Last week all sorts of work things were going splendidly and then I got hopelessly side-tracked into a debate about the nature of comedy. It's completely stumped me to the point where I can't write anything.
The view presented to me was that all comedic characters are pathetic, that is what makes them funny.
Is this true? I can't decide, Blackadder wasn't pathetic (apart from the first series) so what made him funny?
Can you be funny with out being pathetic? What about witty quips?
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Ah, but he WAS pathetic in the way that he was always in a role where he was subordinate to somebody else, and not powerful.
Indeed, and also because he was aware of the ridiculous nature of the system that he himself was a part of.
*strokes beard*
*grows beard*
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