The Best TV Shows on Comedy Central

Every Comedy Central Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1989 to 2022, Comedy Central offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Daily Show represent the pinnacle of Comedy Central’s programming, launching in 1989 and 1996. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of Comedy Central’s elite series, with our list refreshed for January 2026.

  • Futurama
    Futurama (1999)8.4

    The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

  • South Park
    South Park (1997)8.3

    Follow the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

  • Drawn Together
    Drawn Together (2004)8.2

    The world's first animated reality series gathers icons from all corners of the cartoon universe and lets them loose, with plenty of cameras to catch their exploits. Here's what happens when eight cartoon characters stop being polite and start getting real.

  • Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head
    Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head (2022)8.1

    Two teenage heavy-metal music fans occasionally do idiotic things because they're bored. For them, everything is "cool" or "sucks."

  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
    Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989)7.7

    A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.

  • Key & Peele
    Key & Peele (2012)7.6

    Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors, introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience.

  • Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn
    Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (2002)7.5

    Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a comedic talk show which aired on Comedy Central from 2002 to 2004. The show featured host Colin Quinn and a panel of comedian guests, discussing politics, current events, and social issues.

  • Workaholics
    Workaholics (2011)7.4

    The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.

  • Reno 911!
    Reno 911! (2003)7.2

    This partially unscripted comedy brings viewers into the squad car as incompetent officers swing into action, answering 911 calls about everything from speeding violations and prostitution to staking out a drug den. Within each episode, viewers catch a "fly on the wall" glimpse of the cops' often politically incorrect opinions, ranging from their personal feelings to professional critiques of their colleagues.

  • Brickleberry
    Brickleberry (2012)7.2

    A group of never-do-well forest rangers are facing the shutdown of their National Park when a new ranger arrives to help transform them and save the park.

  • Broad City
    Broad City (2014)7.1

    Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.

  • The Other Two
    The Other Two (2019)7.0

    A former professional dancer, Brooke, and her brother Cary, an aspiring actor, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.

  • The Colbert Report
    The Colbert Report (2005)6.9

    The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.

  • Drunk History
    Drunk History (2013)6.8

    Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

  • Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls
    Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls (2015)6.7

    Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood - not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the "Cultural Exchange Between Species Act," these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they're trying. When a hapless human teenager named Kurusu Kimihito is inducted as a "volunteer" into the government exchange program, his world is turned upside down. A snake-like lamia named Miia comes to live with him, and it is Kurusu's job to take care of her and make sure she integrates into his everyday life.

  • The Daily Show
    The Daily Show (1996)6.4

    The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

  • The Sarah Silverman Program.
    The Sarah Silverman Program. (2007)6.3

    Sarah Silverman plays a character named Sarah Silverman, whose absurd daily life unfolds in scripted scenes and songs. With her sister and her gay neighbors by her side, Sarah always manages to fall into unique, unsettling and downright weird predicaments.

  • Tosh.0
    Tosh.0 (2009)5.8

    A weekly topical series hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh that delves into all aspects of the Internet, from the ingenious to the absurd to the medically inadvisable.

  • Lights Out with David Spade
    Lights Out with David Spade (2019)5.6

    Specializing in celebrities, entertainment and all things apolitical, comedy legend David Spade and a panel of his comedian friends are at the roundtable and in the field to help break down the biggest headlines of the day.

  • @midnight with Chris Hardwick
    @midnight with Chris Hardwick (2013)5.2

    Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.