Good points.
Also, to be a good comedian you have to be able to see the reality under polished phony facades. Our foibles are funny. Unfortunately that skill’s a lot harder to teach. If it can be taught at all...
Did you see Maher’s skit on ‘things banned from movies’? Can’t say this word, that word, can’t show this idea that idea etc etc... with the exception of gun violence. Gun violence is portrayed in all it’s glorious pornographic extreme when ‘the good guy kills... and as only a ‘scratch’ when the good guy’s hit. I totally missed that one until I saw the skit. Didn’t see the pattern. It’s easy not to question things that have become life’s background noise because we can’t see them.
The way you know you’re learning something profound is your reaction is ‘that’s so obvious - I wonder why I never saw it before’...
Which plays into your ‘staying home’ story...
Last Action Hero slayed that trope.