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Saturday Night Live: Season 31
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsFinesse Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg, who debuts his "Lazy Sunday" rap sketch with Chris Parnell, join the cast of "SNL" for its 31st season. Guest hosts include funnyman Dane Cook and cyclist Lance Armstrong. Other notables are Tom Hanks, Jason Lee and Natalie Portman, who raps about her life (the pretaped skit became an Internet sensation) alongside "SNL" cast members Samberg, Parnell and Seth Meyers.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 32
2006 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe 32nd season of "Saturday Night Live" features more hilarity and originality with guest hosts like pop star Justin Timberlake, who raps in a pretaped digital short with "SNL" cast member Andy Samberg about the perfect holiday gift. Other hosts include "Entourage" star Jeremy Piven, footballer Peyton Manning, and former cast member Molly Shannon, who stars in a sketch where she auditions to be a stripper at "The Soprano's" Bada Bing.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 33
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIt's nonstop laughs in this 33rd season of "SNL," which kicks off with NBA hoopster LeBron James as host and closes in May 2008 with host Steve Carell of "The Office." Other guests include Seth Rogen, former "SNL" cast member Tina Fey, Ellen Page, Ashton Kutcher, Jonah Hill and the ever-present Christopher Walken. A notably shorter season, "SNL" aired only 12 episodes due to the Writers Guild of America strike.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 34
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIt's another year of zany sketches and belly laughs. The 34th season of "Saturday Night Live" kicks off with Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps as host and Tina Fey appearing as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Guest hosts include former "SNL" cast members Steve Martin, Tracy Morgan and Will Ferrell, pop star Justin Timberlake (who does another pretaped digital short with Andy Samberg) and actress Anne Hathaway.
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Family Guy: Season 3
2001 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsMatricidal Stewie continues his quest for world domination in these sidesplitting episodes from Season 3 of the boundary-testing animated sitcom. In this volume, Brian becomes a drug-sniffing dog, and Peter learns Chris is more well endowed.
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Family Guy: Season 2
1999 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWitness the Griffin family in all their silliness with these episodes from the first two seasons of the parody-packed animated sitcom. As Stewie aims for world domination, Brian the dog downs martinis and the rest of the family share jabs and laughs.
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Fawlty Towers
1975 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHaughty, misadventure-prone Basil Fawlty and his bossy wife, Sybil, try to raise the profile of their "English Riviera" operation -- the Fawlty Towers Hotel -- but never-ending misunderstandings arise, leading to constant farcical lunacy.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 28
2002 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWith an election year looming, the venerable late-night sketch comedy series takes plenty of jabs at the political scene, even including a pair of party heavyweights -- John McCain and Al Gore -- as hosts. Audience favorite Christopher Walken, Bernie Mack and "SNL" alum Dan Aykroyd are among the other celebrity hosts to join a regular cast of players that includes Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon and Tracy Morgan (in his final season).
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Saturday Night Live: The 2000s
2000 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWatch the likes of Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell and Darrell Hammond in sketches and skits that are more modern and fresh as "SNL" sees a new millennium. Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon and head writer Tina Fey anchor "Weekend Update."
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Lilyhammer
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsAfter he testifies against a Mafia boss, ex-gangster Frank Tagliano enters the witness protection program and asks to be sent to Norway. Despite the peaceful surroundings, it's not long before Frank strays from the straight and narrow.
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America's Funniest Home Videos
1989 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis long-running comedy series is a hilarious look at everyday people caught on tape in their most uproarious and unexpected human moments. The clips range from outrageously funny situations to those that make you go "ouch" even while laughing.
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Fawlty Towers: Series 1
1975 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsJohn Cleese stars as Basil Fawlty, the manic and much-put-upon hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riffraff. His biggest headache, though, is his "little nest of vipers" -- nagging wife Sybil.
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Fawlty Towers: Series 2
1979 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 Stars"Fawlty Towers" returns for a second madcap series with Basil once again hampered at every turn by his scathing wife Sybil and the hapless Manuel. It would almost be possible to feel sorry for him, if it wasn't for his appalling rudeness.
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Kingdom
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsStephen Fry stars as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor whose quirky clientele supplies him with a bounty of unusual cases, which he juggles with tending to his unbalanced half-sister, Beatrice, and searching for their long-lost brother.
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Family Guy: Season 8
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe wry, dysfuntional fun continues as the Griffith family and the citizens of Quahog take on more misadventures of questionable taste. In Season 8, Stewie crossdresses à la Tootsie, Quagmire becomes a dad, and Meg hooks up with a convict.
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House of Lies: Season 1
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsBased on Martin Kihn's memoir about his time at a management consulting firm, the first season of this dark-edged Showtime dramedy sets the action inside a top-level consultancy where anything goes to get the client.
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Trailer Park Boys
2001 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis wickedly funny mockumentary series follows the booze-fueled misadventures of Julian (John Paul Tremblay), Ricky (Robb Wells) and Bubbles (Mike Smith), longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park -- when they aren't in jail, that is. But kudos to the lads for their persistence, even if their harebrained get-rich schemes involve growing pot right under the nose of ex-cop Jim (John Dunsworth).
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Family Guy
1999 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn Seth MacFarlane's no-holds-barred animated show, buffoonish Peter Griffin and his dysfunctional family experience wacky misadventures, from kidnapping the Pope to being forced to put up scythe-bearing Death for a few days after he breaks his leg.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 30
2004 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThe 30th season of this long-running sketch-comedy series serves up a delightful dose of political satire with parodies of the 2004 presidential election contest between then-President George W. Bush and challenger John Kerry. This year, the revolving cast includes Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler, who joins head writer Tina Fey at the "Weekend Update" desk. Guest hosts include Robert De Niro, Queen Latifah and Jude Law.
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Saturday Night Live: Season 29
2003 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsGet your weekly dose of funny with these episodes from the live comedy show's 29th season, which finds Tina Fey, Will Forte, Amy Poehler and the rest of the cast lampooning Harry Potter, politics, reality television and more. Other highlights include installments of Robert Smigel's recurring "TV Funhouse" cartoons. Elijah Wood, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg are among this year's guest hosts.
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Weeds
2005 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsNancy Botwin takes a big hit when her husband dies suddenly and she's left struggling to maintain her comfortable lifestyle -- so the suburban soccer mom summons up her inner entrepreneur and starts selling pot to her affluent neighbors.
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Kingdom: Series 1
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsCounty solicitor Peter Kingdom takes on a string of quirky legal cases for the offbeat residents of Market Shipborough, including the kidnapping of a local child and a clash between a gas company and sheep owners over land.
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Californication
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsBest-selling novelist Hank Moody battles writer's block and a weakness for drugs, booze and one-night stands while he struggles to make things work with his on-and-off girlfriend and their teenage daughter.
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Arrested Development
2003 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsThis Emmy-winning sitcom follows the Bluths, a wealthy California clan gone to the dogs after patriarch George Sr. gets busted for fraud. Now, long-suffering son Michael keeps the family business afloat as he spars with his dysfunctional relatives.
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Kingdom: Series 2
2008 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSet a year after the end of Series 1, Series 2 begins with life-changing news from Beatrice and the return of Peter's long-missing brother, Simon. Meanwhile, Peter handles cases pertaining to an injured dog and stolen scientific research.
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