is your life a sitcom?

The other day I was sat (I won't say where) contemplating about life the way that one does when they're on the loo.

It was at this point I realised that I have few years left in my life plan to fulfil a certain aspect of it. Yes I have life plan. And... You're not surprised.

This life plan was made at the tender age of 16 and it clearly stipulated that by the age of 27 my life would look a lot like this:



Although I'm nowhere closer to achieving living in the Big Apple with some very good looking friends and David Schwimmer. I did think that if someone stripped away the fourth wall of my lounge and placed a studio audience there: how many of the sitcom rules would I fulfil.

I know, totally post modern right?

So here are the rules:

The first and foremost is having a tight circle of friends. That's a given.

Preferably they should be good looking.

I don't make the rules I just write about them.

A tight circle of friends provides the tapestry for your sitcom. It gives you four or five varying personalities. Sometimes you piss each other off but most of the time you take the piss out of each other. Most importantly you find yourselves incredibly hilarious in the most normal of situations. Oh and I don't think it's a coincidence that family remains somewhat peripheral in all the good sitcoms.

On a side note it's helpful to have a loveable douche in your gang.



Secondly there has to be an element of love. Unrequited or the other kind.

Is that called requited?

Anyway ideally this is the kind of love that you're willing to chase through an airport for whilst something like The Guillemots "Made up Love Song #43" plays as you pound a city pavement.



Or you know something less specific.

I said it before and I'll say it again: "will they won't they's" are TV gold



Thirdly your environment has to be a character itself. If you're lacking a relatable or dynamic environment. Your life ain't no sitcom. #doublenegation

Cities help. Then on the behind the scenes commentary you can talk about how the city was like an additional character. I'm told people love this.

Rule number four is not so much a rule but adventures in life as well as sitcoms help.

Remember that time when? I know. Innit. Yeah. LOL.

See.


Road trips are easy solutions. But the audience is fickle and remember they like familiarity.



As I mentioned music is a massive, integral part to your sitcom life. *Turns down Alexandra Burke's "Elephant"*. It lets you know when you're about to be heartbroken.

Or it just plain cheers you up...it's a key signifier and can map out your past.

Sometime I like to pretend that my keyboard is a piano.

So is your job a joke? Are you broke and is your love life D.O.A.?


theguyinthebowtie