Top 5 characters in a comedy series?

[The Lizard King]

After all these years, I still can't stop watching Seinfeld, Taxi etc...so here it goes...

1) Kramer - Seinfeld
2) Louie Depalma - Taxi
3) Jim Ignitowski - Taxi
4) Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers
5) Al Bundy - Married with Children

 

[wolverine]

Do comedy skit shows count? I can think of some characters from Kids In The Hall, In Living Color, and Monty Python's Flying Circus to be added to that list.

 

[luckydog71]

I will show my age but....

1. The Nelsons - Ozzie had a dry sense of humor
2. Archie Bunker - he broke new ground....
3. Al Bundy - no matter how much luck he has...he is a,loser in the end.
4. Red Skelton - his seagull charater
5. Jackie Gleason - Joe the bartender and the drunk (I forget his name)...but his line always started///I was walking down the street...I wasnt doin nothin.

 

[yogi]

Archie Bunker-All in the Family
Al Bundy
George Costanza
Homer Simpson
Ralph Kramden-The Honeymooners

 

[nowayjose]

1. George Costanza - Seinfeld
2. Latka Gravas - Taxi
3. Coach - Cheers
4. Larry David - Curb your Enthusiasm
5. Seven of Nine - Star Trek Voyager (had to have at least one hot chick on my list)

Honourable mention to Archie Bunker, Al Bundy and Homer Simpson who I left off my list so as not to be the same as everyone else.

 

[carlotta]

Jack Tripper - 3's Company... C'monnnnnnn he was funny!!!
Alan Alda - Mash...
Jimmy Walker - Good Times
The Duke Boys - Dukes of Hazzards...
Okay perhaps it was more than **comedy** WINK that I was watching The Dukes **giggle**Yah it was the car

Carlotta

 

[NORMNORM]

I'll go with these.

1) Jeffrey Tambor as Hank Kingsley in The Larry Sanders Show
2) Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman in That 70s Show
3) Phil Hartman as Bill McNeal in News Radio
4) Jerry Stiller as Arthur Spooner in King Of Queens
5) John O'Hurley as J. Peterman in Seinfeld

Norm

 

[NORMNORM]

Sorry folks, ...I just can't resist giving you a few choice lines from 1992.

Hank Kingsley: [giving a tour] And if you stop by here, you can say hello to my good friend, Larry Sanders.
[knocks]
Hank Kingsley: Hey now, Larry.
Larry: Fuck off, Hank.
Hank Kingsley: [getting back to tour] And over here...

Norm

 

[zlmmm]

Homer Simpson is KING, but nobody mentioned Norm Peterson (George Wentworth?).

I'm a big fan of Ralph Wiggum, too ("When I grow up I want to be either a principal, or a caterpillar...")!

 

[The Lizard King]

Thanks for the reminders folks, I have to add an "honourable" mention list:

Archie Bunker
Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller)
Coach from Cheers (thinking of the episode where he would fall down stairs to meet women and the one where he took the baseball on the noggin)
Cliff Clavin - Cheers
Bubbles - Trailer Park Boys

 

[dirtydan]

Oscar LeRoy - Corner Gas
Archie Bunker - All in the Family & Archie Bunker's Place
Mr. Bean - Mr. Bean
Mr. Humphreys - Are You Being Served?
Eric Cartman - South Park

 

[LonelyGhost]

Jack Benny

Wayne and Shuster (Red Skelton was my fave but he's been mentioned)

Harvey Korman and Tim Conway (Carol Burnette Show)

Desi Arnez (Lucy was the best, but Desi had his moments)

Redd Foxx (some good lines)

Freddie Prinz

 

[lenharper]

Ricky Gervais -- the office
John Cleese -- faulty towers
Carol O'conner -- all in the family
Gary shandling -- the larry sanders show
Larry David -- Curb your Enthusiam

The entire cast of Sienfeld -- the show really was the sum of its parts.

 

[6nanaimo9]

George Costanza-Seinfeld
Dan Fielding-Night Court
Homer Simpson-The Simpsons
Niles Crane-Frasier
John Becker-Becker

 

[kehoe]

Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard '43, head of thoracic surgery at Boston General. Brilliantly played by David Ogden Stiers. Oh....that was on M*A*S*H of course.