List of comedies
A list of
comedies
by medium and country of origin.
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Television
Comedies
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Australia
Australia, You're Standing in It
(sketch comedy)
The D-Generation
(
sketch comedy
)
Fast Forward
(sketch comedy)
Full Frontal
(sketch comedy)
Hey Dad!
(
sitcom
)
Kingswood Country
(sitcom)
The Late Show
(sketch comedy)
The Paul Hogan Show
(sketch comedy)
Mother and Son
(sitcom)
Kath and Kim
(sitcom)
The Games
(
satire
/sitcom)
Frontline
(satire/sitcom)
News Free Zone
(satire/sketch comedy)
The Naked Vicar Show
(satire/sketch comedy)
Aunty Jack
(satire/sketch comedy)
Daas Kapital
(satire/sketch comedy)
CNNN
(satire/parody of
CNN
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Canada
Blackfly
CODCO
Four on the Floor
JR Digs
The Gavin Crawford Show
The Holmes Show
Just for Laughs
Kids In The Hall
The Red Green Show
Rick Mercer's Monday Report
Royal Canadian Air Farce
Second City Television
(SCTV)
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Trailer Park Boys
Wayne & Shuster
XPM
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United Kingdom
Absolutely Fabulous
Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
'Allo 'Allo!
Are You Being Served?
As Time Goes By
At Last the 1948 Show
Big Train
Birds of a Feather
Blackadder
Black Books
Bo' Selecta
Bottom
Brass Eye
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Brittas Empire
Cambridge Circus
Chef!
Chelmsford 123
Coupling
Dad
Dad's Army
The Day Today
Dead Ringers
The Detectives
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Drop The Dead Donkey
Ever-Decreasing Circles
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Fast Show
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
A Fine Romance
The Frost Report
George and Mildred
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Give My Head Peace
The Goodies
The Good Life
Goodness Gracious Me
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Hancock's Half Hour
(later known as
Hancock
)
Harry Enfield and Chums
Hi De Hi
The High Life
Hippies
I'm Alan Partridge
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Jam
Keeping Mum
Keeping Up Appearances
Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge
Last of the Summer Wine
The League of Gentlemen
Let Them Eat Cake
The Likely Lads
Little Britain
Maid Marian and her Merry Men
Man about the House
Men Behaving Badly
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Morecambe and Wise
Mr. Bean
My Family
My Hero
The New Statesman
Nighty Night
Not the Nine O'Clock News
O Dr. Beeching
The Office
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools and Horses
On The Buses
Open All Hours
Porridge
Q5
Red Dwarf
Rising Damp
The Royle Family
Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
Sorry!
Spaced
Steptoe and Son
Sykes
That Was The Week That Was
(familiarly known as "TW3")
The Thin Blue Line
Three Up - Two Down
Till Death Us Do Part
TLC
To the Manor Born
Two Point Four Children
The Two Ronnies
Up Pompeii
The Vicar of Dibley
What Ever Happened to the Likely Lads?
(continued
The Likely Lads
series)
Yes, Minister
and
Yes, Prime Minister
, its continuation
The Young Ones
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United States
3rd Rock from the Sun
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
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A
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Aftermash
A.K.A. Pablo
The Aldrich Family
Alf
Alice
The All-American Girl
All in the Family
Amen
America's Funniest Home Videos
Amos & Andy
The Andy Griffith Show
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Angie
The Ann Sothern Show
Anything But Love
Archie Bunker's Place
Arliss
Arnie
Arrested Development
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B
Baby Bob
Bachelor Father
Barney Miller
Benson
The Ben Stiller Show
Beulah
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
The Bill Cosby Show
The Bill Dana Show
Blossom
The Bob Cummings Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
The Brady Bunch
Bridget Loves Bernie
Buffalo Bill
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C
C.P.O. Sharkey
Candid Camera
Car 54, Where are you?
The Carol Burnett Show
Charles in Charge
Cheers
Chico and the Man
Clarissa Explains It All
Coach
The Cosby Show
Coupling
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Cybill
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D
The Danny Thomas Show
Dave's World
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Dear John
December Bride
Dennis the Menace
Designing Women
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Diff'rent Strokes
A Different World
Dinosaurs
The Donna Reed Show
Doogie Howser, MD
The Doris Day Show
Dream On
Duet
The Dukes of Hazzard
(comedy/adventure)
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E
Ellen
Empty Nest
Ensign O'Toole
Everybody Loves Raymond
Eve
Evening Shade
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F
The Facts of Life
Family Affair
Family Guy
Family Matters
The Farmer's Daughter
Father Knows Best
Fernwood 2-Night
Fish
The Flying Nun
Frank's Place
Frasier
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Fridays
Friends
Full House
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G
The Gale Storm Show
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Get a Life
Get Smart
Gidget
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gimme a Break
The Golden Girls
Good Morning Miami
Good Times
Grace Under Fire
Green Acres
Growing Pains
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H
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
Happy Days
Harry and the Hendersons
Hazel
He & She
Head of the Class
Hearts Afire
Herman's Head
The Hogan Family
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
The Honeymooners
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I
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
I Married Joan
In Living Color
It's Your Move
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J
The Jack Benny Show
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Jeffersons
Joanie Loves Chachi
The Joey Bishop Show
The John Larroquette Show
Julia
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K
Kate & Allie
The Kids in the Hall
King of the Hill
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L
The Larry Sanders Show
Laverne and Shirley
The Life of Riley
Love, American Style
The Love Boat
The Lucy Show
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M
Mad About You
Major Dad
Mama
Mama's Family
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Married... with Children
Martin
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Maude
Mayberry R.F.D.
McHale's Navy
The Milton Berle Show
Mister Ed
The Mommies
Monk
The Monkees
Moonlighting
Mork and Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
Mr. Peepers
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
Murphy Brown
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Martian
My Little Margie
My Mother the Car
Mystery Science Theater 3000
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
My World and Welcome to It
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N
The Nanny
Nanny and the Professor
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The New Gidget
The New Leave it to Beaver
Newhart
NewsRadio
Night Court
No Time for Sergeants
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O
The Odd Couple
One Day at a Time
Operation Petticoat
Our Miss Brooks
Out of This World
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P
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
The Partridge Family
The Patty Duke Show
The People's Choice
Perfect Strangers
Pete and Gladys
Petticoat Junction
The Phil Silvers Show
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Police Squad
Private Secretary
Punky Brewster
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R
The Real McCoys
Rhoda
Roc
The Ropers
Roseanne
Roundhouse
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
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S
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live
Saved by the Bell
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
Silver Spoons
The Simpsons
Sister, Sister
The Slap Maxwell Story
Sledge Hammer!
Small Wonder
Soap
South Park
Spin City
Square Pegs
Step by Step
Suddenly Susan
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T
Taxi
That Girl
That's My Mama
Three's Company
Too Close for Comfort
Topper
The Torkelsons
Townies
Two and a Half Men
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
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V
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W
Webster
Welcome Back, Kotter
What's Happening!!
Who's the Boss?
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wonder Years
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Theatrical
Comedies
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France
La Puce à l'Oreille
(trans. "A Flea in Her Ear") by
Georges Feydeau
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Russia
The Government Inspector
by
Nikolai Gogol
(made into the
Danny Kaye
screen
musical
The Inspector General
.)
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United Kingdom
The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Oscar Wilde
(adapted for film and television numerous times)
Much Ado About Nothing
and half a dozen others by
William Shakespeare
The Rocky Horror Show
by
Richard O'Brien
Operettas
by
Gilbert and Sullivan
including
Patience
,
Iolanthe
,
The Mikado
,
The Pirates of Penzance
and many others.
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United States
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Into the Woods
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Many American stage musicals have a strong comedic element.
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Radio
Comedies
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Canada
Double Exposure
The Royal Canadian Air Farce
Spring Thaw
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United Kingdom
Beyond Our Ken
The Clitheroe Kid
The Glums
The Goon Show
Hancock's Half Hour
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
It's That Man Again
Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge
Little Britain
The Men from the Ministry
My Word
The Navy Lark
The News Huddlines
The Now Show
Old Harry's Game
On the Hour
On the Town with the League of Gentlemen
Radio Active
Round the Horne
The Sunday Format
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USA
Amos & Andy
The
Jack Benny
Show
Burns & Allen
Col. Stoopnagle & Bud
Audience of Two
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See also
Comedy
Comedy film
Farce
Sitcom
British comedy
List of television comedies without laugh tracks
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