I’ve written comedy. I’ve won an award for it. Here’s the thing. You have to write about universal experiences. That’s things the audience can relate to. And that’s the problem with trying to mainstream something that I’d guess covers somewhere less than five percent of the audience. Gay or alphabet people complain they are used as outrageous comedy foils and not portrayed as real people. First, real people are not good characters. Read any literature and it’s the flaws in characters that make them real. Alphabet people want to be portrayed as the normal everyday person next door. That would be mind numbingly boring. Second, pretending that the abnormal is normal will lose the broader audience who will find the material drole and boring. I’d guess this is why SNL is hemorrhaging money.
Seinfeld: “Now THAT’S funny.....’cause it’s REAL.”