22 of the Funniest Moments in TV History
If choosing your own nightly entertainment is too hard, the good news (and probably the reason) is that there’s just too much good content out there. Pick a streaming service at random, navigate to “comedy,” and throw a digital dart, and you’ll hit something funnier than you’ve ever seen in your life. In fact, there’s so much of it that you’ll never be able to watch it all in your lifetime. Even if you could, they’d still be making more after your death at an exponentially growing rate.
Wow. This became kind of a bummer.
On the bright side, the true comedy gems have definitely already been made. The oldies just hit different, made at a time when everything was fresh and the same tropes hadn’t been shot, stabbed and beaten into the ground. There are modern classics, too — the ones everyone you know has seen a thousand times. These are the titles that kept coming up when user BardInChains asked r/AskReddit, “What do you think is the single funniest moment in the history of television?”
The Office
Newhart
Third Rock From the Sun
The Simpsons
My Name Is Earl
The IT Crowd
Frasier
Friends
Barney Miller
Silicon Valley
The Golden Girls
I Love Lucy
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Kids in the Hall
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Seinfeld
Parks and Recreation
WKRP in Cincinnati
Saturday Night Live
Dr. Phil
The Dick Van Dyke Show
