A Funny Program About Funny Programs: The Greatest Sitcoms Of All Time

Award-winning author and pop culture historian Martin Gitlin hosts this fun and enlightening presentation based on his book The Greatest Sitcoms of all Time. He is the only author to actually rank the best of the best, including I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Andy Grifftih Show, Get Smart, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Frasier and The Big Bang Theory. He will show funny snippets from those shows and others, challenging patrons with sitcom trivia (including identifying cool theme songs!), discuss the criteria he used to rank 70 years of sitcoms and talk about how they have evolved over the decades in humor, presentation and content. This program is really entertaining so join in on the fun! This free event will take place in the Community Room; no registrtion required.