TV Comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. The situation comedy, or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humourous situations. Since the early 1950s with "I Love Lucy" in the US and "Hancock's Half Hour" in Britain, sitcoms have always had a special place in the hearts of viewers and gathered highly devoted followers, as the familar characters often become beloved. Below you may scroll though time to your fondly remembered telly programs. For Alice's motherlode of Television, stay with "Television Shows".
Pictured: Ricky Gervais as The Brentster in the BBC's brilliant 'The Office'.
The Simpsons: Season 8 (1996)
8.7/10
Starring: Voices Of, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Han...
Still not slowing down in Season Eight, Homer's new boss turns out to be a mega super villain ('You Only Move Twice'), who faces off against the Mike... Read more
The Simpsons: Season 9 (1997)
7.6/10
Starring: Voices Of, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Han...
Season 9 is an important one in The Simpsons' run because, to many fans, it represents the top of the rainbow. At this point, the show is still at the... Read more
The Spoils of Babylon (2013)
6.9/10
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Tim Robbins, Tobey Maguire, Val Kilmer, Will Ferrell, Jessica...
6-part comedy mini-series that spoofs the epic and overly melodramatic television sagas that were commonplace in the 1980s. Patriarch Jonas Morehouse... Read more
The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)
8.8/10
Starring: Anthony Newley
Gurney Slade wanders from place to place after breaking the fourth wall to escape from the mundanities of making a family sitcom. Read more
The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare Retold (2005)
Director: David Richards
Starring: Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Jaime Murray, Stephen Tompkinson, Twiggy, Davi...
Katherine (Shirley Henderson) is a successful politician with a chance at the party leadership, but her abrasive temper has left her a 38-year-old sin... Read more
The Thick of It: Series 1 and 2 (2005)
8.7/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Chris Langham, Chris Addison, Joanna Scanlan, James Smith
Welcome to the ministry for Social Affairs: where every announcement is followed by a whirlwind of u-turns; every policy is a kick, bollock and scramb... Read more
The Thick of It: Series 3 (2009)
8.7/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Rebecca Front, Joanna Scanlan, Roger Allam, Chris Addison, James...
The Prime Minister decides to reshuffle his cabinet in an attempt to look like he's doing something. Except no-one with any sense wants to join him on... Read more
The Thick of It: Series 4 (2012)
8.7/10
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Rebecca Front, Joanna Scanlan, Roger Allam, Chris Addison, James...
Funny thing, politics. Government embarrassment, ministerial cock-ups, coalition rows, backroom deals, policy U-turns, spin-doctoring, political back-... Read more
The Thin Blue Line: The Complete Series (1995)
8/10
Director: John Birkin
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Mark Addy, Kevin Allen, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus, Serena Evans,...
Written by Ben Elton and starring Rowan Atkinson, 'The Thin Blue Line' is one of the BBC's classic comedy shows. The complete chronicles of the boys (... Read more
The Tick: The Entire Series (2001)
7.4/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, Danny Leiner, Bob Welch, Craig Zisk, Boris Damast, Andrew Tsao
Starring: Patrick Warburton, David Burke, Nestor Carbonell, Liz Vassey
He is the wild blue yonder. The front line in a never-ending battle between good and not-so-good. He is The Tick (Patrick Warburton)... hero of the cu... Read more