The first radio sitcom debuted in 1926, and the first American television sitcom made its way to screens in 1947. Here are comedies that make history.

For the purposes of ranking the best sitcoms of all time below, the term is applied loosely, as indeed, some of the shows below—while funny—do branch out into other genres, including drama ...

But this morning, in a possibly long-lived gaffe during a CNN interview, Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom experienced that classic of sitcom goofs: the “Whoops, did I just say that out loud ...

"Sitcom audiences, more often than not, are still being encouraged to laugh at dads' parenting missteps and mistakes," Scharrer writes.

For the purposes of ranking the best sitcoms of all time below, the term is applied loosely, as indeed, some of the shows below—while funny—do branch out into other genres, including drama ...