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minus-squareSpaceballstheusername@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up102·29 days agoYou couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down3·29 days agoNone of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
minus-squareClent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·29 days agoTrue of literally every sitcom.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·29 days ago“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoI think both are true.
minus-squareSnowclone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoA man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy. Mel Brooks
minus-squareSphks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·29 days ago24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
minus-squaretetris11@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·29 days agoEh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·28 days agoThat’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoThat scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny
You couldn’t make half of Seinfeld because with cell phone all the funny situations don’t occur.
None of those situations were funny to actually live through. They’re only funny in a TV show.
True of literally every sitcom.
“Comedy is tragedy plus time”. I like to say it’s comedy plus distance.
I think both are true.
A man gets a paper cut, that’s drama. They fall down an open manhole and die. That’s comedy.
24 (TV series) is like this if I remember well. The daughter would have had a cellphone now.
Eh, series today still use this trope. “Oh no, I’m out of battery” or the comedic “My battery is at 1%, let’s take a selfie!”
That’s why so many tv shows are now written as period pieces or based in the 80s and 90s.
That scene where he calls the phone in his stolen car would still be funny