Best Sitcom of the 21st Century is...

[philk56]

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.

Sorry, I wasn't having a go at the OP I was having a go at the bbc (? ) or whoever it was who originated the poll. Just seems like a completely arbitrary point to make such a survey.

 

[PaulSecteur]

21st Century?

Yeah... forgot about that.

Its still repeated if that counts

 

[swee'pea99]

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

Like it or not, it was something genuinely new. It was like seeing reality television for the first time. Not that old-style television comedy has gone away, but I think The Office opened up new possibilities that others have since explored. Shows like 2012 and W1A, eg, with their 'near-realism', owe a debt to The Office. Personally I wouldn't say I wasn't a fan - I was. I thought it was audacious and fresh, genuinely innovative and original. I just didn't find it belly-laughing funny, in the way that I did, say, Fawlty Towers.

 

[rich p]

Of course it's farking arbitrary, of courtse it's farking subjective, it;s farkinhg humour innit.
Office and Outnumbered for frshenss etc etc etc
I'm just back from thr boozer so the spellnig pesants can do one...

 

[swee'pea99]

Of course it's farking arbitrary, of courtse it's farking subjective, it;s farkinhg humour innit.
Office and Outnumbered for frshenss etc etc etc
I'm just back from thr boozer so the spellnig pesants can do one...

Top post!

 

[jefmcg]

Like it or not, it was something genuinely new. It was like seeing realityA television for the first time. Not that old-style television comedy has gone away, but I think The Office opened up new possibilities that others have since explored. Shows like 2012 and W1A, eg, with their 'near-realism', owe a debt to The Office.

Ah thank you. That explains why I don't see it. There is an Australian series that predates it by several years, mockumentary (or mockudrama really) sitcom set in an office, The Games.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRegD00RnB0


(might look a little familiar. I didn't bother watching 2012 after the first episode as I had "seen it before". I later found out that the makers of the Australian series had pitched it to the person who eventually produced 2012, but he rejected it then remade it himself. The BBC investigated and found they had done nothing wrong)

 

[John the Monkey]

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.

Cripes! I just realised that I'm the OP!

That's not what I'm doing, as it goes. I'm pointing out that, for my money, there's more inventive, more influential, more funny[1] comedy that's been made during the same period covered by the list.

[1] Subjectively

 

[swee'pea99]

There is an Australian series that predates it by several years

The key word there being 'Australian'...

 

[srw]

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

It proved that good sitcom doesn't have to be funny. Others have deduced, incorrectly, that unfunny sitcoms are necessarily good...

 

[Cycleops]

That's not what I'm doing, as it goes. I'm pointing out that, for my money, there's more inventive, more influential, more funny[1] comedy that's been made during the same period covered by the list.

[1] Subjectively

Ok, I understand. Everyone has different tastes hence the varying ideas of what is or not funny.

Btw another which hasn't been mentioned so far and is one of my all time favourites is King of the Hill, if it counts.

 

[AndyRM]

Ok, I understand. Everyone has different tastes hence the varying ideas of what is or not funny.

Btw another which hasn't been mentioned so far and is one of my all time favourites is King of the Hill, if it counts.

Great shout, and has one of my favourite theme tunes. Only spent a couple series in the 90s so I reckon it counts.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Ideal. Graham Duff and Jonny Vegas

Moz is a drug dealer from his Salford flat with his surreal clientele that got beyond weird