Funny TV Shows
Find that perfect quote you are looking to share with a friend to make them smile. Laugh it up with our best quotes.
About the author
This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.
Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.
Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (70) |
Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now is a stand-up comedy routine that was shown on HBO. This was Ellen DeGeneres's second HBO special. This hour-long special focused on everyday situations, as Degeneres put it: modern life and other inconveniences. It was filme
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.5 / 10 (2) |
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Linwood Boomer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (323) |
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | IFC |
Created By: | Jonathan Krisel, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (51) |
A coming of age comedy following a diverse group of teenage friends as they confront the challenges of growing up in gritty inner-city Los Angeles.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez, Jeremy Haft |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (6) |
One Day at a Time is an American situation comedy. It starred Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a divorced mother who moves to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper with Dwayne Schneider as their building superintendent.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Allan Manings, Whitney Blake |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (23) |
Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ry
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Jason Gann, Adam Zwar |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (106) |
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to kno
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Aseem Batra |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
Delve into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise, who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it's just no one knows it yet.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Colleen Ballinger, Chris Ballinger |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (34) |
Pot activist Ruth Whitefeather Feldman runs a medical marijuana dispensary while encouraging her loyal patients to chill out and enjoy the high life.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Chuck Lorre, David Javerbaum |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (38) |
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Ben Best |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (108) |
Sophia is a rebellious, broke anarchist who refuses to grow up. She stumbles upon her passion of selling vintage clothes online and becomes an unlikely businesswoman. As she builds her retail fashion empire, she realizes the value and the difficulty of be
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Kay Cannon |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (35) |
A group of single parents lean on each other to help raise their 7-year-old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether, J. J. Philbin |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (5) |
Party Down is an American comedy television series that follows a Los Angeles, California, catering team for the titular company. The sextet of aspiring Hollywood actors and writers, as well as drifting lost souls, work small-time catering gigs while hopi
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Paul Rudd, John Enbom, Dan Etheridge, Rob Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (72) |
A comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Woody Allen |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (47) |
Gary Unmarried is an American sitcom created by Ed Yeager, which ran on CBS from September 24, 2008 to March 17, 2010. The series focuses on a recently divorced couple sharing custody of their kids while starting new relationships. The show was produced b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.3 / 10 (12) |
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | Showtime, BBC Two |
Created By: | David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (61) |
Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper who a
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (46) |
Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992. Produced by Embassy Television, in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions, and Columbia Pictures Television, t
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Blake Hunter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (36) |
Webster is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 until May 8, 1987, and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 until March 10, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver. The show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the tit
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (11) |
Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice in New York City.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | FOX, Hulu |
Created By: | Mindy Kaling |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (66) |
A distinctive look at a modern, troubled marriage—told from the point of view of the husband who is torn between his love of a clinically depressed wife and their young son, and his attraction for another woman.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Showtime |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (2) |
Unscripted is an American comedy-drama series that aired on HBO in early 2005. Its title referred to the fact that the series was largely improvised by its performers. The series was executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, and Grant Heslo
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |
FreakyLinks is an American television show that combined elements of horror, mystery, and comedy. It aired on the Fox Network from October 2000 until June 2001, for a total run of 13 episodes. The feel of the show closely modeled that of The X-Files and o
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2) |
Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin. The series, filmed at Franklin
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (6) |
This semi-autobiographical dark comedy starring Tig Notaro follows her as she returns to her hometown after the sudden death of her mother. Still reeling from her own declining health problems, Tig struggles to find her footing with the loss of the one pe
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Amazon |
Created By: | Tig Notaro, Diablo Cody |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (15) |
The adventures of relatable and adventurous Riley Matthews, the tween daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, and her bold best friend Maya as they traverse the twists and turns of teenage years at Manhattan's John Quincy Adams Middle School where Riley's
Genres: | Comedy, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Disney Channel |
Created By: | Michael Jacobs |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (45) |
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
Genres: | Comedy, Talk |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
Three adolescent boys, Ed, Edd "Double D", and Eddy, collectively known as "the Eds", constantly invent schemes to make money from their peers to purchase their favorite confectionery, jawbreakers. Their plans usually fail though, leaving them in various
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Danny Antonucci |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (82) |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The series made its official debut on September 9, 2001 on Adult swim; after the pilot episode was aired as a special sneak pee
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (72) |
Frisky Dingo is an American animated cartoon series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolved around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and m
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Adult Swim |
Created By: | Matt Thompson, Adam Reed |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (28) |
The adventures of a young boy named Clarence, who is optimistic about everything, and his two best friends Jeff and Sumo.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Skyler Page |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverma
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Created By: | Jonathan Katz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (22) |
Freakazoid! is an American animated television series created by Bruce Timm, and Paul Dini for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character, Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero who battles with an
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | The WB, Cartoon Network |
Created By: | Paul Dini, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Timm |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (28) |
Pepper Ann is an American animated series created by Sue Rose and aired on first run syndication. It debuted on September 1, 1997, and ended on November 24, 2000. Pepper Ann stars adolescents and charts their ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. It a
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | ABC, UPN |
Created By: | Sue Rose |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (4) |
Burned out on life, Miles undergoes a strange procedure at a strip mall spa -- and wakes to find he's been replaced by a better version of himself.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Timothy Greenberg |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (9) |
The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Amy Poehler, Mike Scully, Julie Thacker |
Network: | FOX |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (5) |
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Tony McNamara |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (307) |
Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Paragon Studios |
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (57) |
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
Publisher: | Apatow Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Lena Dunham |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.6 / 10 (171) |