TV has been great during the pandemic, but it's had a shortage of laugh-out-loud comedy

The Daily Beast

"I don’t think any sort of comedy is dead right now," says Kevin Fallon. "The tonal subtleties of 'comedies' like Insecure, PEN15, I May Destroy You, Search Party, and The Great—just to name series off the top of my head—suggests a blissful golden age for the genre. It’s just striking to me that at a time shrouded in so much darkness, the aggressive joke-per-minute efforts of a Veep-like show, for example, haven’t found their way to air, specifically because the environment is begging for it. (A recent bingeing of the hilarious and super-smart What We Do in the Shadows did accomplish that, however, and I would highly recommend anyone do the same.) Times are hard. I’m suffering misery burnout. My kingdom for a laugh!"