Best Sitcom of the 21st Century is...

[MontyVeda]

How could I have forgotten about Darkplace? Definitely should be up there.

Garth Merengie's?

If so... yes!

Actually... was it a sit com?

 

[marknotgeorge]

Seriously? That may be one of the worst things I have ever seen.

2 Broke Girls? It has the delightful Kat Dennings in it, which is it's one saving grace, I suppose.

Back on topic, I nominate Coupling and Yonderland.

 

[philk56]

Did I miss something - has the 21st century finished then? What an utterly pointless survey. Best sitcom of the first 16 and a half years of the century. A bit like the recent best film of the century survey...

 

[AndyRM]

Garth Merengie's?

If so... yes!

Actually... was it a sit com?

That's the one!

But you're right, it's probably not strictly a sitcom.

 

[stephec]

The Big Bang Theory, on the other hand, is dire. Unfunny actors playing unfunny characters making unfunny and stereotypical jokes in unfunny situations.

I'm glad it's not just me.

 

[User169]

No honorable mentions for Not Going Out?

And for the record, the best sitcom ever is Game On. FACT

 

[Cycleops]

Did I miss something - has the 21st century finished then? What an utterly pointless survey. Best sitcom of the first 16 and a half years of the century. A bit like the recent best film of the century survey...

I don't think it pointless at all. I think the OP may be trying to draw a comparison between what might be called the golden age of the sitcom, the last four or so decades of the last century, and what we've been offered so far this century.

 

[Rezillo]

Revision:

I think my personal top 10 would look more like

1. The Thick of It
2. The Office
   
3. 2012
4. W1A
5. Green Wing
6. Parks & Recreation
7. Outnumbered
8. Black books
9. Um, that's all folks

That would be my list except that Detectorists replaces Parks and Recreation and then zooms to the top.

 

[John the Monkey]

That would be my list except that Detectorists replaces Parks and Recreation and then zooms to the top.

Detectorists!

 

[srw]

Back on topic, I nominate Coupling

You're right, but only for the first three series. I'd forgotten the wonders of the Cupboard of Patrick's Love and The Girl with Two Breasts.

It got situation, characters and script absolutely spot on - and was formally daring too. It must have been a brave producer who signed off an essentially two-handed episode with half of it in Hebrew.

 

[srw]

No honorable mentions for Not Going Out?

I wouldn't turn it off if there was nothing better to do, but it's more a vehicle for Lee Mack's standup than a real sitcome.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Drop the dead donkey

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOxT-zB7Cnk


And of course, Open all hours.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I'd also stick Flight of the Conchords in there as well...

How did I forget it? I guess because I never thought of it as a sitcom. Likewise Darkplace, which was just brilliant but entirely unclassifiable.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Drop the dead donkey

And of course, Open all hours.

21st Century?

 

[jefmcg]

I've mixed feelings about The Office, because I never found it all that, well, for want of a better word, funny. But I can recognise it as a truly landmark piece of television,

I'm not a fan either. But why is it "landmark"?