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still cannot find anything on tv as funny


My dvr is packed with new movies and shows to watch and all I do is watch reruns of 30 rock. Nothing has come close to making me lean over with the silent belly laugh like this show. What is it about this show? I see my older brother about every couple of months for dinner at my folks and I always have a few one liners from Jack or Tracy and it just kills him. Every time my nine year old son and I yell at each other it reminds me of the show (we have Jack and Colleen names). I know I'm not alone on this, is there anything as funny out there to watch????

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Portlandia- more of a sketch comedy, but ti's very silly and very funny.

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I do watch that show, it's just as funny except the mayor skits aren't very good. Sometimes the show goes from weird and funny to just weird and senseless.
But you are right, it is just as funny. Dumpster Divers Dinner Party, too funny.

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It's not new and if you're a fan of 30 Rock/NBC's more off-kilter comedies in general you've probably seen it, but I'll never be able to recommend Scrubs to ANYONE enough.

The first 5.5 seasons are amazing, as is Season 8 (there is no Season 9...). All the basic archetypes from 30 Rock are there but in a different situation and thus act slightly differently - i.e. Turk is the closest to Tracy there is (no, I don't mean race, just his personality) but because he' a trained surgeon, even his 'dumbness' hides a deeper educated side. And I'd argue while the good-jokes-per-minute level is the same, the drama is much higher and so you can't help but 'attach' to the characters even more.

Sure there's some different 'techniques' going on (first-person narration/fantasies, etc) but in general, as a very funny comedy with moments of heavier drama than is usually expected? It's right up there!

In fact, I'd argue that without Scrubs, there would be no Community, Parks and Rec or 30 Rock. The Office? Maybe there'd still be an adaptation of the Brit one, but how it ended up with the background cast being almost as important as the main ones towards the end (at least in the episodic plots, not so much the big multi-ep arcs)? Definitely rubbed off from Scrubs!

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The only shows I can compare 30 Rock to when it comes to rapid fire jokes is Seinfeld and The Simpsons. Also, the show is influenced by the Mary Tyler Moore show, I can see exactly which characters in 30 Rock are influenced by characters in MTM.

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