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Tina Fey runs a sketch show under Alec Baldwin's executive; the fastest joke rate on television.

A study group at a community college and the paintball episodes; six seasons and no movie yet.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a vice president surrounded by idiots; the best insults on television.

A start-up with a compression algorithm and the tech industry as farce; Mike Judge.

Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.

Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.

The show about nothing; nine seasons of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer.

David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.