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Shows that feel likeMonty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

If you loved Monty Python's Flying Circus, the closest series we have are Married... with Children (1987), Vice Principals (2016) and Parks and Recreation (2009). All three share Monty Python's Flying Circus' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Office (2001).

★ 8.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗4 seasons · BBC Onecreated by Ian MacNaughtonwittyplayfuldarkly funnydreamlike
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

If Monty Python's Flying Circus hit the spot, these will too

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Married... with Children
1987–1997 · 11 seasons · FOX
★ 8.1comedyPrime VideoHulu

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

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Vice Principals
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedyMax

Both lean on dark humor more than on comedy

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

After North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance in order to sabotage the newly appointed principal, Dr. Belinda Brown.

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Parks and Recreation
2009–2015 · 7 seasons · NBC
★ 8.6comedyPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: satire

The difference: 40 years apart, and the 2000s show

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

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Arrested Development
2003–2019 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 8.6comedyNetflix

Witty comedy in both cases

The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

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The Office
2001–2002 · 2 seasons · BBC Two
★ 8.5comedyMaxHulu

Comedy built on play, twice over

Nightmare boss. Tedious colleagues. Pointless tasks. Welcome to Wernham Hogg.

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The White Lotus
2021– · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8comedy · drama · mysteryMax

One thread runs through both: satire

The difference: Leans further into drama

Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.

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Space Force
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.7comedy · dramaNetflix

Both work the same dark humor

A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.

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Russian Doll
2019–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7comedy · dramaNetflix

Both run witty where it counts

Nadia keeps dying and reliving her 36th birthday party. She's trapped in a surreal time loop -- and staring down the barrel of her own mortality.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005– · 18 seasons · FX
★ 8.8comedyHulu

A streak of play through both

Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

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Malcolm in the Middle
2000–2006 · 7 seasons · FOX
★ 8.2comedyHuluDisney+

The shared currency is dark humor

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

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Maniac
2018 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.6comedy · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both sit in the same dreamlike register

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

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Weeds
2005–2012 · 8 seasons · Showtime
★ 7.9comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

Comedy approached the same way

After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.

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