There there pfr... Keep calm.

Yes a lot of 1980's and 90's primetime tv in the US was utter shite. Which is why I stayed up late to watch Carson, Saturday Night Live, and the really great stuff from Canada and UK to be found on PBS (Public Broadcasting Stations).

SCTV (Second City TV - Canada)

Are You Being Served
Black Adder
Allo, Allo
Yes Minister
Monty Python
a smidge of Red Dwarf at the end of the 80s and early 90s.

One Foot In the Grave, Keeping Up Appearances, Murder Most Horrid and Waiting for God in the 90s. (I was utterly hooked on the British comedies on PBS buy then)

another comedy from Canada that I loved ... The Red Green Show (also the 90s).