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

[rachelish.livejournal.com]

It's not a comedy and not a half hour, but have you watched the new Netflix series called Orange is the New Black? It's by the creator of Weeds and has the same feel, if you've seen that. I burned through the whole season in two or three days. It was great!

Someone else mentioned Call the Midwife. Again, not the comedy you're looking for, but really good.

Also, have you watch the United States of Tara? The whole series is on Netflix, and they are half hour episodes. It's on the darker side sometimes, but so so good. Toni Collette plays a woman with multiple personalities, and she is an amazing actress.

So basically, I don't watch a lot of comedies, but those are my recommendations for stuff to watch :) Hopefully it was a little helpful.