{"id":7705,"date":"2024-02-11T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:43:25","slug":"the-end-of-comedy-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=7705","title":{"rendered":"The End of Comedy TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Chloe Jarvis<\/em><\/p>\n

Ever wondered when the \u201cgolden era\u201d of comedy TV started? No? Well, I\u2019ve spent way too much time thinking about it, so humor me, will ya? I think it was the 90s: 90s comedies literally shaped our culture as we know it \u2013 with shows like <\/span>Seinfeld<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Friends<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Frasier <\/span><\/i>all airing. If you need proof of the impact these shows had, both <\/span>Seinfeld<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Friends<\/span><\/i> were nominated for over 60 Emmy\u2019s during their runs, and Fraiser was nominated for <\/span>108<\/span><\/i>. To put that into perspective, you\u2019d have to eat over 13 entire pizzas by yourself to have a slice for every Frasier nomination\u2014that\u2019s 30k calories worth of Frasier.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Enough about pizza, though: we\u2019re talking about TV here. The golden era of comedy TV continued into the 2000s & 2010s, with shows like <\/span>The Office<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Parks and Recreation<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Modern Family<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>30 Rock<\/span><\/i> \u2013 the list goes on and on my dudes. But something has been nagging at me for the past few months: I think the golden era of comedy TV is dead, and I don\u2019t just mean declining here, I mean like, trampled by a horse kind of dead. I mean, name your 3 favorite comedy shows from the past 5 years. I\u2019ll wait.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you thought of shows like <\/span>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/span><\/i>, or <\/span>The Good Place<\/span><\/i>, but those both ended 3 and 4 years ago (respectively), so they\u2019re barely making it into the qualifiers here. It seems that, so far, all the big shows of the 2020s have been dramas: from <\/span>You<\/span><\/i> to <\/span>Squid Games <\/span><\/i>to <\/span>Kobra Kai. <\/span><\/i>Comedy is being overlooked these days, and I think that\u2019s really sad. Because dramatic shows can be great, don\u2019t get me wrong, but comedies are the kinds of shows that bring people together\u2014they provide a sort of comfort that drama shows can\u2019t; an escape from the seriousness of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

But hey, I\u2019m just a random college student: what do you think? Is the age of comedy really dead, or are there great shows that I\u2019m missing out on?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Chloe Jarvis Ever wondered when the \u201cgolden era\u201d of comedy TV started? No? Well, I\u2019ve spent way too much time thinking about it, so humor me, will ya? I think it was the 90s: 90s comedies literally shaped our culture as we know it \u2013 with shows like Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}