I wonder if that’s just your interpretation of what she said and what she thinks, and I wonder if you even took the 20 seconds it takes to actually read what was said.
When asked if the sitcom genre is evolving or dying, Kurdrow said, “I wish they were evolving. ‘30 Rock’ and ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Friends’ were really funny and really well written. But I’m not drawn to new sitcoms that are multi-camera in front of an audience because I’m not buying it. I don’t know if that’s just because I’ve seen too many single-camera sitcoms—I think we need to get back to being able to tell jokes. I feel like we’ve been too afraid to make jokes that might make people uncomfortable
She added, “But the really good ones, they’re not tame jokes. They’re jokes that are kind of, ‘I can’t believe you just said that.’ Comedy is about surprise. You need things you didn’t see coming.”
If I compare The Big Bang Theory to Friends, Friends had way more offensive humour, even relatively speaking (as in relative to the times). Yeah, retrospectively much of it is bad in regards to modern values. There’s homo- and transphobia, as it’s the 90’s. But at least it doesn’t feel as hollow as the Big Bang Theory where you can guess 95% of the “jokes” and there’s still shitty values being displayed anyway that ill definitely not look good in 20 years.
I wonder if that’s just your interpretation of what she said and what she thinks, and I wonder if you even took the 20 seconds it takes to actually read what was said.
If I compare The Big Bang Theory to Friends, Friends had way more offensive humour, even relatively speaking (as in relative to the times). Yeah, retrospectively much of it is bad in regards to modern values. There’s homo- and transphobia, as it’s the 90’s. But at least it doesn’t feel as hollow as the Big Bang Theory where you can guess 95% of the “jokes” and there’s still shitty values being displayed anyway that ill definitely not look good in 20 years.