Comments about ‘Raunch meter rises for CBS Monday comedies’

We are hearing the same old thing week after week about ratings and content and whatever. It really doesn't matter what the content of any of the shows are. If you don't like it, don't watch it. It doesn't matter if it is on at 10 at night or 4 in the afternoon. If you don't have anything better to do than sit and watch TV all day, you have bigger problems. The producers and makers of these shows make shows that are going to sell, and obviously they are doing something right, or their shows wouldn't be on the air, and they wouldn't be getting the ratings that they are getting, so the argument that Hollywood is making things that people don't want to see and forcing us to watch it is a big lie.
People will watch what they want to, and in our society, they should be free to make and watch whatever they want.

@311stu: Your response is quite idealistic. You're right that everybody has better things to do than watch TV. However, the shows that are made are reflective of the culture that makes them. As shows get raunchier, culture is degraded further. Kids watch shows all the time that their parents don't know about. For each of these reasons, the amount of raunchiness and inappropriateness on sitcom television is very disheartening.

I agree with what Neil Flynn said in the article. It is more difficult to make a clean, clever, and witty joke than it is a dirty one that panders to the lowest common denominator. How refreshing it is to hear a pop culture star say something like that.