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Draft definition of cringe comedy, since I don’t like what I’ve found so far: based on empathy towards mediocre people trying and failing to meet ordinary expectations of functional adult behavior. It’s not extreme or absurd situations. Fingernails-on-chalkboard.
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Trying to connect cringe to domestic cozy and great weirding systematically. When everyday functioning turns into Mount Everest level challenges and you overprep and fumble simple shit because you’ve retreated to escape trauma creep of environment, but aren’t really succeeding
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I’m not really a fan of cringe comedy as a genre (don’t mind it, but don’t seek it out) but wasn’t m the original cringe-ist Rodney Dangerfield?
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