The Return of a 2000s Comedy Show: Funny or Cringeworthy?

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A reflection on the return of a 2000s comedy show and its jokes about marginalized communities.

As a teen, my parents and I watched NBC Thursdays with religious commitment. To return has been a fascinating experience – or as my friend said, this 2000s comedy show is “funny to watch.

” While the modern urge in a rewatch is to cringe at every sharp-edged gay joke that pushes against the bumpers put up by squeamish suits on the bowling alley of entertainment, I prefer to see the off-color punches’s mile-a-minute comedic pacing make the modern viewer wince? Some say the difference is time: In 2024, you just can’t make jokes about a sex freak starlet marrying her straight drag queen boyfriend who dresses as her for work. We’re in too progressive a society for that. However, I’d argue the jokes didn’t play in 2006 when the show first aired. Back in Aughts hell, the reason people shied from a show with so many pointed jokes about marginalized communities was because straight-cis-normie society refuses to bear anything that challenges the rippleless pool of its existenc

 

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