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Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Go
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Adam F. Goldberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (107) |
In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys. There are 10 people, three bedrooms, one bathroom and everyone in it for themselves.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Tim Doyle |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 10 / 10 (2) |
The boys are back on the loose as Bubbles, Julian and Ricky head south of the Canadian border for some outrageous American adventures.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (1) |
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Victor Fresco |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (159) |
Hickory, dickory, dock — the Dice Man's back and he's ready to rock. The semi-true stories of Andrew Dice Clay, whose unique brand of humor often gets him in trouble. Once on top, the comedian now must work to resurrect his career, pay his gambling debts,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Scot Armstrong |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long minutes, she devises a new treatment, the three-minute video chat. And still, the sessions end up being largely about her. If she's
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (4) |
A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Showtime |
Created By: | Darlene Hunt |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (36) |
Remember WENN is a comedy-drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Created and written by Rupert Holmes and set at the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, it depicted events
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | AMC |
Created By: | Rupert Holmes |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 10 / 10 (1) |
Best Ed is a Canadian animated television series created by Rick Marshall. The series premiered in 2008 on Teletoon. The series chronicles the adventures of an overly helpful and enthusiastic dog named Ed and his best friend, Doug the squirrel, whom every
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Teletoon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC Two |
Created By: | Ben Elton |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (11) |
No Activity is a unique and hilarious comedy that follows the nightly exploits of our boys and girls in blue, and their shady criminal counterparts, through an unfolding kidnapping investigation. Truth is, being a cop or a crook is nowhere near as exciti
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Stan |
Created By: | Trent O'Donnell, Patrick Brammall |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (6) |
A loving (but immature) father is committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very-together ex-wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger-than-life personality and unpredictable Internet superstardom might get in the way sometimes,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Marlon Wayans, Christopher Moynihan |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (21) |
A family finds their lives turned upside down when a young, street-smart grifter shows up on their doorstep, claiming to be a distant relative.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | David H. Steinberg, Keetgi Kogan |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Ramy Youssef, Ari Katcher |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (2) |
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Time
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Created By: | Eric Monte, Mike Evans |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (27) |
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Created By: | Robert Getchell |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (19) |
Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Created By: | Allan Burns, James L. Brooks |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (8) |
Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Sarah Scheller, Alison Bell |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Lisa McGee |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (14) |
Two recent community-college graduates get stuck working at Rent-T-Own in the Chicago neighborhood of Englewood and work to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Diallo Riddle, Bashir Salahuddin |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 9 / 10 (1) |
Television adaptation of the romantic comedy film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mindy Kaling, Matt Warburton |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Kenya Barris, Peter Saji, Tracee Ellis Ross |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (4) |
Comedian Billy Eichner, unfiltered and unapologetic, hits the streets of New York City to test unsuspecting strangers on their knowledge of music and pop culture. With microphone in hand and money in tow, Eichner gives contestants the chance to win cash b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | Fuse, truTV, funnyordie.com |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (8) |
Amy and Raquel attempt to navigate their way through the choppy waters of their early twenties whilst simultaneously kicking the ass of some seriously gnarly demons. What could possibly go wrong?
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Howard Overman |
Network: | E4 |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (36) |
The inner workings of an American jury trial through the eyes of one particular juror, Ronald Gladden. Gladden is unaware the entire case is fake, everyone except him is an actor and everything that happens — inside the courtroom and out — is carefully pl
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg |
Network: | Amazon Freevee |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.333 / 10 (6) |
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (163) |
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.
Publisher: | 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Greg Daniels, Michael Schur |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (388) |
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 dorky and awkward,
Publisher: | Meriwether Productions, Chernin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Nitwits |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (397) |
Difficult People hails from the comedic minds of Julie Klausner (Ugly Americans) and Billy Eichner (Emmy-nominated Billy on the Streets), who star as themselves. As best friends living in New York City, their typical, irreverent behavior lands them in som
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (14) |
A dysfunctional family tries to help each other navigate the modern dating scene. Recent divorcee Tara and her bachelor brother coach each other through the crazy world of dating (on-line and off), while living under the same roof again for the second tim
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Jason Reitman, Zander Lehmann |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |
Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Dave Chernin, John Chernin |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (99) |
Four egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 13 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Rob McElhenney |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (352) |
The relationship between Arthur, the gruff owner of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee, Franco, and their loyal patrons in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Bob Daily |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (18) |
Comedy titan Dave Chappelle caps a wild year with two stand-up specials packed with scorched new material, self-reflection and tough love.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; Earnest 'Earn' Marks, an ambitious college dropout and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Donald Glover |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (163) |
A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together break up on their wedding day. The failed wedding forces them all to question their life choices. Then the
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Caspe |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (63) |
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milw
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz, Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (22) |
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, bu
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Sheldon Leonard, Aaron Ruben |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (50) |
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Jackie Gleason |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (33) |
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974 to September 24, 1984 on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States. The series was pr
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (69) |