01 A womanizing 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 prove the format kept evolving well into the 2000s and 2010s. Brooklyn Nine-Nine stays warm and funny without ever going cynical.
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02 A short-tempered hotel owner whose every scheme to run a smooth operation collapses spectacularly.
03 A mockumentary following three connected families navigating the everyday absurdity of modern life.
04 A man recounting to his kids the long, winding story of how he met their mother.
05 A mockumentary about underfunded public-school teachers who genuinely care despite the chaos.
06 A wealthy family who loses everything and 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 rapid-fire satire of a live sketch show and the chaos behind the scenes producing it.
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 trying to build a park against constant bureaucracy.
14 A mockumentary about a paper company that turned mundane office life into comedy gold.
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.