American Sitcoms

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A cunting for American Comedy programmes.

Not stand-up – American stand-up comedians are some of the best – but their sitcoms and late night talk shows are formulaic bilge.

Why is it that the major networks can only take chances with offensive humour and surrealism in animated programmes such as South park, Ren and Stimpy and Family Guy, while much of the live action stuff is safe, moronic pap?

I’ve tried watching the US version of the Office. it’s terrible. The UK version is overrated but still watchable. it’s a very good first series from a new writer. The American version can’t restrain itself the way the British version did.

I get recommended a lot of these comedies by fellow Gen X/millennial contemporaries; My Name Is Earl, Arrested Development, The Big Bang Theory, it’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Curb your Enthusiasm – they all fell flat.

For most of its run Curb is just the same episode in different clothes. The only high point was perhaps Larry David having to perform The Producers – but a lot of it made my eyes roll; the punchline is never worth the laboured set-up and is always based around Jewish neuroticism and the taboos of middle-class California, which seem to be fucking everything.

What a stifling and boring cunthole of a society. A lot of these taboos that Larry blunders through are much more aggressively and deftly handled by stand ups like George Carlin, Denis Leary and Bill Burr.

The less said about the man-children of The Big Bang Theory the better. It is, as a friend pointed out, Nerd Blackface, and the only character who is allowed to develop is the audience surrogate Penny.

I think the only live action American comedy i ever found funny was Third Rock from the Sun, mainly because of John Lithgow. What a shame NBC destroyed it by moving it around the schedules unannounced, prompting Lithgow to thank them at an award ceremony for ‘killing our show’.

Saving the worst until last, there are the late night talk shows, a dead format hosted by cunts called Jimmy saying ‘Orange Man Bad’, all desperate to convince themselves and their otarine audiences barking and clapping their mindless approval, that Trump colluded with Russia and children are being mistreated by border police.

Nominated by: Cuntamus Prime

99 thoughts on “American Sitcoms”

  1. I found ‘curb your enthusiasm’ and Larry David by accident,
    A happy accident.

    I thought it was brilliant!

    ‘beloved cunt”😂😂

    And his misunderstanding in the toilets with the little girl where everyone thinks hes a pee do.

    Made me laugh anyway.

    • Curb your Enthusiasm is brilliant.

      Marty Funkhouser and the sweaty 20 Dollar bill is a particular favourite episode.

      I liked Seinfeld as well.

      A lot of other American sitcoms are crap by comparison.

    • “Devoted sister, Beloved CUNT”
      “Thank god we didn’t get you to do the headstone”

      I spat out my tea first time I saw it!

      • Haha who can forget that. Clinton Baptise, the medium from hell.

        “They can’t handle the truth!”

        There is no better comedy with better characters. Spencer was fucking hilarious and that Kenny Senior would have me in stitches. Something like, “Robert De Niro? Nice bloke. Played swingball with him in Pwllheli.”

      • My missus saw Leon in an episode of ‘Castle’. The character he played was almost identical to the one he plays in Curb.

  2. I’m currently enjoying 3rd Rock, having caught it from the beginning. I also like Bing Bang Theory, as much for the stunning Penny as anything (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/293006103279). I liked older ones such as Home Improvement and Married with Children. Don’t really know any of the new ones.

  3. Comedy like music comes down to your own personal taste. But always sunny in philadephia is so offensive, every character in it is more unlikeable than the last.. and the first two seasons of arrested development are Comedy gold..

  4. Never understood how Americans can produce a really funny film, but seem to have a completely different sense of humour mindset when it comes to sitcoms. They are all crap, but some of the films are brilliant

  5. I thought My Name is Earl was top notch and I am generally not a fan of American sit coms.

  6. I think a lot of American sitcoms just stagger on too long….as do our own. I didn’t mind the earlier series of Friends,Scrubs,My Name is Earl,Married with Children and The King of Queens ( mainly because I liked to vigorously masturbate when Leah Remini put in an appearance).

    Don’t think there has ever been a better comedy series on telly than “Early Doors”

    Monty Python was a Cunt and I’m glad he’s dead.

    • Agreed Fiddler. Early Doors was utterly brilliant. Few people have even heard of though.

  7. It’s weird because some American fillums are hilarious and have a quirky British-type of humour (Blazing Saddles is a good example).

    Their TV sitcoms are universally fucking shite though, not even remotely funny.

    Why is this I wonder?

    • US TV shows are often written by a team of gag writers, whereas films are usually the work of one or two screenwriters, much like British TV series.

  8. I’m currently watching ‘Frasier’ which is fantastic, sharp and clever.

    • I was under the impression yanks and brits had very different senses of humour,
      But im not so sure now?
      Family Guy has offensive humour that I thought would make yanks swallow their tongues?!

      https://youtu.be/KreUinWX6xM

      • Now, I find family guy very funny, but it appears to be a very different sense of humour to what they employ for sitcoms- which I don’t find remotely funny at all. You can watch an american made cartoon movie………..minions for example, which is funny, but a totally different funny to the yank humour in sitcoms. I don’t get it.

  10. As we all know, it’s because the Yanks don’t ‘get’ irony; the British sense of humour is far superior, as are the highest production standards and edgy, new talent here in the U.K.

    I give you: Citizen Khan (shite), remake of Porridge (shite), Open all Hours/Still Open all Hours (still shite) and that fucking My Family, which I used to make the kids watch as a punishment if they misbehaved.

    Classic US sitcoms such as Cheers/Frasier/Taxi were cleverly written and had genuine talent, with many of the stars going on to much bigger things.

    We are supposed to be grateful for, and laugh endlessly at, Jonny Vegas in a flat cap.

    Lazy, patronising cunts.

    • Absolutely right there Gunner.
      If you think American sitcoms are shite then try watching British ones. Monty Python was a curate’s egg, only good in parts, and they’re now treated like Gods. The BBC are utterly incapable of producing anything funny, with the possible exception of I am sorry I haven’t a clue. Their Radio 4 comedy spot at 6.30 is simply dire.

      • You have to watch 10 hours of Python to glean ten minutes of anything memorably humorous…and it’s because of those 10 minutes being cutting edge and never seen before humour, then that’s what people remember.

        I think Fawlty Towers was probably the only sit com whereby every episode was a classic. IMO

      • I certainly agree that the BBC are incapable of producing anything funny NOW. However, remember this is the same organisation which gave us Only Fools and Horses, Fawlty Towers, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, the Young Ones, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Keeping Up Appearances, Bottom, Alan Partridge, the Office and Little Britain. But as with everything else PC/woke turned it to shit.

      • @Chuff

        It’s because they only made 12 episodes and knocked it on the head. They didn’t milk the tits off it, so consequently it never had a chance to “go off”.

        Plus the fact that the writing and acting were brilliant.

    • Indeed GS. The golden age of British comedy disappeared up its own arse sometime around 2013.

      • ‘Friday Night Dinner’ (2011 – 2020) was the last truly great British sitcom, imo. Although ‘People Just Do Nothing’ (2017?) wasn’t bad.

      • People just do nothing was brilliant. Currently watching White Gold.

        Written by the same guy who did Inbetweeners (now that’s another good one in my book) and a couple of the same actors. It’s fucking funny. Check it out if you haven’t already…currently showing on netflix. I though it was a new series, but been around since 2017.

  11. Supprised Soap has not had a mention. “The most contoversial sit-com ever.” Ran from 1977 to 1981.

  12. All of them have had classic moments, even Friends. What I can’t stand is the “canned” laughter, once you hear it you can never unhear it. It then becomes a eye roll fest because the joke ain’t that funny but still you get the spew of canned laughter at full force….Shite.

  13. On the subject of US talk shows, I see that talentless prick, James Corden is jacking in The Late Show. Which I reckon means he’s coming back over here to darken our fucking doorsteps. Fucking Yanks. Couldn’t they make him an offer he can’t refuse, maybe even death threats? We don’t want the fat, egotistical little wanker over here again.
    This from the multi chinned tosser….
    “It’s a good time to move on and see what else might be out there.”
    Yes. Another vomit inducing reboot of Gavin and fucking Stacey probably, you irritating little shit!
    God bless America! You’ve stitched us up again.

  14. Comedy is rather like music in that it seems like all the good stuff’s already been done…..

  15. Have never liked any of them. Found the so called classics such as the Fonz and Mork and Mindy formulaic shite.
    Comedy has all but disappeared both sides of the Atlantic.

    • I always thought the fonz was suspect, he was an alpha male whose office was a mens toilet in a cafe, I bet he was doing all sorts of bumfoolery in there, the fonze never married, go figure

      • Crappy Days 2022…Phonzhi is a fat, middle-aged pakı whose office is in a kebab toilet (where he takes the 12 year old white girls to Fritzl them).

      • Joseph Fritzl.

        Great builder, terrible father.

        Once managed to upset an entire room of people when they showed his cellar and underground network on the news with, “Proper job that. You won’t see his handywork on builders from hell.”

      • The Fonz. A 30 odd year old bloke who went out with ‘schoolies’. Very suspect. All the others were cunts. Potsie, Richie Cuntingham and proto-Sheeran, Ralph Malph. All twats. That Laverne of Laverne and Shirley had magnificent tits though.

        Mind you, Marion Ross as Mrs C. Milfmongous. She was lovely…

      • The second letter of the ‘Fonz’s’ name was ‘o’

        He should’ve been called The (another word with the second letter ‘o’).

  16. Can’t go along with this cunting. Am currently rewatching Cheers (after a gap of 20 years?) and both the writing and characters are top notch.

    Same goes for the American Office, equally good if not better than the British original.

    The first seven seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm are sublime, but the writing and performances just going through the motions after that.

    The little I’ve seen of Big Bang Theory is both clever and funny. One American sitcom I couldn’t stand was Will & Grace.

    Frazier is excellent for the most part. Friends seems ok, though I’ve only ever seen a few episodes, been meaning to acquire a complete boxed set for yonks.

    IMO, American comedy is easily the equal of anything we’ve produced here in Blighty.

  17. I thought Parks and Recreation was quite good.
    Ron Swanson has some funny sketches.

    It also had Aubrey Plaza in it, who I find strangely attractive.

  18. Scrubs
    Seinfeld
    Phil Silvers
    Police Squad
    South Park
    CYE
    MASH

    All stand out as good comedies even if some of them have gone off the boil over the years (South Park)

    You’ll be hard pushed to find great comedy in this age of “permanently offended by everything”

    • British, of course. I’d rather have Tom Daley give me a rectal examination than watch Yank shite.

    • Agreed Cuntalugs, I did like Freaks and Geeks too although it only aired for one series due to scheduling issues, but still turned out to be a bit of a cult classic. Created by Paul Feig who went onto give us that pile of steaming shite, Ghostbusters in 2016.

  25. Anyone remember Nighty Night?

    Now, that was some right fucking dark humour…….I loved it.

  26. Noticed on TV this morning that the cast of Friends are yet again castigated themselves for their show being too white, despite it being the most globally popular sitcom of all time.

    On this basis we should start to force sports teams with too many non whites to include them even though they will likely be reduced in effectiveness. Only fair right?

    • Waiting for the 1966 England team to be brought up about the fact it was ‘too White’

      CUNTS (not the England team…obv)

  27. Although I no longer remember much about it, I do recall liking Benson. Thinking about this nom I am starting to remember all sorts of old ones, Soap, Rhoda, Roseanne, Sergeant Bilko, Golden Girls, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, ALF, the Cosby Show et Al.

    • I think the last American sitcom I used to watch was ‘My Favorite Martian’. Americans are shit at making sitcoms, like they’re shit at most things. They can’t even speak English properly. They say blow when they mean suck and suck when they mean lick. They’d benefit from a decent education.

  28. One of the most well written noms I’ve ever read Cuntimus. You should write a sitcom.
    Re-read twice.
    Bravo!

  29. I hate almost all American sitcoms. There are some I did like though.

    Sgt Bilko (aka The PhILSilvers Show) was ace.

    Taxi. Because I liked Christopher Lloyd and Andy Kaufmann (RIP). Also because I wanted to shag the granny out of Marilu Henner.

    The Odd Couple, The original one with the great Jack Klugman (RIP).

    Married With Children. Because I wanted to shag the shit out of Katey Sagal.

    All the ones that millennial cunts consider ‘classics’ are shite. Friends, Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm all bollocks. And the crowning fly on the US sitcom dog turd… Will and Grace. Absolute crap of the highest order.

  30. The subject matter is all the same now for sitcoms:
    Sex and dysfunction.
    All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Home Improvement and the like are more. Now they are rife with sexual enuendo, and the characters are mental. No moral lessons or chivalry either.
    Children’s sitcoms are teaching wokeness, and making our kids think that dysfunction is normal and good.
    All shit nowadays.

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