Five of the funniest men on television spoke candidly about the politics of a punchline, relevance, and the role of comedy in this moment: “I really bump against this idea that comedy is changing things.” More from the Comedy Actor THRRoundtable here:
Yeah, I wanted to make sure it was fixed before we met because I was like, "We're about to be on a Zoom and I just want to make sure we can take care of it before." Was there anything in the early stages of putting your show together that you had to push back against because of what I'd imagine a studio or [network] would see as its marketability?Yeah, you're constantly fighting for specificity, for the ability to not over-explain.
My feeling was if I were to include homophobia or bigotry of any kind in the show, it would be giving power to those people who see themselves on TV. And what I've realized in the process of doing that is that there's so much power in that kind of projection of something nice, particularly for gay characters. We've come to expect any time we fall in love on camera [for it] to end in death or in something terrible or tragic or to never be given happiness completely.
At first you wonder how people are going to take this, how middle America is going to perceive this. And I'm not scouring the internet for negativity, but I do feel like the positive outcome of this is that I could probably count on two hands the negative things that have been written.
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