I was actually gonna specify "something that is not dark" - it's not that I don't enjoy dark comedy, it's just that everything is dark these days. People often recommend It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia to me when I make a request along the lines of that above, and in most ways it does fit the bill perfectly. I can just dive in randomly cos they made at least a million episodes and they don't really follow sequentially - but the hateful nature of every character and the nastiness of the storylines grows quite tiring and depressing when I need cheering up, which is precisely when I tend to choose this sort of viewing.
So I should have said "something that isn't dark" in my previous post which would I imagine have ruled out most of Julia Davis' work. I've not really seen much of her stuff... a year or two back we did watch the entirety of the one about a couple of families filled with ghastly people going camping, I think it was called Camping. It had its moments certainly, but in my opinion a lot of its humour depended on saying horrible stuff in an attempt to get a kind of shock laugh.
This brought to mind something that Mr Tea said yonks ago about The League of Gentlemen - that at times, particularly in later episodes, they seemed to have lost sight of the fact that they were doing nasty stuff in service of the ultimate aim of making people laugh, and instead the whole programme became centred around trying to be as nasty as possible for the sake of being nasty. For me Camping was in danger of venturing into that same territory.
The only other one of hers I have seen bits of is Hunderby, strangely enough they showed a few episodes of it a year or so back on Portuguese telly - I got the impression that it wasn't as relentlessly vicious as her usual output but sadly I never knew what was going on cos here they have this weird habit of showing stuff in a totally random order... like they were showing Shameless (here called No Limit, which means something like On The Limit) and we were enjoying it, we saw all of season one and then we saw all of season two and we had watched half of season three... when it suddenly jumped to midway through season six with the Gallagher's patriarch (played by William H Macey) apparently dead. Makes no sense at all. It's like they put things on to fill up the schedule but they don't care whether or not people watch it. Also sometimes they fill up whole days, maybe even an entire weekend of repeats of the same programme... one time I counted 16 episodes of How I Met Your Mother in a row and that is not at all unusual. One time I woke up one evening confused and alone and I was too weak and hungover to search through the guide or switch channels - or really do anything except drink can after can of lager I'd wisely left in reach of my pit - and I got trapped in a CSI NY marathon, by the time I'd gone through several series of that and actually watched them age and get promoted and so on I became convinced I was part of Mac's team, I was hallucinating that I was chasing down bad guys and shooting various bizarre projectiles through tanks of water into dummies to determine the murder weapon.