Best Comedy TV shows

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Best Comedy TV shows
Best Comedy TV shows
TOP TV Shows: The Big Bang Theory (2007), Friends (1994), How I Met Your Mother (2005), Community (2009), The Office (2005), Modern Family (2009), My Name Is Earl (2005), Schitt's Creek (2015), Detectorists (2014), Young Sheldon (2017), The Middle (2009), 2 Broke Girls (2011), Married... with Children (1987), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Two and a Half Men (2003), Resident Alien (2021), New Girl (2011), Silicon Valley (2014), Arrested Development (2003), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013).

List of Best TV Shows

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The Big Bang Theory (2007)
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, teen drama
Plot: nerd, scientist, friends, science, genius, geek, sarcasm, group of friends, neighbor, friendship, roommate, intelligence ...
Time: y2k, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: pasadena california, california, hawaii, usa
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 8.9
 1.1M
Friends (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5280 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, teen drama ...
Plot: friendship, looking for love, everyday life, best friend, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, group of friends, couples, sex life, friends, roommate ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 4576 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, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: couples, friendship, roommate, friends, looking for love, singleness, dating, womanizer, couple relations, group of friends, best friend, romantic friendship ...
Time: 2030s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, madagascar, manhattan new york city, usa
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 8.5
 291K
Community (2009)
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, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: hardcase students, college life, geek, friendship, social relations, friends, comedian, lifestyle change, immature, student life, college, silly humor ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
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 9.0
 701K
The Office (2005)
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, mockumentary, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: workplace, job, office, salesman, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, popularity, satire, office romance, workplace situations, love and romance, promotion ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania
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 8.5
 478K
Modern Family (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5378 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, mockumentary, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, everyday life, family relations, generation gap, family life, adolescence, gay adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, gay couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, usa, los angeles
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 7.8
 109K
My Name Is Earl (2005)
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: sitcom, humorous, funny, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: karma, lottery winner, redneck, good deed, misfit, mishap, humour, destiny, anti hero, motivation, young adult, lgbt ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.5
 144K
Schitt's Creek (2015)
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, life turned upside down, lgbtq, riches to rags, family relations, class differences, eccentric family, parents and children, cafe, friendship, gay relationship ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
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 8.6
 21K
Detectorists (2014)
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, buddies, english countryside, treasure, partner, escapades, odd couple, fortune, hidden treasure ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.6
 97K
Young Sheldon (2017)
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, saga ...
Audience: kids
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, genius, adolescence, boy, childhood, school, scientist, child protagonist, society, parents and children, kids and family ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s, year 1989
Place: texas, usa
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 7.7
 53K
The Middle (2009)
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: feel good, not serious, realistic, sitcom, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family values, everyday life, siblings relations, family life, family relations, parents and children, parenthood, adolescence, small town, youth, childhood, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 104K
2 Broke Girls (2011)
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: sitcom, not serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: ambitious, financial problem, money raising, everyday life, lifestyle change, workplace situations, female friendship, friendship, diner, waitress, staff, urban ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012)
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: roommate, odd couple, lifestyle change, lifestyle, sexual humor, city life, friends, troublemaker, everyday life, big city, friendship, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Married... with Children (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Married... with Children is an American sitcom that aired for 11 seasons. It featured a dysfunctional family living in a fictional Chicago, Illinois, suburb. The show, notable for being the first prime-time television series to air on Fox, ran from ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, parody, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, promiscuous daughter, working class, family life, family problems, struggle, parents and children, misfit, suburbs, couples, family relations, adult humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2408 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, humorous, witty, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: female protagonist, jewish family, comedian, stand up comedian, female comedian, career, divorce, husband wife relationship, judaism, strong female lead, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, future, 2010s, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Two and a Half Men (2003)
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: beach house, teenager, odd couple, friends, silly humor, womanizer, roommate, slacker, lifestyle, parents and children, sibling relationship, single parent ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, malibu california, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 50K
Resident Alien (2021)
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, humorous, feel good, light, funny ...
Plot: extraterrestrial, alien race, alien, alien disguised as human, alien contact, alien space craft, fish out of water, ufo, human alien, alien on earth, body horror, moral dilemma ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa, colorado
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 244K
New Girl (2011)
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, adult
Plot: roommate, couples, friends, group of friends, couple relations, lifestyle, optimism, ex couple relations, singleness, love and romance, naivete, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, usa, los angeles
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Silicon Valley (2014)
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, clever, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: computer, geek, programmer, startup, computers and web, computer genius, workplace situations, ambition, computer system, workplace, businessman, ambitious ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san francisco, bay area, palo alto california
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Arrested Development (2003)
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, teen drama
Plot: disorder, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, silly humor, rivals, bankruptcy, irresponsible, immature, adolescence, uptight character, workplace problem, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, funny, detective ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: workplace, police station, cop, workplace situations, investigation, police, workplace humor, police captain, sergeant, teamwork, verbal byplay, young man ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 46K
Cougar Town (2009)
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, teen drama
Plot: looking for love, neighbor, friendship, supportive friend, wine, love and romance, small town life, middle aged, lifestyle, parents and children, family relations, marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
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, mockumentary, sitcom, light, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, vampire, blood, supernatural being, friends, nudity, supernatural power, fantasy world, city life, social relations, urban setting, lifestyle ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city
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 8.5
 163K
The IT Crowd (2006)
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: nerd, geek, workplace, computer genius, workplace situations, computer, lifestyle, teamwork, popularity, career, information technology, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, london
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Parks and Recreation (2009)
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: mockumentary, sitcom, humorous, funny, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: politics, political satire, satire, social commentary, female protagonist, workplace situations, small town life, workaholic, absurd humor, strong female lead, workplace humor, boss and employee ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 8.4
 12K
Brassic (2019)
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: realistic, talky, humorous, funny, dark comedy
Plot: unemployed, friendship, youth, gang, scheme, marijuana, bipolar disorder, lifestyle, money, escapades, psychiatrist, friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 30K
Why Women Kill (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 984 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, female protagonist, male female relationship, character change, changing lives, up and down relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 60s, 2010s, year 1949
Place: usa, los angeles, pasadena california, california
Is relevant ?
 8.5
 62K
Black Books (2000)
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, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: bookstore, weirdo, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, misfit, best friend, workplace problem, uptight character, store, drunkenness, farce ...
Time: near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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Hot in Cleveland (2010)
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, witty, not serious, talky, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, middle aged, best friend, actor's life, career, female protagonist, lifestyle change, middle aged woman, desperation, marijuana, fish out of water, shopping ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
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, dark comedy, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: antisocial behavior, comedian, bad luck, lifestyle, misunderstanding, mishap, socially awkward, career, everyday life, actress, actor, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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