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Just came across GLOW on Netflix.
very funny and , believe it or not, sexy!
check it out!
brm
Yeah, I've seen it on Netflix when I've been logged on. I'll add it to the list.
Finished it and loved it!!!!!
one minor complaint: casting Mark Maron, who is not an actor ,in an important role. He is ok but a seasoned pro would have made the show even better
brm
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I keep hearing about Big Bang Theory (I know, I know, it's probably considered old), but it hasn't shown up on Netflix or Prime yet, so I'll have to wait.
The last really funny shows I've seen on television were Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock. I've tried plenty others...I guess I'm old.
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It struck me as amusingly ironic that a man who insists regularly to us that he has absolutely no sense of humour starts a thread asking for good, smart situation comedies?! Thor u old fraud! 
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I don't care for BIG BANG THEORY or 30 ROCK. But I love CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. I'm sure you've seen the new 9th season?
Not yet Thor! I am psyched and hoping it shows up on Prime or Netflix soon. It's bumming me out that I haven't seen it, but Prime carries all the other seasons so I can console myself with the vibrator car seat while I wait.
(dying) 
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Perhaps this show has been dealt with in other threads devoted to comedy, SF, and/or cult shows, perhaps not, but the only comedy series I’ve enjoyed unreservedly in recent years is 2004’s “Garth Merenghi’s: Darkplace” coupled with "Man to Man with Dean Learner." They were very meta. Fictions of fictions etc.
From Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Marenghi%27s_Darkplace
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness. The show focuses on fictional horror author Garth Marenghi (played by Holness) and his publisher Dean Learner (played by Ayoade), characters who originated in the Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight stage show.
Darkplace is presented as a lost classic: a television series produced in the 1980s, though never broadcast at the time. The presentation features commentary from many of the "original" cast, where characters such as Marenghi and Learner reflect on making the show. Darkplace parodies the fashion, special effects, production gaffes, and music of low-budget '80s television, as well as the modern practice of including commentary tracks on DVD releases of old films and television shows.
Darkplace was broadcast in a late-night timeslot, with very little advertising, and met with poor viewing figures.[1] It nonetheless built up a significant internet following, leading Channel 4 to repeat the series and produce a DVD release. In 2005, Channel 4's Film Four asked Holness and Ayoade to write a script for a movie version of their programme.[2]
From the Amazon UK description:
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. (Garth Marenghi) is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez (Todd Rivers), fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed (Dean Learner), and woman Liz Asher (Madeleine Wool), Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth’s Darkplace?
Live from his luxury apartment in London's glittering East End, Dean Learner - club owner, celebrity manager, restaurateur, entrepreneur and publisher of high-class gentlemen's magazines (including Flesh Wrangler and Skin City) - invites you to meet some his closest friends, Man to Man.* Offering an oasis of culture and sophistication in the rancid scrubland of depravity that passes for modern television. Dean's special guests include the living legends GARTH MARENGHI, STEVE PISING, GLYNN NIMON, MERRIMAN WEIR, AMIR CHANAN and the recently deceased RANDOLPH CAER. This transcendent talk show is the worthy successor to the Socratic dialogues of the Symposium. With cocktails. (*In his capacity as producer of Man to Man with Dean Learner, sole owner of Deano's After Dark Productions and manager of the artistes appearing thereon, Dean Learner acknowledges that there is a potential conflict of interest between his private business concerns and his duty to Channel 4 in providing top-quality, unbiased programming.)
I have the box set that pairs “Darkplace” with “Man to Man with Dean Learner.”
Both shows are incredibly knowing about British science fiction and awful interview programs.
However, they might not appeal to you in the slightest degree.
And an episode on the Tube of You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE
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'Derry Girls' was made in Northern Ireland for Channel 4 UK. It's not easy to pigeonhole, because although it's set round a Catholic girls' school in the 1990s, it's late night post-watershed adult stuff. It wrecks the stupid media stereotypes about basic people in NI. It's a runaway hit in the UK, had the biggest comedy viewing ratings for years on C4:
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He will always be Tim Whatley to me.
That's the Heffernan neighbour, right? Yeah, I also had a bit of trouble shaking off that particular persona when I first watched BREAKING BAD.
I still can't!
The Solium Refusals
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Garth Marenghi is ace! Shame it's only 6 eps.
Psychoville is great too.
Brooklyn 99 is a fun, easy watch and gets funnier as it goes along.
Borderline was really poor and deeply unfunny. Couldn't make it through two episodes.
Curb is brilliant.
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Trying VENTURE BROS. next.
TVB is a weird, deeply self-involved show that flowers slowly and gets more and more convoluted.
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