Ripping Good Yarns: Final Voting for Your Favorite Comedy Nominee!

We're ready for the final voting!


Please vote for one of the following:

The Big Bang Theory

This CBS is the highest rated comedy on television, ergo it's gets the largest audience.  Alison and I missed out on the start of this great show, so we have been catching up via DVD.  Many of my friends are enthusiastic supporters of this show.  It has a great ensemble cast, led by Jim Parsons as Shelton Cooper, the neurotic scientist who has created one of the great characters of television,  If the show has any flaw, it is that it's producers/creators are also the people behind Two and a Half Men, so sometimes the humor is unexpectedly raunchy or low brow.

Modern Family

Great family show, showing a quirky but genuine extended family.  This has been one of only two comedies on that Alison and I have watched from opening to the most recent episode, in real time, not via streaming or DVD.

Parks and Recreation

This show Alison and I watched through streaming, and caught up through the most current episode.  We watched four or five episodes a week for a two or three months.  What a great way to watch a show, and catch up with characters we have grown to love.  A fabulous ensemble cast, led by the wonderful Amy Poehler as the rabid public servant Leslie Knopes.  There is not a character on this that we don't enjoy seeing.

Raising Hope

This takes a look at lower middle class life, but not in a mean spirited way.  Although the show is smart and sarcastic, it does so in a way that makes the characters human and endearing.  This is the other comedy that we have watched each week it has been on since the beginning..

30 Rock

Tina Fey's tour de force ended its run this year, with great performances by her, Alec Baldwin, Tracey Morgan, and the rest of the cast.  We are not regular watchers of this program.  I have seen some episodes of it, and have enjoyed it, but just have not fit it into our schedule yet.  sounds like a great candidate for streaming!

So there you have it, folks!  Our five finalists!  I would love to keep voting open long enough to at least get a dozen or more votes.  That would be really swell. 

There's a good chance that some of you won't have seen any of these shows, or very little of them.  But if at this point you just want to take a stab at the Pinata and pick which show you think sounds the best - I am OK with that.  WE NEED THE VOTES!

Vote now!  On here or on facebook!

I await your judgement!