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20 Is there a show on TV that makes you laugh every time? (03/18/2023)
I don't watch TV shows, not regularly at least. Family guy would be it because its jokes are very dark and controversial. I am surprised Family Guy hasn't been cancelled yet. The jokes don't feel too forced and they don't hold back any punches either when it comes to topics such as race and politics in America. I tried watching Family Guy from Season 1 Episode 1 but I had to stop at around episode 5 because a part of me was like "this is too fucked up for me to watch". Random family guy clips on Youtube never fail to make me laugh though.
One of my friends in college told me a quote about comedy: "all humor is rooted in pain". All jokes always have a target that it's trying to get audience to laugh at. It can be someone at work, a group of people, a cultural event, certain ideas such as laws or theories, or yours. At the end of the day, we are always laughing at something or someone.
I have little to no experience in comedy. One of the basics methods of humor is to point out how ridiculous certain things are. For example, I always make fun of the idea of showing up early to showing up early. My platoon leader will tell us to show up 15 minutes prior to 0600. My squad leader will tell us to show up 15 minutes prior to the 15 minutes prior to 0600. At that point, might as well just set up a sleeping bag and sleep outside in the formation area if they are going to make me waste my time doing nothing.
As I am writing this, my coworker is playing COD MW2 online and he is raging about campers. I find it absurd how in almost all shooting games trailers, it shows off players running around and getting 8 kills in a row like its nothing. In reality, most matches just involve you peeking around a corner or a window and if you decide to move around, you just die from campers. At that point, you can camp or keep dying 5 times for each kill you get.
Contrary to popular belief, most warfare in real world is just camping. Trench warfare is camping at the most extreme level where you camp 24/7 until either side decides to say “Fuck it, we are going to rush towards them and not die hopefully”. When you get fired at by an enemy, we are taught to fire back and immediately go prone. Unless you are a marksman expert, shooting a small target is near impossible farther than 100m. As a result, both sides end up camping one another often trading shots until either one runs out of ammo, retreats or gets ambushed by another squad or military support. Definitely not as thrilling or action-packed like the COD trailers.
