The New Era of Comedy

Comedy has really gone through a transformation. I feel that the change that happened is not a change for the good of things. There are many bad perceptions that young age groups get from watch the new comedy shows.

There used to be the Brady Bunch and other shows like the Flintstones. They were really good to watch and laugh as a family. Then comedy changed, and the Simpsons became a hit. People thought it was funny to have a drunken dad that goes around choking his son and yelling at his family all the time.

After the Simpsons came the show South Park. They beat the world record for the most swear words in an animated show. The estimation of swear words was 399. If the show ran for a full 30 minutes, without advertisements, that would be around 13 swear words a minute in the episode. Most shows are around 20 minutes, so they averaged 20 swear words a minute. That is one every 3 seconds.

The new comedy episodes are teaching nothing to the younger age groups, except how to disrespect and hurt others. Shows like South Park and Simpsons should be put on television stations that younger age groups usually do not watch. This kind of comedy should be targeting adults rather than the age group they are going for now.

Soon all shows and advertisements are going to have swearing and other sorts of vulgar footage that should not be on television unless only adults watch. Kids should not be hearing swear words at that young of age because when they hear a word over and over, they start to using the words. I really hope that comedy will not advance any farther than what they are at now, and hopefully they will start cutting down on the inappropriate words and footage on televisioin episodes.