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Plot Summary:
Porter Wagoner's long-running musical variety show that launched the career of Dolly Parton.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Country Corn (1969)
Plot Summary:
Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969–1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication. The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,[1] the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and was centered on country music. Initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark, the show was equally well-known for its voluptuous, scantily-clad women in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits, male stars Jim and Jon Hager and its cornpone humor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, game show, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Flip Wilson Show (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Flip Wilson Show is an hour long variety show that aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience. Specifically, it was the first successful network variety series starring an African American. During its first two seasons, its Nielsen ratings made it the nation's second most watched show. The show consisted of many skits over an hour. It also broke new ground in American television by using a 'Theatre-in-the-Round' stage format, with the audience seated on all sides of a circular performance area. Wilson was most famous for creating the role of Geraldine Jones, a sassy, modern woman who had a boyfriend named Killer. Flip also created the role of Reverend Leroy, who was the minister of the Church of What's Happening Now!. New parishioners were wary of coming to the church as it was hinted that Reverend Leroy was a con artist. Wilson popularized such catchphrases as "What you see is what you get", and "The devil made me do it!".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, spoof
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Plot Summary:
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and featured, at various times, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Richard Dawson, Henry Gibson, Teresa Graves, Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, Larry Hovis, Jeremy Lloyd, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Gary Owens, Pamela Rodgers, Barbara Sharma, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin and Jo Anne Worley. Laugh-In originally aired as a one-time special on September 9, 1967 and was such a success that it was brought back as a series, replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on Mondays at 8 pm. The title of the show was a play on the "love-ins" or "be-ins" of the 1960s hippie culture, terms that were, in turn, derived from "sit-ins", common in protests associated with civil rights and anti-war demonstrations of the time. In 2002, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was ranked #42 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, retro, sitcom, slapstick, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, fast, spoof
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The Judy Garland Show (1963)
Plot Summary:
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number of other key personnel changes. With the change in producers also came changes to the show's format, which started as comedy/variety but switched to an almost purely concert format. While Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed with Bonanza, then the fourth most popular program on television, and consistently performed poorly in the ratings. Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show, CBS cancelled it after a single season. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Method & Red (2004)
Plot Summary:
Real life hip hop recording artists Method Man and Redman play themselves as they move into a comfortable luxury estate from the success of their recording albums and acting gigs and then try to fit in with the uptight, predominately Caucasian community whom try to evict them for their wild party gatherings while gaining admiration from a handful of neighbor eccentrics including the young son of their real estate agent whom live just next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: India, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, mockumentary
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The Partridge Family (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and had subsequent runs in syndication.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, retro, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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All That (1994)
Plot Summary:
A combination sketch comedy/musical performance show in the tradition of "Saturday Night Live," this program starred a teenage cast and was targeted at younger viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, parody, spoof
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Marci X (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, spooky, satirical, controversial
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Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O'Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term "lo-fi," Alex and Jim find their unique style by bringing the sound of children's instruments to their unsuspecting fans. Playing a series of bizarre shows and experiencing multiple near-disasters, Alex and Jim's persistence takes them on a true coming-of-age journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy
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Eternity: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
Big Hair. Guyliner. Someone lamenting by crashing waves on a beach or to their reflection in a fountain. Yes, we're talking about the 80s! Todd and BJ, two lonely wannabe artists, find one another and create the not-so-dynamic R&B duo "Eternity.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film
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Bo Burnham: What. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Left brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at pop entertainment while offering unadulterated showmanship of his own.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, not serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, thought provoking
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Tapeheads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, intense, offbeat, realistic, witty, independent film
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Tenacious D (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tenacious D: The Greatest Band on Earth is a TV series that ran on HBO in 1997, 1999 and 2000. It featured the fictional accounts of the real band Tenacious D, which is composed of members Jack Black and Kyle Gass. All of the episodes of the show are available on Tenacious D's The Complete Masterworks DVD. The show included many songs that would later be recorded for their studio albums Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, alternative comedy
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Garfunkel and Oates (2014)
Plot Summary:
Garfunkel and Oates stars Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as both themselves and their musical comedy alter-egos, "Garfunkel and Oates," following the pair as they try to expand the reaches of their meager celebrity. Well-known on the improv-comedy scene, Micucci and Lindhome met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA, naming their band for "two famous rock-and-roll second bananas," Art Garfunkel and John Oates. In five bite-sized episodes, Riki and Kate skewer taboos and perform tongue-in-cheek songs about their woeful lives as single, late-20-something Los Angelinos.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Beggars and Choosers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Beggars and Choosers is a comedy-drama series broadcast by Showtime. Developed by Peter Lefcourt and Brandon Tartikoff, the series was a comedic, behind-the-scenes look at network television. Its 42 episodes aired between June 19, 1999 and December 12, 2000.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Monkees (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series television and won two Emmy Awards in 1967. The program ended on Labor Day, 1968 at the finish of its second season and has received a long afterlife in Saturday morning repeats and syndication, as well as overseas broadcasts.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, retro, slapstick, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, fast
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Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten (2014)
Plot Summary:
TV writer, talk show host and comedian, Spike Feresten, is the guy to see when car shopping. He meets someone needing a car and then draws on two decades of expertise and instinct to find three different cars perfectly suited to the buyer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, humorous
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The Chris Isaak Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Chris Isaak Show is a television sitcom which follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak. The show portrays Isaak and his band members as everyday people with everyday problems. The series was produced for the Showtime channel from 2001–2004, and was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, which stands in for the show's home setting of San Francisco. The series featured Isaak and several members of his band, Silvertone, portraying themselves. Other roles were portrayed by actors, including Jed Rees as Isaak's keyboardist. Rees was hired in place of Isaak's actual keyboardist Brett Tuggle to add some comedy to the show. Other characters featured on the show include Yola Gaylen, Isaak's manager and her colleague, Cody Kurtzman. The final regular character, Mona, appears as a mermaid-of-sorts who lies nude on a revolving circular bed in the basement of Bimbo's, a club Isaak frequents. She typically talks only with Isaak, acting as his conscience or a sounding board for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, clever, offbeat, witty, stylized
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Wedding Band (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four friends spend their free time performing in a wedding band.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic
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Malibu Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
Her life reads like a country music tune: her husband cheated on her and spent all of their money, and after she gets mad, she's going to get even.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, game show, realistic
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Watching Ellie (2002)
Plot Summary:
A single woman, Ellie Riggs, tries to navigate her way through the Los Angeles music scene and her own messy personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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MyMusic (2012)
Plot Summary:
MyMusic was the primary series that aired on the MyMusicShow YouTube channel. It documented the antics of MyMusic, a transmedia production company where, rather than referring to each other by name, the staff go by the varying music genres with which they associate. CEO and founder Indie heads the team, which consists of people following extremely different–and frequently conflicting–tastes and attitudes. The company claims to have been given the YouTube original channel, which brings along with it a documentary crew filming them day to day. The second season picks up following the burning of the MyMusic building at the conclusion of the first season. After this fire, Indie has the MyMusic team returning to its roots, as well as focus more on social media and the MyMusic blog.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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Porn and Ice Cream (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two socially-awkward thirty-somethings and a young con woman start a rock band that takes the Buenos Aires music scene by storm.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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That Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, retro, independent film
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Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Rock is the aging lead singer of NYC's legendary early-'90s band The Heathens, who is trying to get both his band and his life back together. The aging and broke bad-boy rocker gets another shot at fame as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light, sentimental, feel good, entertaining
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Svengali (2013)
Plot Summary:
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
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The Tour (2011)
Plot Summary:
Laura, Carol y Bruno forman Pop 4U, el grupo musical más exitoso del momento, que está de gira mundial. Les acompañan Los Cuervo, una banda de rock formada por los hermanos Lucas, Sara y Marcos, que no aceptan su rol de teloneros. Desde su destartalada furgoneta maquinan sus planes para tratar de boicotear al grupo principal que viaja en su flamante motorhome.Laura, Carol & Bruno are Pop4u, a popular pop-band on their world tour. They're followed by Los Cuervo, a rock band who's members, brothers Lucas, Sara & Marcos don't accept their status as Pop4u's opening band. From their wicked caravan they plan the ways to get rid of Pop4u, who live in a glamorous tour motorhome.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, sitcom
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Good Morning, Miami (2002)
Plot Summary:
A talented young TV producer arrives in Miami to revamp the lowest-rated morning show in the country. Jake Silver risks taking the job when he sets eyes on the show's beautiful, down-to-earth hair stylist Dylan, who wows him like nobody before – and presents a romantic challenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical