If you are a product of your environment, and you immerse yourself in comedy, all your heroes are likely to be mentally unstable losers. If the formula of a good sitcom is that the characters try and fail, are we all destined to relive these story lines? are we all destined to be mentally unstable losers?
If you've grown up immersed in comedy, you probably spend most situations thinking of what the opposite of what you should say, or of what would everyone not expect. Comedy works best when it's surprising and unpredictable. In life, most people don't like anyone who surprises them, and most people don't have a good sense of humour. Most people prefer the predictable, and the cliche. So they're likely to miss the joke and think you're either childish or offensive. They'll often laugh just to humour you, but you'll take that laugh and keep making bad jokes. You're quite likely to be unpopular. I'm sure most people here are aware of how many of the best comedians are depressed. I won't name them.
Growing up, my heroes were people like Lister, and George from Seinfeld, I like a good hot curry, and I have a habbit of always saying the truth, rather than using any tact. How could someone like Bernard Black not be a role model? My method of finding a girlfriend was the Ross Geller method, to become best friends over the course of a year or two and never know when is the right time to move. Not particularly successful. Maybe if I could watch a a romance movie (instead of comedy) without throwing up, I might have stood half a chance as a teenager.
Maybe if I made less jokes that people took the wrong way. Id be more successful now?
What do you think? Have you guys followed and bad sitcom story lines?
