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All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC featuring Aileen Quinn. Ear
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Alison Taylor |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (2) |

Clarissa Explains It All is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. Created by Mitchell Kriegman, it aired for five seasons for a total of 65 episodes from March 23, 1991, to December 3, 1994, and then went into reruns. In the series, Clarissa
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Mitchell Kriegman |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (22) |

Kenan & Kel is an American teen comedy sitcom produced by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Sixty-five
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Kim Bass |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (28) |

After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | Channel 4, Netflix |
Created By: | Tom Edge |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (32) |

Vic Reeves Big Night Out is a British cult comedy stage show and later TV series which ran on Channel 4 for two series in 1990 and 1991, as well as a New Year special. It marked the beginnings of the collaboration between Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and s
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Channel 4 |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 9 / 10 (2) |

Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and da
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Adil Ray |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |

Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |

Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Spike |
Created By: | Chris Romano, Eric Falconer |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (70) |

Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn i
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 4 / 10 (1) |

Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Alan Sacks, Gabe Kaplan |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (19) |

A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Liz Feldman |
Network: | Netflix |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (15) |

An aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider |
Network: | Comedy Central |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (3) |

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, Fred Armisen |
Network: | IFC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (16) |

The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Danny McBride |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Armando Iannucci |
Network: | HBO |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (163) |

Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
Publisher: | 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Greg Daniels, Michael Schur |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (388) |

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward,
Publisher: | Meriwether Productions, Chernin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Nitwits |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (397) |

Difficult People hails from the comedic minds of Julie Klausner (Ugly Americans) and Billy Eichner (Emmy-nominated Billy on the Streets), who star as themselves. As best friends living in New York City, their typical, irreverent behavior lands them in som
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | Hulu |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (14) |

A dysfunctional family tries to help each other navigate the modern dating scene. Recent divorcee Tara and her bachelor brother coach each other through the crazy world of dating (on-line and off), while living under the same roof again for the second tim
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | Hulu |
Created By: | Jason Reitman, Zander Lehmann |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (32) |

Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FOX |
Created By: | Dave Chernin, John Chernin |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (99) |

Four egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of u
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 13 |
Networks: | FX, FXX |
Created By: | Rob McElhenney |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (352) |

The relationship between Arthur, the gruff owner of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee, Franco, and their loyal patrons in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Bob Daily |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (18) |

Comedy titan Dave Chappelle caps a wild year with two stand-up specials packed with scorched new material, self-reflection and tough love.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |

Two cousins, with different views on art versus commerce, on their way up through the Atlanta rap scene; Earnest 'Earn' Marks, an ambitious college dropout and his estranged cousin, who suddenly becomes a star.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | FX |
Created By: | Donald Glover |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (163) |

A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together break up on their wedding day. The failed wedding forces them all to question their life choices. Then the
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Caspe |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (63) |

Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milw
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz, Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (22) |

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, bu
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Sheldon Leonard, Aaron Ruben |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (50) |

A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Jackie Gleason |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (33) |

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974 to September 24, 1984 on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States. The series was pr
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (69) |

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Netflix |
Created By: | Justin Simien |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (56) |

A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Fusco |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (184) |

Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for F
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Diane English |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (25) |

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Larry David |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (259) |

A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Bill Cosby |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (13) |

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Lisa, a 27-year-old in Los Angeles, is forced to take a job with a company that provides entertainment at birthday parties. It's a ragtag group of outcasts, but thanks to their hard-partying ways, Lisa fits
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | Freeform |
Created By: | Lacey Friedman, Lisa Schwartz |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |

A not-so-happily married couple's meticulously planned camping trip is derailed by uninvited guests and forces of nature, turning the weekend into a test of marriage and friendships.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Lena Dunham, Jennifer Konner |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (6) |

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | HBO |
Created By: | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (29) |

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Nahnatchka Khan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (89) |

Out of Practice is an American situation comedy that was produced by Paramount Network Television and originally broadcast on sister company CBS from September 19, 2005 to March 29, 2006. With producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd at the helm, the sh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Joe Keenan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (3) |

A British newscaster moves to Los Angeles with his alcoholic manservant and the baggage of several failed marriages to host a sanctimonious talk show.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | Starz |
Created By: | Jonathan Ames |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (29) |