Monty Python probably made me laugh most. I can still find their absrd humor hilarious and that's a good sign that it was rather special
Popular humor changes with the times, and of course it changes because we personally change over time, too.
How many of us still laugh at the things we though hilarious when we were kids?
I especially liked 30 Rock of late. (I watched them long after their original airings)
Right now, I'm finding "It's always Sunny in Philadelphia" amusing, too.
Here's some shows that changed television that I suspect you missed.
The Honeymooners (this was the model for nearly every sit-com that followed it, and it was based on radio sitcoms)
Show of Shows. (Cid Ceasar)
That was the Week that Was. (One of the first English humor programs to make it across the pond)
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In (at the time this was incendiary political lampooning the likes of which had never happened on MSM TV)
Each pushed the envelope of humor for their time
Today's hilarity owes a debt to all humor that went before it.
That is the nature of things.
Popular humor changes with the times, and of course it changes because we personally change over time, too.
How many of us still laugh at the things we though hilarious when we were kids?
I especially liked 30 Rock of late. (I watched them long after their original airings)
Right now, I'm finding "It's always Sunny in Philadelphia" amusing, too.
Here's some shows that changed television that I suspect you missed.
The Honeymooners (this was the model for nearly every sit-com that followed it, and it was based on radio sitcoms)
Show of Shows. (Cid Ceasar)
That was the Week that Was. (One of the first English humor programs to make it across the pond)
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In (at the time this was incendiary political lampooning the likes of which had never happened on MSM TV)
Each pushed the envelope of humor for their time
Today's hilarity owes a debt to all humor that went before it.
That is the nature of things.
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