Paper Proposal

When I first started writing this proposal I had no idea what I was going to do. First of all I had no idea how I was going to approach this paper. I decided to pick the comedy series workaholics as my research topic. It wasn’t hard for me to pick this topic because it happens to be one of my favorite shows. It’s a relatively brand new show its only had one season and a second season approaching. The only problem with it being new is the fact that there’s no research on it. When I started digging into my google searches I literally was coming up with nothing other than reviews on the show. I have no idea how I’m going to come up with eight to ten pages of information on this show, I just know there’s no way. So instead of focusing on just workaholics, I decided to branch out my topic to all comedies. By comparing and contrasting all comedy shows I hope that I will be able to find a lot more information. This also makes the topic a lot more interesting to research. I plan on looking at the success or lack of, and what characteristics go into these shows. Now to tie it all in with workaholics is going to be the hard part. I love the show workaholics because of its originality and creativeness. The writers of the show are also the main characters. I noticed that this is really the only show where this occurs. I tried to find similar shows where the writers had a majority of the control or all of the control of the characters. When I thought really hard about some of my favorite comedies, South Park couldn’t escape my mind. Though South Park doesn’t deal with real fictional characters, the writers still create the characters through their sketches. I looked at some of the things that have made South Park the show it is today and tied it in with what makes Workaholics, Workaholics.

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