For all the right reasons, "Community" has become one of the mainstays in NBC's comedy line-up. During its first season, "Community" focused on attorney Jeff Winger, disbarred after the accreditation committee discovered his undergraduate degree was from Colombia the country, not the university. Determined to win reinstatement in his old profession, Winger enrolls in community college, forming a Spanish-class study group which includes, among others, a cynical divorcee and a mid-life millionaire who made his money in moist towelettes. "Community" bravely exploits the ethnic and economic diversity in the study group, showing its gifts as an equal opportunity satirizer. The writers also have courage to wring big laughs from realistic representation of life and attitudes in "junior college." During the second season, "Community" had large and loyal enough following to encourage writers' development of plots centered on characters other than Winger, and they developed some of their best material by focusing on the dynamics of the group itself. Every member of "Community's" all-star ensemble cast has impeccable comedy or small-screen credentials: Chevy Chase's resume, of course, reads simply "legend." Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, and the rest of the cast bring a combined gazillion years of small-screen experience into the mix, and they have imprinted their distinctive styles on their roles. Similarly, all the partners in the production team boast high-powered Hollywood pedigrees and trophy cases full of Emmys. If "Community" had gone dark after the first thirteen episodes, television sets all over North America would have gone straight to test-patterns, because NBC writers and producers would have abandoned all hope for traditional sit-coms' futures.

Tacoma FD is an American comedy television series that premiered on truTV in March 2019. The show follows a group of firefighters working in a fire station in Tacoma, Washington, who are constantly trying to find ways to keep themselves entertained while also maintaining their professionalism. The series was created by Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, who also star in the show as the two main characters, Chief Terry McConky and Captain Eddie Penisi.

The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom that aired on HBO from 1992 to 1998. The show was created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and is a satirical take on late-night talk shows. It starred Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders, the host of a fictional late-night talk show.

The Middle TV Show is a comedy about the lives a middle class family from the suburbs of the Midwest from the point of view of the mother. Frankie is a high strung, but committed mother and wife who works part time while volunteering at her children's school. Her husband Mike is the opposite; laid back and always at work all the time, but supports Frankie in raising their three children. Their son Axl is the oldest and a typical high school teenager; rude, lazy and a slob. Sue is their middle child and although labelled a nerd by everyone in her junior high, she is desperately trying to fit in and avoid torment from her older brother. Then there is the baby of the family, Brick, he is an academic genius but drastically falls short in the area of social skills and suffers from all kinds of anxiety. Watch The Middle TV Show and get a laugh at how the Heck family gets through the day.

Starring Edie Falco, Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" stands out as arguably the best medical drama on television, because the premium cable network allows writers and producers plenty of latitude for developing all of Jackie's passions"”the quality of her patients' care, the unbearable arrogance of vaguely sociopathic physicians, and the delicious relief of good orgasms and Oxycontin. "Nurse Jackie," both the character and the show, have some issues: The character suffers excruciating pain from a bad back and therefore has developed an addiction to painkillers. Yes, you have seen this dangerous dilemma recently on both "House" and "Southland," where the admirable characters continue doing their wonderworks despite their addictions. "Nurse Jackie," the show, suffers a subtle but unmistakable identity crisis, suggesting opportunities for some of the most brilliant black humor known to American medical drama; but, like a pensive and pretentious nineteen-year-old, it insists on taking itself much too seriously. One critic aptly observes, "'Nurse Jackie' doesn't look like the average network medical drama, but it does follow the formula of many premium cable shows, taking a knowing and at times dark, sardonic look at the classic themes of love, life and work." The critic, however, forgets to mention that nowhere does "sardonic" appear as a synonym for either "funny" or "engaging."

Fresh Off the Boat is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from 2015 to 2020. The show is loosely based on the life of Eddie Huang, a Taiwanese-American chef and writer, and his book of the same name. The series follows the story of a Taiwanese-American family who move from Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida in the 1990s, where they open a steakhouse.