{"id":393235,"date":"2026-04-11T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:36:07","slug":"news-of-th-week-lisa-kudrow-argues-new-sitcoms-are-afraid-to-make-uncomfortable-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393235\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS OF TH WEEK: Lisa Kudrow argues new sitcoms are &#8216;afraid&#8217; to make &#8216;uncomfortable&#8217; jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a recent conversation with Lily Tomlin for Interview magazine, the Friends actress argued that the TV sitcom genre hasn&#8217;t evolved enough. &#8220;30 Rock and Seinfeld and Friends were really funny and really well written. But I&#8217;m not drawn to new sitcoms that are multi-camera in front of an audience because I&#8217;m not buying it,&#8221;. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s just because I&#8217;ve seen too many single-camera sitcoms &#8211; I think we need to get back to being able to tell jokes. I feel like we&#8217;ve been too afraid to make jokes that might make people uncomfortable.&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent conversation with Lily Tomlin for Interview magazine, the Friends actress argued that the TV sitcom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,169026,60],"class_list":["post-393235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-interview-magazine","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}