What’s Funny About Work?

A lot! We love a workplace comedy (and sometimes a little drama) because workplaces throw together unlikely groups of people who through spending all day, most days together, learn about each other and become found family. This is not an exhaustive list since many of the shows we love, including our all time favorite, Parks and Recreation, don’t meet PictureParity’s minimum criteria for gender balance and women in leadership to recommend.

2 Broke Girls
Based in a diner, two waitresses become unlikely friends and dream of one day starting a cupcake business together.

Abbott Elementary
Dedicated teachers and staff experience the highs and lows of working with students and with each other in an inner city public elementary school.

Abby’s
Abby runs an unlicensed, makeshift bar in her San Diego backyard and has a cast of misfit customers. Reminiscent of Cheers.

Angie Tribeca
Angie is an LAPD detective investigating cases like the murder of a ventriloquist and a rash of baker suicides. If you liked the Airplane movies, you’ll like this one.

The Bold Type
Three women work at a top women’s magazine, while navigating their careers, identities and individual voices in this show that’s drama with some comedy.

Designing Women
Four women and a handyman run a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Found family!

Devious Maids
More of a drama with some comedy, this series follows a close-knit group of maids in Beverly Hills who have ambition and dreams of their own.

Great News
An ensemble comedy set in a broadcast newsroom, a key element is that one of the interns is the pushy, overinvolved mother of one of the staff members.

Human Resources
A spin-off of Big Mouth, this animated series brings together some of the characters from that show who juggle romance and workplace drama with their human clients’ needs.

The Mindy Project
Mindy is a well-dressed obstetrician/gynecologist trying to balance her personal and professional life while surrounded by quirky co-workers in a NYC medical practice.

Murphy Brown
Murphy is a strong, opinionated television journalist surrounded by a group of dedicated but often bumbling coworkers. The show originally aired in the 1980s and was rebooted 30 years later for a short run.

Superstore
An unlikely group of super box-store employees become family as they work together and are led by a stalwart coworker.

Ugly Betty
An awkward young woman becomes an executive assistant in the high-fashion world where she’s determined to fit in and make her mark, despite a boss and coworkers who don’t think she belongs. A drama with comedy.

Veep
The Vice President puts out political fires, juggles her public schedule and private life, and tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
A young woman hears the innermost thoughts of the people around her as songs and musical numbers. Some drama, some comedy.