TMC
02-04-2022, 05:26 AM
https://www.primetimer.com/features/a-taxonomy-of-tv-shows-about-stand-up-comedy
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Stand-Up Comedy Is My Job, and It's Reasonably Important
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Of course, you can't talk about the '90s boom of stand-up comedians in sitcoms without talking about Seinfeld, a show that was nominally about nothing, which allowed it to be more about Jerry's comedy career than if it had been about something. For as much as Seinfeld focused on observational comedy about life in the big city, Jerry's exploits as a stand-up were often the subject of episodes. He dealt with hecklers, other comedians, out-of-town bookings, appearances on The Tonight Show, and countless asides from his friends about how his act was getting stale.
The closest any other sitcom got to replicating Seinfeld relationship with Jerry's stand-up career was the short-lived FOX sitcom Mulaney, where John Mulaney played a fictionalized version of himself. The show — which even replicated early Seinfeld's stand-up interstitials — was pretty much snakebitten from the word go, and (unlike Seinfeld) never got the time to come into its own.
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Stand-Up Comedy Is My Job, and It's Reasonably Important
v-2nLY-hXP4
Of course, you can't talk about the '90s boom of stand-up comedians in sitcoms without talking about Seinfeld, a show that was nominally about nothing, which allowed it to be more about Jerry's comedy career than if it had been about something. For as much as Seinfeld focused on observational comedy about life in the big city, Jerry's exploits as a stand-up were often the subject of episodes. He dealt with hecklers, other comedians, out-of-town bookings, appearances on The Tonight Show, and countless asides from his friends about how his act was getting stale.
The closest any other sitcom got to replicating Seinfeld relationship with Jerry's stand-up career was the short-lived FOX sitcom Mulaney, where John Mulaney played a fictionalized version of himself. The show — which even replicated early Seinfeld's stand-up interstitials — was pretty much snakebitten from the word go, and (unlike Seinfeld) never got the time to come into its own.