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Why Every Comedy on TV Is Starting to Look Familiar - Komedie
If the main character of Parks and Rec was Jerry, it'd essentially be a classic idiot dad with a super hot wife, family, and random
job sitcom *head explodes*
Aww dammit now there's bits of fourth wall all over my carpet. I just cleaned up.
***** piss...someone pissed on the carpet, are you happy now?
I got fourth wall on my third wall
TheSMLIFfilms
And you got third wall in my fourth wall!
tomerca10 *gasp* ONLY THE CULPRIT COULD HAVE KNOWN THAT D:< YOU FILTHY FILTHY BOY/GIRL
WALL-CEPTION!
The less I know about other people's affairs, the happier I am. I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had, we still never talk sometimes.
hey ron its me =( (awkward silence then leave quickly)
+ColCaffran I forget which show that is from, but you definitely are quoting a show lol... I think Parks and Rec: Ron Swanson. Not sure, though.
I noticed that throughout the video you referred to Garry Gergich by all 3 of his fake names.
+James Chiera Classic Jerry.
Who?
classic Larry!
I noticed that I didn't notice that.
Classic Terry.
Shit got real meta
+Michelle Evans I like the way Cracked does that sometimes :) it's fun.
+Michelle Evans Now WE'RE getting meta.
+Michelle Evans Too meta, I thought. You start to point it out and it loses its subtlety, its sideways "Wait, what the . . . " looks.
So this video points out how every sitcom in past was essential the same show...and now every sitcom now is essentially the same show, just not the same as the past? Basically, TV producers and writers rip off each other until their audiences get bored with it, forcing them to make changes.
I think it's less rip off and more trendy
3:55 camera guy knew what i was waiting for !
She is so damn beautiful!!!
SMOFO CHUY Yes yes yes!
DAT LEG CREASE THO
***** The only thing awkward about her attractiveness it the boner I now have to hide at work.
So it's not just me thinking she's super sexy? Good to know.
I liked how the video became self aware at the end
Would have been even better if Abed had appeared and pointed out how meta it was.
I think it would've been better if they had stopped at "You could maybe make a Today's Topic about it." Having Katie get all weirded out was overkill in my opinion.
David J. McGee thanks for adding the "in my opinion" bit at the end. I'm not entirely sure why, but I respect you for it.
Possibly because I'm acknowledging that it is just an opinion and not arrogantly stating my preference as objective fact?
In almost every show, everyones favorite character is the lovable idiot. So i figured if i apply that to real life...
Isaias Olivares You're destined to be the fall guy.
+Isaias Olivares I dub it "The Homer Syndrome"
+Isaias Olivares I dub it "The Homer Syndrome"
+Isaias Olivares like Screech....
Me too, but I only been able to manage the idiot part…
I always get the feeling when somebody has to say to people "I'm doing this ironically" that they're somehow using the word wrong...
Maybe facetiously would be a better word.
...
Anyway now I start to see why The Big Bang Theory is so popular.
That's because they are using the word "ironically" ironically.
gasp
Generally most of them seem to try too hard to get laughs and just fall flat because of that.
+Willem Verheij Generally, most of them are very understated and subtle in their humor. So, what laughs do come are genuine.
Community is actually more emotionally developed than any other sitcom
+Gretchen Guimarin It really is. Abed for instance is much more complex than being emotionless.
Yeah, say what you will about the gas leak season- but it held up Abed's character arc.
+Gretchen Guimarin yeah
+TheTardisDreamer yeah, they use the stereotypes as a base and they build the character up from there and sometimes they go out of character, it makes the show better
+Gretchen Guimarin the inclusion of community overall feels unjustified cause besides the meta humor and clever writing the show is propped up by how in-depth and complex the characters are and how they develop. The only season of that show you could compare for thier arguments is season 4 and everyone knows why that is.
Frasier never gets the recognition it deserves.
The objectively terrible dad, Frasier.
Sometimes I say long words I don't understand to sound more photosynthesis
antidisestablishmentarianism
People usually don't understand when sentences don't finish the way they potato.
Verily.
I got the reference.
+Jacob Hawkins youre a photosimpleton.
Modern Family crams all the tropes you've mentioned, old and new, into one show.
Now if only it didn't suck.
That got meta. Lol
they've been tapping into the community kegs a tad hard, methinks.
Personally, I hate most TV shows in general, because all the characters essentially bully each other. They can't have a simple conversation with each other without being sarcastic or offensive. It's almost like they're deathly afraid of being nice....because they might be seen as gay or something. Kinda like real life.
Maybe TV is the Comedian; all of it is a parody of society. Simultaneously entertaining and conditioning us on how to have a decent human relationship. As you know, it's all scripted with conflict then resolution, characters with an exceptional dialogue to actually elaborate how they feel. I don't think it's about being nice, we all want to understand and be understood without a filter.
+chewface there are so many shows where if one character just told the entire truth and then gave everyone hugs the entire conflict would just be over.
i totally agree with this but couldn't put my finger on what was wrong! there are a lot of shows where all the characters are over-the-top mean on purpose for comedic effect (it's always sunny, archer, scream queens), but it's just SO REFRESHING to see two characters being nice to each other, or even just casually polite or cordial.
Try watching something different then, like British tv, they tend to make fun of themselves rather than others
+chewface Then you should watch COMMUNITY. Because at first you expect that (especially from Jeff Winger, the typical apathetic alpha male) but it really quickly evolves and the characters grow on you like a family that adopts you -- as they adopt each other, basically).
Good to see Katey again, I know she was in Monster Management but Id just like to see more of her in Cracked in general. Thanks for the videos to everyone on and off camera. Love you all.
I still like Brooklyn Nine Nine.
+Edward Gil (ObaREX) Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the best ones on at the moment
LOVE that series
I am obsessed with Brooklyn nine nine
My dad loves Brooklyn 99. He watches episodes just about everyday even if he has already seen the 2 or 3 times
Me too, even if it is a bit like Barney Miller, but without the social commentary... which is okay, because the target audience for Brooklyn Nine Nine, is mostly too young to remember Barney Miller :-) I hope they keep the writing good and don't ruin it
I don't think our generation is full of slackers. I think the last generation doesn't wanna pass the damn torch.
They spent it.
All they're passing is a stick.
We'll get around to it... eventually.
sgray001
Death is standing with his scythe, and staring at his watch.
Haha I love how meta it got at the end
the office and IASIP are still some of the most unique TV shows either way. even if the office was a "remake" it was still new and better than the UK version.
PREACH! I love the Office!
That's an unfair comparison since the UK Office only ran for 1 season. IMO if you compare season 1 from the UK and US Office, the UK wins by far (even though the US Office used the exact same script for season 1).
+BornOfDalek UK office was far superior. US office missed the point completely
+hallowedfool Odd. The U.S. Office had strong ratings in its earlier seasons and a loyal fan base. But yeah, I guess they all must have missed this 'point' completely.
FreshprinceObelair
The US office was a generic sitcom whereas the UK office was a quirky dry comedy which was very witty. It was pure 'british humor' and the US version just thought if we make it loosely documentary themed and put in everything else from normal sitcoms that'll be okay. In fact, when the UK office came out, many people believed it was a real documentary whereas nobody could ever think that with the US version as it is so clearly a sitcom which it isn't quite supposed to be.
Also, to suggest sitcoms with lyal fan bases can't be bad is ludicrous. A certain HIMYM comes to mind.
or...OR the audience has changed.
I love Katie's reaction when Cody suggests it could be After Hours material .
I think what a lot of people in the other comments are missing is that sit coms used to have laugh tracks. But modern sitcoms don't. A laugh track makes jokes in these formats much easier to laugh at, since you know you're supposed to. Have you ever listened to old sit com jokes without the laugh track? It can suddenly seem painfully unfunny.
Willem Maas That is why I think Friends is so overrated
garner montgomery Yes, exactly. Without a laugh track, most of friends is just awkward.
Willem Maas I hate laugh tracks. Cant stand em.
I think it's awkward just because of the pauses the show has to accommodate the laugh track. So without the laugh track it is awkward because there is a pause without context.
Izzy Ramirez-Serrano I think the pauses add to the awkwardness, but the laugh track sort of allows the writers to get away with unintelligent jokes.
I find a big thing is a lot of sitcoms (especially the American ones) just run for too long, while some of the best British ones (The IT Crowd, Father Ted, The Inbetweeners, Faulty Towers) run for just the right amount of time, usually 2 to 4 seasons, and are remembered as classics, meanwhile I don't really find many American sitcoms all that funny....
I think you would be a fan of The Goodies and The Young Ones, if you like British comedy. I wish we would come up with some more soon, Family Guy isn't exactly something I enjoy anymore, and The Simpsons is trying to outlive its golden age.
Melonlordrinrei
I'm British, I love those, and I can't believe I forgot about those, though I'm a bit too young to get quite how revolutionary the video player was the "Nasty" epsidoe of the Young One still cracks me up
i am finding b99 and p&r hysterical but i tend to vastly prefer our sitcoms
lmao, those guys didn't grow up with iphones. they look in their 30's
I thought the same. People are so quick to blame tech. Even I remember when I could barely type a word document.
+madkatt333 i dont agree that technology inherently makes people antisocial. Social people on phones will text and call their friends or connect with them through apps and games. shy and antisocial people will avoid people even if they werent on the phone, the phone just gives them something to do. Until i see some crazy indepth trial with conclusive proof i'm not going to believe that technology is responsible for warping personalities.
+EpicUltraKingSmizzy The closest thing I've seen is the idea that the higher the number of people you have friended on facebook, the fewer truly deep personal relationships you actually have. Just like how someone won't bother to develop math skills if they think there's always going to be a calculator on their phone, there are some people who feed their isolation by loading up on filler friends and commentary.
That's the joke.
But Always Sunny will forever be the best sitcom and has what seems like endless plots and changes the characters frequently (The Nightman Cometh)
Seinfeld was also absolutely brilliant
People take Seinfeld for granted so much these days
arrested development. NOT the 4th season tho.
How i met your mother is better then both.
Jack Rain
But then the finale happened...
Jack Rain Never watched it, seen little bits but never the whole series. I'll give it a watch.
kakashi76767 Yeah I loved that series, the running jokes were the best of any series.
Sjono how do you mean?
Every show since 2000 has been a rerun of Seinfield and Friends
Ell3m3nta1 Seinfriends?
Ell3m3nta1 Louie
Scrubs: Quite possibly the best sitcom of all time. (And NO LAUGH TRACK. I just can't handle laugh tracks.)
I can't watch episodes of that show back to back without starting to feel like I'm losing my mind though.
I believe Brooklyn nine nine is the scrubs of the police world and no laugh track too
dropUrPeaches But how do you know what's funny then? None of it seems funny, but when people are laughing, I want to also.
My Life in Four Cameras was an episode of Scrubs that was filmed like a sitcom, complete with laugh track. It'll show you when to laugh... Although that episode irritates the hell out of me...
They just used the same 3 sitcoms (Office, Parks and Rec, and Brooklyn Nine Nine) that were all created by the same people.
Because those are the ones that are mainly killing it in the comedy genre as far as popularity goes
+Wooden Films They referenced Community, Bobs Burgers, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Workaholics, Dads, American Dad, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development, etc.
+Wooden Films What? No, they didn't. Why are you getting upvoted for this incorrect comment?
+ThePeasles Count the clips of those three shows vs the clips of the other shows.
lol I just realized all my favorite shows are basically exactly the same haha always sunny,the office,parks and recs,the trailer park boys...
all circled around a group of friends at work with at least one super idiot,someone charming,someone who thinks they are a badass...lmfao
Every single one was on point. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially the "Jerry Girgich principle" and the "Always Sunny" conundrum. It really does seem like comedies with true heart are dwindling away in favor of the "everyone is a selfish, sarcastic dick-bag" comedies. And that's not to say I don't thoroughly enjoy those shows, but variety is key.
they literally just tore down all of my guilty pleasuresf uck
I like how they go through all of Gary/Jerry/Larry/Terry Gergich's work names XD
I learned a new thing today.
Cartoons are sitcoms.
It started as a cracked comedy skit and ended as a detailed analysis of dysfunctional western culture. Love it.
Who watches that many sitcoms? If you got every single reference and know every character they mentioned, whoa, way to spend your time
aw shit. other than bob's burgers I got every one of those references and had even more in mind ie. Britta being the person who gets shit on all the time in Community. I need sun
Yo-Yo Huey.. you go fight the man. I'll watch the reruns.
What does it mean that the only ones I got were the animated ones? :)
Chris McWilliams
umm.....maybe....that you.....have good taste? ;)
***** Thank you. It sounds less pathetic when you say it. :)
You have to admit that the shitting on characters who don't deserve it is pretty funny. And I appreciate how you went from Garry, to Larry, to Terry Gergich.
PS
Katie will you marry me?
Man I remember when cracked used to make interesting and well put together videos. Oh thems where the days.
i never like it when the undeserving guy gets picked on it just makes me sad and angry to the point where i pretty much just stop whating the show
It's like the guy who has a fruit cart on the street, just selling fruit for his family, and some jackass runs it over during some eccentric chase scene. I actually remember being upset about that type of stuff when I was about 4 or 5 years old.
One of the new things that is very popular in media is: "Everyone is mean, but it is funny"... I hate mean comedy... It encourages the idiot masses to all be abusive...
the cabbage guy from avatar the last airbender
learrus Comedy always comes from some form of suffering. The mean people in comedy always end up suffering because of their ways, or making others suffer and that's why it's funny.
avatar the last airbender did that character the best though because he went from just some cabbage guy to a huge ceo of the cabbage business. Each time they used him for the gag, you saw he progressively got better in the cabbage business.
Horsin' Around had Goober
I like how this episode starts with the premise that basically all sitcoms premiere on Thursday nights on NBC. They specifically name 20 live-action characters as examples, 19 of which are from Thursday night NBC shows, most of which are from two shows both created by Michael Schur.
I appreciate that Cracked is journalizing these shifts, even if they're compliant with the models that they're criticizing.
can you do something on how HBO can never end a show well. The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood etc all popular shows but when it came to the endings it just seemed like nobody cared enough to do them justice
What I miss are the sitcoms with unrealistic premises, like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Little Wonder, or even Gilligan's Island! Or that one show where the uncle ends up in his police dog's body after a car crash... What happen to the whackiness?!
Undrave I mean there's quite a few shows with episodic wackiness, and arc wackiness, but not that wackiness as their main premise.
Some great points, there. I actually really like the explanation you guys give about the shift in sitcoms.
I love how they change Jerry's name through out the video just like they did on PnR
Katie's legs. Yeah?
How in the Hell this doesn't have more likes.
Dat Ass.
Katie is an underappreciated cutie.
She is so amazing
This is creepily accurate and insightful. I'm not sure whether I just had a mental break, or a psychological breakthrough.
I'm still re-watching this video. damn that was a good one.
I've been wondering why she only appeared in After Hours! Hope she will continue with the other programmes :)
I like the meta-humor. Very clever.
Go watch Community. The show is all about that.
+1989theblacknight DEFINITELY watch Community.
+Mark Duest meta-humour gets too self-referential and self-aware, like Arrested Development....pretty soon its inaccessible to new viewers...
Bojack Horseman (season 1, not 2) is a rare win....
This is too awesome. :) More please!
There's also 3 types of comedies: Documentary (The Office, Brooklyn Nine Nine) that's accompanied with shaky camera work, Standard Sit-Com (All in the Family, Blackish, Dr. Ken) that's accompanied with a set and audience, and Movie Style (Malcolm in the Middle, The Middle, Community) that has no audience and humor is derived from typically outlandish circumstances
alex murphy Brooklyn 99 isn't a documentary though.
Need more after hours
Anyone notice how funny web videos are kinda going through the same thing. There's a good example of a lot of web cliches in this video alone.
Like what? Breaking the 4th wall?
Why does this channel only have around 600,000 subs?
I would love to see it's always Sunny in Philadelphia community crossover as a movie that ends both series with a cliffhanger for a sequel movie
Incredibly unfunny people in Cracked feel to need to shit on Abed, the most self-aware guy in the world.
yes.. its almost as if they are following some kind of tried and tested formula to give the people what they want at the expense of creativity and imagination.
+Nova Sky That is one component to it, but sad truth is, 90% of media in the U.S are owned by 6 massive corporations and 273ish executives.
Not alot can really come from that, especually when they are money making based, which creates what you just stated.
www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
its the same for music
so if a smaller company within the corporation makes something new and different, chances are : it will be shot down or rewritten in order to meet thier money making agenda
The loud looping office noises ambient sound effect of this video is in stark contrast with the actual empty office behind them.
I must say, the different character types they were describing at the end sound exactly like our (British) sitcom characters from 10+ years ago
STOP STEALING OUR IDEAS! bah, good for nothing colonials
Great thing is when the woman talks of the stoic emotionless characters she's describing herself.
I think that was the point.
i have never felt like everything was becoming similar
+Meccarox i do, buuut, it's probably more doo to not having a job, girlfriend, lifeplan or life goal.
everything is just.... grey.
Nekogami-Crystal wow i'm sry m8
Meccarox thanks, but no need to bee,
^^ life is after all just a phase.
I think every character is just one extreme or another. Sitcom personalities often lack balance.
I love this channel!
But what about the meta meta? How is this different than the sitcoms of yesteryear? Blue collar dad married to an inexplicably hot wife is somehow emotionally mature? Racism isn't lacking in empathy? Those sitcoms were written by just as many emotionally stunted people but took a different form. Human's don't change. We're not on some path that is a lesser version of our ancestors. We're just doing the same shit over and over.
Actually if you hadn't notice, the World is getting less crazy every hundred years. Were clearly not doing the same things over and over, you're just not looking deep enough, only looking at the surface.
+TallicaMan1986 how can you possibly make that claim? a man just drove a truck through a crowd of innocent people in a country that was not at war with anyone and slaughtered over 80 people and you're going to tell me the world is LESS crazy? I'd argue it's getting more complicated and the extremes are getting more extreme (i.e. the best of human behavior is always getting better, but the worst is always getting worse) but in no way is the world somehow in better shape now than 100 years ago.
Yeah, well, we could've been hanging 100s of people in that same day and continue doing that well after that event, then immediately turn our heads to watch some slaves get whipped, while were at it, we could just let people who got sick die like it's totally the hip new thing to die by the plague these days. Then when that day wasn't exciting enough we could just go home and beat the shit out of our wives and children because nobody cares if you did or not. When that's done and over with, we could talk about our extremely racist disposition of the people that used to live on the land, and then when that's passed, you go to bed and wake up, guess what? MORE hangings, throw a bit of bible thumping and xenophobia, you got a recipe for a very, very gruesome crusade, inquisition, whatever it may be. You gotta get those non believers to either Die, or conform to the beliefs, but not after totally torturing them.
1 Person, I'll repeat. 1 PERSON, doesn't make up society as WHOLE. Something tells me you don't know a whole lot of world history.
+TallicaMan1986 literally nothing your said has gone away. It's all just different forms now.
okay, we type these comments using technology that was made using what is pretty much slave labor, introduce consumer products and food that increase chances of cancer or just consume enough food until our hearts give out, domestic violence is still a thing, rape is so common we still can't unanimously decide that it's bad, people even in America are still dying of starvation, our basic forms of transportation injure millions and kill thousands every year, we have increasing class segregation, a whole section of the world that IS bible thumping and crusading to kill as many unholy sinners as they can (isis), corrupt elitist class that bends legislature to their personal gain and how exactly is this better? it's just less obvious than in the past. people steal money via electronics and fraud instead of beating it out of someone, but it's still getting stolen. And let's not forget there are places in the world with child armies, villages right next to landfills, huge areas of forest being cut down, species going extinct left and right, radical leaders with armies and possibly nukes in one place in particular.
Hey, speaking of nukes: combined there are over 10k nukes in the world. I'm sure that's enough to destroy civilization as we know it.
and you're going to say we're getting better?
We obviously are, Every single thing you noted except the technological advances were in the past but a lot worse. Back then Isis actually would have some sway in the world and get this? They would've easily taken control over huge parts of land and have a huge amount of following as opposed to their small time hit and run tactics of today they could've easily raided small towns and more. And a small religious guerrilla unit is NOT a crusade, sure it's a holy war albeit a small one
But no one is actually going to war with Isis, because they aren't a solidified group like they would be in 1000AD and good thing it's only a Section and not the entire known world at the time. Rape is bad, who ever is saying it isn't is a moron, Even criminals look down on rape, If you go to Prison on a Rape charge, guess what? You get raped, maybe even beat to death and Rape was even worse back then because the women weren't allowed to speak out against it. Increasing Class Segregation? I don't think it's increasing or even decreasing, like at all and compare that to to Industrial Revolution, That's true class segregation. Homelessness will always exist as long as there is a home, but at least they aren't catching the plague, are fed and have shelters they could go to, even Safe Injection Sites to provide a safe and clean environment so they don't die from addictions in terrible dirty environments. Corrupt Elitists also do get caught and are actually sentenced to a penalty these days as opposed to dudes back then NEVER getting caught, even if they did, They had the power and The money and the opinions of the people didn't matter.
Child Armies exist in places like Africa, because there is NO, education, NO Jobs, No Infrastructure, Child Armies always existed, except now we have people fighting to prevent that from happening. Instead of just sending your criminals over there.
Having that many nukes isn't a bad thing, it really just serves as a reminder to EVERYONE, to no fuck around and be stupid. Now, if we gave those nukes to people in the 1800s, what do you think would happen? They would use them of course.
Who wears short shorts... That lady wears short shorts.
This is like legit what every paper of mine in FMS school looked like! 😂😂😂 💖 it!!!
I really enjoyed this because we got a taste of what it's like to work at Cracked.
The guy panning in and out needs to chill, makes me think of a creepy dude with no concept of personal space being super creepy.
getting more on the topic of the dads versus the slackers is because the different role men play in society now. Men on the economical level where most writers live in are just lovable, goofy characters that run around the world oblivious to everything. That's why men are either dumb optimists or narcissists picking petty fights. If you had more sitcoms wrote by people on the lower classes we would have more real men archetypes. I'm not saying the 50's version of men are real but is just as unreal as the guys from the big bang theory. A great majority of men on their 30's have kids from an ex and a new girlfriend, they do jobs that they hate and find happiness on drugs or hobbies. Why not write a sitcom about that.
The reason there isn't a sitcom like that is that it would be too real and upsetting to most people.
That's probably true.
Because are kids are annoying and recreational drugs despite them being somewhat more socially acceptable are still a big no-no on tv if they aren't being used to label a character as a loser/junkie.
In most sitcoms the first characters written off never to be heard of again are kids.
I'm pretty sure the sitcom about that is called Louie. Take everything you just described, add stand up comedy, and boom you have one of the funniest, most depressing shows on television.
Louie is a great show about this subject. We could use more and they could deal with living poor a little more.
I think they forgot the "rightful-right" archetype like lisa from simpsons, ron from friends, lily from HIMYM. they always define what is right from good and bad and tries to give some message to what the characters do that ultimately ends with a morale
I actually loved the first season of Parks and Rec because I thought it was different than everything I've seen before. It was all about awkward staring at the camera and silence where usually they'd put laugh track
Did everyone just gloss over katys amazing legs? Wowza!!!
God the woman on this show is so intelleagant it's atractive
She's also so attractive it's attractive, so that helps...
"intelleagant"
"atractive"
"...8?"
why did that make me laugh the most?!
this just made me want to watch a bunch of these sitcoms again.
00:35 what the fuck...
Dinosaurs. Look it up.
Ron Swanson, Harvey Specter, Don Draper, they're all alike because they're what we want to see -- men with complex emotional sides who try to never show it. They feel strongly, but in an age where we post our every flightnof thought on Twitter, we're tired of whiners and slackers and man-childs, and we're ready for more old-fashioned values of stoic masculinity. We feel, but the constant showing has gotten old.
Does Katie ever actually write anything for cracked? I don't think I've ever seen an article by her. Of course, I could just look her up on cracked, but that would take effort.
Finally something I have enough background info on to follow!
"now it's even funnier if the person totally didn't deserve it". Yeah, now, and through the history of comedy around the world. Just the UK alone, that's been a long running staple. I get where they were going with this video, but, they took some broad shots that glossed over elements contrary to their argument. It felt, well it was ok, but it felt a bit dishonest, and a bit too much like it was trying to make a point decided on before the script was written.
Then the script was written to make that point, by ignoring a bunch of shit that doesn't fit.
I dunno, you guys are better than this.
Because they're talking about American culture? Clearly as seen by every TV sitcom they shown examples for were American, Even The Office was the more funny American Version. nobody cares about UK tv.
TallicaMan1986 yet you guys make a version of a British tv show.......every year or so.
I'm Canadian, but yeah, them Americans are all like "We can do you one better"
Do you guys watch British shows? British comedy is really good and doesn't conform much to that stereotype. I don't watch much american comedies, except for The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Friends.
The Big Bang Theory is stereotypical as fuck. It even has a horrible laugh track that the actors pause their wooden artificial dialog for. Ugh! it's awful!
Karrie Dreammind There are pretty much no good British comedies on anymore though. Still waiting for the last series of Peep Show, but even that's gone way downhill.
Maximusringrock yeah its shame :( Graham Linehan used to make great ones dunno what happened :(
Karrie Dreammind Try community. If you don't like the pilot, try the episode "Modern Warfare" or "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design". Seasons 1-4 are on Netflix.
Faizaan lastname community is the best comedy I've ever seen. Just pure genius #AndAMovie
Breaking the fourth wall eh? Love it xD
The best joke in this is Cody intentionally saying Gerry's name wrong every time. Just like in Parks and Rec!
Stoic emotionless characters aren't that new. Just look at Lurch.
InfraRedNeck Yep. Never said he wasn't. Both played stoic and emotionless really well and only used emotion when needed
But Lurch existed as an oddity in a odd house. He doesn't count because he was a supporting character.
Animefreak242 And the ones mentioned aren't supporting characters?
Connor Terrell No. Most were main cast members.
Connor Terrell you would be wrong. Lurch is not emotionless at all. There are more than a few scenes with happy or angry Lurch. Lurch was not designed as the prototypical stoic and emotionless archetype. Rather Lurch was a caricature upon the role of exotically Marry Poppins archetype of Nanny that was common of the era.
Like the legs at 4:00. I'd wear those thick thighs as ear muffs!
Ditto
you're so fucking boring
+Tí mó tàihòu shū. Maybe but I'm not a boring fuck 😝
Love the meta at the end
One of my favorite 30 Rocks was when they showed how Kenneth sees the world.....
Stop, just stop EVERYTHING and just do AFTER HOURS. Seriously.
But those of us who don't have ADHD would like a reason to come to this site.
this was just a poor video all around
I love Arrested Development so much that I'm commenting about it on a six year old video.
love the baby jane reference. fantastic movie.
poor, poor acting. shit just isn't funny when it looks so contrived
the end point made this video worth it
Finally they mention Archer.
God I love Cracked videos. In a world of click-bait there comes more intelligent click-bait!