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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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: sitcoms; soap
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To: BradyLS
Are you free, Mr. Humphries?
I’m free!
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posted on
08/31/2025 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
To: GreenHornet
I wondered that, too. I’m a milennial and I love The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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posted on
08/31/2025 5:03:31 PM PDT
by
Tacrolimus1mg
(Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
To: DallasBiff
The Bob Newhart Show (1972–1978)
Happy Days
Mary Tyler Moore
Taxi
Barney Miller
Bewitched
To: DallasBiff
McHale’s Navy and F Troop were my favorites.
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posted on
08/31/2025 8:11:07 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
To: Ge0ffrey
Recency and woke bias all over this list. “The Golden Girls”, seriously?
“Married With Children”, “The Honeymooners”, “Amos ‘n Andy”, “Sanford and Son”, and “Car 54” should be on it. I guess they were too un-PC.
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posted on
08/31/2025 9:58:40 PM PDT
by
rxh4n1
To: DallasBiff
Pretty good list, but it's hard to imagine how they could have left
the Big Bang Theory and
Young Sheldon off of it. The screamingly funny British show they also left out is
The IT Crowd.
146
posted on
09/01/2025 6:08:52 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(“We’re redoing DC parks, all new grass. I’m good at grass; I have a lot of golf courses.” —DJ Trump)
To: BradyLS
Monty Python... packed a ton of funny inside 30-minute shows. I was stuck on the “sitcom” condition of the title.And while we're at it, Fawlty Towers was hilarious!
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posted on
09/01/2025 6:13:52 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(“We’re redoing DC parks, all new grass. I’m good at grass; I have a lot of golf courses.” —DJ Trump)
To: Toespi
Very surprised the Daily WH Press Briefing starring Karine Jean-Pierre was excluded.For a comedy to be funny, it has to have at least a hint of reality. There is no way that could have ever happen, could it? No President could possibly be incompetent enough to appoint KJP as press secretary.
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posted on
09/01/2025 9:51:32 AM PDT
by
CommerceComet
(Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.)
To: Jack023
I would of put Archie first but I couldn’t remember the series title.
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posted on
09/01/2025 12:48:15 PM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Thank you Shana Chappell. “You are nobody special Biden!!! America Hates you!!!!!”)
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