Frasier is my favourite Sitcom. It was a witty show of good quality yet also managed to pull off emotion and drama often for whole scenes without a single joke. It was a very unusual sitcom.
Blackadder is an obvious classic. The Inbetweeners is a brilliant sitcom. It is remarkably realistic and for that reason, it is like watching a TV show where somebody has filmed you out with your mates. It's like The Office (You know, the good, British version) but for teenagers.
Top Gear is an awesome comedy show as well. Although it's format is a motoring show, it isn't really anything to do with cars. The show is brilliant because of the chemistry between Jeremy Clarkson, Hamster and James May.
The show is like watching a lad's nights out, and it is easy to believe that this could be you with your mates if you were given a quarter of a million pound super car each to do whatever you please for a day.
The pinnacle of comedy films, in my opinion, is Shaun of the Dead. Rather than go for low, childish humour like so many comedy films do these days, they went for a realistic movie in which the characters are trying to make each other laugh. It is again that situation where you can imagine that you're watching a documentary when you're out with your mates, but zombies attack.
All of the best comedy films have had characters that we can all relate to, in unusual circumstances. This has what makes them the "classics" they turned out to be.
Comedy Films such as The Hangover tried to do this, by not casting big stars to make it a movie about the average American Joe, as though you could be that character... but that moronic bloke stopped the film from achieving this.
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