1 as an example again it would be a Sci-Fi Action-Adventure | Drama Comedy. (With Sci-Fi being the most important genre followed by action etc etc and everything after the | being a 'secondary genre'.) That way you could differentiate between something like #Red Dwarf where Sci-Fi and Comedy are both really important/primary centre-stage themes, SG1 where comedy and light-heartedness is important but it's secondary to overall tone and #Battlestar Galactica (2003 series) where everything is serious as shit nearly all the time. If you were going to do something like that we would need a better way of reorganising the genres, you can't move them around like you can on the page categories screen. I don't think you necessarily need to genre up the episodes of a show but I'm all in favour of being able to add much more information.
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  • 9 years ago
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    Just the mere fact #Seinfeld isn't number one is wrong in so many ways...
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      Editing … George is getting upset!
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      Editing … Better than Fawlty Towers and Blackadder? No way! I think the worst thing about the list's that Frasier's in the top 10 though, that's just wrong.
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      Editing … Frasier is brilliant.
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    • Rich .
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      Editing … I hate Frasier with a passion, my family has it on way too often. There's only so many times you can joke about aloof snobs having zany misunderstandings. South Park at #1 as well, I'm really not impressed with this list.
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    • Ulty
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      Editing … South Park turned to shit after the 6th season.
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    • DJ_JJSlider
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      Editing … I think a lot of comedies turn to s*** near the end. At least the ones that didn't have a deep storyline/consistent joke writers.
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  • 9 years ago
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    Let's see... I need to watch Arrested Development and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and maybe The Wonder Years. I just started watching The IT Crowd and it's pretty funny so it could make my list later.
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  • 9 years ago
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    Oh great, this list's a lot better than it was last night. Frasier was ahead of Blackadder before, I thought you'd all gone insane.
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  • 9 years ago
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    Is it better to rank based on the quality of the show, including its non-funny elements, or on pure funniness?
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    • Doubleagent
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      Editing … I'm ranking based on funny or else this would just end up being my top tv show list again.
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  • 9 years ago
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    I made a list of five comedy shows so far, but it's not showing up in my feed and I can't find the list through the list navigation on my profile, either.
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    • Aramonde
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      Editing … I don't see lists of other people who made theirs recently either.
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    • WoodrowShigeru
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      Editing … I can't see yours either. Were your shows added automatically when you began to make your list? (which happens if you have them already ranked in your favorite TV shows list, like on unikGamer) Those selections aren't "locked down" until you add another item or delete one of the already existing ones. — If that's not why then I don't know.
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … Ara, you don't? I've been seeing my friends' new lists and list additions, including those for Favorite TV Comedy Series. Shige, one of them (OITNB) was automatically added. The rest were automatically added when I added the Comedy genre to their page (they were all labeled as Sitcoms), and then went to edit my list.
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    • Filly Vanilli
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      Editing … Hmmm, my list appeared in my feed with this last TV show I added to my list. Weird.
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    • Aramonde
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      Editing … oh you have to click on film/tv then genre, I just clicked on film/tv. Boy do i feel stupid -_-
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  • 9 years ago
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    Can we get sitcom added to the available categories?
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