This Trope Must Die

Feigned Surprise! Comedy People Can Do Other Things! I Sentence This Non-idea to Death.

A recent profile of Bob Odenkirk, in the New York Times, is the latest offender in perpetuating a lazy, wrongheaded idea. Or, not even an idea, really, but an assumption. And any assumption — even one that seems harmless — is a shitty, shitty candidate for longevity — assumptions should be the first things we topple. Instead, they hang around forever. If you don’t care about comedy, especially, this essay is still for you — I’m attempting to trace how…