http://www.refinery29.uk/2015/09/186750/hangout-sitcoms-friends

Shows like Friends and Cheers are hard to recreate nowadays because younger viewers are too distracted by technology.

Watch them in public. They appear to be literally hypnotized or addicted to those stupid little so-called smartphones.

I was watching a girl try to ask her guy some questions, and he was in the zone, and barely replied. Then she sat down and got in the zone too. Really sad...a bunch of mind-numbed robots.

I'll take hangout sitcoms over the family sitcom.

Ludicrous. Blaming just millennials is idiotic and small-minded. There's people of ALL AGES that are glued to their phones, more often than not I'm stuck behind someone in line that is my age group (40's) or older that are yapping away on their phones or texting.

You're right...the person who sat next to me at work was addicted, and she's in her 50s.

And all the people who sit at lights after they turn green, who are playing with their phones, aren't millennials.

It's really sad when your whole life revolves around facebook, twitter, instagram, and texting.

Frankly, I don't know what's to come of comedy as a whole. It has for many years now constricted its boundaries to things like detached irony, awkward pauses, and (in the case of movies) gross-out bathroom and sex gags. It's become an amazingly lame landscape.

Often made me wonder if comedy is indeed a dead or quickly-dying genre. But is it part of an organically devolutionary spiral, or is it more reflective of the a kind of cultural totalitarianism created by political correctness? Or, most likely, a combination of both?

Lucy and Andy and Beaver and Jackie Gleason were able to make people laugh without bathroom and sex "humor", and gutter language. When you think about the comedies of today, have we evolved or devolved?