I haven't watched a sitcom in years.

[Archae]

They just AREN'T funny!

I loved MASH, Taxi, Barney Miller, Cosby, today's sitcoms though are just crude, vicious and not funny.

[leftyohiolib]

1. WKRP was my fav when that went off i vowed not to watch another then seinfeld happend and

when that was gone i vowed not to watch another. mash, all in the family (1st (i think)interacial male kiss on tv) they were good as well

[Tom Ripley]

2. Harold Pinter nailed the viciousness of "family sitcoms" decades ago with "The Homecoming"

and Oliver Stone highlighted it in the "I Love Mallory" segment of "Natural Born Killers"

[Bertha Venation]

3. If you run across a listing

that says "The Big Bang Theory" is coming up, you might want to look in. Sheldon Cooper is hilarious.

[progressoid]

10. Absolutely. Big Bang and 30 Rock are the only new ones I watch.

[kurtzapril4]

12. I just saw

my first episode of Big Bang Theory yesterday, and I thought it was actually very good! First time I've watched a sit-com episode in 25 years, LOL.

[alphafemale]

14. I Love Sheldon!

One of the best comic characters of all time.

[Bertha Venation]

16. Truer words were never spoken, than these:

[RebelOne]

4. Me neither. Last one I watched was Married With Children.

Now that was funny. I still watch the reruns on Hulu.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

5. Well apart from "Two and a Half Men" when Charlie Sheen was in it

I don't care for modern comedy either and generally find it to be unfunny, boring and overrated. My favorites are still sitcoms like the Golden Girls, the Cosby Show, Hogans Heroes, Family Ties, Perfect Strangers and the like -which I still usually watch regularly on reruns -and there hasn't been anything really good sitcoms on TV since all the 80s sitcoms went off air

[OriginalGeek]

6. New Girl, Modern Family

30 Rock, Raising Hope, Big Bang Theory are some of my current favorites.

Since Cosby you've missed Arrested Development and probably a couple others I can't think of right now.


Maybe my crudometer is set different than yours - I can't promise you'd enjoy any of those I listed but I can say I also loved every one of the shows you listed so we do have some common ground...

[michreject]

7. I have

The ones that I watched years ago.

[femmocrat]

8. The last one I watched was "The Wonder Years".

I just don't find them funny anymore. The more recent ones that I checked out were pretty tasteless.

I'm glad I got to see the "golden age" of sitcoms, though -- All in the Family, Maude, Golden Girls, Designing Women, Laverne and Shirley... those were some of my favorites.

[bigwillq]

9. You really should watch Everybody Loves Raymond

[Lint Head]

11. Same here.

[LeagueShadows24]

13. last one i watched

Friends. They are NOT funny looking back.

[GoneOffShore]

15. Give into the borg and watch Big Bang Theory.!

Bazinga!

[BOG PERSON]

17. have you seen will & grace?

that was a pretty good show. i'm a total karen btw.

[Archae]

18. The worst part about sitcoms...

And this goes back to even the ones I liked, is when they would recycle jokes.

Same joke, different people.

Cosby was great especially because he'd take sitcom jokes or cliches and turn them on their ear.
Starting with the first one, Theo tells Dad to just accept him as he is, audience goes "Awwww..." Cosby tells Theo just how dumb that sounds and makes him buckle down and get better grades.

[libodem]

19. One of my good friends

Voices the same concern you have. The jabs, the cut low, and constant put downs just are not funny to her. Hurtful comments are not that amusing to some.