Right. It's American sitcoms that are meh. It's not that the concept of the sitcom is done to death, and stagnant. It's because of America.

That's exactly it.

Without a doubt.

It's good that we have all these great Irish sitcoms to make the genre worthwhile still.

We know how it's done.

Clearly.

British sitcoms do tend to be of higher quality than American ones, though.

Riiiiiight. That's not true.

Edit: There are many good British sitcoms, but there are also a lot of really shitty British sitcoms. I'll put them up against Arrested Development, Always Sunny, Louie, Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, any day. I think at best we are going to come out with the best British sitcoms being on par with them.

Name me ten beloved American sitcoms in the last twenty years.

Arrested Development, Always Sunny, Louie, Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Jeffersons, Malcolm in the Middle, Everybody Hates Chris, The Big Bang Theory (don't care for that one)....Shall I go on?

Edit: Didn't notice the twenty year thing, but the majority of those apply.

And dear lord, I'm leaving out so many. Will and Grace, Fresh Prince, Fraser, Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, That 70's Show, Scrubs, Roseanne (One of the most important sitcoms of all time), 30 Rock, Community......so on, and so forth.

I like Friends.

I intentionally left that off the list.

Scrubs isn't a sitcom, it's more comedy-drama.

It's a sitcom.

Edit: And not a particularly good one.

Scrubs isn't a sitcom, it's a shitty show.

I keep trying to posrep the same three people, and keep being unable to do so. Someone else say something I like so I can posrep good posts again.

Impossible.

30 Rock's pretty shit as well, but mainly because I don't like Baldwin it's shit.

Nooooo. Almost all sitcoms, at least the good ones, are equal parts drama, equal parts comedy. Again, look at Roseanne.

Yup, like Father Ted, and...

...

*Runs*

Was it filmed in front of a live studio audience?

That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a sitcom, and I'm confused as to why you think it would.

I know that, stupid.

I wanted to know because when other people laugh, I feel compelled to do the same.

True dat. We don't have many considering the bar that's been set.

Mrs. Brown's Boys has amassed a considerable following in the past year. There's nothing more dear than an elderly man dressed up as an old woman and acting like a total cunt.

I'm not stupid. You're stupid.

You're stupider.

You're stupidest.

It's like one of those primary school grammar videos, but less upsetting.

You're stupid. Shut up.

You're going off topic.

Father Ted, Give my Head Peace, Mrs Brown's boys off the top of my head. Actually, that might just be all the sitcoms Ireland's produced but they're definitely better than half the tripe I've watched before. Quality over quantity.

Give my Head Peace might actually be the best sitcom I've ever seen, next to Campus that is.