Sharp diagnosis of how comedy collapsed into therapy culture. The Olympian perspective framing is excellent, comedy requires distance and detachment not moral embeddedness. Ran into this exact dynamic doing improv years ago where every scene had to 'land somewhere meaningful' instead of just beig funny. The Nanette callout is perfect, thats patient zero for mistaking trauma disclosure for comedy.
Bro used a photo of Hannah Gadsby before she was 100kg?? 😭
Great piece. Definitely a worthwhile reminder for humour writers.
Sharp diagnosis of how comedy collapsed into therapy culture. The Olympian perspective framing is excellent, comedy requires distance and detachment not moral embeddedness. Ran into this exact dynamic doing improv years ago where every scene had to 'land somewhere meaningful' instead of just beig funny. The Nanette callout is perfect, thats patient zero for mistaking trauma disclosure for comedy.