Best Comedy TV shows
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Best Comedy TV shows
TOP TV Shows: Friends (1994), The Big Bang Theory (2007), How I Met Your Mother (2005), Modern Family (2009), My Name Is Earl (2005), Two and a Half Men (2003), The Office (2005), Young Sheldon (2017), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Schitt's Creek (2015), Why Women Kill (2019), Silicon Valley (2014), Community (2009), 2 Broke Girls (2011), The Middle (2009), Resident Alien (2021), Arrested Development (2003), The IT Crowd (2006), Detectorists (2014), Cougar Town (2009).
List of Best TV Shows
1.0M
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot:
friendship, best friends, looking for love, best friend, love and romance, everyday life, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, roommate, friend, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
scientist, nerd, friends, science, friend, sarcasm, best friend, friendship, geek, group of friends, neighbor, roommate ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pasadena california, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
couples, roommate, friendship, friends, looking for love, singleness, womanizer, couple relations, dating, group of friends, romantic friendship, male camaraderie ...
Time:
2030s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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442K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, family relations, everyday life, generation gap, adolescence, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, marriage ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, southern california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, funny, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
karma, lottery winner, good deed, misfit, mishap, irony of fate, destiny, humour, satire, siblings, friendship between men, tv show ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
teenager, beach house, friends, womanizer, roommate, slacker, parents and children, lifestyle, sibling relationship, eccentric family, immature, family life ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, malibu california, usa
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622K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
workplace, job, office, employer employee relationship, salesman, popularity, workplace problem, office romance, workplace situations, love and romance, promotion, career ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
Style:
humorous, witty, clever, sitcom, philosophical
Audience:
kids
Plot:
child prodigy, prodigy, genius, childhood, school, child protagonist, adolescence, parents and children, boy, scientist, kids and family, society ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, year 1989
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, witty, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
female protagonist, jewish family, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, divorce, career, husband wife relationship, judaism, women, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
Time:
50s, future
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, ironic, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
small town, motel, lgbtq, riches to rags, family relations, class differences, eccentric family, parents and children, life turned upside down, siblings living together, cafe, friendship ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
Style:
captivating, witty, atmospheric, erotic, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, women, open marriage, crumbling marriage, family in crisis, society, housewife, character change, male female relationship, female protagonist, up and down relationship, changing lives ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 1940s, 2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, entertaining, witty, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
computer, programmer, geek, ambition, computer genius, computers and web, workplace, workplace situations, businessman, computer system, ambitious, materialism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
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272K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
Style:
sitcom, not serious, witty, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hardcase students, geek, college life, friendship, social relations, friends, lifestyle change, immature, student life, college, silly humor, dark humor ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
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100K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing ...
Style:
not serious, sitcom, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ambitious, friendship, financial problem, money raising, lifestyle change, best friends, workplace situations, female friendship, friends, everyday life, waiter, waitress ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, realistic, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family values, everyday life, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, family relations, parenthood, adolescence, small town, youth, childhood, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to ...
Style:
entertaining, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, alien race, human alien, alien contact, alien disguised as human, alien space craft, fish out of water, alien on earth, body horror, ufo, humanoid alien ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
colorado, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, witty, funny, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disorder, dysfunctional family, arrest, father son relationship, weirdo, silly humor, bankruptcy, rivals, immature, irresponsible, adolescence, uptight character ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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156K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
UK Comedy series about two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
geek, workplace, nerd, computer genius, workplace situations, computer, lifestyle, boss and employee, teamwork, career, popularity, weirdo ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa, london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
Style:
sitcom, funny, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, friendship, archaeologist, obsessive quest, english countryside, buddies, escapades, partners, odd couple, fortune, rivalry, treasure ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, ...
Style:
sitcom, light, sexy, sexual, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
neighbor, looking for love, supportive friend, middle aged, friendship, love and romance, small town life, wine, lifestyle, parents and children, family relations, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
After a naive Midwestern girl's big city dreams are dashed her first week in New York, she finds herself living with her worst nightmare in this hilarious, contemporary comedy about a female odd couple who are surrounded by an outrageous cast ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, roommate, lifestyle change, lifestyle, city life, sexual humor, naivete, odd couple, troublemaker, everyday life, big city, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bookstore, weirdo, workplace, best friends, friends, irish, misfit, farce, uptight character, workplace problem, workplace situations, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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230K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's ...
Style:
feel good, light, sitcom, buddy comedy, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
roommate, friends, couples, group of friends, couple relations, lifestyle, optimism, ex couple relations, singleness, love and romance, teenager, women ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.
Style:
sitcom, light, ridiculous, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, strong female lead, misfit, hopes, cult, nanny, abduction, female protagonist, coping, new job, society, new in town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."
Style:
sitcom, not serious, witty, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shopping, middle aged, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, actor's life, best friends, career, female protagonist, lifestyle change, middle aged woman, marijuana, desperation, fish out of water ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Style:
sitcom, funny, humorous, witty, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mishap, antisocial behavior, lifestyle, misunderstanding, comedian, socially awkward, actor, career, actress, showbiz, everyday life, success ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2010s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the early 1990s, this sitcom features the personal exploits of a 16 year old girl, her family and friends during the Troubles.
Style:
light, captivating, atmospheric, entertaining, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, catholic, friendship, protestant, lesbian, coming of age, school, lgbt, high school, catholic school, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern ireland, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, light, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, supernatural being, friends, supernatural power, fantasy world, humour, social problems, city life, social relations, urban setting, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city
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10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is ...
Style:
talky, realistic, humorous, funny
Plot:
unemployed, scheme, friendship, youth, marijuana, bipolar disorder, gang, lifestyle, escapades, money, friend, psychiatrist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, not serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
political satire, politics, satire, female protagonist, workplace situations, small town life, workaholic, strong female lead, workplace humor, boss and employee, friendship, supportive coworker ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
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