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Friends and other comfort comedies

Billy87

So while being ill with covid and tooth infection I have gone through 7 series of Friends on Netflix since Christmas eve. When I was at my most ill having it rolling all day and night was the only thing that would get me through. Especially at night when I couldnt sleep from the pain.

Does anyone else have any comedy shows that are like comfort blankets or safe places to them? Mine are Friends, The Office US, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother

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  • I thought the following was unintentionally really resonant. It's from a review of the tv show 'Black Books', a programme with no connection to autism or autistic people:

    'The premise is simple: misanthropic Bernard owns a secondhand bookshop, the perpetually hapless Manny lives and works with him, and frustrated romantic Fran spends most of her time drinking in the bookshop with them.

    Each episode starts off with something upsettingly normal: a hot day, the necessity to do taxes, a new coffee machine, a confusing temp job, a small holiday. The comedy comes from these characters’ almost complete inability to engage sensibly with the world around them.

    One of my favourite episodes takes Bernard out on to the cold streets at night after he’s been locked out of his shop, forced to engage with movie theatres, pornography shops and fast-food stores, an escalating horror that’s both unique to him but also somehow completely understandable. You begin to see why these people have withdrawn from the world and hide out in a grimy bookshop. The outside world is surreal and strange and antagonistic.'

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  • I thought the following was unintentionally really resonant. It's from a review of the tv show 'Black Books', a programme with no connection to autism or autistic people:

    'The premise is simple: misanthropic Bernard owns a secondhand bookshop, the perpetually hapless Manny lives and works with him, and frustrated romantic Fran spends most of her time drinking in the bookshop with them.

    Each episode starts off with something upsettingly normal: a hot day, the necessity to do taxes, a new coffee machine, a confusing temp job, a small holiday. The comedy comes from these characters’ almost complete inability to engage sensibly with the world around them.

    One of my favourite episodes takes Bernard out on to the cold streets at night after he’s been locked out of his shop, forced to engage with movie theatres, pornography shops and fast-food stores, an escalating horror that’s both unique to him but also somehow completely understandable. You begin to see why these people have withdrawn from the world and hide out in a grimy bookshop. The outside world is surreal and strange and antagonistic.'

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