There's not really a lot I can dissagree with on that list to be honest. I may not have personally liked a couple of them (Friends for example) but I can still see the appeal behind them. The ordering isn't what I would have gone for either, but that sort of thing's kind of par for the course with 'top # of X' lists.
I never quite saw the appeal behind Married with Children though to be honest.
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Eh.
Wasn't a fan of the last pick having to be a video.
As much as I enjoyed the Muppet Show while I was a child it shouldn't of been on this list. It was a variety show while the rest are straight-up comedies. If you are to include a variety show I would have to pick the Carol Burnett show over the Muppet Show. The interaction between Harvey Korman and Tim Conway was priceless.
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I should of said the majority were Sit-Com's. There are sketch comedy shows such as SNL and the state (which I never really got into) on the list also.
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having such a broad range shows makes the list less than a good list.
What was #1? I couldn't be bothered watching through the video that showed four I already knew.
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I have never seen most of those shows. I guess that means that I just don't "get" pop culture. For me, the complete lack of Night Court on the list (my personal favorite sitcom of all time) left me cold. Thumbs down from me for that list.
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I have never seen most of those shows. I guess that means that I just don't "get" pop culture. For me, the complete lack of Night Court on the list (my personal favorite sitcom of all time) left me cold. Thumbs down from me for that list.
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As much as I enjoyed the Muppet Show while I was a child it shouldn't of been on this list. It was a variety show while the rest are straight-up comedies.
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I actually think its a pretty accurate listing. Sure some could be jumbled around here and there, and I too would have included the Office US. Have to say I agree 100% with #1.
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I would not have included Futurama, not all that funny. Plenty of much funnier shows out there.
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There were a few questionable inclusion, and some debatable omissions, but to not have M*A*S*H on the list diminishes it greatly in my eyes.
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No The Cosby Show, M*A*S*H, Night Court, or Soap?
And I Love Lucy not in the top 10?
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But really, isn't the 'Of All Time' List Broken Up Into Multiple Segnments for Page Views becoming a rather tired web article tactic? This one's geographic and historical unevenness only highlights its shoddy desperation. Despite nods to some UK comedies, The State beats out Canada's Kids in the Hall? I Love Lucy's token inclusion only underscores the absence of The Honeymooners and The Ernie Kovacs Show in the black-and-white era category. Most remarkably, despite the blinkered IGN editors' assertion that their list spanned "almost 60 years of television", an entire decade apparently vanished from cultural memory, to judge by the omission of such Sixties standouts as Get Smart and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour?
P.S. I'd complain about the lack of inclusion of Mr. Show with Bob and David, but its fans are used to its slighting at this point.
EDIT: Despite the IGN editors' criteria for "legacy factor, impact on the genre, re-run factor", their choices seem short-sighted and parochial in their deference to contemporary sensibilities. The Odd Couple, Bob Newhart Show, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show are all incredibly whitebread, but they're undeniably among the the best written and funniest TV shows. Do we really believe that Futurama will be considered better than them in another "Of All Time" list a decade or two from now?
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Like I was saying before I was so rudely distracted and went away >.>
Comedy is a broad range of categories from shows about nothing to snarky commentary about everything under the sun. Some are slapstick while others parody and others are just situation comedies. It's impossible to give a fair list of "comedy series" when there are that vany categories and variances...especially when you throw in "6 decades" of comedy where on the early end you pretty much are limited to what you can say to today's end and you can say almost anything. Even within a single category of "stand-up" you still have various types within that.
I would never put a number of those shows on the same list simply because there re too many factors where besides they are meant to make you laugh they have nothing remotely in common.
Also the fact that Animaniacs isn't on a list at all of all time great comedy series and noone else mentioned it yet is just shameful >.>
Also, aside from sketch shows, IGN apparently considered mainly only the standard family/friends/workplace sitcom for their list. M*A*S*H's omission has already been mentioned, but how about political satire, as exemplified by Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister or In the Thick of It?
They have family guy on there...but no MASH?
BJ's practical jokes alone make it more funny than the entirety of Family Guy.
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A gross error compounded by the pandering inclusion of Family Guy, a show whose jaw-dropping comedic laziness was definitively deconstructed by IGN's #4 pick, South Park.
But really, isn't the 'Of All Time' List Broken Up Into Multiple Segnments for Page Views becoming a rather tired web article tactic? This one's geographic and historical unevenness only highlights its shoddy desperation. Despite nods to some UK comedies, The State beats out Canada's Kids in the Hall? I Love Lucy's token inclusion only underscores the absence of The Honeymooners and The Ernie Kovacs Show in the black-and-white era category. Most remarkably, despite the blinkered IGN editors' assertion that their list spanned "almost 60 years of television", an entire decade apparently vanished from cultural memory, to judge by the omission of such Sixties standouts as Get Smart and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour? P.S. I'd complain about the lack of inclusion of Mr. Show with Bob and David, but its fans are used to its slighting at this point. EDIT: Despite the IGN editors' criteria for "legacy factor, impact on the genre, re-run factor", their choices seem short-sighted and parochial in their deference to contemporary sensibilities. The Odd Couple, Bob Newhart Show, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show are all incredibly whitebread, but they're undeniably among the the best written and funniest TV shows. Do we really believe that Futurama will be considered better than them in another "Of All Time" list a decade or two from now? |
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Also, I probably would have put The Colbert Report on there before The Daily Show. I tend to consider The Daily Show the more informative one while The Colbert Report is the funnier one.
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Titus, Scrubs, MASH, Night Court.
I swear they picked some obscure shows just to be obscure.
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