What are the five funniest Sictcoms in your opinion?

[coloradodem2005]

My five:

1. Cheers
2. Home Improvement
3. Friends
4. Seinfeld
5. Spin City (especially with Michael J. Fox)

There are others I like but these are the five on my list right now.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. 1. Seinfeld

2. I Love Lucy
3. Mary Tyler Moore
4. Curb Your Enthusiasm
5. WKRP

[gristy]

2. In no particular order

I can only think of two that I found LOL funny:

News Radio (brilliant, creative writing and great execution)
Seinfeld

on edit: yeah, Soap was pretty funny. I was pretty young then, though...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. I forgot about News Radio

it was pretty damn funny!

[HEyHEY]

4. Read these ones!

WKRP
MASH
Sienfeld
Cheers
Newhart

[NightTrain]

6. Dammit, I forgot about M*A*S*H!

Thanks for the reminder, HH.

[NightTrain]

5. Christ, how young are you people?!

Here's my rank-ordered list:

1. All in the Family
2. Cheers
3. I Love Lucy
4. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
5. The Bob Newhart Show

[Faygo Kid]

8. I'm old, too - here's my list

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. The Andy Griffith Show (the Barney years)
3. MASH (still holds up really well)
4. All in the Family
5. Cheers

[gristy]

12. I grew up on reruns of DVD and Andy Griffith

Great shows. Seems just today I was talking with someone at work about MTM. She was in her, what, mid-20's when she started on DVD? She had been a dancer (and a singer) somewhere, I think.

[gristy]

9. 1, 4, and 5 made a great Saturday Night lineup

I doubt there will ever be a lineup like that on one night again.

[Faygo Kid]

11. Best night of TV ever

All in the Family, MASH, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett Show, in that order, 8 to 11. Kept me out of the bars in college (at least until 11).

[HEyHEY]

16. Another newhart

Bob really is a funny guy - if he is able I hope he does another show

[Kathy in Cambridge]

32. I LOVED AITF and MTM-Time to revise my list!

[nostamj]

38. my thought exactly! (kids!) ;-)

any list of the best sitcoms that doesn't include LUCY..... :wow:

not in any order:

I Love Lucy
All in the Family
Designing Women
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Honeymooners

[RebelOne]

45. I Love Lucy will always remain the funniest.

[LynneSin]

7. My five:

1. Sex and the City
   
2. Curb Your Enthusian
   
3. MASH (But mainly the earlier years
   
4. The Simpsons
   
5. (a tie)Dream On and NewsRadio
   

Thank you!

[Syrinx]

23. Dream On

That was a good show. I was just thinking about it last night, I think.

That HBO show with Garry Shandling was great too. Can't recall the name right now.

[Deja Q]

50. The Larry Sanders Show

Or maybe they're reruns of "It's Gary Shandling's Show!"

[Webster Green]

10. From any era?

1. The Jack Benny Program
2. The Honeymooners
3. Barney Miller
4. All in the Family
5. Seinfeld

Amos & Andy was pretty funny too, but probably not PC to put it on the list here.

[Badger1]

13. My opinion

Mash
Friends
Cheers
( wife says ) Dharma & Greg
Gilligan's Island
Hogans Heroes

[Mz Pip]

14. Easy

1. Absolutely Fabulous
2. Seinfeld
3. Rosanne
4 Home Improvement
5. Newhart


on edit: Is Six Feet Under a comedy? I think it's pretty funny in that makes you unconfortable kind of way.

MzPip
:dem:

[mitchum]

15. any five Seinfeld repeats

I'm a somewhat sick and stubborn man

[Deja Q]

17. Reflections of a sick mind... in no particular order:

1. Married... With Children
2. Coupling (UK VERSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
3. Three's Company (with Chrissy and Cindy only)
4. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5. Spin City (Michael J Fox version only)
6. All in the Family

[Nevernose]

28. Good God!

You are, indeed, a very sick mind. Three's Company? What the hell are you thinking -- only a freak could possibly like that show!

And what do you think? Mr. Furley or Roper? Don Knotts, IMHO, was just not very funny in that show, at least not compared to Roper, who had that wonderful interaction with his wife, as opposed to the over-the-top "swinger" act of Furley -- funny as a guest appearance, not as a weekly character. Knotts' talents werwe wasted on anything other than the Mayberry-milieu.

[Deja Q]

39. Roper's Furley!

The Ropers made that show, definitely.

But I kinda liked the goofy, incongruent Mr. Furley. Don Knotts is probably why the show managed to continue without Suzanne Somers' presence. Okay, the show was an emsemble piece, but Chrissy was a far better foil for Jack than Janet was and Somers' did a great acting job at playing a ditz. She deserved the raise she was trying to get. Of course, ABC humiliated then fired her and then put in Chrissy's sister, Cindy - another ditz. Ably played, but she left quickly and then the non-stop sequence of replacement characters with no character and less acting ability came in. The show just wasn't the same, no matter how hard John Ritter tried. And without even Janet (aka when the series became "Three's A Crowd"), the show whithered away totally.

[absyntheNsugar]

18. My 4....

WKRP In Cincinati
On the Air (Short lived David Lynch sitcom)
Mork and Mindy
Family Ties

[Syrinx]

19. I don't know about five

But the funniest sitcom of all time was the first three or four seasons of the Andy Griffith Show.

[Wickerman]

49. Glad to see that one mentioned

a masterpiece!

[Indiana_Dem]

20. I can't remember #2's name!

1. Seinfeld
2. the one with Tony Danza
3. Cosby Show
4. I Love Lucy
5. Taxi

not in any order....Carol burnett was excellent even though it wasn't a sitcom per se.

[Syrinx]

21. Who's The Boss?

[Indiana_Dem]

24. Yeah that's it! Who's the Boss!

[XNASA]

22. 1. All in the Family

2. The Andy Griffith Show
3. Cheers
4. The Dick Van Dyke Show
5. Seinfeld

[Insider]

25. #1. 3rd rock from the sun

3rd rock from the sun
i love lucy
petticoat junction
golden girls
absolutely fabulous

honorable mention:
just shoot me
murphy brown
the odd couple
will & grace
newsradio

[Orrin_73]

26. Married with children!!

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sharpton2004.org

[Grassrooter]

27. My 5 ...

NewsRadio
That '70s Show
I Love Lucy
Roseanne
Friends

[elperromagico]

29. Let's see...

1. The Simpsons
2. All In The Family
3. Seinfeld
4. The Andy Griffith Show (post-Barney Fife years excluded)
5. Family Guy :P

[elperromagico]

30. If Britcoms are included,

Fawlty Towers is easily number two, if not tied for number one. The twelve episodes of that program contain more comedy than most American shows that run for years.

[phaseolus]

31. picks and pans

My favorites --

1. A British show from the early 80s whose name I've forgotten, about a rabid right wing retired military guy who starts his own terrorist cell to take over the British government. Best writing EVER, and would be fresh today.
2. Fawlty Towers (I'd love to have Monty Python's Flying Circus on the list but that's not a situation comedy)
3. either/both of the Newharts
4. All in the Family
5. M*A*S*H

The worst --
1. Arli$$. Not the least bit funny. Horribly acted, especially the Asian woman... and Robert Wuhl is just one of those people who you want to break his nose on general principle. Can't understand why this one lasted so long.
2. Married With Children. Same one or two jokes, over and over, season after season. Yawn.
3. Seinfeld. Most overrated show, ever. I particularly loathe Kramer.
4. Cheers. I must be a contrarian or something. Everyone else raves about something, I hate it...

[Faygo Kid]

33. Agree about Seinfeld - annoying

Way overrated. Bunch of whiners. Here comes the flames. . .

[Shrek]

34. Tough call

1. Seinfeld

2. Everybody Loves Raymond

3. Cheers

4. All in the Family

5. Soap

[terrya]

35. The definitive list...:-)

1) The Simpsons

2) Fawlty Towers

3) Seinfeld

4) Keeping Up Appearances

5) The Mary Tyler Moore Show

[onebigbadwulf]

36. What's the definition of sit-com?

I generally thought sit-com was a half-hour show on at prime-time with a studio audience.

If we're being lenient... then


1. Simpsons
2. Family Guy
3. Seinfeld
4. Friends
5. Fresh Prince

[ironflange]

37. Gawd, there are so many

In no particular order:

Seinfeld
Fawlty Towers
Police Squad
All in the Family
The Honeymooners

Honorable Mention:

Man About the House (Brit forebear of Three's Company)
Sledge Hammer
Newhart
Cheers
Murphy Brown

[arwalden]

40. Are You Being Served. Keeping Up Appearances.

[Lindsey]

41. There's no way for me to pick five so

I'll pick a few extra - In kind of a date order:
I Love Lucy
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
Mash
Seinfeld
Ab Fab
Curb Your Enthusiam (the BEST ONE on the air now without question - imho)

[SiobhanClancy]

47. 1) Fawlty Towers...

2) M*A*S*H
3) AbFab
4) All In The Family
5) Keeping Up Appearances

[maveric]

42. Barney Miller

All in the Family
Seinfeld
Taxi
Honeymooners

[CanuckAmok]

43. Well...

Simpsons
Family Guy
WKRP
Night Court
Cheers

[BurtWorm]

44. The Dick van Dyke Show

Fawlty Towers
Are You Being Served?
I Love Lucy
Married...with Children (Steve Rhodes era)

[slack]

46. only 3

1.seinfeld
2.fawlty towers
3.simpsons

[beyurslf]

48. There are so many

1. Roseanne
2. Will and Grace
3. Cheers
4. Fresh Prince
5. Seinfeld

[St. Jarvitude]

51. In no particular order:

1. Seinfeld
2. M*A*S*H
3. Retro-Simpsons (okay, an animated sitcom, but so what?)
4. Family Guy (again, an animated sitcom, but this one also has a few nice anti-neoconflairs to it)
5. Trigger Happy (okay, not exactly a sitcom - but still funny as hell :))