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post #1 of 31
7/29/03 at 2:37am
Thread Starter 
if anyone nominates "Friends," I'll kick you squarely in the privates.

My nominees (in no particular order):

Mr. Show
The Simpsons
The State
Family Guy
Dream On
The Larry Sanders Show
Bevis And Butt-Head
South Park
Get A Life

Best Unintentionally Hilarious TV Show:

Cheaters

Let the stoning commence!
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post #2 of 31
7/29/03 at 2:47am
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Seinfeld
Mr. Show

I forgot so many...

NewsRadio
South Park
The Critic
Duckman
Kids in the Hall
The Daily Show with John Stewart
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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post #3 of 31
7/29/03 at 3:47am
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Futurama
Scrubs
Saturday Night Live (late 80's to mid 90's era)
South Park
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post #4 of 31
7/29/03 at 5:31am
I'd say:

Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
The Simpsons
Only Fools and Horses
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Friends (feel free to kick me although by choosing Beavis and Butthead you invalidate your rights)
Porridge
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post #5 of 31
7/29/03 at 6:06am
The Simpsons
Futurama
King of the Hill
Drop The Dead Donkey
Who's Line Is It Anyway? (UK)
Married With Children
Beavis and Butt-Head
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
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post #6 of 31
7/29/03 at 12:31pm
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mr. Show
Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (UK)
Kids in the Hall
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Muppet Show
Ren and Stimpy
MST3K (Joel)
Sledge Hammer!
Married...With Children

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post #7 of 31
7/29/03 at 12:51pm
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
The Simpsons
All In The Family
Bosom Buddies
WKRP in Cincinatti
The Larry Sanders Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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post #8 of 31
7/29/03 at 2:44pm
Family Guy
Simpsons
Seinfeld
Saturday Night Live (Late 80's-Mid 90's)
Married With Children
Scrubs
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post #9 of 31
7/29/03 at 2:53pm
Simpsons
Seinfeld
SNL
The State
MST3K
Ren & Stimpy
Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien
Trigger Happy Tv (ranges from brilliant to horrible)

...and of course, the funniest show to debut in recent years- I'm With Busey.
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post #10 of 31
7/29/03 at 2:57pm
Newsradio (The Phil Hartman years)
Futurama
MST3K
Monty Python
The Simpsons

also I think Monk is funny, but in a different sort of way
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post #11 of 31
7/29/03 at 3:03pm
The Simpsons
Family Guy
The Critic
Futurama
Fawlty Towers
Seinfeld
Friends (kick, and I'll kick right back, fucker)
Fraiser (early seasons; now, not so much)
I Love Lucy

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post #12 of 31
7/29/03 at 4:02pm
Quote:
Jedi Hitchhiker:
Newsradio (The Phil Hartman years)
Fuck, I forgot all about Phil Hartman's NewsRadio.
I put that one on my list too.

Oh and, Friends isn't so much funny as I find it highly enjoyable. I mean it is funny at times, but not enough for me to actually consider it one of my top funniest shows. Now top TV shows, then it is definitely on there.
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post #13 of 31
7/29/03 at 4:22pm
MASH
Animaniacs
Ealy Simpsons
WKRP
Cosby
Dinosaurs

and a host of others already mentioned...
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post #14 of 31
7/29/03 at 5:18pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
WickerMan:
although by choosing Beavis and Butthead you invalidate your rights)
I don't know, man. Some of those latter-day episodes were pretty damn funny. Remember the one where Butt-Head was trying to help Beavis stop a nosebleed? Or when Beavis started mimicking everything Butt-Head said, so Butt-Head tries to trick him into being hit by a car? Or when they started a band and booked a gig at the local Ramada Inn, advertised as Metallica?

And played out it may be, the first time Cornholio made an appearance was fucking hilarious.
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post #15 of 31
7/29/03 at 9:39pm
Scrubs
The Simpsons
M*A*S*H
SNL (original cast)
The Real Ghostbusters (funniest damn Saturday Morning cartoon EVER)
NewsRadio
Courage the Cowardly Dog (early episodes, now, not so much)
Are You Being Served?
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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post #16 of 31
7/29/03 at 10:10pm
Hmmm. Don't watch much TV, but there're a few shows I won't turn away from if they're on and I'm bored.

Taxi
Barney Miller
The Kids in the Hall
Monty Python's Flying Circus
M*A*S*H

But the one I really miss is Stark Raving Mad. I know it was derivitive of The Odd Couple, but damn, man... the main character wrote horror novels and his agent was scared shitless by them. There were a lot of campy, quirky laughs on that show.

Of course, it also came on way past my bedtime, so maybe that had something to do with it how funny I found it....
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post #17 of 31
7/29/03 at 10:30pm
The Simpsons in its prime was simply the funniest TV show ever. In its PRIME, though.

Conan & Andy

The Daily Show

Insomniac with Dave Atell

Ren & Stimpy (even the new stuff)

Sesame Street when Elmo comes on

UK: Fawlty Towers, Teletubbies, and anything with Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge
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post #18 of 31
7/29/03 at 11:49pm
My two shows I feel are the funniest are
I'm With Busey
MASH: (especially the early seasons. Yankee Doodle Doctor is the funniest episode of any show I've ever seen on television)
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post #19 of 31
7/30/03 at 12:36am
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Three's Company
The Kids in the Hall
Monty Python's Flying Circus
MST3K(The Mike Nelson era)
Beavis and Butthead
Tom and Jerry
That 70s Show
Conan O Brien(w or w/o Andy)

These days I'm all about: Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Home Movies on Adult Swim

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post #20 of 31
7/30/03 at 10:53am
Quote:
Bunny Dracula - Beyond spectacula:
SCTV
This is definitely right up there near the top for me. The rest of your list is pretty good, too.
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post #21 of 31
7/30/03 at 11:43am
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python
The Simpsons
Family Guy
The animated Tick series
Cheers
Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players-era SNL
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post #22 of 31
7/30/03 at 5:08pm
I only saw Curb your Enthusiasm on here once. Is Larry David undiscovered on these boards or just under appreciated?
Otherwise in no particular order-
Simpsons
Seinfeld
Larry Sanders
Curb your Enthusiasm
Scrubs (
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post #23 of 31
7/31/03 at 1:26am
SCTV, SCTV, SCTV.
Red Green.
The Tick.
MST3K.***!
Absolutely Fabulous.
Barney Miller. (Actually a pretty damn REALISTIC show)
WKRP.
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post #24 of 31
7/31/03 at 2:59am
Quote:
Bunny Dracula - Beyond spectacula:
Larry David is every one of Seinfeld's characters rolled-up into one big, neurotic mess of a man. I saw him at a restaurant in Santa Barbara, once, and he totally lived down to what his TV character was like. This guy's the real deal.

Edited to say that this is a compliment.
One time Jason Alexander said that all he does to become the character of George is simply impersonate Larry.

When I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, I saw it immediately.
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post #25 of 31
7/31/03 at 3:01am
My none too short list of shows I've enjoyed over the years.

Leave it to Beaver (Yes, watch it. It's a damn funny show)
The Andy Griffith Show (The Fife years only!)
The Addams Family
I Dream of Jeannie
The Beverly Hillbillies
Sanford & Son
Three's Company
Soap
Mork & Mindy
Cheers
Night Court
It's Your Move
Dear John
Doctor, Doctor
The Simpsons
Seinfeld (BEST SIT-COM EVER!)
MST3K
King of the Hill
Futurama
The Family Guy
The Tick (both versions)
ACTION


Funniest variety shows are: SNL- (first five years, Eddie Murphy era, late 80's-mid 90's), Late Show, Late Nite and SCTV.

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post #26 of 31
7/31/03 at 3:02am
Can't forget THE funniest show-EVER!

SMALL WONDER
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post #27 of 31
7/31/03 at 11:22am
Oops, left out MST3K.

And Subotai, mad props for the Red Green reference.
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post #28 of 31
7/31/03 at 11:43am
Quote:
Bunny Dracula - Beyond spectacula:
Martin Short - Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr.
Jackie Jr starring as his non-albino entertainer father in the TV bio-pic tribute Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye is still one of the most unbelievably funny things I've seen. We're talking almost lethally funny, one of those all-too-rare "I think I'm gonna die laughing here" moments. SCTV came close to that a lot.

Quote:
This show often times beat out SNL (original cast) in it's wild hilarity. One of the best things to come out of Canada - EVER.
Indubitably.

SNL has had its moments over the years--well, not so much lately, but when it was good it could be really good. I don't think it ever matched SCTV at its best, though.
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post #29 of 31
7/31/03 at 8:31pm
Simsons
Night court
Welcome back kotter
cheers
family ties
seinfeld
Drew carrey
family guy
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post #30 of 31
8/1/03 at 9:02pm
What the hell - No love for Police Squad?

Also...

Only Fools & Horses (The greatest comedy I dont think you Americans will ever get - nothing against ya'll, I just think It's very british at times)

Fawlty Towers
Red Dwarf
Futurama
Simpsons
Alan Partridge
You Can't Do That On Television (It aired for a while here in the UK and I loved it)
Family Guy
Pheonix Nights (Way to british for the US)
Spaced (Funniest geek comedy ever - Moriarty once promised a review of the DVD's but never delivered)
The League Of Gentlemen
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post #31 of 31
8/3/03 at 2:21am
1. MST3K (not even close)
2. Simpsons
3 Seinfeld
4. SNL sometimes
5. Space Ghost Coast to Coast and other Adult Swim shows.
6. Conan
7. Daily Show
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