20 Best TV Comedy Shows Of The 21st Century

20. Modern Family

It’s not only animated families which have excelled in the new millennium’s TV offerings.

This 2009 hit offered us over ten years of adventures from the sprawling Dunphy clan, whose antics offered a more contemporary spin on classic sitcom tropes. The show updated the milieu of the classic Brady Brunch style set up without sacrificing any of the cringey laughs, charming stupidity, or sweet emotional pay offs we all want from a family sitcom.

Sweeter and sillier than the likes of Arrested Development, this one is more suited to family viewing than most on this list, but as far as PG-rated television comedies since 2000 go, it’s hard to beat this massive talented cast and their many seasons of absurdly unlikely misunderstandings.