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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why are almost all TV comedy "idiots, buffoons and dumbasses" male? [View all]
Jim Ignatowski?
Norton?
Ted Baxter?
Homer Simpson and all the even dumber do0ods in Springfield?
Frank Burns?
Gilligan?
Lumpy, Ralph Malph?
Coach, Woody?
Kelso and Leo?
Tim Taylor?
Mark? (Roseanne)
Frank Baronnne?
Mel Cooley?
Han (the guy who owns the restaurant that everyone works in, all of whom are portrayed as 100 times smarter than he, THE OWNER that everyone works for?)
This year there seems to be a whole bunch of male idiots on TV.... Most of the new comedies have a glut of inept males, and now they are senior males. (Alzheimer's jokes!!!?) On one show (The Millers) THAT IS THE PLOT! Senior guy gets divorced, is an idiot, can't wash his clothes, burns water, and the ex wife and two entire families need to do everything for him. The classic male idiot.
Not something new though, the dumb do0o0od. Even Gracie Allen and George Burns. George played the easily flummoxed male that required Gracie's help in every situation due to his ineptitude that was a direct result of him being male.
Almost every comedy has one, the odd looking male d00o0od that is so stereotypically male. The Lummox or the character that is out of it completely.....Often a beer drinking, chick checking, dumb as box o rocks with single dimension personality that is as deep as bottle cap. Usually a stoner element to them nowadays (Tommy Chong, Kelso, the girl from M&M) as well....
I can think of one show on now that has a dumb chick, Mike and Molly, (and she is a huge stoner) but other than that I am finding it hard to find STUPID women on TV. FOX (not really the) NEWS excluded.
And of course, Betty White's Rose was the benchmark for female idiots. Even then though, Stanley Zbornak, played by Herb Edelman (who made his career playing the buffoon) was portrayed as far dumber than Rose....Roseanne's Mom was a pretty dumb female portrayal as well. (Alzheimer's jokes!)..
Reba had Melissa Peterson who's portrayal of Barbara Jean was classic dumb broad.... But in that show there are two really dumb male portrayals as well.