Satire Comedy TV-Series

Sketch comedy feauturing Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.

Rocky, a plucky flying squirrel and Bullwinkle, a bumbling but lovable moose, have a series of ongoing adventures.

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

Canada's most famous and controversial news and public affairs show.

Not Only...But Also, most famously showcased Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in there so-called 'Dagenham dialogues' in which Pete (a nasal know-all who has utter confidence in his surreal and ill-informed philosophies on life) and Dud (credulous, dim-witted and scruffy) discuss all manner of subjects, bedecked in cloth caps and Macs.

The Smothers Brothers host a comedy variety show that became notorious for its topical satirical humor.

Written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series.

The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.

Canadian comedy and variety show starring Hart Pomerantz and a pre-"Saturday Night Live" Lorne Michaels.

The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."

Years before "The Larry Sanders Show" came this Canadian-made sitcom taking place behind the scenes of the fictional "David Steinberg Show," starring real-life comic David Steinberg. Like the later Garry Shandling series, the show alternates between backstage antics and big-name guest stars on stage. The series is best remembered for co-starring many later comic powerhouses such as John Candy, Martin Short and Dave Thomas, years before they did "SCTV."

The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.

The series shows, in a highly exaggerated way, the coexistence of a West German family in a North Rhine-Westphalian row house settlement at the beginning of the 1970s.

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Munich stories.

Comedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service.

Despite turning 40 years old, engineer Stefan Karwowski's life, both professional and personal, is still full of challenges and surprises.

Actors, comedians and artists get together to perform short, hilarious skits on current, intelligent and at times ridiculous topics.

This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.

"Kottan ermittelt" ("Kottan investigates") is one of the defining moments of Austrian television. Masquerading as a police/crime series, it is actually a fierce anarchic satire on the Austrian police and Austrian society in general. There are no heroes, only anti-heroes, and the police officers, all incompetent caricatures to varying degrees, often solve their cases more by chance than through actual investigation. Major Kottan (the name is a spoof of hardboiled German dime-novel hero Jerry Cotton) was played by no less than three actors over the course of the series, each giving the character a fairly distinct personality: grumpy, prejudiced misanthrope; sarcastic cynic; and anarchic nihilist--the common factor being that each is too caught up in his own preconceptions to actually solve the case. Then there's Inspector Schrammel, who is an incompetent clown; and Police Commissioner Pilch, who is obsessed with catching flies in the early episodes and getting coffee from a mischievous coffee machine in the later episodes, so it is up to one-legged invalid Inspector Schremser to solve most of the murders. The early episodes contain some of the best moments of fierce social satire ever shown on Austrian television, exposing the "golden heart" of the Viennese as brutal backstabbing and showing the rotten core hiding behind the pretty facades--the postman who rings twice and the decapitated garden gnomes being just two truly great moments. Over time, running gags and moments of truly Pythonesque humor were introduced and continued, until the series turned into an absurd, sometimes even surreal slapstick comedy.

This story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.

The staff of Melonville's TV station put on programming that is unique in its own silly way.

extra 3 is a weekly political satire show on German television established in 1976.

Satirical look at a world where women rule and men are objectified.