Comedy · 2010s

149 shows163 sequences

1 sequence

Taskmaster

2015–Dave / Channel 4Comedy

A bust of the host's head and a fanfare, in the register of a much grander programme than the one that follows.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shameless

2011–2021ShowtimeComedy

A bathroom door opening on each member of the family in turn — an entire household characterised through one room.

Season 1

4 sequences

Young Sheldon

2017–2024CBSComedy

The Big Bang Theory prequel, narrated by the adult Sheldon it never shows. Its titles are one family portrait in the West Texas hills, reshot every couple of seasons as the children outgrow the last version of it.

Seasons 1–2
Seasons 3–4
Seasons 5–6
and 1 more

1 sequence

Schitt's Creek

2015–2020CBCComedy

A motel sign and a town crest, in the register of a place that has never once considered how its name reads.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Righteous Gemstones

2019–2025HBOComedy

Eleven seconds of gold-plated megachurch branding, delivered with exactly the sincerity the family would want.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

2017–2023Prime VideoComedy

Fifties Manhattan as a fashion plate — silhouettes, hemlines and neon, moving at the speed the dialogue does.

Season 1

1 sequence

What We Do in the Shadows

2019–2024FXComedy

Gothic engraving and Norma Tanega's 'You're Dead' — a vampire mockumentary whose titles are the only part of it played completely straight.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sex Education

2019–2023NetflixComedy

Twenty seconds of hand-drawn scrawl and pop, pitched exactly at the notebook margins the show is set among.

Season 2

2 sequences

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013–2021Fox / NBCComedy

Precinct signage and a horn line in twenty-one seconds — a cop show opening with no sirens in it.

Seasons 1–5
Seasons 6–8

1 sequence

The Good Place

2016–2020NBCComedy

Pastel clouds, cartoon signage and a chime — an afterlife rendered as municipal branding, which is the joke the whole series is built on.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Big C

2010–2013ShowtimeComedy

Laura Linney given a terminal diagnosis and deciding to stop being polite about anything.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fleabag

2016–2019BBC Three / Prime VideoComedy

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's series, which opens by looking directly at you and skips the formality of a title sequence entirely.

Season 1

1 sequence

Letterkenny

2016–2023CraveComedy

A cold open, a card, and back out — a rural Ontario comedy that spends as little time on formalities as its characters would.

Season 1

1 sequence

Barry

2018–2023HBOComedy

A plain card and a held shot, gone in under half a minute. The show's whole comic method — refusing to signal what kind of scene you are in — starts with its titles refusing to signal anything at all.

Season 2

5 sequences

Silicon Valley

2014–2019HBOComedy

An animated Bay Area skyline of tech-company headquarters, rebuilt every season to match who was winning that year. The joke only works because it kept being updated — logos appear, get acquired, and vanish between seasons.

Season 1
Season 3
Season 4
and 2 more

1 sequence

Critical Role

2015–Twitch / YouTubeComedy

A tabletop campaign broadcast live, which by its second campaign had a fully animated title sequence of its own.

Season 2

1 sequence

New Girl

2011–2018FoxComedy

Zooey Deschanel and three flatmates, with a theme the cast sings themselves.

Season 1

1 sequence

Superstore

2015–2021NBCComedy

Big-box retail signage and shelving, shot with the flatness of the fluorescent light the whole show is lit by.

Season 1

1 sequence

Key & Peele

2012–2015Comedy CentralComedy

Twenty-six seconds and two names, from a sketch show that spent its budget on the sketches.

Season 1

1 sequence

Victorious

2010–2013NickelodeonComedy

A performing-arts high school, and the series that made Ariana Grande's name.

Season 1

1 sequence

Impractical Jokers

2011–truTVComedy

Four friends daring each other in public, with a hidden-camera open that ran unchanged for nine seasons.

Seasons 1–9

1 sequence

Veep

2012–2019HBOComedy

Fourteen seconds of seal, fanfare and a card. The brevity is the joke — an office with all the pomp of the presidency and none of the power.

Seasons 1–7

1 sequence

Girl Meets World

2014–2017Disney ChannelComedy

The Boy Meets World sequel, following the next generation of the same family.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Goldbergs

2013–2023ABCComedy

Adam Goldberg's own 1980s home videos turned into a sitcom about making them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Inside No. 9

2014–2024BBC TwoComedy

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology, every episode set somewhere numbered nine, opened in seventeen seconds by a brass hare.

Season 1

1 sequence

Atlanta

2016–2022FXComedy

Donald Glover's series, opened with the same refusal to signal genre that the episodes run on — you are never told what kind of half-hour this is.

Season 1

1 sequence

After Life

2019–2022NetflixComedy

Ricky Gervais on grief, in the smallest register he has ever worked in.

Season 1

1 sequence

A Series of Unfortunate Events

2017–2019NetflixComedy

Lemony Snicket adapted with a title sequence whose lyrics are rewritten for every book — the song spends every verse telling you to stop watching.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Raising Hope

2010–2014FoxComedy

A young father raising a baby with his own parents' help, from the My Name Is Earl creator.

Season 1

1 sequence

Anger Management

2012–2014FXComedy

Charlie Sheen's return to television after Two and a Half Men, opened in twelve seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sam & Cat

2013–2014NickelodeonComedy

A crossover spin-off pairing characters from iCarly and Victorious.

Season 1

1 sequence

Good Luck Charlie

2010–2014Disney ChannelComedy

A teenager filming video diaries for her baby sister, which is the framing device and the title.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kim's Convenience

2016–2021CBCComedy

A Korean-Canadian family running a Toronto corner shop, adapted from the play by the man who wrote it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Search Party

2016–2022TBS / HBO MaxComedy

A missing-person search taken up by four Brooklynites who mostly want something to be part of.

Season 1

1 sequence

Better Things

2016–2022FXComedy

Twenty-nine seconds of domestic clutter, filmed with the affection of someone who lives in it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vice Principals

2016–2017HBOComedy

A school crest and a sting, over in twelve seconds — the institutional dignity the two leads spend the series destroying.

Season 2

1 sequence

GLOW

2017–2019NetflixComedy

A 1980s syndication opening played completely straight — chrome type, freeze-frames and spandex, as though the show inside it were the wrestling programme rather than a series about making one.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Friday Night Dinner

2011–2020Channel 4Comedy

The same family, the same meal, every week, for six series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Portlandia

2011–2018IFCComedy

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on a city that is mostly an attitude, with a theme they wrote and perform themselves.

Season 1

1 sequence

Atypical

2017–2021NetflixComedy

Twenty-five seconds of hand-drawn Antarctic imagery, taken from the interests of the character it is about.

Season 1

1 sequence

Broad City

2014–2019Comedy CentralComedy

Abbi and Ilana's New York, opened in ten seconds of hand-drawn scribble.

Season 1

1 sequence

PEN15

2019–2021HuluComedy

Two adult women playing themselves at thirteen among actual thirteen-year-olds, opened in the register of a middle-school video project.

Season 1

1 sequence

Norsemen

2016–2020NRK1 / NetflixComedy

Viking iconography played with total sincerity by a comedy shot twice, in Norwegian and English, on the same sets.

Season 1

1 sequence

Shake It Up

2010–2013Disney ChannelComedy

Two Chicago dancers on a local television show, with Zendaya in her first series.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ballers

2015–2019HBOComedy

Miami, money and slow motion, cut to Big K.R.I.T. — an opening entirely comfortable with what the show is selling.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dickinson

2019–2021Apple TV+Comedy

Nineteenth-century Amherst scored with modern pop, and a title card restaged for each episode's poem.

Season 1

1 sequence

Insecure

2016–2021HBOComedy

Twenty-one seconds of South Los Angeles and a beat, changing its track from season to season while the shape of the thing stays identical.

Season 1

1 sequence

Detroiters

2017–2018Comedy CentralComedy

Two advertising men making local commercials in Detroit, played by two friends who grew up there.

Season 1

1 sequence

Liv and Maddie

2013–2017Disney ChannelComedy

Dove Cameron playing identical twins with opposite lives.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Mindy Project

2012–2017Fox / HuluComedy

Mindy Kaling as an obstetrician with a romantic-comedy view of her own life.

Season 1

1 sequence

Episodes

2011–2017Showtime / BBC TwoComedy

Two British writers watching their sitcom be remade badly in Los Angeles, with Matt LeBlanc as himself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Nathan For You

2013–2017Comedy CentralComedy

Twenty-seven seconds of business-advice-show graphics, delivered with the flatness that makes everything after it land.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Eric André Show

2012–Adult SwimComedy

A talk-show set destroyed by its own host before the first guest arrives — an opening that is demolished and rebuilt every episode.

Season 1

4 sequences

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

2015–2019The CWComedy

A musical comedy that threw away its theme song every year and wrote a new one, each arguing with the last about whether the word in the title is fair.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
and 1 more

1 sequence

Angie Tribeca

2016–2018TBSComedy

A police procedural played entirely as Airplane!, produced by Steve Carell and shot at that density of joke.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fresh Meat

2011–2016Channel 4Comedy

Six students sharing a Manchester house, from the Peep Show writers.

Season 1

1 sequence

Austin & Ally

2011–2016Disney ChannelComedy

A songwriter with stage fright and the performer who takes her songs.

Season 1

1 sequence

Workaholics

2011–2017Comedy CentralComedy

Three telemarketers who share a house and a job and never leave either, in thirteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gullak

2019–SonyLIVComedy

A lower-middle-class family in a small north Indian town, narrated by their piggy bank.

Season 4

1 sequence

Toast of London

2012–2015Channel 4Comedy

Matt Berry as a voiceover actor with an unshakeable opinion of himself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ramy

2019–2022HuluComedy

Ramy Youssef's series about a first-generation Egyptian American trying to be a good Muslim, opened in nine seconds flat.

Season 1

1 sequence

Crashing

2017–2019HBOComedy

Pete Holmes sleeping on other comedians' sofas after his marriage ends, opened in eighteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Call My Agent!

2015–2020France 2Comedy

Paris and a jazz figure, in the register of a film the agency's clients would be too grand to appear in.

Season 1

1 sequence

Upstart Crow

2016–2020BBC TwoComedy

Ben Elton's Shakespeare sitcom, written in the shape of the plays it mocks.

Season 1

1 sequence

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

2019–2022NetflixComedy

A teenager who builds Europe's largest online drug market from his bedroom to win back a girlfriend, and eleven seconds to say so.

Season 1

1 sequence

One Day at a Time

2017–2020Netflix / PopComedy

The Norman Lear sitcom remade around a Cuban American family, with the 1975 theme rerecorded by Gloria Estefan.

Season 1

1 sequence

Conan

2010–2021TBSComedy

The show Conan O'Brien built after losing The Tonight Show, opening on a cartoon of himself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cuckoo

2012–2019BBC ThreeComedy

A daughter returning from a gap year married to an American with no discernible occupation.

Season 1

1 sequence

Stath Lets Flats

2018–2021Channel 4Comedy

Jamie Demetriou as a lettings agent with no aptitude for letting flats.

Season 1

1 sequence

You're the Worst

2014–2019FX / FXXComedy

Two people who should not be together, opened in twenty-two seconds of exactly that.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chewing Gum

2015–2017E4Comedy

Michaela Coel's Tower Hamlets comedy, made three years before I May Destroy You.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bad Education

2012–BBC ThreeComedy

Jack Whitehall as a teacher less mature than his pupils.

Season 1

1 sequence

Awkward

2011–2016MTVComedy

A high-school accident mistaken for a suicide attempt, and the reputation that follows.

Season 1

1 sequence

Servant of the People

2015–20191+1Comedy

A history teacher accidentally elected president of Ukraine, played by a comedian who was then elected president of Ukraine.

Season 1

1 sequence

Louie

2010–2015FXComedy

A man walking to a comedy club and eating a slice of pizza, singing his own theme — fifty-two seconds with no jokes in them.

Season 1

1 sequence

Mozart in the Jungle

2014–2018Prime VideoComedy

A New York orchestra and the conductor who takes it apart, opened in thirteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Black Jesus

2014–2019Adult SwimComedy

Aaron McGruder's live-action series, with Jesus living in Compton.

Season 2

1 sequence

High Maintenance

2016–2020HBOComedy

A weed delivery cyclist as the only connection between otherwise unrelated New York stories.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Detour

2016–2019TBSComedy

A family road trip that goes wrong in a different way every season, written by a married couple about themselves.

Season 4

1 sequence

SMILF

2017–2019ShowtimeComedy

A single mother in South Boston, cancelled after two seasons.

Season 1

1 sequence

Man Down

2013–2017Channel 4Comedy

Greg Davies as a teacher whose life is a sustained emergency, with Rik Mayall as his father.

Season 1

1 sequence

How to Make It in America

2010–2011HBOComedy

New York street fashion and hustle, cut to Aloe Blacc — the East Coast answer to Entourage, and a better title sequence than the show got credit for.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rake

2010–2018ABCComedy

Sydney and a barrister who is his own worst client, opened with rather more restraint than he ever manages.

Season 1

1 sequence

Enlightened

2011–2013HBOComedy

Nature footage of the sort used in wellness videos, played entirely straight — which becomes the joke the moment the show starts.

Season 1

1 sequence

A Black Lady Sketch Show

2019–2023HBOComedy

Robin Thede's sketch series, opened by a title sequence with more production value than most of the sketches.

Season 1

1 sequence

NTSF:SD:SUV::

2011–2013Adult SwimComedy

A procedural parody whose title is an acronym joke that never resolves, opened in fourteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

Inside Amy Schumer

2013–2022Comedy CentralComedy

A sketch show with stand-up and street interviews between, and eleven seconds to get into it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Wilfred

2011–2014FX / FXXComedy

A man who sees his neighbour's dog as an Australian in a dog suit, which the series never explains.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lodge 49

2018–2019AMCComedy

A Long Beach fraternal lodge and a man who joins it looking for something he cannot name.

Season 1

1 sequence

Please Like Me

2013–2016ABC2Comedy

An Australian comedy that rewrites its opening for every episode — a different song, a different set of images, in a show otherwise built on stillness.

Season 1

1 sequence

La Casa de las Flores

2018–2020NetflixComedy

A Mexico City florist family and the second family the father has been keeping.

Season 1

1 sequence

Los Espookys

2019–2022HBOComedy

Handmade horror props filmed lovingly and badly on purpose — fake blood, rubber and fog, exactly the standard the characters work to.

Season 1

1 sequence

Faking It

2014–2016MTVComedy

Two friends mistaken for a couple who decide not to correct anyone.

Season 1

1 sequence

Lady Dynamite

2016–2017NetflixComedy

Maria Bamford's series about Maria Bamford, structured across three timelines and opened in fifteen seconds.

Season 1

1 sequence

At Home with Amy Sedaris

2017–2020truTVComedy

A homemaking show that is not one, opened in the idiom of 1970s daytime television.

Season 1

1 sequence

Count Arthur Strong

2013–2017BBC Two / BBC OneComedy

Steve Delaney's radio character given a sitcom around him, co-written by Graham Linehan.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bluestone 42

2013–2015BBC ThreeComedy

A bomb disposal detachment in Helmand, played as a workplace comedy without pretending the work is safe.

Season 1

1 sequence

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2015–2016FXComedy

Denis Leary as a failed rock singer reforming his band around his own daughter.

Season 1

1 sequence

Club de Cuervos

2015–2019NetflixComedy

Netflix's first Spanish-language original, about two siblings inheriting a football club.

Season 1

1 sequence

Baroness von Sketch Show

2016–2021CBCComedy

Four women writing and performing every sketch, with no host, no studio audience and no linking material.

Season 1

1 sequence

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

2016–2022TBSComedy

A weekly satire whose opening graphics were redesigned more often than most dramas change a season.

Season 1

1 sequence

Blunt Talk

2015–2016StarzComedy

Patrick Stewart as a British cable news anchor in Los Angeles, from Jonathan Ames.

Season 1

1 sequence

Angry Boys

2011ABC (Australia)Comedy

The follow-up to Summer Heights High, co-produced with HBO and the BBC and shot on three continents.

Season 1

1 sequence

Rita

2012–2020TV 2Comedy

A Danish schoolteacher who is very good at her job and bad at everything else.

Season 1

1 sequence

Web Therapy

2011–2015ShowtimeComedy

Lisa Kudrow's improvised therapist, conducting three-minute sessions by video call.

Season 1

1 sequence

A to Z

2014NBCComedy

A romantic comedy that told you in the pilot exactly how many months it would last, and lasted thirteen episodes.

Season 1

1 sequence

Cubicles

2019–SonyLIV / TVFComedy

A first job in an Indian IT firm, from the studio that made Panchayat and Kota Factory.

Season 1

1 sequence

2 Broke Girls

2011–2017CBSComedy

Two waitresses in Williamsburg saving towards a cupcake business, with the running total printed on screen at the end of every episode.

Season 1

1 sequence

A.N.T. Farm

2011–2014Disney ChannelComedy

Gifted children fast-tracked into a high school that does not want them there.

Season 1

1 sequence

American Housewife

2016–2021ABCComedy

A woman who reckons herself the second-fattest in Westport, Connecticut, and says so at length.

Season 1

1 sequence

Another Period

2015–2018Comedy CentralComedy

Newport in 1902 shot as a reality series, with the confessional interviews and everything.

Season 2

1 sequence

Blue Mountain State

2010–2011SpikeComedy

A football scholarship treated as a licence rather than a job, in Spike's fraternity comedy.

Season 1

1 sequence

Bunheads

2012–2013ABC FamilyComedy

Amy Sherman-Palladino's dance-school series, one season long and talked about since.

Season 1

2 sequences

The Conners

2018–2025ABCComedy

Roseanne continued without her, after the network cancelled the revival it had just recommissioned.

Season 1
Season 5

1 sequence

Dead to Me

2019–2022NetflixComedy

A widow and the woman she meets at grief counselling, who knows rather more about the death than she says.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

2016–2017BBC AmericaComedy

Douglas Adams's holistic detective remade in Seattle, still working on the principle that everything is connected.

Season 1

1 sequence

Dog with a Blog

2012–2015Disney ChannelComedy

A stepfamily's dog who can talk, and keeps a blog about them that none of them know exists.

Season 1

1 sequence

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

2012–2013ABCComedy

A Midwesterner sharing a New York flat with the worst possible person, and James Van Der Beek playing himself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Drunk History

2013–2019Comedy CentralComedy

History retold by someone too drunk to tell it, lip-synced straight-faced by actors in costume.

Season 1

1 sequence

Fresh Off the Boat

2015–2020ABCComedy

A Taiwanese-American family moving to Orlando in 1995, from Eddie Huang's memoir.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ghosts

2019–2023BBC OneComedy

The Horrible Histories troupe as the dead of one country house, opened by all of them at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

2016NetflixComedy

Four ninety-minute films returning to Stars Hollow nine years on, one for each season of the year.

Season 1

2 sequences

Good Omens

2019–2026Amazon Prime Video / BBC TwoComedy

An angel and a demon who have both grown too fond of England to let it end, from Pratchett and Gaiman.

Season 1
Season 2

1 sequence

Grace and Frankie

2015–2022NetflixComedy

Two women whose husbands leave them for each other, and who then have to live together.

Season 1

1 sequence

Happy Endings

2011–2013ABCComedy

Six friends in Chicago talking over one another at a speed most sitcoms do not attempt.

Season 1

1 sequence

Her Private Life

2019tvNComedy

A gallery curator running a fan site for an idol, and the director who finds out.

Season 1

1 sequence

Hot in Cleveland

2010–2015TV LandComedy

Three Los Angeles women whose plane diverts, and who find that in Ohio they are considered striking.

Season 1

1 sequence

Jane the Virgin

2014–2019The CWComedy

A telenovela about a woman inside a telenovela, opened in the form it is parodying and loving at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kickin' It

2011–2015Disney XDComedy

A martial arts dojo in a shopping centre, and the longest-running live-action comedy Disney XD made.

Season 3

1 sequence

The Last Man on Earth

2015–2018FoxComedy

The last man alive, who turns out not to be, and who is not much of a loss to anybody either way.

Season 1

1 sequence

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014–HBOComedy

A weekly half-hour whose animated globe-and-newsprint open has run essentially unchanged for a decade.

Season 1

1 sequence

Life in Pieces

2015–2019CBSComedy

One family across four short stories an episode, told out of order and cut together at the end.

Season 1

1 sequence

Melissa & Joey

2010–2015ABC Family / FreeformComedy

A local politician and the man who becomes her nanny, in the longest-running sitcom ABC Family made.

Season 1

2 sequences

Mike & Molly

2010–2016CBSComedy

Two people who meet at an overeaters group on the north side of Chicago.

Season 1
Seasons 4–6

1 sequence

Miracle Workers

2019–2023TBSComedy

An anthology that keeps its cast and changes everything else — heaven, the Dark Ages, the Oregon Trail, the apocalypse.

Season 2

1 sequence

Mom

2013–2021CBSComedy

A newly sober mother and her newly sober mother, in a Chuck Lorre sitcom that got steadily less comfortable on purpose.

Season 8

1 sequence

Mrs. Brown's Boys

2011–BBC One / RTÉ OneComedy

A Dublin matriarch played by the man who writes her, taped with the crew, the corpsing and the fluffed lines all left in.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Muppets (2015)

2015–2016ABCComedy

The Muppets as a workplace mockumentary, which lasted one season and a mid-season change of format.

Season 1

1 sequence

My Sassy Girl

2017SBSComedy

The film remade as a Joseon romance, with a princess in place of the original's student.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Neighborhood

2018–2026CBSComedy

A relentlessly friendly Midwestern family moving into a Black neighbourhood in Pasadena, and the man next door who would rather they had not.

Season 8

1 sequence

Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn

2014–2018NickelodeonComedy

Quadruplets who share everything including the title, and want to share less of it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Odd Squad

2014–PBS KidsComedy

Child agents investigating mathematical strangeness, played entirely deadpan.

Season 1

1 sequence

Pair of Kings

2010–2013Disney XDComedy

Two brothers from Chicago who inherit an island kingdom neither of them had heard of.

Seasons 1–3

1 sequence

Plebs

2013–2022ITV2Comedy

Ancient Rome played as a flatshare, with the empire happening somewhere off to one side.

Season 1

1 sequence

Prison Playbook

2017–2018tvNComedy

A baseball pitcher jailed weeks before signing for the major leagues, and the wing he ends up in.

Season 1

1 sequence

Suburgatory

2011–2014ABCComedy

A Manhattan teenager relocated to the suburbs by a father who found a box of condoms in her drawer.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Tick

2016–2019AmazonComedy

The live-action Tick, whose main title is a full superhero sequence played entirely straight.

Season 1

1 sequence

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2015–2019NetflixComedy

A woman released after fifteen years in a bunker, who moves to New York on the strength of it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Vicious

2013–2016ITVComedy

Two actors who have lived together for fifty years, insulting each other in front of a studio audience.

Season 1