Guest lurkerspeaks Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Just to show we all have varied tastes, yet hopefully we can share our thoughts and discover something new... Name your five funniest tv series...Can be sitcoms, variety shows, etc.. just any series that provided great comedy when it was aired, and (hopefully) entertained many more generations thru reruns, videos, etc.. Here are mine to start with: 1) I Love Lucy 2) The Carol Burnett Show 3) The Golden Girls 4) Roseanne 5) SNL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MsGuy Posted August 2, 2017 Members Share Posted August 2, 2017 LUCY She makes you laugh, She makes you cry, She hits you in the face With pie. The 24/7 clown show on CNN since January ain't bad either. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotallyOz Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 1. The Golden Girls 2. Boston Legal 3. The Big Bang Theory 4. Two and 1/2 Man 5. Mash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Carol Burnett Show Red Skelton Honeymooners Gilligan's Island Beverly Hillbillies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted August 3, 2017 Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Show of Shows The Big Bang Theory Carol Burnett Show The Golden Girls Red Skelton Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unicorn Posted August 3, 2017 Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 Not sure I can name my five favorites, but any of you remember this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unicorn Posted August 3, 2017 Members Share Posted August 3, 2017 I also thought this one was funny. Of course I was a kid then. Seems everyone else thought it was terrible! Today, Holmes & Yoyo is considered one of the worst television series ever made. it ranked number 33 on TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members stripfan Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 Good choices ! Mine are in no particular order : 1. Seinfeld 2. Veep 3. Curb Your Enthusiasm 4. 30 Rock 5. Modern Family Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BigK Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 I agree with those listed already. I've seen all of the above except Curb Your Enthusiasm and Red Skelton and only bits and pieces of Show of Shows. I'll have to investigate those. I've really enjoyed the English comedies like: Fawelty Towers Yes Minister Yes Prime Minister AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 1 hour ago, BigK said: I agree with those listed already. I've seen all of the above except Curb Your Enthusiasm and Red Skelton and only bits and pieces of Show of Shows. I'll have to investigate those. I've really enjoyed the English comedies like: Fawelty Towers Yes Minister Yes Prime Minister YES! And of course...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members RA1 Posted August 28, 2017 Members Share Posted August 28, 2017 One thing that made the Shows of Shows so spectacular was the ad libbing by Sid Caesar who frequently broke up Carl Reiner and others in the cast. He and Imogene Coca were spell binding together. I believe these shows were live and some or most not likely preserved in any way. I would like to be wrong about this. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 3 hours ago, RA1 said: One thing that made the Shows of Shows so spectacular was the ad libbing by Sid Caesar who frequently broke up Carl Reiner and others in the cast. He and Imogene Coca were spell binding together. I believe these shows were live and some or most not likely preserved in any way. I would like to be wrong about this. Best regards, RA1 Actually I think most of them do persist, on the studios' own Kinescope film recordings, captured from the very TV screen upon broadcast. Or, actually, the Kinescope capture in real time of what the camera was delivering out its monitor? One or two 'lost' Dark Shadows episodes were retrieved that way. Although in those cases from retrieval of some local TV studio's Kinescope. But I think my intuition toward your question is also correct. Who knows?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted August 29, 2017 Members Share Posted August 29, 2017 Wiki says that at least some of the Kinescopes exist. All of the original scripts seemingly exist although what Sid did was NOT in the scripts. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 3 hours ago, RA1 said: Wiki says that at least some of the Kinescopes exist. All of the original scripts seemingly exist although what Sid did was NOT in the scripts. Best regards, RA1 Sid and Imogene, and then Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman and etc., were indeed a breed apart. As too was Gleason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted August 29, 2017 Members Share Posted August 29, 2017 Kind of made you want to be a bus driver or work in the sewer, if they had that much fun, didn't it? Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Evan24 Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 The Comeback (Most underrated show ever <3 ) Friends South Park The Simpsons The League of Gentlemen I'd have put The Big Bang Theory based on series 1-4 (maybe 5 at a stretch) but it became so awful that I just couldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ojibear Posted August 31, 2017 Members Share Posted August 31, 2017 Being Canadian my top 5 are: 1. SCTV (alumni are Martin Short, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Mike Myers, Dan Ackroyd ...) 2. Kids in the Hall 3. Codco 4. Baroness von Sketch 5. This Hour has 22 Minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bobbalino Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 17 hours ago, Evan24 said: The Comeback (Most underrated show ever <3 ) Friends. South Park. The Simpsons. The League of Gentlemen. And while we are on Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback) her knee-slapping turn as Fiona Wallice, a counsellor breaking all the rules in the book in Web Therapy, a surprisingly high volume of episodes. Veep for the writing and ensemble cast, though scattering the team of characters into different contexts recently made it a little disjointed. Louis CK. Third Rock from the Sun, if even just for John Lithgow and select supportings doing Lord of the Dance. ... Ojibear, as a fellow Canuck I'm afraid I have to go with CNN, albeit in small doses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BigK Posted September 1, 2017 Members Share Posted September 1, 2017 I forgot about 3rd Rock from the Sun! Speaking of Canadian TV ... The Red Green Show Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
