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I'm German and I couldn't recommand any show from my country in good conscience.

Kaamelott is a good French short format comedie series. Most of the humor is based on puns, word plays and quiproquo, it would be absolutely impossible to translate and it wouldn't be funny to anyone who isn't absolutely fluent in French. No need to thank me for this useless recommendation.

Canada: The Kids in the Hall.

But there are a few I really like. Orphan Black, Letterkenny, Shorzy, Littlest Hobo, SCTV, Fraggle Rock, Schitt's Creek, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High (not the newer ones with Drake), The Red Green Show, Reboot, Transformers: Beast Wars (or as it was known here just "Beasties") Street Cents, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Mr. Dressup....really hard to just pick one.

Germany: Der Tatortreiniger (or: The Crime Scene Cleaner) is about about someone who, well, cleans up after somebody died. While this job is most often portrayed from the side of organised crime the protagonist Schotty is just your average guy with a weird job. Most episodes start out with him having some preexisting notions and he encounters someone who challenges them. The first episode it's a sexworker, the third is a over the top gay man who, after they are forced to spend some time together, starts making much more sense to Schotty by challenging his stereotypical boomer mentality. In other instances, for example when he encounters the most comically on brand group of Nazis, he stands his ground. Really good show, especially when you consider how fucking woke it is for being produced in 2013!

UK: I'd recommend Slow Horses on AppleTV. Gary Oldman heads a cast of misfits from an MI5 unit of rejects. Drama and comedy in a perfect blend.

Australia: Lano & Woodley

It's only funny to Aussies and has a specific kind of humour, but I get very patriotic over it

In Finland: ”Queen of fucking everything”

US: Everything by Mike Judge is gold, so for a live action show its indisputably Silicon Valley. Personal fave sci-fi was Babylon 5. Out of animation - Pantheon.

Mr Inbetween is probably the most popular, but if you want an Australian version of The Office I would highly recommend Utopia.

From Greece, To Nisi (The Island) is the best I've seen. It's about an island where they used to move people with leprosy.

Eteros Ego (The Other Me) is supposed to be one of the best but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. It's a crime show that's a sequel to the movie with the same name. The movie is on YouTube with English subs.

Umbre . Romanian HBO production about a mob enforcer that's trying to keep his family and job separate. Pretty good and should be decently easy to find with English subtitles.

Not from South Korea but my favorite show on all of tv is "Chef vs My Fridge"

2 guests give their order to 8 chefs and 2 of them cook for only 15 minutes to fulfill that order. However, they may only use what is in that guest's fridge/pantry. So sometimes it's a lot of good ingredients, sometimes hardly anything to cook with.

It's so funny. Each chef has their own character and I love how they converse with each other. It's hard to pick a favorite since they are all so different (but Namno is the best). It's the only show (next to taskmaster) that I wait impatiently for it's release each week.

The Netherlands has a couple good series. A recent hit (dutch/belgian production) is "undercover". It's about a Belgian cop that goes undercover in the organisation of a dutch drug dealer. Very fun with lots of peculiar cultural references.

A personal favorite though, is a 1995 childrens show called "lang leve de koningjn" (long live the queen). It tought me how to play chess in a very fun and engaging way.

From the UK, I'd probably go for The Day Today, which ran for a single six-episode series back in 1994.

It's a satirical news programme which manages to be more cutting and accurate than anything that's been produced since, and along the way includes pastiches of fly-on-the-wall documentaries (doing The Office years before The Office), multi-camera soap operas (The Bureau), the rise of multichannel TV (RokTV) and so much more. A lot of the show's staff were actually from the BBC's own news department so timbre is spot-on, and received an incredible level of French polish before broadcast meaning every second of it is crammed with gags, slights and real blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes and, aside from the dated styling and real-world reference, the whole thing feels frustratingly prescient thirty years later.

US: The Wire