It is often believed that sitcom characters are the funniest of the lot that appear on your screen. And while watching funny sitcoms does give you lots of chuckles (hello, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), plenty of funny characters can also be found in other TV shows as well.
Very often the funny factor is not only in the dialogue but also in how the characters in TV shows deliver them and their overall image. With some of the most famous TV characters known for their wit, you would have never guessed they could send you into a fit of laughter if you only judged them by their looks or character descriptions.
For this article, we collected some of the funniest TV show characters and their memorable lines. Upvote the ones that used to make you laugh the most, and if your favorite characters didn’t make the list, give them an honorable mention in the comments.
#1 Sophia Petrillo – The Golden Girls
“Your heart’s in the right place, but I don’t know where the hell your brain is.”
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#2 Homer Simpson – The Simpsons
“What’s the point of going out? We’re just gonna wind up back here, anyway.”
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#3 Perry Cox – Scrubs
“I’ll tell you there, Bobbo, either this kid has a light bulb up his butt, or his colon has a great idea.”
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#4 Chandler Bing – Friends
“Cheese. It’s milk that you chew.”
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#5 Ron Swanson – Parks And Recreation
“When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don’t really care about them.”
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#6 Michael Scott – The Office
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
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#7 Joey Tribbiani – Friends
“Joey doesn’t share food!”
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#8 Mr. Bean
“Sometimes I don’t feel like going to work but then I remember I was born cute not rich.”
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#9 Dr. Gregory House – House
“We were both wrong, not equally wrong. You were at least six more wronger than me.”
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#10 George Costanza – Seinfeld
“When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy.”
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#11 Barney Stinson – How I Met Your Mother
“Actually doing things gets you fired.”
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#12 Phoebe Buffay – Friends
“If you want to receive emails about my upcoming shows, then please give me money so I can buy a computer.”
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#13 Daffy Duck – Looney Tunes
“Help me, please. I’m too moist and tender to retire.”
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#14 Al Bundy – Married… With Children
“Feed me, or feed me to something. I just want to be part of the food chain.”
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#15 Fry – Futurama
“Shut up and take my money!”
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#16 Patrick Star – Spongebob Squarepants
“Is mayonnaise an instrument?”
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#17 Sheldon Cooper – The Big Bang Theory
“No cuts, no buts, no coconuts.”
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#18 Phil Dunphy – Modern Family
“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life’ll be all like ‘what?!’”
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#19 Dwight Schrute – The Office
“Who is Justice Beaver?”
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#20 Peter Griffin – Family Guy
“I have an idea so smart that my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about.”
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#21 Cosmo Kramer – Seinfeld
“Do you think people will still be using napkins in the year 2000, or is this mouth-vacuum thing for real?”
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#22 Peggy Bundy – Married… With Children
“Your father will be home soon, and he will be looking for dinner. Tell him I hope he finds it.”
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#23 Amy Farrah Fowler – The Big Bang Theory
“From the first moment in that coffee shop, I knew that there was something special between us, even though I did work on a study that disproved love at first sight.”
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#24 Garfield – Garfield And Friends, A Garfield Christmas
“I’m not overweight. I’m undertall.”
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#25 Jim Halpert – The Office
“My roommate wants to meet everybody. Because I’m pretty sure he thinks I’m making Dwight up. He is very real.”
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#26 Kitty Forman – That ’70s Show
“You two get your B-double-O-Bs off my husband!”
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#27 Howard Wolowitz – The Big Bang Theory
“If I didn’t have you, life would be blue, I’d be Dr. Who without the TARDIS.”
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#28 Ross Geller – Friends
“I tell you, when I actually die, some people are going to get seriously haunted.”
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#29 Charlie Kelly – It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
“I’m cracking eggs of wisdom!”
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#30 Bender – Futurama
“Of all the friends I’ve had, you’re the first.”
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#31 Bart Simpson – The Simpsons
“Eat my shorts!”
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#32 Roger – American Dad!
“Well, it began like that, and then middle, middle, middle, and then I sold her to a drug dealer.”
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#33 Raj Koothrappali – The Big Bang Theory
“It’s like we both had these holes in our lives, but now we fill each other’s holes.”
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#34 Red Forman – That ’70s Show
“When my time comes, I want to be buried face down, so that anybody that doesn’t like me can kiss my ass.”
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#35 Bugs Bunny – Looney Tunes
“Eh, what’s up, Doc?”
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#36 Steven Hyde – That ’70s Show
“The three true branches of the government are military, corporate, and Hollywood.”
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#37 Penny – The Big Bang Theory
“Well, your Ken can kiss my Barbie.”
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#38 Scooby-Doo – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
“Ruh-roh–RAGGY!!!”
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#39 Jerry Seinfeld – Seinfeld
“It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
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#40 Rick Sanchez – Rick And Morty
“Get out of here, Summer! You ruined the Season 4 premiere!”
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#41 Will Smith – The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
“My butler hung up on me.”
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#42 Stewie Griffin – Family Guy
“Oh yeah? Can you read my mind? Can you tell what I’m thinking? I’m thinking shut up and get a salad!”
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#43 Wile E. Coyote – Looney Toons, Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner
“Help!”
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#44 Carlton Banks – The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
“Dad, don’t do anything stupid! You haven’t updated your will yet.”
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#45 Butters Stotch – South Park
“Mom, Dad, I love you. Please don’t sell me to Paris Hilton.”
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#46 Lucy Ricardo – I Love Lucy
“Ever since we said ‘I do,’ there have been so many things that we don’t.”
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#47 Fred Flintstone – The Flintstones
“I’m sorry you’re stupid.”
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#48 Barney Fife – The Andy Griffith Show
“Why do you want to irritate your corn?”
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#49 Eric Cartman – South Park
“Stan, don’t you know the first law of physics? Anything that’s fun costs at least eight dollars.”
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#50 Randy Marsh – South Park
“What seems to be the officer, problem?”
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#51 Michael Kelso – That ’70s Show
“Damn Jackie, I can’t control the weather.”
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#52 Glenn Quagmire – Family Guy
“If cell phones worked, every movie would be two minutes long.”
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#53 Tim Taylor – Home Improvement
“If I wanted something my brother had, I’d knock him down and take it.”
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#54 Dorothy Zbornak – The Golden Girls
“She’s really a very sweet woman. She just doesn’t like to show it.”
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#55 Leonard Hofstadter – The Big Bang Theory
“I haven’t seen him this stuck since he tried to figure out the third Matrix movie.”
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#56 Brian Griffin – Family Guy
“We can make this work, like couples who meet on Craigslist.”
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#57 Fez – That ’70s Show
“I love the snow! I am a winter nymph! I love America!”
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#58 Doug Heffernan – The King Of Queens
“I’m going to come up with something so romantic and heartfelt it’s gonna make you feel like a piece of crap! A piece of crap!”
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#59 Frank Costanza – Seinfeld
“I was watching a provocative movie on cable TV called ‘The Net,’ starring that woman from ‘The Bus.’”
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#60 Tom And Jerry
“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”
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