01 A womanising jingle writer, his uptight brother and a wisecracking kid share a Malibu beach house.
15 Best Sitcoms of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · February 14, 2026
Seinfeld and Friends are what most people mean by classic sitcom, but The Office and Community show the format kept evolving through the 2000s and 2010s, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine stays warm and funny without turning cynical. Fawlty Towers has a short-tempered hotelier whose every scheme collapses spectacularly, Modern Family is a mockumentary about three connected households, and How I Met Your Mother is one long, winding story told to the kids. Cheers, Frasier, 30 Rock, Schitt’s Creek, Abbott Elementary and Two and a Half Men round out the list.
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02 A short-tempered hotel owner whose every scheme to run a smooth operation collapses spectacularly.
03 A mockumentary format applied to three very different versions of the same extended family.
04 A framing device built entirely around one long romantic mystery.
05 Underfunded, overworked public-school teachers who love their jobs anyway.
06 A wealthy family who loses everything has to rebuild in a town they once bought as a joke.
07 Four horrible friends running a bar and scheming their way through Philadelphia.
08 A fast-talking satire about a live sketch show and the chaos behind the scenes.
09 A pompous radio psychiatrist whose family keeps puncturing his carefully built dignity.
10 A Boston bar where everybody knows your name, and the show that helped define the ensemble sitcom.
11 A goofy but talented detective and his precinct of oddball colleagues.
12 A community college study group whose adventures got stranger and more meta with every season.
13 A relentlessly optimistic local government employee fights bureaucracy to build a park.
14 A mockumentary sitcom about a mundane paper company that became one of the most beloved comedies ever.
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15 Six friends in New York City, in what remains one of the most rewatched sitcoms ever made.
16 A show about nothing that ended up defining an entire style of observational comedy.
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