Frasier creator James Burrows says sitcoms have evolved to be less funny
Burrows also spoke about his distaste for reboots despite directing two episode of the new Frasier "continuation"

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Even though James Burrows—the legendary director and creator behind Cheers, Friends, Will & Grace, and many others—has made a career out of making people laugh, he doesn’t think there’s anything funny about the current state of the multi-camera sitcom.
When The New York Times asked Burrows how he’d seen sitcoms evolve over the course of his career, the director answered: “The one evolution I’ve seen is that a lot of them aren’t funny anymore. The prime requirement of a multicamera sitcom is you’d better be funny.”