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Originally Posted by [Phill]
WTF at Friends being the GOAT comedy. GTFO, Friends isnt even the best show at being Friends as Coupling crushes it.
Scrubs is another thats just disposable comedy. It had funny moments like Friends, but to name it in a top 10 comedies of all time makes me wonder how much comedy you have watched.
Though i will say one of my favourite jokes of all time is JD and Elliot talking about Grey's Anatomy and how "its like they saw our lives and just put it up on the screen".
Not sure if the bolded is directed at me or not, but I said Scrubs should be off of that list for sure. In fact, IRM and I discussed Scrubs a little bit in a different thread awhile back.
As for Friends being one of the GOAT, I think you have to put it up there. Yeah, it's not as clever and "witty" as many, many other comedies out there, but Friends was the original comedy (along with Seinfeld) to perfect the "blank stare 'you're an idiot'" look that has worked well for so many comedies over the years. In terms of timing of the jokes, Friends could take an obvious one -liner and somehow make it not be cheesy. It worked as a show, and it definitely has longevity now.