{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "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,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/615956875879530496/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>talkinggorillabutler</strong> asked: <p>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? </p></div>\n<p>Good question! Of those I really only know Family Guy, and I mostly connect the <i>referentiality</i> of those to, like so many things in the 90s-2000s, coming off a broadcast rerun monoculture</p><p>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</p>"}