Best Comedy TV Shows of the 2010s, Ranked by IQ Score

The 2010s in TV comedy is the decade the genre stopped being defined by network sitcom conventions and started operating across registers — animated philosophy (BoJack Horseman, The Good Place), Black-American auteur work (Atlanta, Insecure, Master of None), British-import register (Fleabag), and political satire (Veep). The rubric reads the decade's actual experimental range.

Anchor picks: Atlanta (Donald Glover, 2016-22) is the decade's most-formally-ambitious entry — anthology-level genre experiments within a sitcom framework. Veep (2012-19) is the political-comedy canonical entry. Fleabag (2016-19) is the catalog's most-emotionally-direct entry — Phoebe Waller-Bridge's two-season British comedy. BoJack Horseman (2014-20) is the decade's animated-philosophy entry. The Good Place (2016-20) committed to letting ethics-as-actual-material be the show's structural subject.