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It’s official! Comedy has finally run out of new ideas for TV shows and has decided to revive comedy staples from the 90s. Hurray for progress!
It seems that, with My Family now coming to an end, we’ll all have to find something vaguely funny to show in its place…
…not that My Family was that funny to begin with mind.
Is the age of the sitcom really over?
Purists would no doubt argue that it is; pointing to once beloved shows like Fawlty Towers and Blackadder having been killed off by the rise of single-camera shows like The Office or The Peep Show.
We don’t bother getting bogged down in pointless debates like these, far better to spend many happy minutes reminiscing about what it was that made classic sit-coms like Red Dwarf so great in the first place.
1989 was a simpler time, a world away. Yugoslavia won Eurovision, the other George Bush took office and Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement.
Sci-fi nerds across the country put their dragons back into dungeons and gathered round their primitive 1980s television sets to watch space sit-com, Red Dwarf.
Over the next six years, Red Dwarf grew into a cult phenomenon, and the minutiae of each episode was discussed at face melting length in fanzines and – as though the medium was invented for it – over the internet.
