



It’s not always easy to find a good show to watch. Yes, of course, there are many options. So many options. Too many, even. It actually makes the whole process more difficult sometimes because you just have so much to sort through. It’s especially true of comedies because — unlike a drama, which can latch onto a premise and start out interesting — they often take half of a season to really hit a groove. It would be better if there was some kind of guide or, like, a shorthand you can use to find a winner. And guess what: there kind of is. Just look for any show that features Andy Daly as a doctor.

You know Andy Daly. If you don’t, you should. He’s the best. His Comedy Central series, Review, was incredible and dark and side-splitting. His podcast, The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project, is consistently bizarre and hilarious, and his guest spots on Comedy Bang Bang are must-listens. He’s played a principal in everything from Modern Family to Eastbound and Down. But mostly, he pops up as a doctor in shows you probably like.

It’s one of those things, you know? The things where you notice it once and then it happens again and again and the next thing you know you’re like “Hmm, this seems like the kind of show that would have Andy Daly as a doctor” and then, boom, there he is. This is hyperbole, but barely. He’s appeared as a doctor on five different television shows now, four of which I’ve listed below and one of which — Adult Swim’s Mr. Pickles — I have omitted both because I am not familiar with it and because I could not grab a screencap that didn’t feature his animated character’s hand way up an elderly man’s rectum. I stand by this decision completely.

Daly, for his part, is aware of all this. The New York Post did a short article on this phenomenon a few years ago — back when he only had three doctor roles under his belt — and Daly said “It was told to me that I was going to be a doctor, but it was not until I put the lab coat on that I went, ‘Oh, this is turning into a thing now.’” Yup, it is a thing. And I have the proof. Presented below, please find his roles listed in order of number of appearances (as of publication), which I am doing mostly in the hopes that someone in Hollywood come to their senses and give him a starring role as a doctor someday soon. No one is more qualified. Here, look.

Silicon Valley

Character: “Doctor”

Number of appearances: 8

His role on Silicon Valley is probably his best-known, in part because he’s made more appearances on this show than the others combined and in part because he steals all of the short scenes he’s in, which makes it even funnier that this is the only character on this list that does not have an actual name. He’s just listed as “Doctor” on IMDb. This will not do. The character needs a name. I vote for…hmm, let’s go with Dr. Ned Bermuda.