30 Rock (2006)

The benchmark for joke speed. When The Atlantic counted the jokes in a dozen top comedies in 2014, 30 Rock came first, at just over seven a minute. Tina Fey's sketch-show satire never lets a scene breathe: a throwaway line, a flashback and a background sign can all land inside ten seconds, and Jack Donaghy's boardroom pronouncements are punchlines dressed up as wisdom. It ran seven seasons on NBC, and the middle stretch is about as dense as American network comedy gets. Watch with subtitles on; you will still miss some.