Best comedy TV shows of all time

The sharpest writing and the biggest laughs. Ranked by the Boxlist quality score, from TV shows with over 300 audience ratings.

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    The Bear (2022)

    Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges...

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    The Office (2005)

    The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.

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    Better Call Saul (2015)

    Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny...

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    Ted Lasso (2020)

    Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get...

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    BoJack Horseman (2014)

    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood...

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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)

    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...

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    Only Murders in the Building (2021)

    Three strangers who share an obsession with true crime suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

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    Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)

    The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can...

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    Fleabag (2016)

    Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone...

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    Freaks and Geeks (1999)

    High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social...

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    This Is Us (2016)

    Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories...

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    Six Feet Under (2001)

    A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world...

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    Arrested Development (2003)

    The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

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    Wednesday (2022)

    Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and...

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    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)

    It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn...

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    Parks and Recreation (2009)

    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...

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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)

    A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new...

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    Shameless (2011)

    Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending...

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    Suits (2011)

    While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter...

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    The Umbrella Academy (2019)

    A dysfunctional family of superheroes comes together to solve the mystery of their father's death, the threat of the apocalypse and more.

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    White Collar (2009)

    Neal Caffrey, a con man, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left serving a four-year sentence, he escapes to...

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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

    Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of...

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    Community (2009)

    Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

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    Slow Horses poster

    Slow Horses (2022)

    This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and...

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