but, I don't think it would qualify as a sitcom.

I was just curious. The country is collapsing and we're talking about sidelined sitcoms???

Is this how DU sells ads?

Sometimes you need a break.

you are correct, that so many of the jokes were easy to miss.

is impossible to see it legally at the moment.

There was one where Henry Winkler played a Limbaugh type character, only a few episodes, remember liking it, cancelled fast.

And a sit-com with Henry Winkler playing a Limbaugh type character also sounds very interesting.

I wonder why the Carlin Show is impossible to see "legally at the moment"?
Is there a pending lawsuit perhaps?

you can google george carlin sitcom and probably get one or two on youtube

It was the first thing I binge watched when I started streaming video.

In a strange way it reminds me of the British sitcom, Detectorists. Both shows are somewhat understated comedies about oddball characters and neither denigrates the people that they feature.

Detectorists is about people who do metal detecting. I watched it on Acorn TV.

I love Detectorists too. I agree, outsiders connected by a particular passion. They are also gentle comedies with very little meanness and do not rely on insult or belittlement for laughs.

Young Jerry Van Dyke's mother is reincarnated as a 1928 Porter. The show lasted one season of 30 episodes. It was campy beyond belief!

The writing sucked.

Well she helps me through
everything I do,
and I'm so glad she's here....

Better Off Ted

Life is sweet for a young man who runs the research and development department at Veridian Technologies -- until he starts taking a look at his company's extremely questionable business practices. The company's motto is "Money before people," and its executives do their best to live up to it.

The IT Crowd

A three-person IT group keeps its company running with minimal effort or social contact.

Testees

Best friends and roomies Peter and Ron support themselves by working as test subjects at Testico, an unconventional product testing facility. That helps pay the rent, but unfortunately the buddies almost always have to contend with ridiculous (and usually very undesirable) side effects from the medications and treatments they're testing.

Testees

...it's a classic in my book!

It wasn't as good the second time around but I sure did like it the first time!

Happy Times!

loved that show. I also loved "Two guys, a girl and a pizza place" starring Ryan Reynolds.

Thought it was a great show.

Hot L got all the early publicity since it was supposed to be pushing the envelope with some risque content but Barney Miller soon caught the critics' eyes.

But only the first season (1993). He played a recovering alcoholic on the skids, working as the night manager at an urban bus station. Amazingly dark, but then the showrunners retooled it for season two and it became just another mediocre sitcom. A shame.

For once, he and JL brilliantly underplayed a classic setup - mentor and struggling noon - who is Bobcat sober and Mr. Business after a couple belts.

Always thought it interesting that Tom Hanks went to stardom in the movies and Peter Scolari had some, but not star level, success on the small screen.

(I sure loved watching Donna Dixon)

manager job, must move to India to get promotion. Against his will, he makes the move. Great show, IMO.

Loved that show.
And, it had a love fest with Mel Torme.

Loved John Laroquette's character!

Damn if I know why, except he was funny af and I've always had a thing for magicians.

But Night Court was quirky fun. Brent Spiner was fabulous in his guest shots and Selma Diamond was just FABULOUS.

"The IT Crowd" 2006-2013

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487831/

"The comedic adventures of a rag-tag group of technical support workers at a large corporation."

("Three's Company" was based on that show).

I also liked another BBC sit-com called "Good Neighbors"

I dig British humor...dry wit and bawdyness!

Was actually made by Thames TV, not the BBC. There were a couple of spin off shows - "George & Mildred" and "Robin's Nest".

First I learned about the paper bag test.

I remember the paper bag test moment, too.

Love a New Orleans based show of course, but Tim Reid is underutilized. I really like him.

I liked "The Slap Maxwell Story". I could swear that's where I first noticed Nana Visitor, sans alien DNA.

on a fishing trip, and then deliberately "loses" them so he can be off by himself.
Chris & his friend get hungry and end up eating some psychedelic wild berries, which causes them both to have hallucinations.

Chris Elliott's veering all over the street on his bicycle winging papers at peoples' houses, and they're playing that REM song ("Stand in the place where you live&quot and then they show his father saying, "you know, it isn't that we don't love having you at home....&quot

It didn't matter what came next, we both fell in love with that show right away. (I think his father was actually Bob Elliott, though. Ray was the other half of the duo).

They set it up in the bath tub (with the tub's glass doors shut) and nearly drown.

(Actually, didn't Chris die at the end of almost every episode?)

That show also may have been ahead of its time.

I thought it well written, acted and very clever.......

And it still says "Not the Mama!"

A one year run, from the team responsible for Taxi and Cheers:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081832/

not sure if it's well known or not. Everyone i tell about it has never heard of it. It's hilarious! It's British and on Netflix. Ran 4 seasons and one episode of a 5th. One of the funniest I've ever seen! Watch it if you haven't! Now!!!!

I’d forgotten how dang funny it was. “The Haunting of Bill Crouse” episode is one of the all time funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Starring Tim Reid who played Venus Flytrap on WKRP, as a northern professor who inherits a restaurant in Louisiana.

He originally wanted his radio name to be "Venus Rising"...but somehow it got changed

(God, I love that show)

for my sense of humor... the funniest show ever made

most people hated it

Both English sitcoms.

Hilarious. Only ran for 1 season.

did it get cancelled so fast? It could have been in syndication for years if they'd just stuck it out a little longer.

"Oh, so your MOM makes you LUNCH and puts it in BEGGIES?"

Jamie Goertz was in it, along with SJP and Tracey Nelson, and they were all good.

You can watch it on YouTube though.

Emma Chambers who played the goofy secretary, O think she was. She was only 53

It was kind of a black comedy. It starred Laurie Metcalf and Niecy Nash. The premise was an extended stay hospital in Long Beach.

MTV cartoon only ran one year but damn I thought it was funny.

No Soap Radio - This one was too strange to make it.

the story of the strange things that happened to a couple of young teen boys in a really strange town.

Ity was cancelled and a yelp went up, so someone tried to bring it back. It sucked with a new cast and writers or so I heard.

Love on a Rooftop lasted one season, Here Comes the Brides two seasons. I was devastated when they were cancelled.

David Cross in a delightfully weird tale.

I was in the hospital after surgery and watching that show. Almost died from laughing so hard. For real. Thank goodness I had a pillow to hug.

...from 1964. Don't get me wrong--it was a terrible show. I was only 11, and even then I realized it sucked. The "college life" of 1964--sic!--was like every cliché of the Silent Generation you ever imagined. It was worse than the 30-year old "college students" on Ozzie and Harriet. Everybody was wholesome, everybody was a virgin, no one drank anything stronger than a milkshake, and drugs might as well have been something that existed on Alpha Centauri. The hero was a schlemiel, and even then I realized it. But for some reason, I never missed an episode. And to give it credit, when it was blessedly cancelled, they actually wrapped up the "plot line" by letting the pathetic drop-in actually enroll. Compared to it, Dobie Gillis was a hard-hitting drama...

Gotta go waaaay back to the early '60s. It was set in the 1920s, costumes and music were fun. The father was always trying to invent new gadgets.



.

No one was fooled by the costumes and setting. It was a sitcom.

And Julia Duffy was hilarious.

nostaligically,
Bright

Brit humor set in WW2 France, incredibly funny.😂😂😂

Loved that show.

Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and The Dresden Files.

Home and cried to their Dads. Really good cast, forget their names though!

Back in the late 60s ~ early 70s, there were summer replacements, some made it to regular seasons, some didn't.

The Marty Feldman Show - my first introduction to British humor. Sketch comedy. I can still hum the closing theme song.

It's About Time - about as stupid as F Troop (another obscure comedy). Astronauts got lost in time and landed in cave man times.

The Good Life - after I Dream of Jeannie, Larry Hagman starred in this show about a couple who got tired of being poor rats in the rat race, so they became live-in servants to a super wealthy man who was rarely home. All they had to do was make sure the house was clean and the cars ran well, then they could knock off for the rest of the day and swim in the pool and enjoy the mansion.

The series lasted only 6 episodes. It starred Patrick MacNee as the scheming CEO, Richard Masur as a veteran corporate employee of middling ability, and Dennis Dugan as the ambitious new recruit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086706/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_56

Three seasons of three Irish priests in a remote parish. One young moron, one deranged old crank, and Dermot Morgan as the straight man.

Originally aired on BBC

He was giving a talk when his memoir came out. He said Basil was his delight and his curse, so different from working with the other Pythons.

He was fabulous. And tall. And horrified by the politics (pre election!) here.

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This is as unexpectedly subversive and politically incorrect as any "comedy" on TV.

You never know week-to-week what rabbit hole they'll go down, but it will be dark and nasty!

Dear THATCHER
We have THE BOMB.
If you don't do something for THE KIDS by 3 o'clock this afternoon we'll set it off.

Signed,
Ric "The People's Poet"

BBC comedy follow-up to "2012".

Available on Netflix.

It is "Dilbert meets the BBC"