But it doesn't really relate to anything in your own life. Marti Noxon, a Buffy executive producer, agrees. Or it's trying to. It usually comes up more organically. . . . You're not messing with the integrity of the story to try to get a laugh.
TV is a cyclical beast, as trendy as the clothes in a junior-high cafeteria.
Comedies rise, dramas dip - remember, if you can, all the way back to the prehistoric Seinfeld era. But dramas have been horning in on the laughs for some time now. Brandon Tartikoff said it was the funniest half-hour on television. Of course, it wasn't a half-hour and it wasn't a comedy. It's been really hard to bring the sitcom into the age of maturity.