Quote: Veronica Vestibule @ November 26 2010, 7:52 AM GMTI never mentioned wanting to be the main character.
No, you didn't, you're right, though you did say you have to want to hang out with the characters if they were real, which isn't true. I love Bottom, for example, but I certainly wouldn't want to visit or talk to those characters. You can most definitely watch and enjoy a sitcom featuring characters you wouldn't want to meet or emulate.
For me, it's not so much a matter of wanting to be a character, as having some empathy for their situation. I wouldn't want to be locked up, but I'd like to think I could flourish like Fletcher if I was. I wouldn't want Basil Fawlty's life, but I can understand how he gets so angry, faced with a dragon-wife & incompetent staff. Of course, it's a personal thing, which is why I find How Not to Live Your Life uncomfortable sometimes, because I don't want to imagine myself as being as selfish as Don. It's still pretty good to laugh at him at such times, but I'd rather laugh with him a bit more.