Recommend any comedies?

With the Office finishing up completely next week, Happy Endings looking possibly unsure for renewal, and Community (hopefully) finished, I really need a some new ones to watch.

Are there any (new or old) that people could recommend? I love Parks and Rec and Legit, but both are unfortunately on hiatus at the moment.

Technocentral

Peep Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm are the funniest shows of that last 10 years or so.

grohlisagod

Peep Show is glorious.

December2012

Misfits, the in betweeners, the mindy project.

CastorTroy

Think Psych is the only comedy I watch and if you don't mind some scifi elements then could go with Eureka or The Middleman.

Lovely Bloke

Arrested Development

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (watch Season 1, it's slow and probably crap, but once Season 2 gets going it's absolutely brilliant).

Louis

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boneyarsebogman wrote: »

With the Office finishing up completely next week, Happy Endings looking possibly unsure for renewal, and Community (hopefully) finished, I really need a some new ones to watch.

Are there any (new or old) that people could recommend? I love Parks and Rec and Legit, but both are unfortunately on hiatus at the moment.

Some of my current favourites are

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
New Girl
The Mindy Project
Suburgatory
Raising Hope

meoklmrk91

It's always sunny is hilarious, highly recommended and highly underrated. I am also a big fan of New Girl and Two Broke Girls.

Lovely Bloke

I don't think Sunny is under-rated - anyone who's watched it raves about it.

fruvai

The Larry Sanders Show
The Thick of It

rovoagho

God I'd forgotten about Larry Sanders, have to go looking for that now!

KERSPLAT!

The IT Crowd

kevohmsford

Just to list some of my favourite tv comedy shows

Louie
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Eastbound and Down
The League
Trailer Park Boys
Workaholics
Wilfred

Cokeistan

Would agree with Peep Show, the IT Crowd, and It's always sunny in Philadelphia; all hilarious TV shows. Others I like are Chappelle's Show, Archer, Da Ali G Show, Black Books. Can't beat the classics either; Fawlty Towers, Black Adder & Monty Python's Flying Circus to mention a few!

SherlockWatson

CastorTroy wrote: »

Think Psych is the only comedy I watch and if you don't mind some scifi elements then could go with Eureka or The Middleman.

Come on son!

Would also agree with psych, some episodes are pure gold.

December2012

Yes Louis!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Arrested Development
The Neighbors (its criminally underrated)
Raising Hope
Cougar Town (don't let the name fool you - its fantastic)

yohan the great

Extras is good

syklops

19 posts and not a mention of Frasier.

<shakes head>

Frasier
Cheers
Taxi <-- totally under rated

eire1

Arrested Development
30 Rock
Veep

irish son

For a classic you can't beat Seinfeld. Of what's not mentioned so far I found Party Down very good.

Yamanoto

The Larry Sanders Show

An absolute triumph, which tends to fly under the radar here on Boards.

Essentially a show about a show, it's a caustic showbiz satire, centred round a chronically insecure talk-show host Larry Sanders, his acerbic and over-protective producer Artie & his comically creepy & utterly talentless on-air sidekick Hank 'Hey-Now' Kingsley, brilliantly portrayed by Jeffrey Tambor.

The show deployed a clever device - splitting the action between 'on-air' interviews with Hollywood A-listers, before shifting to backstage scenes, often featuring those same celebs playing severely dysfunctional slimeball versions of themselves.

The guest appearances are testament to how highly it was regarded - Seinfeld, John Stewart, Jim Carrey, Letterman, Warren Beatty, Leno and far too many others to mention.

It pretty much established HBO's creative credentials, profoundly influencing shows like Seinfeld, Curb & Extras and acted as a springboard for a fairly hefty array of talent - Judd Apatow, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman & Jeremy Piven amongst them.

89 episodes of very high quality comedy.

Reoil

Whatever you do, don't start with Frasier. Every other comedy will pale in comparison...

Marsden

The increasingly poor decisions of Todd Margrat. Funniest thing since Fr. Ted.

wesf

How has only fools and horses not been mentioned here yet, 10 times better than some of the stuff mentioned above.

Man on Fire

kevohmsford wrote: »

Just to list some of my favourite tv comedy shows

Louie
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Community
Eastbound and Down
The League
Trailer Park Boys
Workaholics
Wilfred

Only certain people get trailer park boys i think its gas and eastbound and down kenny ****ing powers haha great watch

zef

Alan Partridge
Saxondale
- both with Steve Coogan

Nighty Night - Offbeat 2 season sitcom about a very crazy lady played by Julia Davis.

KeithTS

Surprised nobody has mentioned Modern Family, great show!

Tipsy McSwagger

wesf wrote: »

How has only fools and horses not been mentioned here yet, 10 times better than some of the stuff mentioned above.

Because it became shyte once the women were introduced.

wesf

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Because it became shyte once the women were introduced.

It did, but the early episodes, hard to beat them

Tipsy McSwagger

wesf wrote: »

It did, but the early episodes, hard to beat them

First few seasons with grandad were brilliant alright.

_Kaiser_

Princess Petulia Pissy Pants wrote: »

The IT Crowd

Oh god no! :eek:

I tried this recently after being told how funny it was.. but it's not!

It's just cheap and crap. And nor in the early Red Dwarf way that WAS actually funny, but just no!

wandatowell

Fraiser

gazzer

My favourites are:

Its Always Sunny in Philidelphia (Only discovered this gem of a show this year)
30 Rock (Saw a couple of episodes of this earlier this year and loved it so got all the seasons)
The Neighbors (cant believe this is not on tv in Ireland)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The IT Crowd
Arrested Development

120_Minutes

syklops wrote: »

19 posts and not a mention of Frasier.

<shakes head>

i only found out last week that almost all the callers to fraisers show are celebrities.

bnt

If you're going to go really classic (i.e. old), I'll add a few more names:

Soap. A young Billy Crystal tries to keep it together, with Katherine Helmond:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudJivvHWqI

Kate & Allie (some serious moments)
Maude (what Bea Arthur did before Golden Girls)
anything with Mary Tyler Moore in it,

and my fave, WKRP in Cincinnati:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPzTG1Lx60

re Frasier, am I the only one who noticed that the name of his radio station, KACL, can also be pronounced "cackle"?

120_Minutes

bnt wrote: »

showing my age by knowing all those, but through repeats, not the first time around. satellite tv in the late 80's/early 90's was great for this. remember when sky one used to show three's company?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0cSaaLcXo

DazMarz

Frasier

Fawlty Towers

Only Fools And Horses

Steptoe And Son

Any of the above are stone cold classics.

Yamanoto

DazMarz wrote: »

Frasier

Fawlty Towers

Only Fools And Horses

Steptoe And Son

Any of the above are stone cold classics.

Those Steptoe scripts and the performances of Brambell and Harry H. Corbett hold up particularly well imo.

mr_edge_to_you

Phoenix Nights

Modern Family has really raised the bar for American comedy. Although its probably not cool to say it, but New Girl is fairly funny.

I loved My Name Is Earl back in the day. The first 4/5 series of Scrubs were excellent.

was a big fan of the US Office.