Hey, what's up with how cut-away humor being a huge thing in tv comedy in the late 90s early 00s? Family Guy, Corner Gas,...
talkinggorillabutler asked:
Hey, what's up with how cut-away humor being a huge thing in tv comedy in the late 90s early 00s? Family Guy, Corner Gas, Grounded for Life, The War at Home, Titus. Was it a technology thing, a post music video generation of directors, a post sienfeld standup comedy style thing?
Good question! Of those I really only know Family Guy, and I mostly connect the referentiality of those to, like so many things in the 90s-2000s, coming off a broadcast rerun monoculture
That aside, maybe the rise of the single-camera sitcom form at the expense of the traditional, stagey three-camera, filmed before an audience on a three-walled set as a continuation of the popular theater