What are the most common jobs depicted in comedy? Schools and offices must be high on the list, and the emergency services; then maybe the armed forces, politics, the entertainment business, and the clergy...what else?
What are the most common jobs depicted in comedy?
Barmen and waiters, chefs, shopkeepers.
Very time-specific I'd say. In UK comedy it would be authority figures (police, clergy, bank managers, politicians) and salt-of-the-earth working class types up until alternative comedy hit.
In the 1970s and 1980s all of the male sitcom characters seemed to work in bland offices with quirky colleagues. Their secretaries often found them strangely irresistible and there was always a story arc about having one's boss to dinner.
There are a lot of Bankers.
Scuba divers
What about jobs that are very rarely depicted?
Scuba divers
The reason for so many and too many office occupations in all TV is very obvious. Same reason for working in pubs, hotels and restaurants. There are hundreds of occupations still not depicted in sitcom, mostly for a very basic reason.
So what's the obvious basic answer Mr Kipper?
Quote: Davey Jay @ 3rd July 2015, 12:34 PM BSTSo what's the obvious basic answer Mr Kipper?
They're written in work time by people so bored with their jobs.
Forum moderators - they're a joke in themselves.
Civil Servants pop up quite a bit too. That's because we're witty, intelligent, odd and somewhat bizarre.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 3rd July 2015, 8:41 PM BSTCivil Servants pop up quite a bit too. That's because we're witty, intelligent, odd and somewhat bizarre.
And full of crap.
Quote: Davey Jay @ 3rd July 2015, 12:34 PM BSTSo what's the obvious basic answer Mr Kipper?
Shows in offices etc. cheap to make, set just a box with tables and chairs. Not everyone works inside although watching sitcoms you'd think they did.