SOME COMEDY THOUGHTS PART 1

( this is not thorough by any means)
Australian  sketch comedies are a dying breed. Why is that?  Comedy is comedy , hey. Well No its not. There seems a thought in Australian television that if some guy can write a few one liners, he is capable of writing sketches for sketch comedies.
Sketch comedy is an art for want of a better term.
Sketches need to be constructed, thought out. The funny stuff will work itself out.
The best way to learn to write sketch comedy is by watching great sketch comedy. EXAMPLES
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, NOT ONLY BUT ALSO, THE TWO RONNIES and ALAS SMITH & JONES. ( Not Monty Python- You can love it but it won't teach you much)
So why do I not like Australian sketch comedy?
What I see is a sketch based upon a one liner that is inserted in the sketch or some kind of punchline.
Why is this?
Because the writers of our sketch comedies for the past  twenty years have done this successfully. Successfully on face value. But Shaun McCaileff is the only comedian of this era to be still on sketches on  television .
Why? Because this style of sketch comedy writing quickly wears thin.
The best sketch comedy and by that it usually means most durable and watchable over and over again is from THE LATE SHOW, circa 1993.
THE FAST FORWARD and COMEDY COMPANY  material is painful.
AUSTRALIAN networks have no knowledge of comedy writing, they want a product and for years the product has failed.
The product will continue to fail.
The worst or best example is a show called EAGLE & EVANS. To be blunt, the sketches were were written wrongly.

to be continued