Comedy Central is yours 24/7, a laughter companion that uplifts your spirits every time you watch a show. The channel offers a bouquet of sitcoms guaranteed to make you roll with laughter no matter which show you watch.

And for those of us who have grown up watching classics like The Wonder Years, Faulty Towers, Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at House No. 42, it’s rerun time — as the channel is showcasing all these popular shows — make for great childhood memories. You lived through 13-year old Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage's) teenage angst in Wonder Years. Every time Kevin underwent an upheaval, teens across the country sighed as they could relate to his sense of loss. When the girl he has a crush on in school agrees to first go on a date with him but changes her mind when the school hunk asks her out is such a bitter-sweet to watch. In this soap, the adult Kevin relives his life as a kid and highlights the landmark moments in his life.

At 13, Fred Savage became the youngest actor to win an award for the Outstanding Lead actor for a comedy series. There are other sitcoms too, like the more contemporary Happily Divorced, where a couple splits after 18 years of marriage, because the husband Peter wakes up in the announces to his wife that he is gay. They get a quick dignified divorce but the hubby continues to remain in the joint property the couple owns. But they continue to get along like a house on fire and and are quite attached to each other despite their sexual preferences.

Hope and Faith highlights the bond between Hope, a happily married mother of three and Faith, her dysfunctional celebrity sister. Faith was a successful soap opera star, until her character Ashley Storm gets abruptly bumped off in The Sacred and the Sinful. So she comes over to seek solace in her sister's home. But Faith finds it hard to get rid of her diva mannerisms while Hope desperately tries to discipline her reckless sibling.

And that’s what’s missing on our desi channels. Yes, you do have the odd show like Comedy Circus and Tarak Mehta Ka Ulta Chasma, but clearly this is a genre that is large confined to the occasional soap or character to provide the comic relief. And this largely happens when the TRPs kind of drop and characters are introduced just to provide needless humour.

Speaking of English soaps, it looks like it’s re-run time on television. You get to go down memory lane with Sex and the City, where the four single gals go through their ups and downs in life. And when you are bored of the single girls, you can turn to Desperate Wives for some dramatic moments. So for those fans who missed these two soaps, now is the time to relive life on Wisteria Lane and watch the dark secrets unfold.