What Are The Funniest TV Programs Of All Time?

Me, Myself & I | Today, March 30, 2002 | Hellmouth

[Hellmouth]

What are some of your favorite comedy shows of all time?

For myself, I like Howard Stern's old Channel 9 show, Fawlty Towers, Police Squad, The Young Ones, et al. I'm sure other people have different ideals as to what they consider humorous....

[AmishDude]

Only 6 episodes produced, but: Police Squad!

Always worth checking out when they show them back-to-back on A&E every once in a while.

[AmishDude]

The "Gone With The Wind" sketch from Carol Burnett is priceless.

[mamelukesabre]

Oh yeah, thanks.
And I just remembered a couple more that cracked me up really good also.

The Struthers Brothers
The HeeHaw show

Didn't one of the guys from the struthers brothers run for president once?

I guess I'm really showing everyone my odd sense of humor with my choices here.

[be-baw]

The top ten, in order are:

The Simpsons
[The original]Saturday Night Live
Cheers
MASH (early years)
Frasier
Andy Griffith
Seinfeld
The Dick Van Dyke Show
McHale's Navy
Make Room for Daddy

[savedbygrace]

You're probably thinking of the Smothers Brothers. I never heard of the Struthers Borthers

[Restorer]

I think that's Smothers Brothers.

Unless Sally had siblings with their own show.

[mamelukesabre]

Yep, you're right, my bad.

[Restorer]

I think you beat me by about 10 seconds!

[pa_dweller]

Coach - Craig T. Nelson's timing is on par with the best.

Fawlty Towers

The Good Neighbors - My favorite is when Tom is working up a rig to use the pigs' manure to run a generator to power the freezer in which the now-butchered pigs will be kept!

WKRP

M.A.S.H.

Carole Burnett Show

[theDentist]

1. Action! Jay Mohr as a movie producer trying to recover from his first flop. He pulls together a wild bunch to make a new movie: Wendy the Hooker, Uncle Lonnie, the drug-addled Movie Star, The Director who drowns in his own pool following a binge, the hapless writer. Only 2 seasons but it was hystrical. I recorded each episode.

2. Seinfeld The Contest, Soup Nazi, and the episode where he and George are outed. Too many to list here.

3. SNL The first 3 seasons were great. After that they were just a drag.

4. Second City TV John Candy, Eugene Levy at their best.

[ArneFufkin]

I never heard of the Struthers Borthers

They were the two guys taking up all that space in Sallys mumu.

[ArneFufkin]

Barney Miller
Seinfeld
Married With Children
Everyone loves Raymond (this one has a bullet)
The two Garry Shandling Shows
Fernwood Tonight
Soap

[ClearBlueSky]

Barney Miller & In Living Color Just the sight of 'Wanda'( Jamie Foxx as the ugliest woman alive) was hysterical. They offended just about everyone on that show. The 'music' was awful tho.

[ArneFufkin]

BLESS ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED ... Get fricking Smart!!!! One of the best ever.

[mamelukesabre]

There's One more that I just thought of but I can't remember the name of it so I will just describe it.

A sitcom set in the office of a radio station(not WKRP!)and starring phil hartman, the SNL guy that was recently(?) killed by his wife.

I have two favorite episodes. The first is the one with the guest appearance by James Caan. The other one is the episode where the electronics wizard builds a stun gun for phil and phil uses it on himself to see if it works.

[mamelukesabre]

Oh my gosh! How did I ever forget "In Living Color"???

That show was HI-LARIOUS!

[gitmo]

I thought we were in General Interest.

[MotleyGirl70]

Seinfeld

Three's Company

All In The Family

The Simpson of course; D'oh

[ArneFufkin]

but: Police Squad

And ... Sledge Hammer. Frank Drebbin, in those 6 episodes, had some inattentive parking jobs!! LOL

Drebbin always went into that alley and bought information from the "street smart" shoeshine guy. The one episode, they went through the routine "Maybe I remember, maybe I don't" Frank slips him a $20. After a couple of payoffs, Drebbin is about to leave and the shoeshine guy goes "So, you looking for O'Grady in the warehouse heist" ... Drebbin goes "maybe I am, maybe I'm not" and the shoeshine slips him a 20 "yeah it's O'Grady", "you close to nabbing him?" Drebbin: "It's hard to say ..." the guy gives him another $20 "Real close" and Frank eventually gets all his money back ... perfect..

[gitmo]

Burns & Allen

Dick Van Dyke

Maxwell Smart

WKRP

Mash (The Turkey Giveaway was a side splitter)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?