Comedy recs, give them to me?

[mangofandango]

Ok, we've been watching New Girl and have almost caught up. This means I need a new half hour comedy. What do you all recommend? I love Parks and Rec pretty much entirely, I loved 30 Rock despite Pete and uneven quality, I loved Arrested Development but only liked/had mixed feelings about the new season. I usually like Portlandia, though not always - sometimes I just didn't laugh. I actually really like The Mindy Project a lot. I fell in love with New Girl and laughed a lot despite the sometimes problematic elements. I used to like How I met Your Mother but I am frequently pissed off by it now because fat jokes, sexism, and general tedium (they still haven't met the damn mother!!)

I kind of like my half hour comedies to be not-too-dark, because I tend to use them as unicorn chasers. That's not an absolute rule though. My tolerance for -ist bullshit varies, mostly depending on degree, how it's presented, and what the surrounding redeeming qualities are.

And now that you have a sense of the alarming amount of television I am familiar with, please recommend things to me!

Comments

[off_coloratura]

If you're in the market for BBC, I really liked Call the Midwife, though it's not a half-hour comedy, more of an hourlong comedy/drama. Also Black Books, IT Crowd, Green Wing (BIZARRE) and Hyperdrive.

[off_coloratura]

And Spaced, and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and Peepshow.