Star+ has one of the best humor catalogs available. Comedian Larry David once commented that making people laugh — especially in our time — is a business of balance. In other words, knowing how to provoke enough to maintain the public’s interest. That, while laughter is born either from discomfort or from simple absurdity. It is a complicated formula that the screenwriter behind the famous dialogues of Senfield has put into practice for a good part of his career in show business. But it has also allowed him to better understand what makes us laugh in our time.
Of course, David is not the first to question the humor of recent decades. But yes, a good example of how comedy begins to ask complicated questions about what makes people laugh, in the midst of a whole register of new sensibilities. This is complicated territory that extends to both the small and big screen. Specific, when connecting with a completely new audience that, most of the time, has new interests and ways of understanding humor.
Which demonstrates the variety of new humorous content that fills the catalogs of the main streaming platforms. From animated to series that explore political and social areas. There is everything for all tastes and in particular, for all degrees of humor today. If you are interested in the topic, we leave you five productions to laugh that you can see right now on Star+. Caricatures, mocking political satires and even a dystopia that is going through its — third — best moment. Everything to explore the curious world of laughter from different angles.
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Boris
With four seasons and 50 episodes, this Italian series follows everything that happens behind and in front of the cameras of the recording of a novel. But beyond the sophistication of show business, The series explores the everyday life of pampered stars, absorbed technicians and demanding directors.
The result is a very diverse story that satirizes not only a contemporary film set — with all its flat spots and dark points — but also the behavior of the biggest fashion stars. But the most curious thing about this production is that underneath all the humor — sometimes exaggerated and physical — At the same time, there is enormous affection for television production as a unique world.
Little by little, what begins, such as the crazy situations of last-minute recordings or celebrity whims, becomes a reflection on fame, recognition and personal value. Something that turns Boris in an experience, in an experience that, in addition to laughing, allows us to delve deeper into certain curious topics.
Cake
Do you want to laugh, but don’t have the time — enthusiasm — or interest to devote to a single story? Cake is for you. In three seasons, this anthology series explores humor through sketches — whether animated or live-action — that allow you to explore all the dimensions of humor. From short stories to others that are combinations of settings, moments and points of view.
In Cake There is everything for all tastes. The best thing is the way the production analyzes how to make people laugh through seemingly irreconcilable extremes. Stories of romances that end in disaster. Others have sinister overtones that turn into satirical humor with great ease. Even political humor, explosive and often uncomfortable.
There is everything to choose from and the most interesting thing, the choice will always seem surprising. If your thing is to laugh and think at the same time about complicated and commonly not related to humor, this curious premise is for you.
The Cleveland show
Cleveland Brown (Mike Henry) wants to relive the youthful and passionate romance — also platonic — that he lived with Donna (Sanaa Lathan). Which will lead him to take refuge in that possibility after a marriage breakup that left him heartbroken. If the character — and his domestic tragedy — seem familiar, you’re right. The Cleveland show is a spin-off of Family Guywith whom he shares creator, Seth MacFarlane.
But also, his crazy sense of humor and absurdity. Cleveland’s new marriage will take him not only into uncharted territory as a father. Also, to try to understand his life from a less pessimistic place than what he had done until then. That, while he deals with his quirky neighbors, his stepchildren and love, at a time in his life when he did not expect to recover it.
With a hooligan humor – of course, it is a work by MacFarlane – but emotional enough to be, at the same time, the story of any family, The Cleveland show surprises and moves. The best that can be said about her.
Futurama
After being canceled and restarted on more than two occasions, Futurama It is already a television classic with its own history. But much more, one of the best humorous series you can find right now. The story of Fry (Billy West), a pizza delivery man who ends up frozen for centuries to wake up in a slightly dystopian future, he still has a lot to give.
But especially, the world around him. From a Santa Claus turned into a public threat, to the heads of the most illustrious personalities in history preserved for posterity. In Futurama Everything seems to fit together like pieces of a delirious puzzle that becomes increasingly bizarre and fun.
The Great North
Beef (Nick Offerman, from The Last of Us), is an average father like an extraordinary family. So he will dedicate effort, time and enthusiasm to trying to understand her or at least help her, to succeed as everyone aspires to. But while that happens, together they will go through all kinds of crazy situations that will turn to family adventures, a source of laughter, but also some moving lessons.
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However, let no one be fooled. The Great North is above all a comedy and as such, it dedicates a good part of its episodes to making you laugh out loud.If you want to have a good time — and also, fall in love with these charming characters — this series is for you.
