A sitcom based on the Austin podcasting scene would be among the best ever

It's a fallacy to think that a unique premise is needed for a good sitcom. In many cases, a weird premise only serves as a hindrance as the story progresses.

Would they run a sitcom that would put the people who flock to Austin in a bad light?

what in the blue corn frick are you talking about?

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Seinfeld doing standup

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Doesn’t he do standup bits throughout the series? It was always just a show about Jerry and unlike a lot of comedians who get sitcoms he is a comic in the show

It’s really sad how wokeness has hollowed out writers rooms to where all we see nowadays that is labeled “comedy” is unfunny burnouts who would’ve been working at GameStop if it were 15 years ago


ETA: we need another world war

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Relatability is kind of the key driving force behind sit coms, and there’s not much relatable about a bunch of millionaires living in west Austin hill country talking into a mic for 15 hours

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I think only half of them are millionaires, but you’re missing the point of the show. 90% of the average episode wouldn’t happen in the podcast, you’d just start it off on one of their podcasts (half the time they’d be each others guests) like Seinfeld did with him doing stand up mixed in with “It’s Always Sunny” where they came up with the premise of the episode that quickly spirals into hell.

The rest of the episode they’re out and about Austin and sometimes the rest of the world terrorizing people like “It’s Always Sunny” and backstabbing the shite out of one another, along with their frequent guests like Elon, Tim Dillon, Theo Von, etc.

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I think only half of them are millionaires, but you’re missing the point of the show

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I mean I get it, you aren’t breaking genres here I’m just saying a huge part of the formula of these shows, is the relatability of the cast to a large net of consumers. The main characters usually work blue collar or low paying jobs, watching a crew of comedians who don’t have to work another day in their life if they didn’t want to, go on tirades on how they think the world should work, is not a real gripping world most are going to want to live in, the ones that do already listen to a 3-5 hour podcast every week (plus likely more from other podcasters listed there). Not sure how much juice to squeeze out of that stone, Joe has say every thought he’s ever had for the last decade

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The rest of the episode they’re out and about Austin

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These guys don’t leave their compounds IRL without 17 body guards. I can’t imagine the out of touch shite they’d try to write

I’m also not sure how a few dudes in a podcast cave would have an episode “go to hell” once, let alone all the time. 90 percent of JRE episodes are Rogan getting way too high to pay attention to anything the guests are saying or pontificating on something he barely read about on Facebook

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along with their frequent guests like Elon, Tim Dillon, Theo Von, etc.

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Oh man I can’t wait for Elon to come on once a season to do a new fortnight emote to canned laughter

I live in Austin my guy. Those dudes are not rubbing elbows with the populace at any point. I think Rogan went to latchkey once when he first moved here and there was a bro army at that place in less than 10 minutes. He barely goes to even the clubs he owns out here

Joe lives in the hill country, segura is literally neighbors with Ted Cruz, the rest of the comedians either don’t live in Austin or live in the west lake hills with Joe

Rainey sucked 5 years ago already, already overrun with bachelor parties and 6th street travelers. Now it’s officially dead as they are in the process of getting rid of all those bars in lieu of more condos with high end bars at the bottom.

East Austin was what Raniey was 10 years ago, and it’s still fun but starting to suck a little itself. Still the most austiny vibe you get outside of super south Austin

The new mencheca bar strip is going to be the next hot spot if they can figure out parking / better walk ability down there. They went from 1 bar to about 10 over the course of like 2 years. Further down South Congress is also going through a transformation now and will likely be another hot spot around town