Best recent piece of comedy 8/30

The best piece of comedy I've seen recently is from one of my favorite television shows: How I Met Your Mother. This TV show is similar to other sitcoms like The Office, Friends, Parks and Rec, and other similar shows. How I Met Your Mother has five main characters each with different personal problems. It follows them as they go through their daily lives in a funny take all leading up to when the narrator reveals to his kids, who he is narrating the story to, how he met their mother. While watching it, I found myself laughing often, but I never stopped to ask myself why that was. After reading about the different theories of humor, I definitely better understand how the comedy in the show works. Throughout the show, I believe that all three theories of comedy are used at different times. The audience laughs at Barney, one of the main characters, because he is always messing up and finding himself in awkward situations in which case the audience is laughing at Barney as they look down upon his shortcomings. This is an example of the superiority theory of comedy. Furthermore, the relief theory is often used when confronting issues such as sleeping around, excessive drinking, and family problems in order to bring people comedic relief when the tension and discomfort that comes with such topics are released. I also feel incongruity theory is used at points, but I have not yet fully grasped how this theory looks in works beyond the definition.