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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Essentially all dramatic comedy works according to the basic principle that the characters are relatively static and the audience has a pretty good idea how they will behave, while the situations in which they are placed is the variable. The narrowest outcome of this is the traditional "situation comedy"... Frasier or Kramer or Chandler are constants while the pickle they find themselves in changes week-to-week. And while we can always guess how they'll react to each twist of the plot, that isn't the point. We still laugh. In fact, part of the reason we laugh is that we subconsciously know what's going to have to happen next. Now, granted, as you break away from the standard sitcom breed of comedy this breaks down a bit. But the general principles hold true: comedy generally needs a fixed axis on which we can slide the actual plot-of-the-week up against to create funny situations. Every major stand-up comic may well change their jokes from show to show, but they still cultivate a static persona. Eddie Murphy was always Eddie Murphy. Jerry Seinfeld was always Jerry Seinfeld. Tim Allen was always Tim Allen. Likewise, pretty much all the humour in Trek has relied on the more static characters. Short of having them actually crack jokes, slippery multinote characters rarely ooze humor... Kirk was rarely as funny as Spock or McCoy were, for instance. O'Brien/Bashir funny moments were generally on account of them being their same old selves, same with Odo/Quark, or Worf/Anyone. The Ferengi serve as that kind of fixed axes in Enterprise. I've read no end to various whingey posts saying they should have been Orion pirates instead or some bull like that. For heaven's sake, the reason the Ferengi were used is that the casual viewing audience already has a reasonable familiarity with the culture and knows where the humour will go. DS9 did Ferengi comedies and not alien-of-the-week comedies for that very reason. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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