20 Best TV Comedy Shows Of The 21st Century

Arrested Development may have provided Will Arnett with his most comical character, but the most moving and fully realized figure ever embodied by the actor has to be the titular hero of this dark, yet often surreally silly Netflix hit.

Unique in its skill with mixing dark meditations on mental illness, self-worth, and the shallowness of culture with absurdly dumb word play and sight gags, the tone of this show is one of a kind and captures the struggle to find meaning which so many comedies aim to interrogate but fall far shy of.

Often uncompromising and cerebral, the series’ story of a depressed actor’s insular search for purpose is also a hilarious emotional rollercoaster which no comedy fan should miss out on.