Comedy · 2010s
The 2010s account for 149 of the 654 comedy shows here, and 164 opening sequences.
No decade here has more comedy openings than this one.
Netflix carries the most, with 15.
149 shows164 sequences
1 sequence
Taskmaster
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
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
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
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
Eleven seconds of gold-plated megachurch branding, delivered with exactly the sincerity the family would want.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Barely a title at all: the name in a magenta 1950s script on black, held for about three seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequence
What We Do in the Shadows
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
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
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 sequenceThe Good Place
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 sequenceThe Big C
Laura Linney given a terminal diagnosis and deciding to stop being polite about anything.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's series, which opens by looking directly at you and skips the formality of a title sequence entirely.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLetterkenny
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 sequenceBarry
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
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 sequenceCritical Role
A tabletop campaign broadcast live, which by its second campaign had a fully animated title sequence of its own.
- Season 2
1 sequenceNew Girl
Zooey Deschanel and three flatmates, with a theme the cast sings themselves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuperstore
Big-box retail signage and shelving, shot with the flatness of the fluorescent light the whole show is lit by.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKey & Peele
Twenty-six seconds and two names, from a sketch show that spent its budget on the sketches.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictorious
A performing-arts high school, and the series that made Ariana Grande's name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceImpractical Jokers
Four friends daring each other in public, with a hidden-camera open that ran unchanged for nine seasons.
- Seasons 1–9
1 sequenceVeep
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 sequenceGirl Meets World
The Boy Meets World sequel, following the next generation of the same family.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Goldbergs
Adam Goldberg's own 1980s home videos turned into a sitcom about making them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInside No. 9
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology, every episode set somewhere numbered nine, opened in seventeen seconds by a brass hare.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAtlanta
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 sequenceAfter Life
Ricky Gervais on grief, in the smallest register he has ever worked in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Series of Unfortunate Events
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 sequenceRaising Hope
A young father raising a baby with his own parents' help, from the My Name Is Earl creator.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnger Management
Charlie Sheen's return to television after Two and a Half Men, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSam & Cat
A crossover spin-off pairing characters from iCarly and Victorious.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Luck Charlie
A teenager filming video diaries for her baby sister, which is the framing device and the title.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKim's Convenience
A Korean-Canadian family running a Toronto corner shop, adapted from the play by the man who wrote it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSearch Party
A missing-person search taken up by four Brooklynites who mostly want something to be part of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBetter Things
Twenty-nine seconds of domestic clutter, filmed with the affection of someone who lives in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVice Principals
A school crest and a sting, over in twelve seconds — the institutional dignity the two leads spend the series destroying.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGLOW
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 sequenceFriday Night Dinner
The same family, the same meal, every week, for six series.
- Season 1
1 sequencePortlandia
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein on a city that is mostly an attitude, with a theme they wrote and perform themselves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAtypical
Twenty-five seconds of hand-drawn Antarctic imagery, taken from the interests of the character it is about.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBroad City
Abbi and Ilana's New York, opened in ten seconds of hand-drawn scribble.
- Season 1
1 sequencePEN15
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 sequenceNorsemen
Viking iconography played with total sincerity by a comedy shot twice, in Norwegian and English, on the same sets.
- Season 1
1 sequenceShake It Up
Two Chicago dancers on a local television show, with Zendaya in her first series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBallers
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 sequenceDickinson
Nineteenth-century Amherst scored with modern pop, and a title card restaged for each episode's poem.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInsecure
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 sequenceDetroiters
Two advertising men making local commercials in Detroit, played by two friends who grew up there.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLiv and Maddie
Dove Cameron playing identical twins with opposite lives.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mindy Project
Mindy Kaling as an obstetrician with a romantic-comedy view of her own life.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEpisodes
Two British writers watching their sitcom be remade badly in Los Angeles, with Matt LeBlanc as himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNathan For You
Twenty-seven seconds of business-advice-show graphics, delivered with the flatness that makes everything after it land.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Eric André Show
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
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 sequenceAngie Tribeca
A police procedural played entirely as Airplane!, produced by Steve Carell and shot at that density of joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFresh Meat
Six students sharing a Manchester house, from the Peep Show writers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAustin & Ally
A songwriter with stage fright and the performer who takes her songs.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorkaholics
Three telemarketers who share a house and a job and never leave either, in thirteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGullak
A lower-middle-class family in a small north Indian town, narrated by their piggy bank.
- Season 4
1 sequenceToast of London
Matt Berry as a voiceover actor with an unshakeable opinion of himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRamy
Ramy Youssef's series about a first-generation Egyptian American trying to be a good Muslim, opened in nine seconds flat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCrashing
Pete Holmes sleeping on other comedians' sofas after his marriage ends, opened in eighteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCall My Agent!
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 sequenceUpstart Crow
Ben Elton's Shakespeare sitcom, written in the shape of the plays it mocks.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHow to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
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 sequenceOne Day at a Time
The Norman Lear sitcom remade around a Cuban American family, with the 1975 theme rerecorded by Gloria Estefan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceConan
The show Conan O'Brien built after losing The Tonight Show, opening on a cartoon of himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCuckoo
A daughter returning from a gap year married to an American with no discernible occupation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStath Lets Flats
Jamie Demetriou as a lettings agent with no aptitude for letting flats.
- Season 1
1 sequenceYou're the Worst
Two people who should not be together, opened in twenty-two seconds of exactly that.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChewing Gum
Michaela Coel's Tower Hamlets comedy, made three years before I May Destroy You.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBad Education
Jack Whitehall as a teacher less mature than his pupils.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAwkward
A high-school accident mistaken for a suicide attempt, and the reputation that follows.
- Season 1
1 sequenceServant of the People
A history teacher accidentally elected president of Ukraine, played by a comedian who was then elected president of Ukraine.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLouie
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 sequenceMozart in the Jungle
A New York orchestra and the conductor who takes it apart, opened in thirteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Jesus
Aaron McGruder's live-action series, with Jesus living in Compton.
- Season 2
1 sequenceThe Detour
A family road trip that goes wrong in a different way every season, written by a married couple about themselves.
- Season 4
1 sequenceSMILF
A single mother in South Boston, cancelled after two seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMan Down
Greg Davies as a teacher whose life is a sustained emergency, with Rik Mayall as his father.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHow to Make It in America
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 sequenceRake
Sydney and a barrister who is his own worst client, opened with rather more restraint than he ever manages.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEnlightened
Nature footage of the sort used in wellness videos, played entirely straight — which becomes the joke the moment the show starts.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Black Lady Sketch Show
Robin Thede's sketch series, opened by a title sequence with more production value than most of the sketches.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNTSF:SD:SUV::
A procedural parody whose title is an acronym joke that never resolves, opened in fourteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInside Amy Schumer
A sketch show with stand-up and street interviews between, and eleven seconds to get into it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWilfred
A man who sees his neighbour's dog as an Australian in a dog suit, which the series never explains.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLodge 49
A Long Beach fraternal lodge and a man who joins it looking for something he cannot name.
- Season 1
1 sequencePlease Like Me
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 sequenceLa Casa de las Flores
A Mexico City florist family and the second family the father has been keeping.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLos Espookys
Handmade horror props filmed lovingly and badly on purpose — fake blood, rubber and fog, exactly the standard the characters work to.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFaking It
Two friends mistaken for a couple who decide not to correct anyone.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLady Dynamite
Maria Bamford's series about Maria Bamford, structured across three timelines and opened in fifteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAt Home with Amy Sedaris
A homemaking show that is not one, opened in the idiom of 1970s daytime television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCount Arthur Strong
Steve Delaney's radio character given a sitcom around him, co-written by Graham Linehan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBluestone 42
A bomb disposal detachment in Helmand, played as a workplace comedy without pretending the work is safe.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Denis Leary as a failed rock singer reforming his band around his own daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClub de Cuervos
Netflix's first Spanish-language original, about two siblings inheriting a football club.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBaroness von Sketch Show
Four women writing and performing every sketch, with no host, no studio audience and no linking material.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFull Frontal with Samantha Bee
A weekly satire whose opening graphics were redesigned more often than most dramas change a season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlunt Talk
Patrick Stewart as a British cable news anchor in Los Angeles, from Jonathan Ames.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAngry Boys
The follow-up to Summer Heights High, co-produced with HBO and the BBC and shot on three continents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRita
A Danish schoolteacher who is very good at her job and bad at everything else.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWeb Therapy
Lisa Kudrow's improvised therapist, conducting three-minute sessions by video call.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA to Z
A romantic comedy that told you in the pilot exactly how many months it would last, and lasted thirteen episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCubicles
A first job in an Indian IT firm, from the studio that made Panchayat and Kota Factory.
- Season 1
1 sequence2 Broke Girls
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 sequenceA.N.T. Farm
Gifted children fast-tracked into a high school that does not want them there.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Housewife
A woman who reckons herself the second-fattest in Westport, Connecticut, and says so at length.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnother Period
Newport in 1902 shot as a reality series, with the confessional interviews and everything.
- Season 2
1 sequenceBlue Mountain State
A football scholarship treated as a licence rather than a job, in Spike's fraternity comedy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBunheads
Amy Sherman-Palladino's dance-school series, one season long and talked about since.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Conners
Roseanne continued without her, after the network cancelled the revival it had just recommissioned.
- Season 1
- Season 5
1 sequenceDead to Me
A widow and the woman she meets at grief counselling, who knows rather more about the death than she says.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams's holistic detective remade in Seattle, still working on the principle that everything is connected.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDog with a Blog
A stepfamily's dog who can talk, and keeps a blog about them that none of them know exists.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDon't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
A Midwesterner sharing a New York flat with the worst possible person, and James Van Der Beek playing himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDrunk History
History retold by someone too drunk to tell it, lip-synced straight-faced by actors in costume.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFresh Off the Boat
A Taiwanese-American family moving to Orlando in 1995, from Eddie Huang's memoir.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhosts
The Horrible Histories troupe as the dead of one country house, opened by all of them at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Four ninety-minute films returning to Stars Hollow nine years on, one for each season of the year.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Good Omens
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 sequenceGrace and Frankie
Two women whose husbands leave them for each other, and who then have to live together.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHappy Endings
Six friends in Chicago talking over one another at a speed most sitcoms do not attempt.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHer Private Life
A gallery curator running a fan site for an idol, and the director who finds out.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHot in Cleveland
Three Los Angeles women whose plane diverts, and who find that in Ohio they are considered striking.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJane the Virgin
A telenovela about a woman inside a telenovela, opened in the form it is parodying and loving at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKickin' It
A martial arts dojo in a shopping centre, and the longest-running live-action comedy Disney XD made.
- Season 3
1 sequenceThe Last Man on Earth
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 sequenceLast Week Tonight with John Oliver
A weekly half-hour whose animated globe-and-newsprint open has run essentially unchanged for a decade.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Two openings across eleven years: Manhattan shot in tilt-shift so the city reads as a model, then a drone run through the Ed Sullivan Theater and its backstage.
- Seasons 1–6
- Seasons 7–11
1 sequenceLife in Pieces
One family across four short stories an episode, told out of order and cut together at the end.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMelissa & Joey
A local politician and the man who becomes her nanny, in the longest-running sitcom ABC Family made.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Mike & Molly
Two people who meet at an overeaters group on the north side of Chicago.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–6
1 sequenceMiracle Workers
An anthology that keeps its cast and changes everything else — heaven, the Dark Ages, the Oregon Trail, the apocalypse.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMom
A newly sober mother and her newly sober mother, in a Chuck Lorre sitcom that got steadily less comfortable on purpose.
- Season 8
1 sequenceMrs. Brown's Boys
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 sequenceThe Muppets (2015)
The Muppets as a workplace mockumentary, which lasted one season and a mid-season change of format.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Sassy Girl
The film remade as a Joseon romance, with a princess in place of the original's student.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Neighborhood
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 sequenceNicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
Quadruplets who share everything including the title, and want to share less of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOdd Squad
Child agents investigating mathematical strangeness, played entirely deadpan.
- Season 1
1 sequencePair of Kings
Two brothers from Chicago who inherit an island kingdom neither of them had heard of.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequencePlebs
Ancient Rome played as a flatshare, with the empire happening somewhere off to one side.
- Season 1
1 sequencePrison Playbook
A baseball pitcher jailed weeks before signing for the major leagues, and the wing he ends up in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuburgatory
A Manhattan teenager relocated to the suburbs by a father who found a box of condoms in her drawer.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Tick
The live-action Tick, whose main title is a full superhero sequence played entirely straight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
A woman released after fifteen years in a bunker, who moves to New York on the strength of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVicious
Two actors who have lived together for fifty years, insulting each other in front of a studio audience.
- Season 1