Cringe Comedy: Difference between revisions

* In the late '60s and the '70s, German comedian [[Loriot]] basically created his entire career completely on sketches about uptight middle class people who get into awkward situations and make everything worse by being completely oblivious about it. It becomes much more bearable by the fact, that usually nobody seems to be aware that the situations should be akward and everyone continues as if everything would be fine. As a parody of how people of those decades refused to allow any loss of face to the point where it got painful, his show got massively popular. As an example, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRhf98aKsto&NR=1 "German for Foreigners"], or known to most people as [[Memetic Mutation|"This is my briefcase"]], or "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtibYjww8Eg&feature=related People on a plane]".

* [[Louis CK]] is made of this. Don't even try to watch any of his shows if you are even slightly sensitive to this kind of thing. On second thought go ahead. There can not be anyone who can finish an episode without pausing at least 5 times. At least not while sober.

 

== Film ==