(In addition to Python--as goes-without-saying)
Laugh-In and Smothers Brothers (one of whom lives around here.)
Both quashed at their peak, by ... the usual meeja rationale, apparently unchanged much, in 2014.

(I have Tee Vee now only because: it's a part of the cheapest-bundle in which I can get Net-BW >3 M-BITS!/sec, in my bucolic locale.
This is spelled, of course, m o n o p o l y.

As a card-carrying owner of The Portable Curmudgeon I can attest that membership does tend to free one from any tendency/pressures to settle-for satisfiction
(however slickly packaged.)
As the two shrinks passed on the street--one opined, You're fine ... how am I?
Maybe this is just civilized--Stand Your Ground?!

;^>