What do you mean you haven't seen it? - Comedic Series Edition
Are you kidding me, you haven't seen this? Are you serieas?
Collection of Series that are iconic to me, using clever structured humour or quirky characters using punny lines. Genuine belly aching tear inducing moments.
Collection of Series that are iconic to me, using clever structured humour or quirky characters using punny lines. Genuine belly aching tear inducing moments.
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- StarsJohn CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew SachsHotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.The god of gods of comedy, John Cleese showing why he is a timing and expressionistic genius of the art while displaying the antics inspired off a real life hotel owner's....unique attitude of hotel ownership.
- CreatorLarry DavidJerry SeinfeldStarsJerry SeinfeldJulia Louis-DreyfusMichael RichardsThe continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.One of the gods of comedy, basically not acting while playing himself with an incredible supporting cast.
- CreatorDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsJennifer AnistonCourteney CoxLisa KudrowFollows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty year-old friends living in the Manhattan borough of New York City.A long roller coaster series that makes you wish it never ended.
- CreatorMike ClattenburgStarsJohn Paul TremblayRobb WellsMike SmithThree petty felons have a documentary made about their life in a trailer park.Off the wall lovable characters doing insane things.
- CreatorRob McElhenneyGlenn HowertonStarsCharlie DayGlenn HowertonRob McElhenneyFive friends with big egos and small brains are the proprietors of an Irish pub in Philadelphia.Absolute nightmare group of people being true to their ludicrous characters resulting in genius comedy.
- CreatorMichael Patrick O'BrienStarsGlenn HowertonLyric LewisMary SohnA former philosophy professor who takes a job teaching advanced placement biology uses his students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him.Always Sunny's Glen Howerton being even more Glenny.
- CreatorCharlie DayMegan GanzRob McElhenneyStarsRob McElhenneyCharlotte NicdaoAshly BurchThe head of a successful video game design company and his troubled staff struggle to keep their hit game 'Mythic Quest' on top.Always Sunny's Rob McElhenny being even more Elhennyish.
- CreatorJemaine ClementStarsKayvan NovakMatt BerryNatasia DemetriouA look into the nightly lives of four vampires who have lived together on Staten Island for over a century.Series following the mockumentary movie of the same name, Taika Waititi's breakout title(s).
- CreatorTina FeyStarsTina FeyAlec BaldwinTracy MorganLiz Lemon, head writer of the sketch-comedy show "TGS with Tracy Jordan", must deal with an arrogant new boss and a crazy new star while trying to run a successful television show without losing her mind.The genuis that is Tina Fey mixed with the explosive talent of Alec Baldwin
- StarsJennifer SaundersJoanna LumleyJulia SawalhaThe wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.A pair of permanently sozzled over sexed upper class friends who are anything but.
- CreatorMitchell HurwitzStarsJason BatemanMichael CeraPortia de RossiLevel-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs after his father is imprisoned. But the rest of his spoiled, dysfunctional family are making his job unbearable.Characters that you'll feel are people you know from home, involved in an ongoing family avalanche.
- CreatorAlec BergBill HaderStarsBill HaderStephen RootSarah GoldbergA hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.SNL God Bill Hader playing a hitman who wants to rather try acting classes, surrounded by solid characters.
- CreatorEric FalconerChris RomanoStarsDarin BrooksAlan RitchsonChris RomanoThree incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.This one won't be for all, and it does have a number of very "American Comedy" cringe moments, but it also has some pure ludicrous idiocy that is wonderful to behold.
- CreatorJoel Church-CooperStarsHank AzariaTyrel Jackson WilliamsAmanda PeetA famed Major League Baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing, very public meltdown live on-air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity, decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.Hank Azaria, in my books, can do no wrong. Even though his character does a lot wrong and bumbles through it in this one.
- CreatorLisa McGeeStarsSaoirse-Monica JacksonLouisa HarlandTara Lynne O'NeillThe personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.This group of unknown actresses, and actor, form such well developed characters so swiftly it almost detracts from the sublime comedic moments, but doesn't. I AM A DERRY GIRL!
- CreatorCarter BaysCraig ThomasStarsJosh RadnorJason SegelCobie SmuldersA father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.If you don't know who Barney Stinson is, you should be removed from society. Each episode is watchable stand alone, but strings together a powerfully bonding plotline.
- CreatorSteven LevitanChristopher LloydStarsEd O'NeillSofía VergaraJulie BowenThree different, but related, families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways.These characters grow as the actors did over the 10 from pre teens to young adults, with the adult cast displaying similar growth. An experience.
- CreatorGreg DanielsMichael SchurStarsAmy PoehlerJim O'HeirNick OffermanThe absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.Amy being Tina Fey's best friend shows immediately, but we also get Starlord's breakout role thrown into a character driven comedy.
- CreatorPaul AbbottStarsDavid ThrelfallRebecca AtkinsonAlice BarryThe lives and relationships of a group of siblings and their estranged father Frank Gallagher on a rough Manchester estate.Belongs more in a Dramedy than Comedy list, however the comedic elements nearly overwhelm the gunky working class dramatic nature of the main story.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsRobin WilliamsSarah Michelle GellarJames WolkOut-of-the-box Simon Roberts runs an ad agency with his Type-A daughter Sydney.The comedy God, Robin Williams, last project is more a showcase of him being wonderful, but there are moments where Buffy shines as well.
- StarsChris O'DowdRichard AyoadeKatherine ParkinsonThe comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.You don't need to be an IT Nerd, although definetly has an extra layer if you are, to enjoy this very british comedy. Structured suprise.
- CreatorArmando IannucciStarsJulia Louis-DreyfusTony HaleAnna ChlumskyFormer Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.Seinfeld's Juila Louise-Dreyfus delivering one liners and complicated expressions that showcase why she's a comedic Goddess on a chase to be the POTUS.
- CreatorBill DubuqueMark WilliamsStarsJason BatemanLaura LinneySofia HublitzA financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.Another Dramedy, but I think that list will be too short so in goes this mixed group of class war heroes.
- CreatorChris SheridanStarsAlan TudykSara TomkoCorey ReynoldsA crash-landed alien takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.Another on my short list of those who can do no wrong, Alan Tudyk, as an alien crash landed on earth dealing with getting home.
- CreatorLaurie NunnStarsAsa ButterfieldGillian AndersonNcuti GatwaA teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.Ok so maybe the Dramedy list needs to be made, for now though we have not-Margot-Robbie with Agent Skully dealing with high schoolers sex ed.