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34 Best Sitcoms of All Time That Are Still Funny Today
Readers Digest ^ | 7/6/24 | Liz Kocan

Posted on 08/31/2025 8:52:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Sitcoms are the comfort food of entertainment, the things we turn to when we need a boost or a smile. Unlike other genres of the best TV shows—like, say, crime shows, which we need to be in the mood to watch—we are always ready for a few laughs. Naming the best sitcoms of all time invites a lot of debate, but there’s no doubt that classic TV shows like I Love Lucy, which premiered in 1951, helped pioneer the format in which familiar characters find themselves in situations, whether realistic or ridiculous, that become fodder for laughs, usually within a tight, 22-minute episode.

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Well Frasier is #1, according to Readers Digest.

I remember Readers Digest in every house in the 70's, like phone booths on the corner, and phone books.

Oh well my favorite 3, "I Love Lucy", "Laverne and Shirley", and "The Brady Bunch", honorable mention to "Threes Company"'.

Flame away

1 posted on 08/31/2025 8:52:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

The Reader’s Digest is a left wing rag. Designing Women? Will and Grace? Shove it up your kazoo, Reader’s Digest.


2 posted on 08/31/2025 8:57:03 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: DallasBiff

My Three Sons


3 posted on 08/31/2025 8:57:37 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: DallasBiff

Seinfeld, Cheers...


4 posted on 08/31/2025 9:00:45 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: DallasBiff

Sanford and Son, The Honeymooners, All in the family.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 9:02:06 AM PDT by rocksblues (Thank you Shana Chappell. “You are nobody special Biden!!! America Hates you!!!!!”)
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To: DallasBiff

No flames here! All fun shows. Mine would be:

1. Gilligan’s Island
2. Sanford & Son
3. Barney Miller
H.M. Home Improvement
H.M. From Across The Pond: Are You Being Served?


6 posted on 08/31/2025 9:02:37 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff

My favourites include Taxi, Barney Miller, and Sanford and Son and from the UK would be Are You Being Served and Last of the Summer Wine.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 9:05:47 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: DallasBiff

I never heard of at least 1/3d of the shows and probably watched less than half of those I was aware of.


8 posted on 08/31/2025 9:06:27 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: DallasBiff

Never liked frazier- All in family was funny- sanford and son was ok- good times = meh, the jeffersons = meh, wkrp in cincinatti was ok- barney miller = ok, mel’s place was ok- too many ok shows to mention- Tim allen’s show was pretty funny- bob newhart, tim conway, candid camera, lots of really funny stuff back then


9 posted on 08/31/2025 9:07:32 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: DallasBiff

The Readers Digest list is missing Andy Griffith Show, but it includes “Black-ish” and shows I have never heard of.

The only show before 1971 is I Love Lucy, and I can’t tell if it is supposed to be #1 or #34, or maybe they are not ranked.

This seems more like a list with absurdly wrong info intended to provoke comments.


10 posted on 08/31/2025 9:08:01 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t have much interest in sit-coms now; but I’ve always liked ‘Due South’, ‘Northern Exposure’ and ‘M.A.S.H.’

I guess they’re not strictly sit-coms...


11 posted on 08/31/2025 9:08:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

Frazier, Raymond and King of Queens would be my top three. There are older ones that fit on a list, but most are just trash. I am told Seinfeld is funny, but I can’t stand looking at his mug. Then of course, he swiped the underage girlfriend of a man who came to the set to watch a performance. You are rich and famous, find your own bed partner, from unattached ladies. I have a hatred for schemers and scammers. He is both.


12 posted on 08/31/2025 9:09:02 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: DallasBiff

Also honourable mentions to Happy Days (first two seasons only) and Alice (the Polly Holliday era).


13 posted on 08/31/2025 9:09:07 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: DallasBiff

Terrible list. It’s missing Always Sunny and older South Park (it did jump the shark but so did most of these shows).

And did it have Sanford? If not this is an atrocious list. I just watch them all a couple months ago. It’s actually very relevant still today.


14 posted on 08/31/2025 9:10:31 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: Bob434

Everybody loves Raymond probably one of the funniest-


15 posted on 08/31/2025 9:10:49 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I believe it began as an anti-Communist organ; I remember all the accusations that it was used by the CIA to influence public opinion...


16 posted on 08/31/2025 9:11:02 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff
The American version of “The Office” is genius comedy. Every time I watch it, I catch another bit of humor that I missed before.

However… the series went downhill after Steve Carell (as Michael Scott) left. I bought the entire Steve Carell series, seasons 1-7. Not interested in the rest.

17 posted on 08/31/2025 9:11:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DallasBiff

I’ve never seen about half of the shows on this list. How could they leave out The Dick Van Dyke Show?


18 posted on 08/31/2025 9:11:39 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: DallasBiff

I Love Lucy, Bewitched and The Dick Van Dyke Show.


19 posted on 08/31/2025 9:11:55 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“This seems more like a list with absurdly wrong info intended to provoke comments.”

Ad Revenue. Every one has a link.


20 posted on 08/31/2025 9:12:10 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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