Comedy TV · 2020s So Far
Best Comedy TV Shows of the 2020s So Far, Ranked by IQ Score
Half-decade into the 2020s, the comedies that have already reset the genre. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2020s in TV comedy is the decade the genre rediscovered tonal range. The Bear (2022-) renders kitchen workplace cognition at register that blurs drama and comedy. Ted Lasso (2020-23) reset feel-good comedy register. Reservation Dogs (2021-23) is the canonical Indigenous-American comedy of the decade. Hacks (2021-) is the canonical Las-Vegas-comedy-aging-female-comedian study.
Anchor picks: The Bear at 163 is the decade's most-canonical comedy entry, though categorically debated. Beef (2023) won 8 Emmys and pushed the road-rage-as-class-anxiety register. What We Do in the Shadows continues to anchor the FX mockumentary catalog. Abbott Elementary revived the workplace-mockumentary register for the post-Office era.
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