Reels have made the path of comedy difficult on TV! Comedians are unable to create madness

It was just a few years ago when almost every TV channel tried to attract its viewers with comedy shows on weekends. But today it seems like a thing of the past because comedy shows have disappeared from the small screen. According to experts, a big reason for this is the reels that make people laugh in a few minutes. Read this special report: Somewhere it was Kapil Sharma’s show, somewhere it was Krishna Abhishek’s show and somewhere it was Bharti Singh’s show, there was a time when comedy shows dominated the small screen on weekends. Almost every TV channel was trying to make people laugh and tickle them through stand up comedy shows to make their weekends pleasant. On one channel, Kapil Sharma along with his/her gang used to joke with celebrities, while somewhere Krishna-Sudesh used to roast them in Comedy Nights Bachao and Comedy Nights Live. Somewhere comedy classes were going on and somewhere there was a night of entertainment. On some channels, Bharti Singh used to come down to fight in a comedy fight, while on some other channel Akshay Kumar came as a judge to give the Great Indian Laughter Challenge, but now all this seems to be a thing of the past. These days, these comedy shows have almost disappeared from the small screen. According to experts, today in the era of social media, people are getting so entertained by just a few seconds of reels that they no longer need TV shows for comedy. This is the reason why comedy is going away from TV.

Comedians are unable to create madness on TV

Writers and comedians associated with comedy themselves believe that in today’s era of quick hilarious reels, it is a big challenge to make the audience laugh for an hour every week within the set standards of TV. This is the reason why most of the shows, except The Kapil Sharma Show, proved to be failures in terms of TRP. At the same time, from Krishna’s Comedy Nights Bachao to Akshay’s The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, there were more controversies than accolades. The same was the case with Sony TV’s latest comedy show Madness Machayenge India Ko Hasayenge. Despite a bunch of comedians like Ketan Singh, Snehil Dixit Mehra, Ankita Srivastava, Paritosh Tripathi, Kushal Badrike, Inder Sahni, this show was not successful in making people laugh, on the contrary, it definitely got into controversies for hurting filmmaker Karan Johar.

It is difficult to make people laugh on TV in the era of reels

Content creator Snehil Dixit Mehra, who is part of the Madness Machayenge team, herself believes that it is very difficult to make people laugh on TV in today’s digital era. Snehil, famous as BC Aunty, says, ‘In this digital era, people have become accustomed to watching reels quickly. There too, it is written on the six-second reel that you must watch it till the end because people quickly scroll and move on. In such a situation, where people are getting so much entertainment everywhere, trying to make people laugh by doing comedy on TV is very difficult in itself. One challenge in doing comedy on TV is that here we have to follow many rules. Here, when the family watches the show together, your hands are tied. You have to bring content after thinking carefully. Whereas, on social media, you are the master of your own will. Whatever content you want to create, make it, post it, whether it will work or not, you get to know in ten minutes whether the joke is viral or a flop, then that is easy.’

In today’s digital era, people are used to watching reels quickly. In such a situation, where you are getting so much variety of entertainment everywhere, it is very difficult to try to make people laugh for an hour by doing comedy on TV.

– Snehil Dixit Mehra, comedian

Better comedy is seen on social media

Writer Harsh Limbachiyaa, who has written many successful stand-up comedy shows for years, also accepts the change in comedy due to social media. According to Harsh, ‘The comedy scene has changed a lot now. When we used to write Comedy Circus, people had not even heard of punches and punchlines. They did not know what punches are. Whereas, now they are watching a lot of comedy on social media and to be honest, these reel creators are doing comedy much better than us. Therefore, comedy has to be done on TV very thoughtfully and with patience, which is not easy. Like Kapil Bhai (Kapil Sharma) also went to OTT. he/she also realized that friend, I will not be able to do comedy for the whole year. You get finished in the whole year. Somewhere, Bharti and I have also come to YouTube for this reason. There we create content of our own choice, which is much better than working according to what others say. ‘