Best Comedy Shows of All Time

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   The Office(2005)

   Show· ★ 9.0

   The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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   Seinfeld(1989)

   Show· ★ 8.9

   A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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   It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia(2005)

   Show· ★ 8.8

   Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and 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 uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

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   Curb Your Enthusiasm

   (2000)

   Show· ★ 8.8

   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 anyone else.
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   Fawlty Towers

   (1975)

   Show· ★ 8.8

   Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.
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   Monty Python's Flying Circus

   (1969)

   Show· ★ 8.8

   A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
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   Fleabag

   (2016)

   Show· ★ 8.7

   A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.
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   Peep Show

   (2003)

   Show· ★ 8.7

   Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
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   The Thick of It

   (2005)

   Show· ★ 8.7

   Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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   Arrested Development

   (2003)

   Show· ★ 8.6

   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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   Parks and Recreation

   (2009)

   Show· ★ 8.6

   In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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   Community

   (2009)

   Show· ★ 8.5

   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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    Schitt's Creek

    (2015)

    Show· ★ 8.5

    Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
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    What We Do in the Shadows

    (2019)

    Show· ★ 8.5

    A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    (2013)

    Show· ★ 8.4

    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 boss.
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    Veep

    (2012)

    Show· ★ 8.4

    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.
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    30 Rock

    (2006)

    Show· ★ 8.3

    Liz Lemon, the head writer for a late-night TV variety show in New York, tries to juggle all the egos around her while chasing her own dream.
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    Frasier

    (1993)

    Show· ★ 8.2

    After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
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    Cheers

    (1982)

    Show· ★ 8.0

    The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
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    Blackadder

    (1983)

    Show· ★ 8.0

    Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.