I don't anticipate these pieces being quite the length of their drama brothers and sisters, but I've said that before and been undeniably and astonishingly wrong. They are special to me either because I grew up with them and they still hold up or, in the case of number two, it's just something I adore. My top two, potentially three, wouldn't move, regardless of what the criteria was. I will say one final thing before moving to number ten on the list. So with that in mind, let's try this comedy thing and see how it goes. Believe me, I know how good that stuff was, I really do.
I use this disclaimer to avoid the "how could you leave off Lucy" emails and tweets. Those three shows are icons, as are Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, I Love Lucy, and the Honeymooners. It's really just an excuse and I know that, so forgive me. I want to place Cheers and The Cosby Show and even the end of All in the Family (among others) in some kind of museum but because of their end date, I can leave them off this project's rankings and focus on more recent material and shows that have had less written about them. Instead, it's the past 20 years, and the reason why is fairly obvious. This is in no way a grouping that encompasses 25 years. Let me say this before we kick this shindig off. It was a sectional conglomeration that required several reshufflings and even more "almost made its." I would forget classics and while I never actually went and looked at any kind of website for show names, I might as well have the way my brain worked. So when I sat down this past week and tried to brainstorm a top ten in comedy over the past 25 years, boy did I run into trouble.
As a 35-year-old, drama is the prime focus, but I really liked to laugh as a kid and grew up during a so-called golden era of comedy. While drama certainly dominates my viewing in 2014, that hasn't always been the case. To be honest, it was very difficult and I still look back and wonder if I should have slotted something higher or if I somehow missed a very important show, for example Buffy (which I feel bad about, at least in the 11-20 ranks), but I'm pleased overall with the finished product.
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