Shows Like Ripping Yarns

If you liked Ripping Yarns (1976), a comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Decker (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.
2
The Day Today (1994)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy
A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.
3
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Tim and Eric's dark comedy anthology series.
4
Little Britain (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
5
Love, American Style (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
6
Second City Television (1976)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy
Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.
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Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out (2005)
★ 8/10Also comedy
Nick Cannon and an A-list celebrity lead a team of improv comedians as they compete against each other.
8
French & Saunders (1987)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they…
9
That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
A comedy sketch show featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
10
Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)
★ 7/10Also comedy
A sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by editor George Dent, the staff of GlobeLink battle to maintain the company as a serious news organization…
11
Spitting Image (1984)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over…
12
Look Around You (2002)
★ 8/10Also comedy
LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one…
13
Harry Enfield and Chums (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Paul Whitehouse and others take on an array of oddball characters and old-time favorites in this sketch comedy show.
14
Another Period (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Set at the turn of the century, “Another Period” follows the misadventures of the Bellacourts, Newport, RI’s first family, who have absolutely nothing to offer to the world, but who have so much money it doesn’t…
15
Key & Peele (2012)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy
Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv. Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the…
16
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
17
Benson (1979)
★ 7/10Also comedy
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
18
Shifting Gears (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
Matt is a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter Riley and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.
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Big Train (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
Twisted and original sketch show from the minds of Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, starring Simon Pegg, Kevin Eldon and Mark Heap.
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A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.