20 Best TV Comedy Shows Of The 21st Century
18. New Girl
The
new millennium’s finest hang out sitcom (okay maybe the best of the 2010’s—calm
down, How I Met Your Mother fans), this show didn’t rely on the tricky deconstructions
of its contemporaries Community and 30 Rock to garner some incredible comedy. New
Girl simply vaulted over the sketchy origins of its Manic Pixie Dream Protagonist
premise in order to assemble one of the finest ensembles on TV, taking the time
to flesh out each character’s eccentricities.
Soon Zooey Deschanel’s eponymous heroine was playing a deadpan straight man to her neurotic set of housemates, resulting in one of the best balanced casts of this era. From the demented charm of Winston, to the preening pretensions of Schmidt, to Jake Johnson’s affably nervy love interest Nick, there’s not a weak link in this superb series.