What’s Your Favorite Sitcom?: The National Consensus Is….

Frazier.

Did anyone see that coming? I didn’t but maybe that’s because I never watched Frazier. I was always a Seinfeld kinda guy, getting that from my father who also never watched Frazier. Seinfeld was voted the third best sitcom ever, trailing Frazier as #1 and #2 Fawlty Towers…….?

Anyone vote for The Office? That is number 10 on the best situational comedy, which is not the first British-based comedy on the list. Did anyone know Fawlty Towers was a BBC comedy? Probably not since it was aired in 1975 and produced 12 episodes. I personally have never seen an episode, but they must have been pretty good to land the #2 spot of the best sitcoms.

Curb Your Enthusiasm anyone? That ranked at #15 in the top 20. That is not bad for a sitcom going on its seventh consecutive season. It also helps to have the great Seinfeld writer Larry David writing the episodes and starring in the sitcom. It shares much of the same humor as that of Seinfeld, but it is much less uptight and fit for networks like Fox and ABC. The loose humor is more suitable for HBO, where it receives great ratings.

Much of the sitcoms that make up the top 20 are ones that have been shot more than 10 years ago in either America or in the UK. But I think it shows how hard it can be for some sitcoms to make it, let alone become extremely successful. With the exception of Frazier, Seinfeld, I’m Alan Partridge (13th), The Office, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, the 20 best sitcoms rest in past generations, not this one.

Source: http://www.paramountcomedy.com/comedy/news/article.aspx?id=320

~ by rgbryan on October 13, 2008.