Are you excited about comedies?

[jschuur]

I'm looking at the upfront announcements and can't help but immediately scan for the one hour dramas. I've been disappointed by so many sitcoms in the past couple of years, I can't even get myself to read the descriptions anymore, because they all sound the same.

Anyone else feel the same?

[Jesda]

Theyre running out of ideas. Long live The Office and Arrested (in DVD form).

[MrCouchPotato]

Agree with The Office, I can watch that over and over. I like Earl and Monk (don't know if that is considered a comedy).

I can't think of any current traditional sitcom that is worth watching right now. I did really like Two and a Half Men, but the writing is just horrible now. Too bad, a lot of potential there. Jake still has some funny lines. The Julie Louis Dryfus show? Ahhhh, shoot me in the head.

[allan]

I haven't seen a decent sitcom since the 70's!

[murgatroyd]

I've been enjoying Out of Practice (same production crew as Frasier) but it is mostly because of the cast. There's a pattern to the way the jokes are set up which is very similar to the way it was done on Frasier, so if you are familiar with the way they do things, you can see all the gags coming a mile off.

In the good episodes, you can get carried along by the show and not be conscious of it, but in the weak episodes, it sticks out a mile.

The cast is great -- especially Jennifer Tilly -- it's a pity they can't have better material to work with.

Aside from that -- comedies, feh. Nothing today can stand up to the great comedies like All in the Family.

Jan

[mrpantstm]

There are a few good sitcoms out there and probably a few more to come. But the canned laughter, cheesy shows don't interest me in the least. Thanks I can figure out when to laugh on my own.

[JFriday]

The only one I look forward to is Everyone Hates Chris.

[DougF]

Only the single-camera, no-laugh-track comedies. That automatcially means they are intelligent.

[Jesda]

Ally McBeal was one of my favorite comedies. Hard to believe that was on the air nine years ago.

[Paul_PDX]

All the good sitcoms are on British TV -- then they bring them here -- chop them twelve minutes shorter -- take out all the real funny stuff -- use a lame cast -- add a stereotype character that wasn't in it in the first place -- and finally give the American public at most three episodes before deciding the fate of the show.

Thank goodness for BBC america and sattellite feeds.

[jschuur]

All the good sitcoms are on British TV.
I watched the pilot for The Thick of It (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/thickofit/), which sounded like The Office meets British politics and cancelled half way through, because I found it difficult to follow (and they bleeped out all the fun British swear words on BBC America). Guess you have to appreciate British politics to understand the show.

The IT Crowd (http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/) on the other hand I could relate to!

[newsposter]

any without laugh tracks get 2 thumbs up from me? is that info available....i hate being insulted being told when to laugh. And if a show is that bad that you need a laugh track, it's not that good...most of the time.

[marksman]

I think there are consistently 2 or 3 sitcoms on that I really enjoy. Then there are a slew of them that I can stand as background noise.

Some come and some go... but for a while now, there are always a couple of good ones.

[spartanstew]

I look forward to the few gems. There's many times when I don't want to get involved with a 1 hour drama and look forward to a good comedy. Yep, there's fewer of them, but there's always a few good ones:

The Office
Two and a half men
How I met your mother
Curb
Arrested (was)
Simpsons
Scrubs
Earl

[cheesesteak]

Everybody Hates Chris

[mrpantstm]

All the good sitcoms are on British TV -- then they bring them here -- chop them twelve minutes shorter -- take out all the real funny stuff -- use a lame cast -- add a stereotype character that wasn't in it in the first place -- and finally give the American public at most three episodes before deciding the fate of the show.

Thank goodness for BBC america and sattellite feeds.

/agree. A lot.

[sieglinde]

George Lopez.