I can second Derry Girls. Netflix carries it for the US.
That’s probably not it.
Max Shulman created the character of Dobie Gillis and wrote most of the early shows. He was a famed writer of comic novels, with an unmatched facility for comic dialog. The tv show was deliberately designed to be the antithesis of the insipid family comedies of the 1950s. I loved it then, and I have a full set of episodes.
The problem for this thread was that Maynard was in the beginning supposed to be stupid. Really, really stupid. Instead of the Town Drunk he was the Town Dumb. The show thumbed its nose at continuity - Maynard had had to repeat grades in school multiple times but somehow he and Dobie were the same age and classmates since birth - and the Maynard character did morph repeatedly to whatever was needed for a particular episode. Sometimes he was simply a fool, sometimes just misunderstood by society, sometimes a Holy Fool with mystical powers, like when he could speak to animals.
The real killer for this thread is that the show thrived on stupid misunderstanding plots. It not only beat them into the ground, it literally repeated them from season to season.
Somehow TMLofDG was the smartest show on television and the dumbest in quantum superposition. I can’t include it here.
I don’t know if the OP counts sex jokes as cringe-inducing, but if not, Hulu has a new sitcom called Reboot which features lots of fast and witty (IMHO) banter. The main problem: only four episodes have been released thus far, so the series is not yet binge-ready. (There is also one character who might be perceived as “stupid,” but who is presented as sweetly-naive-yet-winningly-enthusiastic.)
What, no remarks so far about “Get Smart” in a thread about Smart Comedies?
But let’s talk about “Get Smart.” Maxwell Smart is not stupid or dumb–he’s actually pretty capable, even though he rarely shows it. No, he’s not the best agent that CONTROL has–that would be Agent 99–but he’s pretty close; and he and 99 can combine to defeat enemies, upset KAOS’s plans, and otherwise, make sure that the world is safe for democracy. Max can think on his feet, even in the presence of KAOS captors, and can get himself out of sticky situations, often by using some spy gadget, but also by his gift for gab. Anyway, the important part is that he can think, use his training, and know what to do and when.
I’d suggest that “Get Smart” is a smart comedy.
Sorry about that, Chief.
Cone of Silence and all that.
If you can stand to watch a few commercials, Remember Wenn can be seen on Plex. Two seasons anyway.
This is a great thread, than you one and all. I am getting some ideas. Is anyone else getting a few ideas on what to watch?
Oh definitely.
Neighbors (1981) doesn’t appeal to many, but has a number of scenes that I find hilarious:
Off topic, but for your humor viewing pleasure, I present Gary Gulman, a stand-up comedian who does smart comedy who I just recently became aware of. This guy’s tangential meanderings are brilliant and he’s funny as hell!
Check out his other YouTube clips, too.
When did this thread stop being about television shows?
If you check the OP again, you will see that, while TV shows were implied by the OP’s examples, he never explicitly states “TV shows only.” This being the Dope…
And I mixed this thread up with the Funniest Scene Ever Thread, Movie or TV.
We’re doing a lot of those threads lately so easy to see how they can be mixed up.
That is what I thoughr.
Well, I did say The longer the better. There are quite a few that would fit, but canceled after a season or something.
All the opening we need! 
I expected this to be a milquetoast comedy, and half the cast was a “pass” from me. But even the annoying David Spade was a sympathetic, hilarious character. George Segal had surprisingly perfect comedic timing, as did the actress who played his daughter (Maya?). That ubiquitous actor who played Kristen Bell’s dad in Veronica Mars was great, and the writing was excellent, and snappy.
Oh, and of course there’s the little brother who fell out of a tree when he was young and is now “Slow Donnie” … played brilliantly by David Cross:
I’m going to throw out a hypothesis and see if anyone agrees.
Shows that are almost completely confined to a single set have to be smart to survive.
I agree that Just Shoot Me was surprisingly good and had a great cast. And most of the scenes were in the magazine office.
NewsRadio had most of the scenes (until the bizarro fourth season) in the radio office. Remember WENN hardly ever went out of the broadcasting station. Wings took place in the airport. Barney Miller mixed some home scenes the first season but later cut them entirely for the police station. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show took place in his living room.
I’m not saying that other types can’t be equally good or smart, simply that if you force the action and actors together in a small space, the only way to compensate is to make the words shine, the situations inherently comic, the interactions sparkle. Every time a new set is built, the audience needs to absorb the new background - where it is, what it means, why it’s used, what’s in the background. The Big Bang Theory was always funnier in the apartments than the many other sets.
This theory, that I have, that is to say, which is mine,… is mine. You may proceed to disagree.
I agree, but there are plenty of exceptions (I haven’t seen Three’s Company mentioned in this thread 
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Maybe “have to be smart to excel” would be better. That Jim Belushi sitcom “survived” way too long, and I’m sure there are others that I never even saw.