Let's cut to the chase: Why has comedy become overly reliant on cringeworthy scenarios to entertain us? We're not talking about an occasional moment of painfully awkward and embarrassing interactions or realizations but a constant display of cringe-inducing situations that permeate the modern comedy landscape on film and TV. Frankly, it seems like a way out of not having a genuinely funny scene and resorting to hacktastic writing.
If puns are indeed the lowest form of humor and/or wit, then the crutch that eagerly and repeatedly resorting to cringe has become is quite a simply bane on good comedy writing.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana..."
