The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
In real life, comedians aren't funny.
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.
Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.