FolkLorre

[ricardo shillyshally]

'Many of the songs Lorre wrote were dark-edged, purposefully comic “story” songs. “I was enamored of Randy Newman,” he told me, especially the persona songs in which Newman sang in the voice of an ugly, unlikable person.' 'By whatever name, the sitcom is an oddly purgatorial form of entertainment. The same characters appear week after week, displaying the same tics, and having the same arguments, in the same rooms, hallways, stairwells, and offices. Within the traditional sitcom, there are complications but rarely solutions; challenges but rarely triumphs. Indeed, when sitcoms attempt to do more dramatic stories, a show can come unmoored'. ' Lorre believes that the “magic trick” of the traditional sitcom is that “the characters make very small, incremental progress without ever really changing.”' 'If any single mode predominates among the more than three hundred cards Lorre has written, it is probably the rant, and it is hard not to see these compressed, intense utterances as a rebellion against the constraints of TV writing—moments of id, on the run from the superego of network programming.' >Interesting CL describes sit coms as a form of hell. About characters never really changing. And I can see that writing and testing it with a real audience is exciting, and how the scenes with dialogue, that we admire, probably took hours of fine crafting. I think CL is an auteur, but the power of the industry that surrounds him is restricting his creativity.(quoted before) from http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/1...ple-medium