The best comedy duos IMO are:

Lucy and Ethel (or Viv)
Laverne and Shirley
Andy and Barney Fife

They seem to make a scene funny naturally in the way they work off each other.

What duos do you like?

I think Lucy and Ethel (I Love Lucy), George & Gracie (The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show), Balki and Larry (Perfect Strangers), and Laverne & Shirley (L&S) were all great comedy duos.

Lucy and Ethel are by far the best comedy duo of all time :D

Laverne and Shirley are also very good.

Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton (Jackie Gleason and Art Carney) were perfection. Arguably the best duo on TV.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello brought their comic teamwork from film to TV for their 50's show. They were amazing together too..

I think Blair Warner/Jo Polniaczek were a hilarious duo, :lol: I also like Laverne Shirley as a slapstick duo :)

Lucy and Ethel
Ricky and Fred
Abbott and Costello
Burns and Allen
Gleason and Norton
Spanky and Alfalfa
Alfalfa and Butch (I really love them).......
Laurel and Hardy

Lucy and Ethel~ the classic duo. i mean, they CREATED sitcom duos! lol sorry i just had to meantion them.

Roseanne and Jackie- Roseanne
Jack and Karen-Will and Grace
Lucy and Ethel-I Love Lucy

Tabitha & Timmy - Passions
Lucy & Vivian - The Lucy Show
Blair & Jo - The Facts of Life
Laverne & Shirley

Lucy and Ethel & Laverne and Shirley are the best!

As much as I love those duos I have to stray from the crowd and add one. Not one of the best like Lucy & Ethel but still funny.
So my favorite duo besides the obvious is Tony & Angela. I just think they're funny together. I would've said Angela & Mona but Mona is funny with everyone so I'll just stick with the two I picked.

I don't know if the Smothers Brothers were the best but they were certainly the most controversial comedy duo.

Originally posted by britt britt
Lucy and Ethel & Laverne and Shirley are the best!

I have to go with LaVerne and Shirley too!

Lucy and Ethel
Roseanne and Jackie
Felix and Oscar
Fred and Lamont
Mama and Iola

For comedy quads I vote for The Sweathogs!:lol:

Oh my gosh! I almost forgot.............
Harvey Korman and Tim Conway
Carol Burnett and Tim Conway

Laverne and Shirley!!!!

How can you guys say Laverne & Shirley without mentioning Lenny & Squiggy!?!? lolol They crack me up just LOOKING at them!!!! lolol But DEF. them 2, the girls L&S, Lucy & Ethel, cant think of any really..

To me the best TV comedy duo ever is.. RALPH AND POTSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are hysterical I think. Donny Most and Anson Williams played them hystreically. I just think they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny!! I like Lenny and Squiggy too, ogh

I think these are the best comedy duos:

Lucy and Ethel- "I Love Lucy"

Laverne and Shirley- "Laverne & Shirley"

Herman and Grandpa- "The Munsters"

Larry and Balki- "Perfect Strangers"

Lucy and Viv- "The Lucy Show"

Lenny and Squiggy- "Laverne & Shirley"



For best comedy threeos:

Larry, Moe, and Curley - "The Three Stooges"



For best comedy quads:

Rose, Blancha, Sophia, and Dorothy- "The Golden Girls"

Fonzie, Richie, Ralph, and Potsie- "Happy Days"

1. Norm and Cliff(Cheers)

2. Frasier & Niles(Frasier)

3. Felix & Oscar(The Odd Couple)

4. Ralph & Ed(The Honeymooners)

5. Bart & Milhouse(The Simpsons)

Best comedy duos:

Larry Appleton and Balki Bartokomous (Perfect Strangers)
Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney (Laverne & Shirley)
Andy Taylor and Barney Fife (The Andy Griffith Show)
Theodore and Wally Cleaver (Leave It To Beaver)
Steve Urkel and Carl Winslow (Family Matters)

Best comedy trio:

Hayden Fox, Luther Van Dam, and Dauber Dybinski (Coach)

Best comedy sextet:

Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter, and Bobby Brady (The Brady Bunch) :D :D :D :D :D :D

Larry and Balki - Perfect Strangers
Archie and Mike "Meathead" - All In the Family
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman - The Carol Burnett Show
Buddy and Sally - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Lucy and Ethel - I Love Lucy
Mary and Rhoda - The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Good balance between those two women in the character traits
Hawkeye and Trapper John - MASH
Darrin (Dick York) and Endora - Bewitched
Reuben Kenkaid and Danny Partridge - The Partridge Family
Ralph and Ed - The Honeymooners
Fred and Barney - The Flintstones
Andy Taylor and Barney Fife - The Andy Griffith Show
Blair and Jo - The Facts of Life

Jack and Larry (Three's Company)
Jack and Larry (The Wbeer Show)
Chandler and Joey (Friends)
Lucy and Ethel (I Love Lucy)
Captain Kirk and Mr.Spock (Star Trek)-Ok So it wasn't a comedy but it's one of those "So bad it's funny" things.
Jenny and Maggie (Jenny)
Jenny and Guy (Jenny)
Max and Cooper (Jenny)

Duos:

George Burns and Gracie Allen as themselves (Burns and Allen)

Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin as Kate McArdle and Allie Lowell (Kate & Allie)

Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance as Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy)

Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney (Laverne & Shirley)

Micheal McKean and David L. Lander as Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman (Laverne & Shirley)

Trios:

John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, and Suzanne Somers as Jack Tripper, Janet Wood, and Chrissy Snow (Three's Company)

Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, and Cloris Leachman as Mary Richards, Rhoda Morgenstern, and Phyllis Lindstrum (Mary Tyler Moore)

Linda Lavin, Beth Howland, and Polly Holliday as Alice Hyatt, Vera Gorman, and Florence Jean Castleberry (Alice)

Quads:

Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClannahan, and Estelle Getty as Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, Blanche Devereaux, and Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls)

Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn, and Nancy McKeon as Blair Warner, Dorothy "Tootie" Fields, Natalie Green, and Jo Polniaczek (Facts of Life)

Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart as Suzanne Sugarbaker, Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, and Charlene Frazier [later on Stealfield] (Designing Women)

1. Natalie and Tootie- The Facts of Life
2. Tia and Tamera Mowry- Sister Sister
3. Method Man and Redman- Method and Red
4. Pam and Gina- Martin
5. Turk & J.D.- Scrubs

Shawn and Marlon Wayans