OT: Best Sitcom Character Actors of All Time

[Vuce]

Murray on Flight of the Conchords

 

[KingConn]

Not all sitcoms per se, but some of my favorite comedy characters from TV:

Sterling Archer - Archer
David Addison - Moonlighting
Red Foreman - That 70's Show
Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP in Cincinatti

 

[geordi]

Gotta be Gordon Jump as the Big Guy on WKRP. Classic. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

 

[Zanzman]

Herb tarlak, les Nessman

 

[MetsNC]

Past:
Archie Bunker
Hawkeye Pierce
Sam Malone
George Costanza
Joey Tribianni

Current:
Phil Dunphy

All dumb guys, just like me.

 

[MetsNC]

Well, I guess Hawkeye wasn’t dumb.

 

[Waquoit]

Herb tarlak, les Nessman

Jennifer Marlow. 2 votes

 

[Griffman]

 

[Waquoit]

ALF had one good line, when he was given a salad for dinner, " This isn't food, this is what food eats"

 

[Alibi Ike]

Barney Fife

 

[UConn Esq]

For me (as a 33 year old)... in no particular order:

1. Michael Scott
2. Ari Gold
3. George Costanza
4. Larry David (Curb)
5. Ron Swanson
6. Tracey Jordan
7. Chandler Bing
8. Barney Stinson

 

[Moose1979]

"this is Carlton, your door man"

 

[storrsroars]

This is for us old guys - Pookie. And yes, Soupy did briefly have a primetime show.

 

[Guapo]

George and/or Larry

 

[PomonaHusky]

Darrell, Darrell, and my other brother Darrell.

Correction.
My brain is getting old...yes Larry, my brother Darrell and my other brother Darrell.
Thanks Waquoit.

 

[Waquoit]

Darrell, Darrell, and my other brother Darrell.

Larry, D and D

 

[Northbound]

Archie Bunker

Yup Carroll O'Connor - End of discussion - it was transformational TV and flipped a host of political and cultural norms on their head and challenged how people thought.

 

[storrsroars]

I think he's going for the secondary characters on a sitcom

Probably needs to be on every page of this thread.

 

[Jimdish255]

Benny Hill
Snoopy

 

[RedDog]

Hank Kingsley
Lucille Bluth

Rebecca Howe on Cheers was a terrible character. Butt he character attended UConn and she sometimes wore a UConn sweatshirt

 

[SubbaBub]

Is this thread about sitcom characters, character actors in sitcoms, supporting characters in sitcoms or sitcom actors?

Cause if their name is in the opening, they are not a character actor.

 

[Waquoit]

Yup Carroll O'Connor - End of discussion - it was transformational TV and flipped a host of political and cultural norms on their head and challenged how people thought.

For the worse. Made a bigot loveable.

 

[Northbound]

For the worse. Made a bigot loveable.

You missed the point of the show - it completely showed the idiocy of that type of thinking.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Some good choices. I'll avoid repeats.

Kelly Bundy on Married with Children
Everybody on Frasier who wasn't Frasier
Jeffrey Tambor (two roles) on Arrested Development
The Dad on That 70's Show
Brother on Hanna Montana
Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts on Everybody Loves Raymond

 

[Husky25]

Ted Danson was only mentioned once in this thread = Fail.

Cheers is incredibly dated to watch today (as is Seinfeld, really), but it was a classic for its time and quite ground breaking. If the pilot performed today like it did in 1982, there would not have been a second episode, let alone 11 years and 274 more episodes.