If Only we Lived in a Sitcom World!
Ray Romano's wife once complained to Rolling Stone Magazine that her husband spoke to his TV wife more in one episode than he spoke to her in one week at home.
"Well, we have writers on the show," explained Romano. "If we had writers here, we'd be having long, funny conversations."
The thing about this quote that I find hilarious, is that it's endlessly applicable to my daily life. You see, I have this, I don't know what you'd call it, I have this condition, I guess. I always envision my own life as though it was a sitcom. Every decision I make, I ask myself, "Is this worthy of a clap-track? Would what I'm saying at this exact moment bring my studio audience to its feet?"
The problem is that real-life rarely should be at all like a sit-com. Still, I wish it was. For instance, the other day in class, I demonstrated a simile for my students: "Honeys play me close like butter plays toast." No doubt, this was sitcom-worthy material; however, it proved to me unproductive in a realworld enviroment. It took me almost 10 minutes to get my class back under control. Of course, I was flattered that they bit on my punchline. And, maybe, they gained a slightly greater understanding of similes, but ultimately, I lost 10 minutes of instruction time. Time I'll never get back.
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