Name your Five Funniest TV shows

[Guest lurkerspeaks]

Just to show we all have varied tastes, yet hopefully we can share our thoughts and discover something new... Name your five funniest tv series...Can be sitcoms, variety shows, etc.. just any series that provided great comedy when it was aired, and (hopefully) entertained many more generations thru reruns, videos, etc..

 

Here are mine to start with:

1) I Love Lucy

2) The Carol Burnett Show

3) The Golden Girls

4) Roseanne

5) SNL

[MsGuy]

LUCY

She makes you laugh,

She makes you cry,

She hits you in the face

With pie.

The 24/7 clown show on CNN since January ain't bad either.

 

[TotallyOz]

1. The Golden Girls

2. Boston Legal

3. The Big Bang Theory

4. Two and 1/2 Man

5. Mash

[AdamSmith]

Carol Burnett Show

Red Skelton

Honeymooners

Gilligan's Island

Beverly Hillbillies

[RA1]

Show of Shows

The Big Bang Theory

Carol Burnett Show

The Golden Girls

Red Skelton

Best regards,

RA1

[unicorn]

Not sure I can name my five favorites, but any of you remember this one?

 

[unicorn]

I also thought this one was funny. Of course I was a kid then. Seems everyone else thought it was terrible!

Today, Holmes & Yoyo is considered one of the worst television series ever made. it ranked number 33 on TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time.

[unicorn]

 

[stripfan]

Good choices !

Mine are in no particular order :

1. Seinfeld 

2. Veep 

3. Curb Your Enthusiasm 

4. 30 Rock

5. Modern Family 

[BigK]

I agree with those listed already.  I've seen all of the above except Curb Your Enthusiasm and Red Skelton and only bits and pieces of Show of Shows.  I'll have to investigate those.

I've really enjoyed the English comedies like:

1. Fawelty Towers
2. Yes Minister
3. Yes Prime Minister

 

[AdamSmith]

1 hour ago, BigK said:

I agree with those listed already.  I've seen all of the above except Curb Your Enthusiasm and Red Skelton and only bits and pieces of Show of Shows.  I'll have to investigate those.

I've really enjoyed the English comedies like:

1. Fawelty Towers
2. Yes Minister
3. Yes Prime Minister

 

YES!

And of course...!

[AdamSmith]

 

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[RA1]

One thing that made the Shows of Shows so spectacular was the ad libbing by Sid Caesar who frequently broke up Carl Reiner and others in the cast.  He and Imogene Coca were spell binding together.  I believe these shows were live and some or most not likely preserved in any way.  I would like to be wrong about this.

 

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

3 hours ago, RA1 said:

One thing that made the Shows of Shows so spectacular was the ad libbing by Sid Caesar who frequently broke up Carl Reiner and others in the cast.  He and Imogene Coca were spell binding together.  I believe these shows were live and some or most not likely preserved in any way.  I would like to be wrong about this.

 

Best regards,

RA1

Actually I think most of them do persist, on the studios' own Kinescope film recordings, captured from the very TV screen upon broadcast. Or, actually, the Kinescope capture in real time of what the camera was delivering out its monitor?

One or two 'lost' Dark Shadows episodes were retrieved that way. Although in those cases from retrieval of some local TV studio's Kinescope.

But I think my intuition toward your question is also correct.

Who knows?!

[RA1]

Wiki says that at least some of the Kinescopes exist.  All of the original scripts seemingly exist although what Sid did was NOT in the scripts.

Best regards,

RA1

[AdamSmith]

3 hours ago, RA1 said:

Wiki says that at least some of the Kinescopes exist.  All of the original scripts seemingly exist although what Sid did was NOT in the scripts.

Best regards,

RA1

Sid and Imogene, and then Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman and etc., were indeed a breed apart.

As too was Gleason.

[RA1]

Kind of made you want to be a bus driver or work in the sewer, if they had that much fun, didn't it?

 

Best regards,

RA1

[Guest Evan24]

The Comeback (Most underrated show ever <3 )
Friends
South Park
The Simpsons
The League of Gentlemen

I'd have put The Big Bang Theory based on series 1-4 (maybe 5 at a stretch) but it became so awful that I just couldn't.

[Ojibear]

Being Canadian my top 5 are:

1. SCTV (alumni are Martin Short, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Mike Myers, Dan Ackroyd ...)

2. Kids in the Hall

3. Codco

4. Baroness von Sketch

5. This Hour has 22 Minutes

 

[Guest bobbalino]

17 hours ago, Evan24 said:

The Comeback (Most underrated show ever <3 )
Friends.     South Park.    The Simpsons.        The League of Gentlemen.

And while we are on Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback) her knee-slapping turn as Fiona Wallice, a counsellor breaking all the rules in the book in Web Therapy, a surprisingly high volume of episodes. 

Veep for the writing and ensemble cast, though scattering the team of characters into different contexts recently made it a little disjointed.

Louis CK.

Third Rock from the Sun, if even just for John Lithgow and select supportings doing Lord of the Dance.

... Ojibear, as a fellow Canuck I'm afraid I have to go with CNN, albeit in small doses.

[BigK]

I forgot about 3rd Rock from the Sun!

Speaking of Canadian TV ... The Red Green Show