What are the most common jobs depicted in comedy? Page 2

Quote: Chappers @ 3rd July 2015, 8:51 PM BST

And full of crap.

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I am a notable exception

Perhaps that's why my sitcom set in a particle accelerator was rejected.

There's been a fair few set in shops.

Quote: Nogget @ 3rd July 2015, 9:27 AM BST

What about jobs that are very rarely depicted?

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Farmers.

Scuba divers

Babysitters; bramble pickers; firefighters; pushing supermarket trolleys around car parks.

Travelling knife grinders.

Scuba divers

Quote: TheBlueNun @ 5th July 2015, 8:54 PM BST

firefighters

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Good one. Plenty of the other emergency services, but not those. Has there been anything notable at all?

Quote: Nogget @ 5th July 2015, 10:33 PM BST

Good one. Plenty of the other emergency services, but not those. Has there been anything notable at all?

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I don't think so. There have been dramas such as 'London's Burning', but no sitcoms as such.

There have been firefighting comedy films in the past, "Flat Foot Stooges" and "Where's That Fire?"

Quote: Nogget @ 5th July 2015, 10:33 PM BST

Good one. Plenty of the other emergency services, but not those. Has there been anything notable at all?

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I liked that one about paramedics with Rhys Thomas.

It does seem strange we haven't had a firefighters sitcom. I would definitely give anything with firemen a go.

Undertakers. Lots of them in the 70s, especially when Dave Allen was involved.

Quote: zooo @ 6th July 2015, 8:56 AM BST

. I would definitely give anything with firemen a go.

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Or fireladies, as I'm sure they prefer to be called. You could call it "Missfire."

Quote: Nogget @ 6th July 2015, 11:12 AM BST

Or fireladies, as I'm sure they prefer to be called. You could call it "Missfire."

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I'm sure there are plenty of ladies who dream of sliding down a fireman's pole.

UIN sketches, it's definitely shop workers. And, more specifically, shop workers from 1952, even if the sketch was made last week.

*tingaling*
Ah, good morning, sir, what can I do for you?

Although some are set in offices, from roughly 1975

*knock knock*
You wanted to see me, sir...