Almost took this seriously until I saw it was from a writer for The Babylon Bee
I don't want to crap on this without seeing it but I'm going to say...
Modern comedies rely too heavily on concept. Concept-heavy comedies *can* be funny but the jokes have to live outside the concept.
Friends was just a group of people living in New York. That was the concept.
Seinfeld was, notoriously, concept-free.
Arrested Development was "Rich family loses everything". Simple easy concept with lots of room for humor to grow and exist outside of the concept.
Most new comedies are very reliant on concept and setting to drive the humor which *can* work but the writing needs to give room for genuine laughs that go beyond "here's the gag!".
M*A*S*H is a masterful example of a concept-driven sitcom that used its setting as an easy vehicle for its writing.
Ted Lasso bored the heck out of me because after I got used to the initial concept the jokes just didn't land.
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