Hollywood Question: Is Comedy Dead?

Hollywood writers and producers cannot understand why no one is interested in watching their comedies on television anymore. Well, did it ever occur to you that some of these things aren’t so fun anymore? The comedy films of the film industry are also killing themselves at the box office. Live comedy is doing fine, but in the new PC world, comedy routines often shut down half the audience during any parody, add politics, and yes, you get some headlines, but the comedians are divided and conquered. . What happened? No, what really happened? Is Hollywood in denial?

Remember that the audience is always right, if they don’t like it, it’s just not that good. And, ‘if and when’ they don’t like it, they sure don’t want to pay for it, or spend their precious time listening to it or watching it on television.

Now there was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal recently titled; Ben Fritz’s “Comedy Slump Not a Laughing Matter,” released on June 26, 2018, which read, “Last year’s most successful comedy,” Girl’s Trip, “grossed $ 117 million in the US and Canada. The last time the year’s most successful comedy The Comedy that grossed so little was in 1995, when ticket costs were 52% less on average. “

The article also said: “Traditional comedies fight for oxygen at the box office, caught between superhero sequels that integrate laughs and a wide buffet of specials, sitcoms, fan pranks and original films on digital services such as Netflix and YouTube.” .

What I, as a film critic writer, have noticed is that every sitcom seems to brush up against PC culture and then quickly backtrack and attack the politically convenient right-hand side of the equation. Perhaps, this is because all comedy writers live and work in areas where most people have leftist political views, and they assume that it’s fun for everyone, and that if someone doesn’t like jokes, then they are ignorant or out of place. of contact with reality.

Perhaps it is this feedback loop that has now been labeled; the ‘Echo Chamber’ where conformational bias occurs. In fact, it doesn’t matter what it’s called or why it keeps happening if no one in Hollywood, comedy night notices, because now that audiences have been split in half and each show serving the same half of the remaining market, no one is. making money, and the public, yes, even the left is getting bored of everything; it’s not funny anymore. And despite popular belief in New York, Los Angeles, and DC, our president does not bathe in Cheetos dust. Just say ‘.