Posts Tagged ‘comedy’

Do you go to work and stare and a computer screen all day? Do you know how to change your screen saver? Do you know what I.T. stands for? Well then, this might be a funny show to you. The IT Crowd is a British comedy series on Channel 4 about two guys that make up the IT Department of a business and there silly day to day tasks. Usually they make fun of the people who don’t know how to turn on their computer, but sometimes they play really good jokes on their coworkers by messing with their computers.

The newly hired manager of the I.T. department is some bird who doesn’t know a bit about computers… or what IT stands for! The IT guys know she’s a noob and plays jokes on her any chance they get.

Me not knowing that much about computers, find this show humorous at how completely computer illiterate these employees are. The different dilemmas these 3 get into make for a good satire that helps me cope with working on computers all day at work too.

I was watching a comedian on the Jay Leno show last night. He had a bit about how his wife just loves their kids when he just doesn’t really want anything to do with them. And how she can spend hours upon hours with them, when he locks himself in the bathroom just to get away from his two bundles of joy.

What I don’t find funny is the fact that these parents wanted kids then write a bit about them knowing that other parents would also know of his feelings. Feelings of running away or finding someone to take care of the kids for him if his wife was no longer able to. I really don’t find that funny. But I do sympathize with him.

If I was told by my partner, family, friends and society that having kids is “just what you do” then I would be just as upset as he. Always worn down and not able to concentrate on work, or even your relationship when kids are in the picture. Many comedians get up on stage saying that after they have kids that’s all the relationship is about. There is no more “I” conversations, it’s all “them” references. As selfish as this sounds, I believe there are people out there that really didn’t know they had a choice to not have kids. And I feel for them – I really do.