# What shows have actually made you laugh out loud? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2005, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387 "2005-04-02T09:28:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/21 "2005-04-02T18:11:43Z")
Old episodes of _The Cosby Show_ have had me in stiches. Many of the other picks in this thread are also very good. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/22 "2005-04-02T18:43:13Z")
**Whose Line Is It Anyway?** **The Simpsons** **Family Guy** **Sailor Moon** **Spongebob Squarepants** **MXC (Most Extreme Challenge)** ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/23 "2005-04-02T18:44:41Z")
Agh how could I forget \*\* The Cosby Show\*\*? Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/24 "2005-04-02T19:32:43Z")
**Scrubs** is the only show that I can recall that had me laughing so loud that I missed the next joke. (mostly because the jokes are so rapid-fire) ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/25 "2005-04-02T19:49:08Z")
I laugh at Scrubs, Frasier, Whose Line, and America’s Funniest Home Videos (but only the ones with the newest host, Tom Vergeron or whatever his name is. I don’t like any of the other hosts.) ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/26 "2005-04-02T20:20:11Z")
In addition to those mentioned already: \*\*Fawlty Towers \*\* **The Man Show** (mostly bad but some great laughs, especially with Man Show Boy) **Just Shoot Me** ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/27 "2005-04-02T20:42:25Z")
The Daily Show MST3K Cheers Arrested Development Futurama Family Guy Aqua Teen Hunger Force–“I will not walk so that a child may live!” The Simpsons The Venture Brothers ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/28 "2005-04-02T23:24:14Z")
**Strangers with Candy** practically makes me pee myself, even watching them over and over. I just laughed out loud thinking about Onyx Blackman’s manboobies just now. In this month’s Bust Maya Rudolph interviews Amy Sedaris and I was reading it in the bathtub and there’s a photo of Jerri doing some chemistry with goggles on and man was I laughing. Laughin in the tub. You have to see this issue, it has a photo spread of Amy with gigantic fake nipples in a variety of nipple-enchancing outfits. The first time I ever saw **Kids in the Hall** a vein in my forehead got overtaxed from me laughing too hard and I got a headache. Also, Chappelle’s Show Daily Show Arrested Development Mr. Show Simpsons I always wind up laughing out loud during Weekend Update and often during SNL when they have Appalachian Emergency or certain other things. If something is supposed to be “comedy” but it doesn’t make me laugh I don’t want anything to do with it. I think it might be bad for the soul. Like, if I have to watch Ray Romano do anything I think it is like negative laughter or something to look at people acting like idiots without laughing. It’s the inverse of laughing. There’s something wrong with that experience. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/29 "2005-04-02T23:47:23Z")
**The Office (BBC)**, **Arrested Development** , **Strangers With Candy** and **The Simpsons** are all great for a laugh. But never do I laugh harder at a TV program than whenever **Conan O’Brien** is really on a roll. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/30 "2005-04-03T00:10:34Z")
Arrested Development Allie McBeal Simpsons Monty Python Wish You Were Here Buffy ---
**Author:** ![Tisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisha)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/31 "2005-04-03T00:28:41Z")
Keeping Up Appearances - British comedy ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/32 "2005-04-03T01:05:05Z")
I regularly laugh aloud at: Family Guy Robot Chicken Whose Line is it Anyway South Park But my absolute favorite laugh-out-loud show is Futurama. I laughed for about five minutes straight at “No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!”. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/33 "2005-04-03T01:10:13Z")
Tenacious D AbFab Chappelle’s Show King of Queens and many more that have already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/34 "2005-04-03T01:19:46Z")
I agree with many of the above plus: Third Rock from the Sun Dinosaurs ---
**Author:** ![benlormat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@benlormat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/benlormat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/35 "2005-04-03T01:24:11Z")
I agree with many of the above plus: **Third Rock from the Sun** **Dinosaurs** ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/36 "2005-04-03T01:25:58Z")
Last of the Summer Wine Waiting for God Are You Being Served? Monty Python Night Court Frasier Mad TV has it’s moments SCTV Duckman – has one of my favorite character exchanges of all time and it leaves me laughing just thinking about it. Whose Line is it? (British or American) David Letterman The Daily Show The Dennis Miller Show’s “Daily Rorshach” segment Marx Brothers’ movies – just about all of them still leave me laughing Young Frankenstein The Producers Noises Off That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/37 "2005-04-03T02:00:55Z")
'Allo, 'Allo Coupling Frasier Yes, (Prime) Minister Third Rock (I just love Harry) Angel’s puppet episode made me squeak with hysterical laughter Desperate Housewives ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/38 "2005-04-03T02:14:20Z")
_Saturday Night Live_ made me LOL back in the '70s. Now . . . most of the time it’s just chuckleworthy, like a _New Yorker_ cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/39 "2005-04-03T02:41:24Z")
Futurama and Clone High. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-shows-have-actually-made-you-laugh-out-loud/297387/40 "2005-04-03T03:31:36Z")
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